Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

  1. I understand the sentiment tbh, if someone comes out to you about their abuse you should treat them with support and good faith but at the same time that does not mean whoever they accused should be instantly lampooned. Even if the accuser isn't lying, they could just have misidentified them, that happens sometimes. I think it's a fundamentally good sentiment corrupted by terrible messaging and bad faith actors like Heard.
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  2. It’s the oldest trick in the book - give out money/food in a very public way to boost your image and deafen all criticism. Roman emperors did it, kings did it, robber barons did it and corporations still do it.
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  3. I think at bare minimum, it's now much harder for him to do any collabs. He's pretty despised by now in the content creator sphere, so he can't really collab with anyone self-respecting without them risking an audience backlash. That limits him to amoral clout goblins with child audiences like Logan Paul and himself.
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  4. I think the important thing to understand is that genuinely altruistic people don't try to sell how altruistic they are to everyone they can. They'll do what they do regardless of whether anyone knows or cares they're doing it. There is something of a fine line though, because self promotion is necessary to secure help and funding, but I think the rule of thumb is that a genuine person will be like "Look at this good thing we're doing." while a disingenuous person will be more like "Look at what I'M doing. ME."
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  5.  @Code7Unltd  I always think of that scene in Gladiator where Commodus has bread and money thrown out into the crowd at the colloseum. Sure, on a surface level he's doing a good thing and feeding hungry people, but it's done entirely by an evil man to maintain his popularity and therefore his power.
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  6. I like to think the overwhelming backlash against them killed the grift early but realistically they got a shitton of money anyway and just peaced out. leaving all the delusional NFT cultists holding the bag.
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  7.  @r0x0r-p4t  "What's the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer? A bad lawyer might screw up and let a case drag on for years, a good lawyer will make it last much longer."
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  8. I don't think they should have their right to sue revoked, they should be forced to incur all the legal costs for both plaintiff and defendent of future lawsuits if they prove themselves to be a vexatious litigant.
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  9.  @cosmefulanito5052  Logan Paul's pretty widely reviled, too. Like I said, he's being increasingly limited to collabs with amoral clout goblins.
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  10. Tesla could be one of them, considering how routinely he shills them in his videos.
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  11. I'm a little worried this might somehow work for them and carve NFTs an actual foothold in the gaming industry, but otherwise I'm ready to laugh as this fails miserably and dooms a once great company.
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  12. How does the MrBeast team not know what the Streisand Effect is? Dude could've kept quiet and this all probably would've blown over as people move onto the next thing. Trying to cover everything up has just put fuel on the fire and made sure this stuff will never come down.
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  13. Calling him Mr Yeast feels like an insult to yeast. Yeast makes bread for children while Mr Beast just exploits them.
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  14. yeah honestly i didnt think the rigging contests thing was all that bad morally, but that shit is really vile.
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  15. I have zero respect for the man, but he's (unintentionally) made Twitter the most entertaining it's been in years. Dude's turning himself into a lolcow and he's taking down Twitter and Tesla with him.
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  16. It made me so angry that he cried as if it was his fault. Not at him obviously, but at the scumbags who made him feel like it was.
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  17. Schizobait aside, it's kind of impressive just how consistently NFT bros manage to piss off and antagonise pretty much every other community around them. Nobody told them to paint over a famous tag then insult everybody angry about it, but they did it and boom, thats yet another community that despises them. The rate they pile up enemies almost rivals that of Nazi Germany... wait...
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  18. It's not even wrongthink, I've had completely 100% polite comments deleted because they so much as hinted at bad language or topics the algorithm doesn't like
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  19. That second point honestly makes me feel like a relic. The only social media account I have online with my real name attached is my Facebook, and I havent posted on that since like 2013 And I never even put any of my photos on it lol
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  20. IMO this ad perfectly demonstrates the difference between a nerd and a tech bro. A nerd appreciates the artistry and engineering behind old things, and the tactile value they have. A tech bro on the other hand considers it trash to be discarded for the New Thing (tm)
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  21. For me, I figured "eh at least he's doing some good" and mostly ignored him for a while until when he pumped one of Gary Vee's crypto scams. I've never trusted him since, though I have a personal rule to never forgive anyone who got on the web3 train without a full apology, it's yet to fail me.
