Wasn’t this known? long before the election. All these things have been earmarked for privatization. Something about some guy who already kissed Trumps ass so he has dibs on government weather data so he can sell it back to you. I remember hearing about his.
That’s just another way of saying “move fast and break things”.
The podcast called Sold a Story talks about how the school systems adopted a curriculum that doesn’t teach kids how to read. They are more like mimicking literacy. It gives appearances they they are reading but they aren’t comprehending.
This whole era of AI has certainly pushed the brink to existential crisis territory. I think some are even frightened to entertain the prospect that we may not be all that much better than meat machines who on a basic level do pattern matching drawing from the sum total of individual life experience (aka the dataset).
Higher reasoning is taught to humans. We have the capability. That’s why we spend the first quarter of our lives in education. Sometimes not all of us are able.
I’m sure it would certainly make waves if researchers did studies based on whether dumber humans are any different than AI.
We used to think some people aren’t capable of human intellect. Had a whole science to prove it too.
I can’t remember where I heard or read this but they pointed out that the technological infrastructure for fascism is already in place.
And it’s a terrifying truth. There are who knows how many agencies each one alone with enough personal information on the population to do serious damage. Unfortunately humans react to things. It’s not until terrible atrocities occur that the population will require change. Until then we get to watch this slow motion derailing freight train. Some us may inevitably be caught in the path of destruction ourselves.
I believed they were doing such things against budding competitors long before the LLM era. My test is simple. Replace it with China. Would the replies be the opposite of what you’ve recieved so far? The answer is yes. Absolutely people would be frothing at the mouth about China being bad actors.
Western tech bros are just as paranoid, they copy off others, they steal ideas. When we do it it’s called “innovation”.
There isn’t a slippery slope. They are doing it. Do you need an executive order called “WE’RE DOING EUGENICS”…
I’m tired of the edging. The perpetual brink of disaster. It’s here. There are no more red lines. We passed them a long time ago. This is authoritarian America. They are doing the things. Enough with the edging.
A few years ago I got drive through that wasn’t put together properly. They dumped all the stuff into the box. Could have gotten a proper restaurant dining experience for the same price.
McDonalds has gone so far out of touch with what they are as a business.
This is the inevitable result of infinite growth. You aren’t getting a home in world class locations without being at the very top yourself. Sure other people lucked into the right place and the right time. Go buy lottery tickets. Or set down in location that is more affordable. With any luck you’ll be a multimillionaire when you’re elderly too. And the kids of the year 2060 will hate you for the dastardly plot you schemed up with your friends to ruin everything.
We’re all part of the rat race that is fucking us over. Nobody wants to flinch. So we continue to eat each other alive.
It’s not very wild when you realize you’re talking to addicts. The whole world is addicted.
I think the fun hasn’t even begun. The “market” or whatever. The collective mind hasn’t yet realized or the scale hasn’t quite tipped yet on how bad this all is. I think maybe too many people are silently making their financial move so as to not be the one to that sets it all off. Or they’re trying to tread carefully before the house of cards falls.
Like when Lehman went under in 2008. All those shit derivatives were plugging along. Some people knew it was rotten. The system kept going until suddenly didn’t anymore. Then all the red lights and alarm bells went off.
Even with current market downturn. I think it’s yet to go off the cliff. They keep bending the system and it’s bowing but it hasn’t really broken yet. When it does I think a greater than 50% drop in the SP500 is possible.
That’s not to say it’s going to all come crashing down in like a day or a week or even a month. I think the paradigm of the past 15 years is over. The one where’ there’s a relatively brief drop and then everyone buys “cheap stock” and then everything goes 20% higher.
I think we’re in for a long period of decline. Where people cannot simply dump money into investments and see gains every year. We could be in for a long haul where people put money into an SP500 fund and it loses every year. Maybe a 0%-1% gain on a good year due to sideways movement.
its executive director of public safety, Chris Clem, who is a former US Customs and Border Protection agent who testified before Congress about border security last year and regularly appears on Fox News
So a bunch of chuds managed to take their weekend pedo hunting and turn it into a shitty startup.
Notice the “free market” vanishes when it’s a thing they don’t like. Suddenly we need strong authority to ensure it’s “fair”.
Infinite scroll is suited for current events putting negative pressures against content creation. Content creation became an economy. Commoditization of content sucked the life out of it all.
They have old/orphaned dependencies on their machine. It’s hanging on a by thread. They have no idea the packages have disappeared years ago. The house of cards is a bit flip away from collapsing.
The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It’s part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.
Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They’re clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.
You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.
It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?
The music can come screeching to a halt for the US tech industry. They haven’t been innovating for a long time. Just relying on monopolization, rehashing old shit, or straight up VC baiting with useless garbage. The rest of the world needs to continue to realize they can do tech too. They can produce novel and actually useful things. Whereas the US industry has been strangling itself to death with anti-competition.
Especially with regards to AI. Once more others realize the milestone innovations in this field comes from academic research which is then taken by the private sector for profit. Others can realize and follow this path. They can spin up quicker than they think. With the education system being systematically dismantled in a pivot to identity politics protectionism over innovation, the future looks rather grim for the US. Bright for others though.
I think sometimes the author is hoping it may reach certain readers as opposed to preaching to the choir.