It’s a sensor relying on image recognition, which is only as reliable as the image recognition software. The more clever software tries to be, the more potential failure states that exist.

They’re still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there’s an Xbox console anymore.

Election interference only matters sometimes, I guess.

They don’t call it penis, they call it pizzle instead.

I love dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, all of it. I don’t get the elitism over a matter of taste.

They can be trained to understand the distinction.

No it can’t because of how LLMs work. All “safety” built on top of models now are just band-aids and bubble gum stuck in strategic areas hoping that cases get caught.

How the hell did these lawyers do their jobs before?

I also yearn to catch some sun when I’m stuck working.

It’s simply a matter of what genes get passed on. That still applies even with gene editing.

One problem with capitalism is that everything is for sale, including the government. The AI industry is intentionally positioning themselves as “too big to fail” so that they can guarantee a government bailout. As for the dotcom bubble, sure the smaller players were allowed to fail, but that just meant more room for the larger players like google and amazon to take over and now they’re definitely too big to fail. With AI, we already have a small handful of huge players and they’ve convinced the government that this is a matter of national security.

On top of that, people’s retirements are more tied to the stupid stock market than ever before, so the government will use that as an excuse to bail out these companies, hence the rush to IPO and enter indexes.

Oh, so the store can’t actually “cut labor fairly easy”.

Even worse than getting a “hi” or “hello” is “?”. I don’t know where people learned to do that, but I’ve had more than one person start a conversation in Teams or Slack with “?” and it always makes me think I did something wtf-worthy to just get a “?” out of nowhere. Apparently it’s their way of asking if I’m available.

All these people don’t seem to understand the advantage of asynchronous text messaging where you can greet and ask a question at the same time.

Then why are they ever running any more than a skeleton crew? For fun? You claim they could easily cut labor, but if it was that easy then they would’ve done it already. They’re always looking to maximize profit.

I’m sure you could also pull up stories of the “welfare queen” by searching those words, but that doesn’t mean it’s as widespread or as big of a problem as portrayed.

The more that franchisees can bear to pay in rent, the more corporate can charge, so the franchisees hiring fewer people is maximizing shareholder value even if indirectly.

Sure, but the longer the game goes, the more likely capital concentration will lead to what we have now.

Nobody said feudalism is better, in fact my post was saying the opposite and using that to make the point that we can still improve things.

Capitalism is the current system we’re living in that is creating the rich and poor as they exist today. That isn’t to say there isn’t inequality in other systems, but it’s possible to adopt a different system that is less open to abuse, just like how we moved on from feudalism. Why continue playing a game with fundamentally broken rules?

Off-hand, I can see the affordability crisis and over-reliance on debt to finance people’s lives, while at the same time threatening labor with outsourcing, AI, whatever to replace them and their ability to make a living leads to tremendous amounts of stress. A constant high level of stress is devastating for mental health. These all work together to squeeze people at both ends, maximizing money made off people just living and then offering paid services to promise relief (even though the situation the capitalist class has created is the problem itself).

Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though. It’s why the auto companies bought up streetcar lines and tore them out to make people more dependent on cars. Capitalism is not responsible for all mental health problems, but there is a clear incentive to promote it so that the capitalist class can sell services, and it wouldn’t be out of the question to over-diagnose or even help create the conditions to gain more customers.