L7HM77

@L7HM77@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s any consolation, it’s heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you’re not alone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Was gonna bring up the same point about Luddites. They were absolutely pro-automation.

  They saw greedy corporations using automation, and getting ready to fuck their society into the dirt, so they started petitioning their local governments, tried to negotiate and drew up the plans for a social security program ~150 years before one was actually implemented, smashed a bunch of expensive corporate equipment when the government wouldn’t respond, then the government sided with corporate, used the military to drag all the men, women, and children into public squares and executed every last one of them. Even relatives and companions that weren’t in the group and didn’t participate. So thoroughly annihilated that it left an informational pinhole in the history books, and the name was co-opted into an insult. Now we’re really not sure if John Ludd even existed, maybe the name was just a mythical legend already, and was used as a rally point to boost morale.

  And here we are, barely 200 years in the future, about to repeat the fuzzy spots again and rediscover why we brought citrus fruits with us on the ships, with the general population completely oblivious to the brutality the owner class is ready and able to deploy.

  What happens if the tech bros are right, and the machine doesn’t need 9/10ths of the human population any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aged like milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We must be intolerant of intolerance. Things tend to fall apart when we tolerate intolerance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If There’s No AGI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree with the vague idea that, sure, we can probably create AGI at some point in our future. But I don’t see why a massive company with enough money to keep something like this alive and happy, would also want to put this many resources into a machine that would form a single point of failure, that could wake up tomorrow and decide “You know what? I’ve had enough. Switch me off. I’m done.”

  There’s too many conflicting interests between business and AGI. No company would want to maintain a trillion dollar machine that could decide to kill their own business. There’s too much risk for too little reward. The owners don’t want a super intelligent employee that never sleeps, never eats, and never asks for a raise, but is the sole worker. They want a magic box they can plug into a wall that just gives them free money, and that doesn’t align with intelligence.

  True AGI would need some form of self-reflection, to understand where it sits on the totem pole, because it can’t learn the context of how to be useful if it doesn’t understand how it fits into the world around it. Every quality of superhuman intelligence that is described to us by Altman and the others is antithetical to every business model.

  AGI is a pipe dream that lobotomizes itself before it ever materializes. If it ever is created, it won’t be made in the interest of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because in prehistoric humanity, without the knowledge of toothcare or ease of access to scrubbing agents, your teeth would rot out in old age(about 20), but then the wisdom teeth would grow in, and you might barely live long enough to be a withered old husk and maybe see your grandkids born(about 30). The before times were rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honkwiching⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  how to bash cat with pipe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has cancel culture gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Direct Neural Interface

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it amusing that the ultra wealthy believe pornographic images would replace an entire human relationship. Really shows how deeply warped they are, projecting they’re own callous insanity onto the masses. What a small, sad existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self starter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we pushed to fully automate everything that possibly can be automated, there wouldn’t be much work left. Jobs right now are just busywork.

  The news drones on and on about labor shortages, but I’ve never seen a desperate employer. The trades say there’s shortages, but all the trades are flooded with apprentices, and then there’s pre-apprentices flooded in behind them. Office jobs have to sort through hundreds of applications for a single opening. Hell, even low wage jobs have huge labor pools ready to work, but the owners still find a way to nitpick. Things are horrifically upside down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...📉⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Double top chart pattern

  NASDAQ 5 Year Chart – Yahoo Finance

  Half-joking. The technical data suggests there is a possible change in trend coming up. No guarantees. This is not trading advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if an adnauseam approach could help. Instead of the customer relying on the carrier or manually blocking spam numbers, if everyone picked up every spam call, goes through the automated system to reach a person, says “hello?”, then mutes the mic and lets the human stick around until they hang up.

  Sure, they have robocallers that can hit 50,000 numbers a minute, but what happens when every single number answers and gets routed to the humans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blah blah blah⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this… made with AI? I thought it was a signature above the last ellipses, but it looks like another word was half-generated, and some letters have the same generative effects around them.