Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And yet youtube is still the dominant video host.

  Youtube hasn’t descended to being unusable yet.

  You’re missing the point entirely. If instead of luxuries you look through the lens of necessities perhaps you’ll see. Like replace cookies with bread and try tell me people will choose to starve first. Like obviously not.

  I think you’re missing the point. If we substitute bread in the example I gave and they’re putting sawdust in it, then yes people will not buy bread made with zero flour, but instead made with sawdust. Yes, people will stop buying bread in that situation because they would die anyway because the bread doesn’t produce nutritional value.

  Ask a ford employee 30 years ago about robot automation. Like this is not a new thing in the 2020s. The rich have a playbook for this.

  Now you’re speaking against your original point. Robot automation has not lowered the quality of a Ford vehicle. If anything it has increased it. A robot can have assembly tolerances much tighter than a human. Where is the lowering of quality from a robot making the vehicle that your original thesis demands?

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  • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Robot automation has not lowered the quality of a Ford vehicle

    I never said that and the quality of a ford truck is irrelevant to the assembly worker who lost their job due to automation.

    You need to back up because you have gone down a tangent alone.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Robot automation has not lowered the quality of a Ford vehicle
      

      I never said that and the quality of a ford truck is irrelevant to the assembly worker who lost their job due to automation.

      You need to back up because you have gone down a tangent alone.

      I agree we’re down a tangent, but I’m following the logic of your responses. Which point to you want to back up to that would change our conversation path?

      The notion that people won’t eat sawdust bread is demonstrably false with many historical examples proving you wrong.

      I’m glad you saw those. I specifically chose sawdust in my example because of those events in history. Those support what I’m talking about. When the adulteration of the food became bad enough, people stopped eating it.

      Your stipulation about zero flour is a moving goalpost and a strawman fyi

      My “zero flour” comment is a response to your original thesis where you said: “quality of service can drop indefinitely.”

      It can’t be indefinitely. There’s a point where people will stop consuming it when it gets bad enough.

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      • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you said: “quality of service can drop indefinitely.”

        What I actually said was…

        As long as the rich maintain their monopolies quality of service can drop indefinitely.

        So yes you have completely missed my point and are arguing with yourself, not me.

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