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by lm28469 1y ago
Why are people pushed into more and more precarious and low paid jobs then? We have more technology than ever before yet it seems like job quality and stability peaked some time ago. Why is the retirement age growing? Why is the gape betwee
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by lm28469 1y ago
"something vaguely comparable happened in completely different settings and wasn't bad in the end, hence we should accept everything new as 100% positive and never question anything ever again" I never understood that argumen
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by lm28469 1y ago
~25% of packages handled in france come from shein, which is shit tier fast fashion company You're right about quality, machines _can_ produce better things, the quote is right about quantities, in practice they mostly produce inferior
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by lm28469 1y ago
People defending megacorps and their lobbyist pulling the most abject tricks and showcasing how morally bankrupt they are will always be an enigma to me... "b-bu-but it's legal"
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by lm28469 1y ago
The best way to use prime is to have 10 free accounts and wait for the "hey it's been a while do you want a free prime month?" emails
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Are people locked into the influencer economy because of the "polish" of the videos? > I feel like people are more locked into consumerism, and this is just the cheapest channel of delivery. Don't forget parasocial re
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by lm28469 1y ago
How old are you ? Kids will grow up with these techs like we grew up with TV and early consoles, they'll love it and see it as a baseline. I don't understand tiktok at all, but when I go for my daily walks I see groups of kids (10
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by lm28469 1y ago
> I think it's a bit insane to think that Russia couldn't completely and totally obliterate civilian central infrastructure in Ukraine if it wanted to. What's your take then ? They're pretending to suck at war for 3 y
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by lm28469 1y ago
> These sorts of outlooks are notoriously hard to predict The gut feeling you're about to lose your life savings isn't worth it for a lot of people, when I had most of my money invested it was always in the back of my mind. I c
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Most camera sensors already detect in the IR range, you just need to remove the filter. I've done it, works great and pretty fun It's not the same IR you'd need for military purposes, you're seeing a tiny percentage
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by lm28469 1y ago
Wait until you read palantir's marketing. It sounds like your average product owner bullshit but they talk about killing people https://www.palantir.com/platforms/gotham/ > Gotham's targeting offering
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by lm28469 1y ago
> men even getting hairline surgery can be a subject of ridicule while woman with the means can surgically change their entire face. Men with means and receding hairlines 100% get hair transplants, even middle class baldies do so
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Thus, if we continue to strive to design/create/invent such, it is inevitable that eventually it must happen. ~200 years of industrial revolution and we already fucked up beyond the point of no return, I don't think we&#
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by lm28469 1y ago
> I think with a bit of engineering, the existing tech can replace customer support system That's the lowest of the low and even you accept it doesn't work (yet), how can LLMs be worth 50% of the last years of gdp growth if it&
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by lm28469 1y ago
Where is all the productivity ? Everyone says they became a 100x employee thanks to LLMs yet not one company has seen any out of the ordinary growth or profit besides AI hyped companies. What if the amount of slop generated counteracts the
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by lm28469 1y ago
The numbers don't lie though, statistically nobody wants VR, we haven't even reached the numbers they were predicating for 2016, 10 years later ... > It says 96 million VR headsets will be shipped in 2020 https://www
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by lm28469 1y ago
These tools already exist and have nothing to do with the metaverse. This is such a weird argument, as if we needed meta to spend 10-50b a year in their bs to have these tools...
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by lm28469 1y ago
> 800 million weekly active users from ChatGPT implies that people actually like LLM’s 800m total users, 25m paying customers... Most people use free accounts and would likely never pay any substantial amount of money for them https:&#x
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by lm28469 1y ago
In France they count illegal drug trafficking and illegal prostitution in the GDP, I doubt these are taxed...
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by lm28469 1y ago
Ah yes, they're just redistributing the money, the trickle down economy right ? They're basically a non profit humanitarian association at that point
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by lm28469 1y ago
> something about personal freedom and right to self-determination This has to be satire, god emperor Zuck and his megacorp Meta fighting for our personal freedoms and right to self-determination. You're already living in an alterna
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by lm28469 1y ago
And how does a 3d rendered world that doesn't exist anywhere other than in a computer has more fidelity than real life ? > It's a good thing. It's a nice thing. Chill That's your opinion, the fact that VR tanked hard
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by lm28469 1y ago
The people who wish for these worlds are either complete shut in, terminally online or already spending 8+ hours a day playing video games and walking past their lives.
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by lm28469 1y ago
This sounds like an absolute nightmare. Technology disconnected us over decades, then gave us "solutions" to stay in touch 24/7, people are lonelier than ever but we keep pushing for more of this shit. You can already call an
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by lm28469 1y ago
I was in LA in 2015 at the peak of the VR hype, I don't think zuck got the memo that it flopped hard between then and now.
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by lm28469 1y ago
Meta alone could have solved like 50% of famines/heavy malnutrition currently happening in the world if they used their metaverse budget to do something useful. And they'd still be so rich they wouldn't know what to do with t
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by lm28469 1y ago
> I think people will sooner just start hard breaking Windows ISOs Hasn't it always been the case? Nobody buy licenses besides companies right? My uncle taught me how to torrent ~20 years ago, he was already cracking stuff for the w
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Population will peak end of century and then begin to rapidly decline based on fertility rate curves. If that's truly how it'll go we don't even need EVs and renewable to attain equilibrium. But something tells me we&#x2
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Look at cumulative co2 emissions though, the US created 50% of the global cumulated co2 emissions alone
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by lm28469 1y ago
> China is building, domestically deploying, and exporting solar, wind, batteries, and EVs so fast that the world will have no choice but to rapidly move towards net zero simply due to economics. I can't help but read "we'

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