The most terrifying words from in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

– Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy

The problems you list are solvable, but you have apparently lacked the intellectual curiosity to investigate how they can be solved. I won’t debate the basic tenets of Marxism with you because it will take too much time and effort, and I have no way to know if you’re genuinely interested or just another troll. But you can find numerous reading lists here if you want to understand.

You are not required to judge the value of work based on its output. While some types of work may produce output that is relatively more beneficial to society than is other work, a society can choose to believe that the value of the work lies in the effort rather than the output. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. This is the core tenet of Marxism. It’s entirely a matter of which paradigm you choose to accept. There is no right answer to this question, only reflections of what you value.

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PC load letter… what the fuck is that?

The kids from your high school who weren’t popular, but were obsessed with popularity.

The original series is easily digestible. I tried picking up Iron Gold a few years afterward and couldn’t get into it, though.

Take anything written by Gladwell with a large helping of salt.

I will not submit to tone policing or censorship.

Lol. Lmao, even.

Chronic pain and discomfort can certainly make you want to rush to the end.

We all express love in different ways.

That’s a semantic distinction that doesn’t add to the conversation. Read the room, friend.

Maybe. There were rounds of layoffs a couple years ago where companies used COVID over employment as the rationale. I think four years removed that rationale is a bit of a stretch.

I think it’s also possible that the looming recession is a cause, but they can’t say that out loud for fear of offending the Crybaby in Chief.

And if AI is working properly these “innovative” tech companies shouldn’t really need to fire anyone, right? All their bright employees should just be able to use AI to generate value for their respective companies.

Idk the answer, but I can say that I personally know high-performing engineers who swear by it. I mostly found it useful as a rubber duck, or to quickly tear down some code in a language with which I’m not acquainted.

I actively try to avoid AI for moral reasons, but I have found it useful for certain tasks. It’s not a panacea, but it’s also not useless.

That’s not accurate from my understanding. I quit my SDE job in December, but my former coworkers say they use AI pretty much all day and find it useful. Ofc, the company’s systems were an indecipherable mess, mostly because of rushed choices those same people made everyday, but neither here nor there. This is why tech companies are cutting jobs.

Whether any of this is sustainable remains to be seen, but there are current use cases and real demand for “AI” data centers.

Because “like” in the context of the meme means “interested in romantically,” whereas the person you replied to took it to mean “like” in the plutonic sense. It’s a common phrase because strippers are paid to pretend that they want to fuck you, but rarely are they actually romantically attracted to their customers. But if you’re delusional, you might believe they actually want to fuck you.

Ofc, there are exceptions to every rule, but they are few and far between.

Policing in the US rose largely out of slave patrols. You can’t just tell them to hire social workers and expect any change. The problem is so deeply rooted and systemic that you have to eliminate the entire concept of police and start from the ground up.

Wish granted: https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

There are several others.

But this doesn’t solve the problem because a nefarious actor would simply use a service that doesn’t watermark their images. That is to say, if an image has a watermark it is definitely AI. If it doesn’t have a watermark, you can’t determine whether or not it’s AI.

I get that we’re just doing propaganda to reinforce the base, but this is actually out of context. He says his goal is to prevent Iran from getting a nuke, even if it impacts Americans’ finances. Now, he ripped up a deal that had been preventing Iran from getting a nuke in 2018 and is now murdering school children and they are going to get a nuke, but as a leftist, I value objective truth, so this meme can fuck right off.

Lmao, what did you expect would happen? Obvious troll is obvious.

What’s the alternative?