So the joke candidate lost and Count Binface won, exactly as predicted.

I’d say there are many well informed reasons to be against virtually (virtually) all use of AI in 202X.

Absolutely, and I agree on that.
But most of what we hear is about ChatGPT and Claude. And I agree they are detrimental, and Grok is a joke.
However Deepseek was made for about the equivalent amount Meta uses on Catering, and maybe isn’t as disruptive, and doesn’t require those enormous datacenters either.
Just because the big ones are insanely harmful in many ways, doesn’t mean that AI can’t have value.

There are use cases for AI that are actually beneficial, like detecting skin cancer more accurately.

Absolutely AI has good uses, ChatGPT and Claude are not representative for all of AI, but even they have good use cases. But the massive poorly planned build out of data centers is insane.
Here in Denmark new data centers are only allowed as we build out the grid with more renewable energy. And Denmark is a very popular country for data centers, exactly because we have a high degree of renewable energy.

Sounds like a focus on jobs. Although renewable energy creates jobs, I think they’ve been brainwashed to think the opposite.

Since Trump became President USA has done nothing but work against Ukraine.

Apart from my other response, it is also unlikely, if you are in the union when unemployed you get benefits, why join the day after and pay for membership, the day you don’t get any benefits?
If this was to be theoretically likely, most people would at least wait for their first paycheck, so they can better afford the membership.
Unions aren’t cheap.

That’s a possibility of course, but remember that when McDonalds opened in Denmark they only had 1 place, close to the entrance to Tivoli in Copenhagen, next to a Burger King that opened before McDonalds in Denmark.
It’s not like they opened 100 or even just 2 places at once.

But I would be shocked if McDonalds actually had 0 representation at the time.

As I very clearly described to you, they could refuse to hire union members.

So are you saying that no members of McDonalds were part of the union? The union had absolutely 0 remembers at McDonalds? I understand that in Scandinavia being part of a union is completely separate from the company, and any collective agreement, but you still need to be a member if I’m not mistaken.

You very clearly don’t understand the rules here. No you don’t have to be a member, Obviously the union isn’t part of the company, that would be weird and wrong. But in bigger companies, the unions have a right to have 2 members on the board. But you cannot force people to be members of a union, that is illegal. You can only force a company to follow the agreement between DA and LO, or you may negotiate your own terms as a company.

When you start a new company like McDonalds was at the time (early 80’s), they can easily ask the people they hire if they are members of a union, and then not hire them if they are.
IDK if any were, and it’s irrelevant except for the ability to receive compensation from the union in case of a strike.

I am not familiar with the second example, but it is absolutely the case that unions may step in and blockade a company that doesn’t follow the agreement set between the union of the companies (Employers) that in Denmark is called Dansk arbejdsgiverforening (DA) and the united worker unions called LO.
If these agreements aren’t met by any employer, unions may step in and make sanctions, boycotts and blockades, to get them to follow the rules, disregarding whether they have union members employed or not.

You still need to have someone represented at the company, by the union calling for the initial blockade.

No, and why do you think that? Sounds like you don’t really know how unions work in Scandinavia.

In the McDonalds case, the people working AT McDonalds were in a union

IDK if that is true, but it is irrelevant, because it was not a strike that determined the outcome, but blockade and boycott.
And there have been other cases, where both the owner and people employed were right wing idiots who were all against unions, they were forced to ultimately make an agreement anyway. They even had support from right wing parties, having arrangements there to support them.

They cant demand an agreement if there are no members.

yes they can, perfectly standard way for unions to operate, and has happened multiple times here.
For instance with McDonald’s and 7 Eleven.
The company is suffering blockade by union members (That don’t work there) until the company gives in.

This all started because they couldn’t get an agreement for their members.

Of course it did, but that is not the sole interest for the union, it is also an interest that the company doesn’t undermine other companies that actually have agreements with the union.

Personally I just think it’s a stupid waste of resources and want these fucking LLM companies to all go bankrupt.

100% with you on that. In 2000 I personally predicted that AI would approach human intelligence around 2030, but I never dreamed it would be this useless.
I’m a bit astonished that I nailed it so closely, it was purely based on estimating the compute power available, and that software would progress together with that. And the estimated power of AI at the time considered to be around the level of a bee.
But I must say I’m disappointed in the application of it, and the crazy raze to invest in and monetize (attempting to monopolize) it. And how both capable and stupid it is at the same time.

Thanks, as I wrote above, that would usually not get the union off your neck, of course they can’t strike without union members employed. But they can still make blockades and demand the company makes an agreement with the union.

I’d hate if this means the unions lost the fight.

carmaker buys out union members

How does that work? Do they mean paid them to cancel their union membership?
If so, that doesn’t usually work, at least not here in Denmark, as the union will continue to blockade such a company.
But Tesla is also in Denmark, and without a conflict. So I wonder if Danish unions have avoided the conflict, and are just letting Tesla operate without a union agreement?

Seems like resistance to AI is religious here for some reason.
Usually I would write “almost” on such issues, but it’s so bad I can’t in good faith call it only almost.

Pizzagate was all about misdirection away from the real pedophiles.

Ah silly me, thank you very much that is very cool to have that option. 😎 👍

Interesting, how do you get that comment number?

The best democracies in the world are also representative. That is not the problem, the problem is that USA instead of improving regulation to reign in capitalism, has chosen to allow it to run wild taking over elections, and hasn’t improved on the flawed FPP system.
Some places have ranked voting, and hopefully they will be pointers to the future, but there’s a long way from where USA is currently to having any chance of that.