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by realce 2y ago
Isn't it also a $300 equipment payment and shipping time to get the equipment is 2 weeks?
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by realce 2y ago
With this progress, what will be the point of being in any upper percentile at all? Everyone will be in it if they have access to the LLM wizard. We're outsourcing our sovereignty to a machine blob in a black box, the blob will do the
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by realce 2y ago
> If the elderly, sick and bedridden can talk to a computer they can also talk to real people through the computer. If this is so dependably true, then why does this population still suffer loneliness? How many hours of your day do you
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by realce 2y ago
I don't think you read the article
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by realce 2y ago
IMO a great example is that it means not building floating skyscrapers powered by diesel fuel so that people can shop at a mall in the middle of the ocean.
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by realce 2y ago
https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/mcdonalds-kfc-burger-kin... https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve... > Get a grip I'd suggest you be more curious when others are
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by realce 2y ago
Disgust aside, what would give them the legal right to do this? Is this covered by the TOS of the Facebook android app? If this is just plainly legal without even the fig-leaf of a TOS, why do we even have the 4th and 5th amendment at all?
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by realce 2y ago
> Human labor is a cost to society. Human labor is the primary pillar of society and has been for all of human history. Services cannot be utilized without capital, capital cannot be acquired without labor. Remove labor and all of it f
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by realce 2y ago
> Cisco spokesperson Robyn Blum said in an email to SFGATE that the layoff is meant to allow the company to invest in “key growth opportunities and drive more efficiency in our business.” Human Labor is no longer a "key growth oppor
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by realce 2y ago
None of these uses - most of which benefit a slim percentage of society or are needlessly complicated by this technology - outweigh the severe downsides to society. It's the apex of foolishness to act glibly about this. This all ends
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by realce 2y ago
This is my opinion too. The real profitable application of current AI is surveillance and the removal of human empathy from the corporate equation.
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by realce 2y ago
The answer is absolutely "yes". Your car will snitch on you, your house will snitch on you, your phone will snitch on you, your credit card will snitch on you, on an on. This nation is built to support corporations, not personal
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by realce 2y ago
How long until a Coca-Cola ends up in the Star Trek episode you're streaming?
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by realce 2y ago
I'm reminded of Hypernormalization's portrayal of teens in the USSR. It's not just the impending doom, it's the dissolution of facts and the implicit knowledge that your leaders are super-predators with goals antithesis
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by realce 2y ago
As a consumer, AI means "outsourced decisions with no accountability or humanity involved". It's like selling your product with the tagline "We hired less humans in favor of this automated phone support system." It
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by realce 2y ago
It's such a lucrative revenue stream that I doubt companies will be convinced of any utility in open-sourcing. Similar to AI regulation, the car companies can just claim that any public access to the code will make cars more dangerous
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by realce 2y ago
A mortgage is 30 years. Who thinks most people will have well-paying jobs in 20 years? In 10? In 5? What's the current percentage of American workers who can afford a house, a car, and a single child responsibly? What's the aver
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by realce 2y ago
It's generally anti-competitive behavior, your personal experience with it has no bearing?
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by realce 2y ago
>The court on a 5-4 vote ruled that the bankruptcy court did not have the authority to release the Sackler family members from legal claims made by opioid victims. As part of the deal, the family, which controlled the company, had agree
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by realce 2y ago
Is a non-US citizen culpable for publishing US secrets? In sincere good-faith: is there even a US law about publishing the names of undercover informants? Isn't that what Dick Chaney and the New York Times did?
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by realce 2y ago
> dead fish get emotional when they see pictures of humans could you explain further here?
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by realce 2y ago
Fair points, thanks for playing along, hope you have a lovely day today.
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by realce 2y ago
> Implications that the way things have always went is the only way it can go is silly at best and dangerous at worst. I apologize if I was unfair, I'm just trying to have a provocative conversation, no offense intended. Calling an
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by realce 2y ago
And conditions it as "historically". It does not state "revolution and violence is the only way forward"
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by realce 2y ago
It states that historically government oppression has resulted in revolution and violence. It doesn't imply its the only way, but it's certainly a human trope repeated countless times in history, and it will occur again. Could pr
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by realce 2y ago
> This sort of rhetoric is dangerous How?
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by realce 2y ago
I would argue the strawman is the depiction of every upset customer being irate because of a personal problem instead of the issue they're contacting customer service about.
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by realce 2y ago
> There will always be angry customers. There will always be companies that make their customers angry. You're really going against people seeking solutions from companies they pay? I'm amazed anyone would downvote this - how
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by realce 2y ago
>Though it does strike me now that any such service will be primarily used by criminals. Just think of them as "anti-state actors" Getting a small VPS with crypto and tunneling from your home seems like a better pathway to me?
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by realce 2y ago
No point to it, but your comment reminded me of this podcast episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzfABpPHyI Bowling Alleys | The Economics of Everyday Things

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