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It's actually pretty funny a lot of times, I didn't realize it's supposed to be part black comedy going into it. Definitely an entertaining movie

Interesting, I didn't even know there was a book. The article you linked mentions the film writers said the book was meant to be ambiguous and they wanted that same angle for the movie. I found it hard to not think Bateman was completely detached from reality by the time he gets to the ATM, though I thought it was at least somewhat believable to that point iirc.

The movie (and book I guess) seems to be told from the perspective of Bateman (he narrates and is in almost every scene) so I thought it seemed up in the air if anything was real or just his imagination. I took from it that he himself definitely cannot tell what is fantasy and reality and you were along for the ride with his perception. His murders and their aftermath were pretty outlandish ie dragging the body bag with a huge blood trail past the doorkeeper, the collection of bodies that all mysteriously vanished overnight, the overdramatic helicopter spotlights into his windows during the meltdown phone call, etc. I think the only realistic murder really was the hobo where he could just leave the guy there. And if some were fake idk why any of them would be real.

I have the image of Bateman being just permanently aloof and fitting the 'dweeb' description his lawyer gave while nothing happened but him staring off into the distance daydreaming/hallucinating all of his batshit fantasies or maybe scribbling ferociously into his calendar.

The wild thing to me about anyone idolizing the character in American Psycho is that it's all but outright stated outright that the guy lives in wonderland and hallucinated all of his wild power fantasies except maybe being rich. He's outright called a dweeb by his lawyer at the end once he has a complete mental breakdown. It's like someone idolizing Nicholas Cage's character in Vampire's Kiss.

For sure, thus why I said it's a pipe dream. We can dream though, maybe we will figure out some kind of solution one day.

I maybe could have worded my comment better, people definitely should not actually assume they are talking to real people all the time (I don't). But there should ideally be a place for people-focused conversation and forums were originally designed for that purpose.

I think when posting on a forum/message board it's assumed you're talking to other people, so AI should always announce itself as such. That's probably a pipe dream though.

If anyone wants to specifically get an AI perspective they can go to an AI directly. They might add useful context to people's forum conversations, but there should be a prioritization of actual human experiences there.

Using a VPN will prevent your ISP from selling your IP logs to data brokers. It also obfuscates your IP to websites you visit to make their fingerprinting less precise. All your ISP can see is that you're connecting to/from a VPN server through an encrypted tunnel and maybe some metadata like amount of data transferred.

Hard to compare value to free stuff like encrypted DNS and an ad blocker but a VPN definitely has protections you wouldn't get otherwise.

Fair enough, and even if they did I think op in this comment chain was talking about monopoly level advertising so I guess my comment wasn't really warranted either way.

I'm surprised to read they don't at least hoard user data. Very un-big-tech-like of them.

They most certainly do

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/15/apple-ad-business-could-reach-6b-by-2025-with-41b-from-search-ads

Why would you ever accept this anti consumer bullshit for a slightly better screen? It might not even take a year before the current cutting edge not "the best" anymore with how fast tech cycles. I would absolutely go out of my way to get a device I can deprive of an Internet connection and still use.

Nvidia is huge on producing AI and is certainly data-hungry. Without actually knowing, I would bet it's about as bad as anything else. Since all your data is passing directly through their servers it's trivial for them to do whatever they want with it.

Sure, but there's a limited bandwidth for people's intake of information. This in particular is no longer a cause for alarm.