Mozilla's latest foolish plan

Right. But the problem here is that what’s inside the brackets (which tracks you) will never appear in the dialog for the computer illiterate/uneducated user to know what this is all about…
It is an “uninformed choice”, a nudge in fact!

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Hi TiX0!

I love Firefox too. But its not about Browsers. Its about A.I. and Human connections and how we use Computers in future.

The integration of some A.I. Chat is the fist step to compete with other Apps, Chats, Influences and the Internet itself - or like the modern Mobil Operating Systems and Apps of other like Bitedance, Meta, Musk…

Mozilla and Firefox is some kind of the Last free Browser-Engine and wee need it in future too. I Disable that shit too or try to run my own LLM to have private conversations. But yes its kind of creepy.

The true LLM-Dilemma is way bigger. Its about Code generation, and about scraping of public code. I think it will kill Open Source and free Communities if we cant find a solution about scrapers and Bug-Ticking generations or pushes for free Software.

However this will be the future… https://ai-2027.com/

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What’s described in this “fiction paper” is not necessarily THE future - it’s only one of all possible outcomes. Human beings have always been very bad at predicting the future and were almost always wrong…
Remember the “oil peak” that was for sure predicted to happen at the turn of the new century? Well, it appears that now - a quarter of a century later - we have for 150 more years of fossil fuel to burn at the rate we do now, if we want to.
Futurology is an art, not a science - and in reality nobody knows

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IMO: It’s what happens and is happening now as we move forward that concerns me the most. How we arrive at the “future” AI and what it holds will be based on what we do now.
~s

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I would imagine it depends where you get your “Futurology” degree in. Example: In California 1975, a Geography degree was an Art, in New York Geography was a Science degree.

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You are right, but i am not sure at today, if this was not wrote by an AGI, escaped 20 Years before - and which is already nudging individuals to act and change present…

Just kind of kidding. But its like this what Mozilla try to do. Its the new hot shit and they know it have some scope - like the internet in the fist 10 years - and just do not know how it works.

But since today and we live in a closed walled Garden world today. I got tired about arguing on Monopoly’s action of Super Rich and the outcome on my daily life or mental health of my loved ones.

You are right about peak Oil, but not about peek aerospace. We have too much carbon in there and it is an issue. Not just for us, but for the network of biology Programs running and copied out there in the biosphere.

Edit: About Future and Art. Its not so special. With enough data and a Supercomputer you can have run a Model and it will offer you the likely development of your Future with 1000 possible changes of your Future in a second. Meta already use it and had an Experiment in about 2020, and run it on teenager to change the mode with content in timeline or push notifications. A/B testing automate it years ago and its a mess. Some LLM are only a Language Module build on statistic which … create some “impressive” answers only by possibility and information about the the past. Just to shape a future or dream of some one. And we are all like it. If you think it is possible/likely you will go for it. Even its only a dream!

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Is that why the rule of thumb was to stone a false prophet? (Or even a correct prophet, because that prophet didn’t say what they wanted to hear.)

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