oakey66
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- Comment on A 19-year-old girl just received the world’s first wireless bionic hands controlled by thoughts 1 day ago:
Since everything is software based, virtually all of it is proprietary, and requires updates; I’m now bearish on any technology that relies on companies continuing to operate and update their software.
Everything is so shitty that even miraculous tech like this could break down when a company goes under or decides to stop making software updates on a whim. I don’t think I’ve read a single dystopian scifi book that imagined corporate control of every minor/major innovation with paywalls and subscriptions that ultimately lead to the enshittification of every facet of our lives. It feels so much worse than we could have imagined.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 days ago:
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
Just to add the difference. Managed solutions typically has the consulting firm managing the maintenance. In some cases, they take over an existing solution vs the consulting company building something.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
We help them build solutions that they then maintain and own. I’m in analytics. So we’re doing data engineering, security, and delivery.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
I’m in IT consulting. I have personally done some really cool shit for my clients. Things they didn’t have the talent to do themselves. Business management consulting and tax audit consulting is a completely different story. I don’t help automate away jobs. I’m not presenting decks to strip companies and governments for parts. Needless to say, not all consulting is created equally and my hope is that there comes a time where this bubble bursts this push for AI dies on the vine.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
My consulting company is literally talking about nothing else. It’s fucking awful.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Enshittification continues.
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- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 4 weeks ago:
After the Ashkenazi data leak, I deleted my data with them. Never sharing that again.
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
Experts in the field.
open.spotify.com/episode/4IoS9rBDq7GLwsgccKqCti?s…
I also work in the industry. In particular I work in data analytics consulting. It’s all hype to sell consulting hours and compute.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 month ago:
AGI is not in reach. We need to stop this incessant parroting from tech companies. LLMs are stochastic parrots. They guess the next word. There’s no thought or reasoning. They don’t understand inputs. They mimic human speech. They’re not presenting anything meaningful.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 1 month ago:
Open ai made $2 billion on $5 billion in losses. Aside from folks on here talking about having it write proposals or spreadsheet formulas; this is not really a monetizable product. Aside from onsie twosie “it helps me write an email” scenarios, this isn’t something anyone should be spending $20 a month to boil the planet for.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 1 month ago:
Yes
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 2 months ago:
Because it’s now completely disconnected from the reality of the actual economy. It has been for a very long time. It has to do with how much money is funneled into the wealthiest hands.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 2 months ago:
What a dystopian nightmare we live in right now. Remember when politicians told us we have choices in our healthcare? I guess it says something that insurance CEOs are so hated that they need armed body guards and we’re so happy about “all our choices”.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 2 months ago:
I don’t think they’re mature. I think they’re just monopolized to the point where they don’t need to innovate at all. And I don’t see this as a net positive because these companies are so gigantic that they will drive down salaries and benefits for the rest of the middle sized and smaller sized companies. The other problem is that any company that gets this big now has the purchasing power to eliminate competition further cornering the talent pool and the tech market. These guys are the new oil barons of our time and their oil is our data. Not sure how to see this as anything but negative.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's rightward policy shift hits Meta staffers, targets Apple 2 months ago:
It’s pretty clear that billionaire owners of publicly traded companies will do whatever is needed to continue the “number goes up” philosophy of American capitalism. It’s the rot that underlies the whole economy. This isn’t to excuse Zuckerberg but this is America as a whole. The need to increase profits takes priority over bucking fascism, pulling back on vitriolic public discourse, stuffing hyped AI products into every crevice of tech, and pursuing monopolistic business practices. It’s all baked in. And it makes everything worse. No one is attempting to address which is why America is absolutely doomed to collapse. No one is willing to even have the conversation about corporate control/influence of government as well as the philosophy of delivering shareholder value.
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 2 months ago:
No fucking way.
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 2 months ago:
As opposed to… what?
- Comment on 79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most vacation time toward errands, doctor visits, and family care 3 months ago:
This is me and I make well into the six figures. And I’m not spending above my means. This fucking sucks.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 3 months ago:
Lol.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 3 months ago:
Epoch times is owned by a partisan right winger. This is not a good source of information.
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