eldebryn
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- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 19 hours ago:
Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.
If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.
The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that’s the point.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 19 hours ago:
Don’t fucking tone-police me. I’m not a politician idgaf about being palpable or “appealing to all sides”.
Being rude doesn’t make someone wrong and appealing to everyone doesn’t make one right either.
I want socialism, education and welfare and decent living standarda for all. I want fascists and the multimillionaire class to stop existing. That’s it, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it.
People need to be willing to accept that their votes have been supporting fascists and going against their best interests and they need to be willing to consider a different perspective for that. It’s not my responsibility to cater to those that spent their lives shitting on the very possibility of critical thinking.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 day ago:
Very possible yes, it’s been a awhile since I saw it.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 day ago:
Depressing bit of the day: I don’t have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.
Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 days ago:
I’d argue it does. You can’t improve things if you don’t first identify what the root cause of the problem is.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 days ago:
Frankly, between blaming welfare and going for eugenics or blaming capitalism and going for socialism I’d much prefer the latter.
- Comment on Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary 4 days ago:
To be fair, Poe’s Law on the Internet has been at the peak of its power in the recent years due to AI and geopolitical events.
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 5 days ago:
It doesn’t have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.
Try searching for the theory of “bullshit jobs”. It’s all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 1 week ago:
IMO if your “A*” style algorithm is used for chatbot or any kind of user interaction or content generation, it should still be explicitly declared.
That being said, there is some nuance here about A) use of Copyrighted material and B) Non-deterministic behaviour. Neither of which is (usually) a concern in more classical non-DL approaches to AI solutions.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
Yes and idfaf. Work as much as you want to. No one gets a second home before everyone has at least one. That’s my position.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
If we had a fair distribution of wealth I wouldn’t care about either of these really.
Most artists care about attribution/fame somewhat but if they could live comfortably they wouldn’t care about royalties much or others using their art.
Likewise for AI, automation is an amazing thing for civilization but when it is gatekeeped and used to make the rich richer it’s just exploitation of workers everywhere since they have to work as hard as they did one century ago with, arguably, less buying power.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 1 week ago:
Allowed to live sure but I’d argue they shouldn’t be allowed to exist as billionaires.
that kind of wealth is just immoral, unreasonable by the scale of human’s lifetime, and exploitative by nature.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
The majority of the world considered slavery and women being subservient normal, that didn’t make it right.
You think it’s brain dead to reject a digital ID.
I think it’s braindead to sacrifice privacy for the sake of safety, especially when it’s so transparent that the goal is control and suppression and not “protecting the children”.
To each his own.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
The problem is not the ID cards that other countries have. That would be reasonable, even if one could argue NINO is sufficient.
The problem is the online/app nature if them which, in conjunction with OSA, makes it dystopian control scenario.
I’m not ignoring those upsides that you mentioned, I just didn’t mention them or wasn’t aware. I like most of them for what it matters.
But I do still consider OSA and digital IDs an authoritarian measures and I do find this to be of high enough importance to potentially overshadow all of the above.
What’s the point of living in a, arguably, more socialist state if your privacy doesn’t exist? I’m not a bloody tanky and I don’t like that angle, like many others.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 3 weeks ago:
His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist’s wet dreams.
Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That’s a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it’s surreal.
People reasonably feel cheated on given the party’s supposed focus.
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 4 weeks ago:
Ofc, how didn’t I even consider ff7 in the literal post with title
Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year
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- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 4 weeks ago:
clerith vs cloti
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that technology and progress is bad nor that we should stop pursuing it.
I’m saying that progress that only benefits 1% or less of the people doesn’t interest me.
If your innovation cannot reasonably exist without economic bubbles and worker exploitation, then it doesn’t deserve to.
Even if we found the cure to cancer tomorrow but it was so expensive and restricted that maybe 1000 billionaires alone could afford it I literally wouldn’t care for it.
The cost for achieving all that is exploitation. It literally worsens the lives of many, so that few can taste the fruits of advancement. I’d rather we discovered that cure 20 years later if it meant that 99% of us had better quality of life.
The rich want the opposite and try convince you and me and everyone else that this is to the benefit of humankind because advancement happen faster with capitalism.
I have no sources on that. But even if they do, I simply don’t care about it. It doesn’t benefit me nor anyone I know.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s really bad yes. I’m no communist but I really think we should have had mixed economies and better tax policies to keep the rich in check. AI and other automation could have led to us working 20hrs a week on average while everything runs smooth, if used for the benefit of all.
Right now they have snowballed so much money and power and tech that I just can’t see how we can out of outside of revolts. Democracy has been corrupted almost everywhere and people are being manipulated into thinking other religions or immigrant are the problem.
There was a time we banned cloning to prevent the rich from making armies to exploit. But religion/ethics made that easy. We never considered doing the same with tech and important means of production.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah great. Capitalist market without socialist values means the elite can overcome their handicaps and live long lives with a physical form sculpted to their wants.
Call me when it’s done without a metric tonne of exploitation.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I can imagine that haptic/soft vibrations could also be used to steer a blind person towards an object that needs more focus by the camera.
As you say, it has a lot of potential for accessibility and people with handicaps like that, but it’s not direction that tech, the economy, or the world itself is interested in right now…
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 5 weeks ago:
They have AA off because they recommend upscaling on literally everything. Upscaling sorta acts like AA and they are not used together.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 month ago:
You have (cyberpunk 2077), you just failed to comprehend it.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Platforms keep getting shittier and more exploitative, while government thirst for control with things like Chat Control, OSA and whatever the US is doing.
The more we see of that the easier it becomes to market a “your internet services in a box” to a layman.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Yup. I really wish we had an open source alternative to proxmox that used containers under the hood. Would make customizing and mounting external volumes much easier too.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
We need a startup to just make and try to sorta standardize a mini pc product pre-installed with a proxmox-like setup with an easy web interface and self-hosted solutions pre installed. 5-10 apps for main internet service needs like email, social media, content hosting/publishing and personal media libraries.
Give it a cute name like “Web-Pal”, keep it open and Customizable for powerusers, watch the internet become a better place while you’re the household name for devices that are as essential as a router.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
I see, that’s fair.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
I mean this respectfully, but that wasn’t an actual answer.
- Comment on Warehouse automation hasn’t made workers safer — it’s just reshuffled the risk 1 month ago:
The idea is that we automate everything and the more we do the more we pass that productivity/efficiency down to people via UBI/wellfare/less working hours and when we hit star trek levels people are free run in fields, paint or just goon all day if they want to.
But we’re doing the opposite, creating bullshit jobs to keep busy and pretend capitalism is working while starving and driving to extinction everyone who is not significantly wealthy while elite brag about driving innovation and the future of mankind.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Out of legit curiosity, how many models do you know trained exclusively on public domain data, which are actually useful?