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  22. It couldn't be our precious Jimmy! Grifting them blind, and HE gets to be an influencer? WHAT A SICK JOKE!
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  23. Honestly it's the classic lesson of how giving massive wealth/power to someone at a young age tends to end badly. Best case scenario they simply handle all that responsibility poorly, worst case the power corrupts them.
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  24.  @4_am  Not just that, I am 90% certain they use sentiment analysis or some other ML technique for content moderation. I've had comments I'm sure had no-no words deleted because I was too negative about a subject (A subject that wasn't even a hot topic, too)
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  25.  @_..-.._..-.._ W niece/nephew. Maybe the kids really are alright
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  26. At this point, I kind of consider Silicon Valley investors to be a lower order of human life. How else can they be dumb enough to fall for the worst ideas over and over and over?
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  27. I kind of wonder if he’s just too egotistical to admit he was wrong, or if there’s some behind the scenes shenanigans. Either way, real class act sticking up for the guys who supported an artist that drew vile art of your daughter.
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  28. I think this will damage his ability to expand though. Children tend to mimic whatever the older kids/young adults do and if they all hate Jimmy they’ll be more inclined to ditch him. I think he’s not going away anytime soon, but this may be the beginning of a plateau before his decline.
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  29. My personal favourite description is "Low budget single player Stanford Prison experiment"
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  30. Ironically Coffeezilla has video out there of him glazing Mr Beast. I don’t think he’s nefarious, I think he just fell for the grift. Probably won’t be covering Beast either because he has his hands full with Logan Paul’s lawsuit. As always, nobody is immune to scams/propaganda.
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  31. There are some genuinely really nice selfless people, but they don't advertise that fact to anyone who will listen. They do good deeds for their own reasons - whether it be empathy, faith, past experiences, or just because it's feels good to help someone out.
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  32. I remember having some internet issues years back, so I googled my internet provider's contact details, but didn't realize I had clicked on a sponsored link instead. I wasted an entire fucking hour on queue only for it to not even be the right company. I quickly learned to scroll past sponsored links after that.
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  33. At this point I genuinely assume any AI industry figure is lying until they're proven to have told the truth. None of these people are trustworthy. Not a one.
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  34. DnD is actual social interaction though, you can make real friends with it.
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  35. You don't get it, they're not terrified. Gamergate has been a very profitable enterprise for some (both on the left and the right), it is in their best interest to pump up its threat and legacy as much as possible to boost their own careers. It's a grift.
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  36. That's the reality with Youtube. Creators with massive child audiences are basically untouchable because their audiences are often too young to know or care about scandals. Pretty much the only way they're ever cancelled is if they themselves are caught getting inappropriate with kids.
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  37.  @potatopatato1565 what’s coffeezilla got to do with this?
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  38. I really dont like this idea that only pdfs cover and defend for other pdfs. You see this shit all the time for people in power, it doesn't matter if it's corporate, hollywood, education or religious. Someone with power and influence gets outed as a predator, and people around them with power and influence to lose (plus a lack of morals) will cover it up to save their reputation and therefore power. It's a systemic issue in many ways.
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  39. IMO there's still a very good chance he can ride this out until the news cycle moves on. I'd love to be proven wrong but influencers with child audiences tend to be pretty much invulnerable to scandal. The ava kris tyson situation is probably the most likely to bring him down, because scandals involving kids tend to hurt these youtubers the most, but since he himself did nothing (although he apparently knew), he can still make this go away.
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  40. I can't change your mind on something thats objectively true
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  41. It's made me think of an idea I've had bouncing around in my head where we intentionally poison these dystopian apps with intentionally nonsensical and ridiculous information. I've been thinking about ways to do that with my internet footprint for a while.
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  42.  @leonnunhofer3453  Mr Beast literally starting the apocalypse would be funny as fuck ngl
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  43. idk it was a big dumb entertaining trainwreck but I feel like the 2016 US election cycle was just funnier in every single way.
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  44. While generally true, there are unique conditions where the losers essentially get to maybe not write their history, but define the terms and set the tone of it. WW2 is a great example of this - because of the Cold War the US was very interested to hear what the guys who were just fighting them had to say, and the Soviets were not exactly in a mood to talk and debunk anything they were saying. This is the reason why theres so much mythologizing and straight up BS floating around regarding the Eastern Front.
