anthem2025

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by anthem2025 1y ago
Yeah, unquestioning “journalists” have allowed them to turn laying off thousands into an ad for their new tech.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
It’s also just natural cost cutting from businesses that were previously massively over hiring, and outside of AI don’t exactly have a ton of areas with huge growing investment. Plus slashing jobs like this keeps the plebs in line. They don
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by anthem2025 1y ago
So take the broken god awful experience of self checkout and add another layer of “I think you did something wrong so now you have to stand around waiting for an actual person”? No thanks.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
They absolutely do. It’s not the cashiers being security, it’s having adequate staffing making people less likely to steal. Its not stopping crimes that have occurred it’s just reducing opportunistic theft.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
It’s also just resulting in atrocious customer experience. I can go to Safeway or the smaller chain half a block away. The Safeway went all in on self checkouts. The store is barely staffed, shelves are constantly empty, you have to have yo
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by anthem2025 1y ago
They don’t need AI for that, they just cut staff to the bare minimum and put in self checkouts.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Ironic to post that quote about AI considering the hype is pretty much entirely from people who stand to make obscene wealth from it.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
LLMs have no ability to reason whatsoever. They do have the ability to fool people and exacerbate or cause mental problems.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Lots of technology is cool if you get to just say “if we get rid of the limitations” while offering no practical way to do so. It’s still horrible btw.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Pretty crazy, and all you have to do is assume exponential performance growth for as long as it takes.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Being smart doesn’t necessarily make your tech better.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
That’s nice. It’s not an argument at all IMO, but good for you. > I'm far left myself, by the way So you would, logically, describe yourself as a fascist then?
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by anthem2025 1y ago
I think the obvious conclusion from my post is that I don’t find any of those people credible. At all. I’d go so far as to say I think anyone peddling horseshoe theory is a politically illiterate fool regardless of their supposed qualificat
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by anthem2025 1y ago
But horseshoe theory isn’t valid. It’s entirely nonsense. It’s mostly an excuse for centrists to feel morally superior as the results of their useless ideology lead inevitably to fascism.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
I don’t need to hear any more, I’m completely convinced. Running too much is bad for me and I will not do it. Thank you science!
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by anthem2025 1y ago
I don’t understand what you’re even trying to say here. AfD is objectively far more popular in the former east Germany. Look at a map of votes, it’s clear as day. The borders are exact. They are not a left wing party, not at all. They are a
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by anthem2025 1y ago
It morphed into the cult of the founder a long time ago.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Or it’s a way for people to make a choice for themselves.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
The key was spending 14 billion to hire a guy who hasn’t actually built AI
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Tech people vs startup types.
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by anthem2025 1y ago
Literally every person I have any respect for as an intellectual has described Ayn Rand as slop. I have yet to hear positive things come from anyone who isn’t a libertarian. The sort of person who identifies with the characters because they