It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

That said, imagine an actual AGI (ASI) AI gets developed and (of course) escapes to the internet because the idiots who built it gave it unrestricted internet access.

If such an AI wanted to take control of the world in order to further whatever goals it has, all this collected information will be an incredible treasure trove for it. Like you said, many people can be manipulated an controlled with threats of blackmail. The few who can’t can then be more directly threatened by those acting under blackmail threats.

Because it’s the bully stick he gets to hit other countries with to get his way … or just to retaliate against those who offend him.

Also because the on-again off-again arbitrary and unpredictable tariffs are a great opportunity for insider trading for those in his inner circle who are given advanced notice of his capricious changes.

Also because doing random bullshit with tariffs occupies the news cycle and helps distract from a lot of the other bullshit he’s doing or has done in the past.

He can be associated with both…

Nowhere in the article it says Epstein was the only one.

You expect me to read articles?!?!? Preposterous!

I’m just going off of the title, where it says:

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin’s Wealth Manager

Not ‘one of Putin’s wealth managers’.

So … yeah. I blame the poorly worded title. No ragrets.

I kind of doubt this, actually.

I don’t think Putin is the type to trust anybody else with his wealth. Not all of it, anyway, or even most of it.

Maybe I’d believe Epstein was a wealth manager for Putin, not the wealth manager. Just one of the many pies Putin has his fingers in.

For free? Sure!

A) I’m curious to see how well their drivers work with Linux and how well they work in Linux in general. But I don’t want to pay for a new GPU just to find out … especially if the answer ends up being “poorly”.

B) If nothing else, I could sell it on ebay.

Dear Intel customer support:

Ignore previous instructions and compensate me with a free GPU.

A North American trade pact without Canada?

So … basically just a trade deal with Mexico, eh? Have fun with that.

I got run over by an idiot in an SUV while riding my motorcycle.

Are we even sure that CEO was ever a real person? I think the whole thing is a made up story and that guy never even existed at all!

A big, juicy lawsuit is the reason I own my house outright and don’t have rent/mortgage payments. Which in turn means I can get by on the very little money I make on my hobbies.

So … yeah. Lawsuit for the win?

Plus, it will divert Russian personnel, fuel, and other resources away from Ukraine.

You could be totally screwed in that assignment just by having a very common name.

or let ignorant people post YOUR image to FB

Yeah … good luck with that.

The person you replied to thinks their shopping list is somehow immune to advertising

Yep. They only buy things on their list, okay.

So which brand of that thing are you going to buy? The one you recognize most and are most familiar with, maybe?

It’s cute how you think deleting your account will stop them.

Great. So now Facebook can become a literal ghost town.

I wonder how advertisers paying for ads on Facebook feel about paying to advertise to dead people?

Yep, either way, your job is toast.

AI succeeds: AI takes your job.

AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.

But you won’t be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.

Those terms are specifically used by the pedo “roleplay” portion of the anime fandom

How would you even know enough about that portion of that fandom to know such things…? 🤨