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  45. Thats never been a thing people said dude. Like, ever. Even back in the 2000s my parents were warning me about the potential risks of the internet.
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  46.  @Nanerpus27 He might be able to collab, but only with other clout goblins like Logan Paul.
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  47. I've read that some companies use CEOs as a scapegoat for implementing changes they know will be extremely unpopular - they make the changes, people get mad at the CEO, the company makes a big show of getting them to leave while minimizing the fact that they're keeping all the changes the CEO was purportedly responsible for.
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  48. This kind of depraved crap has always been around, the only thing that's really changed is how publicly accessible it is. Spring-heeled Jack comes to mind, who, if he existed, was probably some little shit nobles with too much time on their hands.
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  49. Apparently they’re so hard up for data they’re using AI to create data to train their AIs. You might actually get your wish
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  50. I've never trusted him ever since he admitted to participating in one of Gary Vee's NFT pump and dumps. Even associating with someone that shady is bad, but doing that and not apologizing? He is not to be trusted.
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  51.  @brabhamF1  Oh yeah no i agree, this was just my mindset like 2019-2021 because i didn't know much about him, and didn't care to because his content is child-friendly slop.
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  52.  @IaintTheHerb  I know a little bit solely from watching Techmoan videos, though I didn't think to pay attention to the VU meter lol.
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  53. I love how it’s such an unforced error. He could just be open that he plays videogames but kinda sucks at them and that would probably be endearing to a lot of people.
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  54. Personally I think this AI craze is going to face a pretty serious crash before settling into some sort of normalcy.
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  55. Google docs is still pretty good for what I need it to do, probably because most of their efforts at squeezing consumers are focused on their high volume applications (ie: Youtube, Google Search, Lens)
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  56.  @windepoo  You don't get to abuse your kids just because you made them.
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  57. There's also the barrier to entry. It takes a lot of time and money to become a researcher, while any old shmuck can barge in and expose a speedrun cheater if they've got the receipts.
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  58.  @bigsyrup8567  I mean that still makes it a more toxic place to be. Doomscrolling is something that just didn’t exist in 2007 (even if Twitter did), and algorithms weren’t pushing mentally damaging crap in everyone’s faces.
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  59. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of that listening to his story. It's like the Stanford Prison Experiment ordered from Temu
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  60. I mean he covers scammy youtubers a lot, I think this sort of thing is up his alley.
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  61. I got bored once I realised that it generally just agrees with anything you say. Its most coherent responses are clearly baked in, too so not much fun there. Beyond that the only fun I really had was learning to trigger its scripts and how to get it to say naughty things. Basically do what the internet did to Tay lol. You'd have to be really lonely and desperate for approval for this thing to work on you I think.
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  62.  @evanvalenta1898  Its not so much being outdone as it is a complete lack of incentive to pursue fraud. When someone finds fraud in the gaming community, they get 5 minutes of fame and the peanut gallery gets some drama. When someone finds fraud in the research field, everybody loses.
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  63. I think pretty much everyone agrees it does, the main argument is over whether more capitalism or less is the solution.
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  64. The modern internet is way more functional than old internet. You don’t have to deal with dialup, everything runs faster and you can do a lot more with web pages. However it’s certainly become much more centralized, more toxic and less free than it once was. I grew up on 2000s internet, but I try not to let nostalgia cloud my judgement. I suspect that a lot of people, if transported back to the 2000s internet would find themselves yearning for the speed and functionality of the modern web before long. And I say this as someone who often pines for the days of web forums and YTMND Also the ceiling for the quality of web content has dramatically improved. A channel like UEG would probably be unheard of in 2007, as well as like 12 hour reviews of Oblivion lol
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  65.  @AnthonyCheeseborough  The “job market” is usually defined by those that are hiring. And guess what? CEOs run the corporations that hire most people, and guess what? CEOs think CEOs should be paid handsomely for their “service”. If you don’t see something wrong with this system, then I genuinely don’t know what to say.
