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IDC forecasts that the amount of data generated each year will grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025. It further estimates that a total of 22 zettabytes of digital storage will be shipped across all storage media types between 2018 and 2025, with nearly 59 percent of this capacity being provided by the hard drive industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_Era

No, no, that’s prostitute programming.

AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market

*other than hardware prices

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Lawnmower Man (1992)

What’s the visual equivalent of the Annihilation theme?

To be fair, the atom bombs still might, and automobiles do kill over a million people a year. But you’re right, we have a tendency to catastrophize when it comes to new tech. That said, I still think this tech is different. Or perhaps more accurately, it comes with a hybrid of up and down sides that we haven’t really dealt with before. To be clear, I don’t think we’re going extinct. Man, I got into a sentence structure rhythm there, huh?

What makes you say that? Other than the time travel, of course.

I stopped trying to convince anyone of anything. I’ll voice my perspective, listen to theirs, and whatever. It’s exceedingly rare for people to change their minds on the spot. All we can really do is plant a seed that may (or may not) germinate.

It took 8 months after blacklisting Anthropic for the Pentagon to stop using Claude, as an example of how embedded AI has become in a few years. The Skynet scenario is very much on the table. But that’s the crust on the layer-cake of possible disaster scenarios. I dunno about humanity-ending, but wide-scale disaster could happen in a lot of less dramatic ways just from system disruptions.

Regardless of who’s speaking, I always end up staring at the people sitting/standing behind them. Some part of me is waiting for them to break character, I think.

Fun fact, “birth control pill” in German is, “antibabypille”.

A series of tubes, you say?

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More likely: Click on all the pictures of people who appear disloyal to [name of company or government]

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The math dump has affected me less than the reverse-engineered Adobe suite and the flood of Opus-animated videos.