How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.

Dude, you’re up two posts from here saying how people are LLMs.

I understand wanting to walk that back, but you did post it.

Just start up a signal chat. Make sure to include a journalist.

“You could imagine a world where…”

Sure, I can imagine a lot of things, and a lot of them will never materialize.

My parents are boomers. Like a lot of boomers they have a pension. In addition, they’re still getting social security checks. A pension for me isn’t even a dream and I’ll be lucky if social security is even around in twenty years.

So, pardon me if I’m a little flippant about some of the “screw you, I got mine” generation eating a bit of shit because they were attempting to draw income from volatile assets that you’re supposed to be in when you are decades younger after voting overwhelmingly for a clown that said for months he’d blow up the market and then did as he promised.

It’ll eventually come back around to screw me in the end anyway in the form of one disaster or another because I’m a millennial: born at exactly the right time to live through every financial, political, and constitutional crisis possible as well as to finance a Domino’s pizza.

This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.

On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity as a whole.

But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.

LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into places where they are obviously counterproductive.

This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.

Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?

No.

I really don’t think this is part of some grander plan. I think he really thinks blanket tariffs are a good idea.

Tariff man is an idiot.

Retirees ‘idiots’ as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.

Federal and local government are likely both involved. With the doge cuts, who knows how many boots they actually have on the ground for this these days?

They get hit in the pocketbook and suddenly now the Constitution matters.

They could implement this by just not charging the duties at the ports in California and see who blinks first.

🎶 we’re morons! 🎶

Yeah I mean there’s that but the reddit demo uses ad blockers frequently and ad-based content on reddit is already probably not that profitable. There’s a lot of people running astroturf campaigns for various things, but how are you seeing revenue out of that? Some schmuck buying the wrong type of portable speaker because of a crappy recommendation won’t add to reddit’s bottom line when it’s the speaker maker’s internal marketing intern. If anything, it’ll just further cause people to lose confidence in them.

The only path they had toward profitability was feeding all of their user data into AIs for revenue from AI companies, but chatbots are also unprofitable and that revenue probably won’t even cover the costs to run the servers, and besides how many companies are going to be dumb enough to pay for that privilege? We’re talking about folks that already stole every piece of artwork, literature, and news article they could get their grubby little mitts on. Why would they continue to pay reddit?

Ultimately the biggest conceit of the “attention economy” is the idea that attention automatically translates into dollars.

(And they’re bleeding attention too.)

This “company” has no real path to profitability to speak of.

These motherfuckers will still be chirping about “cancel culture” while hanging from chains in Trump’s gulag.

Stadiums are getting increasingly fascist. My response will be to stop going to events in them.

Exactly the point

A demonstration of the “soft power” that Vance was telling Ukraine to use.

Lol neither are worth that much.