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  66. “Fraud is okay if it triggers the libs”
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  67. I want to say I've made it a point to immediately stop following anyone who shills an NFT, but that principles yet to be tested with anyone or anything I really like.
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  68. The funny thing is if that laptop belonged to the trumps and that Ukrainian gas company employed don jr, you wouldn’t care.
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  69. I kinda suspect that stuff about Gen Z letting AI think for them is either based on heavily massaged data or no data at all. I remember during the Web3 thing where big metaverse spokespeople were insisting that young people were living inside the metaverse. Most young people I know seem either ambivalent about AI or outright hate it. That’s also not real data so take that for what you will
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  70. Keanu Reeves is one of the very few who I gained respect for from all this - him publicly mocking NFTs was hilarious
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  71.  @bertvanbeterbed9702  The Cybertruck's a terrible example because it's pretty much a flop and the vehicle equivalent of a lolcow.
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  72.  @bertvanbeterbed9702  IMO I think the "all press is good press" idea has a lot of asterisks attached to it. The Pontiak Aztek for example was pretty widely mocked in the car scene for similar reasons to the CT (difference being that from what I've read, the Aztek was actually a quite decent car) and it was a flop. I think it won't do that much positive or negative in Apple's case because there's nothing wrong with the product functionally or aesthetically and people are going to be buying iPads no matter what. People will just bicker about the ad for a while then forget about it when the next thing comes along.
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  73.  @6AxisSage  Real artists despise plagiarists as much as you do dude, it’s their work being lifted. And I’m pretty sure most of the plagiarists have since moved onto AI. It’s a lower effort scam
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  74.  @kennyfrompenny  I actually just heard about a plugin called Adnauseam that intentionally clicks random ad links to poison their traffic data if you're interested.
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  75. Well Mario did once say "Fuck you Luigi" on TV
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  76.  @desperado3236  VMs aren't completely safe. VM software has been known to have exploits. They're rare but I wouldn't be taking chances on something this suspect.
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  77. At this point, if any of them lose everything over this, I’ll laugh in their face. They want sociopathy, who am I to deny them what they crave?
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  78.  @helios4753  Very few people can make a living off painting. By obsolete, I mean it does not exist as a profession the way it used to even 100 years ago
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  79. You could always use an adblocker but if not consider it this way - they're wasting their advertising money on a completely unreceptive audience.
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  80.  @Dominion-Regalia  It might be my bias but I don't think the rich were always as despised as they are now. We've had at least two major economic disasters that ravaged the poor and middle classes (2008, COVID) while the rich either got off light or straight up flourished. That combined with rising costs and the internet has lead to multiple generations of people given basically every reason to hate them.
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  81.  @CherokeeBear  Mr Beast did say he wanted to run for president lol
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  82. AI art tends to be pretty tepid and stale, but it's functional and that's what most art jobs require. Human art will never go away, but it will only get even harder for artists to make a living.
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  83. Mario suing UE is more like a bleeding fish taking on a shark by trying to ram it.
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  84. "Moon boyz" sounds like a homebrew Orkish klan.
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  85. How could you even prove that though?
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  86. Your drawing of superman, unless you're tracing, is your own artistic interpretation of him. It may be in your own style or artistic skill level. AI doesn't really provide an "interpretation" of the images its trained on, it uses complex statistics to provide some average of those images. The only "original" input is the human prompt, and that is so limited as to be not much better than tracing.
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  87.  @ratel832  That’s just not how people work dude, I don’t know what to tell you. Call it sunk cost fallacy, call it whatever you want, powerful egotistical people with loose morals are more willing to cover up abuse than purge that sickness from their ranks. The Southern Baptist Convention is a great example of this off the top of my head.
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  88. He’s not going to bone you, dude.
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  89.  @AnthonyCheeseborough  I'm not saying there's literally no market forces at play, I'm saying the levers of that market are clearly in the hands of a relative minority and they're rigging the game in their favor where they can, at the expense of the poor.
