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Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
JollyG@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI doomsday marketing wank has the same vibe as preteens at a sleepover getting spooked by a ouija board.
IllNess@infosec.pub 1 day ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
No, Y2K would have been catastrophic.
But a shit ton of people out in a ridiculous amount of work and everything was updated.
People concerned were fucking “doomers”, they were the reason shit didn’t go terribly.
But because rational.people helped everyone avoid the consequences, idiots think we could have just ignored it and had the same result.
It’s fucking ridiculous you didn’t learn this lesson from covid even if you’re too young to have experienced Y2K
T156@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Its like the problems around the ozone hole, or acid rain.
A lot of people scrambled and worked very hard to find an alternative that didn’t cause problems, and now it’s almost like they never existed, and people think it was much ado over nothing.
IllNess@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
I should’ve specified. Even after there were a a ton of work put in, doomers existed to the last second. There were doomers who really thought the world was going to end without mentioning the technology aspect of it. These doomers, even after the date passed kept moving up the date and repeated this process.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The streak continues that anyone who uses “doomer” has no fucking clue what they’re talking about …
You deleted your first reply because it was bullshit, then you make a new one to double down on it?
Fuck man, how do you expect to learn anything when the list of shit you need to learn apparently covers everything?
magnetosphere@fedia.io 22 hours ago
Had a friend who was hired by a temp agency to reprogram outdated mainframes in an ancient programming language. He was paid for training. There were ARMIES of people like him doing last-minute fixes. Y2K would have been a tremendous disaster if people had just ignored it.
See also: the environment, but without armies of people working on fixes.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
But did they fill in their TPS reports?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It doesn’t have to be good to be bad.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ues, but no different than AI competence wank. LLMs are a significant step forward, but not even remotely intelligent. It’s all bullshit and hype.
One day it won’t be. We aren’t there yet.
echodot@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
I don’t think we’re ever going to get there until we get off this idea that LLMs are in some way going to achieve general intelligence.