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  90.  @grimgrahamch.4157  I had an immediate dislike of him because he looked like this really annoying manipulative guy back in high school. Considering what's come out, I'm almost tempted to think there's a dbag phrenology lol
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  91. While IMO phone improvement has effectively plateaued in the past 5-6 years, i don't think the iphone 1 is a fair comparison because it'd be pretty much incapable of doing most the things people expect of a phone these days, even if it was still supported. It's sort of like how you could use a 100 year old 1911 as an everyday carry, but realistically a glock does pretty much everything a normal person needs while being smaller, lighter, higher capacity and (usually) more reliable. Consumerism and planned obsolescence is a disease but sometimes the new things are just better at what they do.
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  92.  @StarFoxZX315  I searched recently, and there's a another twitter account named "a dying nobody" trying to peddle NFTs based off the origional tweets. Could just be somebody else but I have little enough respect for crypto people to believe its the same guy.
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  93.  @buckrodgers1162  I'm pretty sure Twitter supports TOR, so he could easily do that on a fresh laptop running Tails using a public wifi, which would be pretty much untraceable.
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  94. Its one of those situations where I hate everyone involved so i can just kick back and watch the dumpster fire.
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  95.  @kavinh10  Yeah that makes sense. Dudes slimy but he's a businessman through and through. Though that kind of makes me hate him more, he's like a perfectly concocted blend of stupid belligerence and insincere grifting. Also Mr Beast and co supported shadman by having his shit up in their house, and he's still doing this shit, even for him it's an unbelievable lack of morals.
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  96.  @Vherstinae  Most ordinary people don't know or care about GG, this grift is targeted at industry types and political organisations I think.
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  97. Unless you go the cheapest possible route, I seriously doubt you can get all those instruments for the price of an ipad lol.
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  98. Does it get more engaging if you take it seriously? I downloaded the app, quickly realised it generally agrees with anything you say then took to messing with it until I got bored.
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  99.  @shari9721  I would hazard to bet a lot of the more reprehensible stuff done on that platform wasn't out of desperation, but callous disregard.
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  100.  @nullifye7816  I don't know anything about the beer market, is it competitive? Since Apples got something of a monopoly, I think it's got more resistance to consumer backlash than Bud Lite.
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  101. The way I see it, there's four outcomes that can come from this: 1. It's all true and becomes a gigantic scandal for crypto. 2. It's a ploy to infect as many crypto-adjacent people with malware as possible. 3. It's just a prank bro, the zip files got a rick roll or some shit. 4. Nothing happens, dude just wanted to make a quick buck manipulating the crypto market then bounce. 3 of those 4 potential outcomes would be very fun to watch play out, idk about you but I like them odds.
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  102. IMO he could probably get his advertisers back just by shutting his trap for a while and letting things blow over, but he's just too much of an attention whore to do that. It's incredible how stupid he actually is.
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  103. I'm unfortunately forced to buy Apple as they're seemingly the only company that makes decent 3.5mm jack earphones that don't have that godawful rubber seal design for a decent price.
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  104.  @Dommifax  I have the opposite problem - the rubber seal earphones always fall out of my ears no matter what, and they seem super gross. I don't want anything that isn't sound or a liquid going that far in my ear.
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  105. Honestly the AKT stuff is more likely to bring him down than this. I've noticed that youtubers with large children audiences tend to be untouchable, because their audience is too young to notice or care. The only scandals that actually hurt them are ones that directly involve children.
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  106.  @helios4753  painting is largely obsolete yet people still do it.
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  107. Jimmy made the classic blunder of not getting dirt on his employees during their induction. That's what scientology does.
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  108. As infuriating as it is to see these famous people propagate this scam, the tweet replies make a hilarious read of shills desperate frantically their even more worthless NFTs hoping to get the celeb or some of their fans to buy in.
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  109. As much as I dislike Elon as a carny grifter, hurting Twitter is always a W in my books.
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  110. I feel like there's some truth to the effectiveness - there's no way they could sustain businesses for very long if advertising wasn't at least somewhat effective. My theory is that our current media landscape is so utterly saturated with ads that people are increasingly able to just tune them out or ignore them, because they kinda have to. The intelligent solution would be to simply scale back the amount of ads we see, but there is no short term business incentive to do that - the big tech companies rely on that sweet, sweet ad revenue and no individual company would willingly scale back their marketing just to benefit the larger attention economy. As the yields on traditional ads increasingly dry up, platform providers like Google have to make ads more and more unavoidable just to keep the profits going - which makes users even more suspicious which makes them clamp down even harder. I think this situation has to come to a head eventually - either they degrade their service so much that the alternative platforms become competitive even with fewer resources, or people get so fed up that the government starts nationalising these platforms or they start regulating/breaking up these corporations.
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  111. ...he's literally selling brain chips, stated he wants human drivers off the road so self-driving cars will take off and marketed his EVs as a way to reduce carbon emissions. also he's openly censored twitter on request for authoritarian governments. he's everything you should hate in a billionaire, but don't because he says things you like.
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  112. Personally I’d think it’d be funnier to use the rest of the money to humiliate him in every legal way possible but I can’t argue against doing some good for the world in the form of charity
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  113. Depending on your definition, most people haven't tasted "real" apples, considering the ones you buy in supermarkets are the product of artificial selection lol
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  114. I always end up putting a case around it so it'll actually survive a drop anyway.
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  115. IMO the only valid response to these people should be to grab their phones and (youtube keeps filtering word I want to use) disable them. Sure, they can buy another one but if it keeps happening that means their operating costs go up by about 700-1000 bucks every stream, which can end at any moment if someone smashes their phone.
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  116. Between NFTs, crypto and this, Silicon Valley seems determined to sell me on the virtues of bullying.
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  117. To be fair that's probably been true of the urban poor for like centuries if not millennia.
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  118. I'm so fucking sick of seeing this rat on Twitter.
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  119. I type my home servers IP address because I’m too cheap to get a domain lol
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  120. That's incredible, he's offloading his previous scam by basically trying to pump and dump Twitter. Dude's a fucking grade-A carny.
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  121.  @FullMoonOctober  I think that's too far tbh. Saying hyperbolic stufflike this just adds to the noise, and there's literally no reason to when what we have already is plenty damning enough.
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  122.  @feliceabbondante5183  Same reason corporations routinely do horrible shit: money. He didn't post the video because it was never completed.
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  123.  @feliceabbondante5183  That probably would've cost money he didn't want to spend. Again, I'm not defending him, this is pretty vile either way, but there's literally no reason to make stuff up.
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  124.  @feliceabbondante5183  there's more costs in production than just raw materials. if they were to fake it they'd have to script it out, hire a new person, get them NDA'd, and probably a bunch of other stuff. And time is money, from a cynical financial perspective, he likely just considered the project a write-off and moved on to other things.
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  125.  @feliceabbondante5183  I understand perfectly what we're talking about, but you don't have to be a literal sadist to do atrocious things to other people. History is littered with examples of that.
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  126.  @louyou6614  they're not 100% trustworthy, it's just they have the resources and connections to do real journalism, and there's very little incentive for them to lie about this.
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  127.  @tarektechmarine8209  real generous to assume I view him as the devil. He’s a glorified carny that sells technofuturistic snake oil.
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  128. ​ @RozArialind  Thats pretty fucked up, but my point stands. Only thing I'd add is more severe punishments for proven false accusers.
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  129. I could be wrong but I doubt it. He seems more like a soulless clout goblin than anything else.
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  130. All that time and money Mr Beast is spending could’ve been used to hire Colleen Ballinger and make a fire ukelele video. Hell he could rent out a train and have a literal Toxic Gossip Train 🚂
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  131. @Matthew Mitchell That'd genuinely be funny.
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  132.  @famimame  to be fair most of his audience is children who would've just barely began to touch history lessons, let alone actually understand them.
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  133.  @StarFoxZX315  Granted, he did leave enough breadcrumbs to be found, all someone with ill intent would have to do is find people in the crypto scene who they know have a terminal illness, which would probably point him out instantly if he was stupid enough to mention it to them. TOR fundamentally has to be untraceable for everyone or it's useless. Governments rely on it just as much, if not more than private citizens, and even if it wasn't if he posted it on a fresh laptop at a public library, preferrably one relatively far from where he lives, that wouldn't narrow down the search much at all.
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  134. I would argue that bad or inappropriate tools stifle creativity. I still remember the numerous times I've tried FLStudio, being kind of overwhelmed by the massive library and unable to really make anything as a result. I would argue that FLStudio is probably an inappropriate tool for a novice because it doesn't provide any easy in-roads to get started.
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  135. Probably another scam like the Hyperloop. The man’s desperate for attention, he’s not taking the divorce well at all.
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  136.  @Kurai_69420  Keemstar seems like a belligerent enough jackass that if he was being threatened into silence it’d be way more obvious. He wouldn’t be as enthusiastic in defending Mr Beast’s numbers as he is now. His behavior to me speaks of being too egotistical to admit he’s wrong or he’s got some wierd backroom deal with Mr Beasts team.
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  137.  @Kurai_69420  Keemstar is belligerent enough that if he was threatened into silence, it'd be very obvious and he wouldn't seem so enthusiastic defending Mr Beast. I really think it's just that he's either too egotistical to admit he's wrong or he has some shady backroom deal with Mr Beast's team.
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  138.  @tkrampaged3622 IMO the best compromise there is to have “business” accounts where your real name is attached and you only use it for job-related stuff, and a pseudonymous account you use for your real internet activities. Of course any determined person could still dox you, but most HR people aren’t going to do that just for a job application
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  139. Maybe I'm using it wrong, but I've found AI rarely useful for coding. I know enough that the problems I run into tend to be pretty niche, and AI tends to be worse than useless at solving those problems. It'll hallucinate libraries, provide bad advice or solutions that just don't work.
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  140.  @6AxisSage  If AI has made Upper Echelon obsolete, then go ahead and make a replacement channel using nothing but chatGPT and voice AI. See how well it does. The reason AI gets so much disdain from artists and those aligned with artists is that it's laundered plagiarism. It doesn't actually advance art in any meaningful way, it just breaks shit and ruins livelihoods.
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  141.  @6AxisSage  How exactly are artists supposed to make a living if they don’t put their artwork out there? And how exactly are people supposed to find artists if no artists put their work out? If anything, that’d be completely ceding the market to plagiarists. You’d have nothing but plagiarists and AI “art” out there, and with no artists to train the AI, that AI would never evolve in style. You’d be left with a world objectively worse in the ways you’re complaining about.
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  142. I'm continually reminded of that bit in Aliens where Ripley says as bad as the aliens are, at least they aren't "fucking eachother over for a percentage"
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  143.  @OmniDan26  I say great in that they actually made good games.
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  144.  @JamesScholes  He's going to learn that when it comes to censorship, the internet is like Orks - trying to fight them just attracts a whole lot more. Any joe blow shmuck with a spare external hard drive probably has those log saved. And them apparently trying to smear Dogpack? Genuinely the stupidest thing they could try, the internet loves conspiracies. Dogpack could now shoot someone on camera and people would assume it was a deepfake created by the Mr Beast team.
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  145. ​ @JamesScholes  He's going to learn that when it comes to censorship, the internet is like Orks - trying to fight them just attracts a whole lot more. Any joe blow shmuck with a spare external hard drive probably has those logs saved. And them apparently trying to smear Dogpack? Genuinely the stupidest thing they could try, the internet loves conspiracies. Dogpack could now roblox someone on camera and people would assume it was a deepfake created by the Mr Beast team.
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  146. ​ @JamesScholes  He's going to learn that when it comes to censorship, the internet is like Orks - trying to fight them just attracts a whole lot more. Any joe blow shmuck with a spare external hard drive probably has those log saved. And them apparently trying to smear Dogpack? Genuinely the stupidest thing they could try, the internet loves conspiracies. Dogpack could now literally commit crimes on camera and people would just assume it's a deepfake by the Mr Beast team.
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  147.  @JamesScholes  He's going to learn that when it comes to censorship, the internet is like Orks - trying to fight them just attracts a whole lot more. Any joe blow shmuck with a spare external hard drive probably has those log saved.
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  148. At this point, these scams are basically just financial Darwinism. The smart stay away while the stupid "invest" and get their money drained from them.
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  149. I almost wish UEG would pretend he's scared of a legal fight to bait Mario into a lawsuit only to turn around and mercilessly tear him to shreds. That would be fuckin beautiful.
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  150.  @mortvald  No dum-dum, you should be writing all your code in assembly.
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  151.  @noonenowhere877 Nah a lot of those companies are sinister in their own way, like that meal replacement company called Soylent seemingly wanting to just replace food.
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