If that's the game you want to play, OK.

Bacteria outnumber all other living things. Statistically, there's only one gender and all else is an abberation. This is confirmed, as the Y chromosome is simply an X chromosome that is badly degraded.

Humans are tetrapods, and therefore fish. Land-living fish are an abberation and can be ignored.

You see? That's a really, really stupid game to play, because it is trivial to show that it leads to nonsense.

Abberation is the entire basis on which all science is built.

You can only speak more freely if you agree with Musk. Disagree with him and you're banned. That's narry a "freedom" worthy of the name.

The video game industry is hard to compare considering that games are a very unique commodity with almost zero per-unit cost and insane fixed costs. The video game market also is magnitudes bigger than it was in the 1980s, so those fixed costs can be distributed over about a thousand times the units.

And yes, electronics got way cheaper than they were in the 70s and 80s. Mostly because we stopped manufacturing them domestically. If you pay someone 1 buck instead of 15 an hour, if you can pretty much ignore any kind of environmental concerns and if worker security de facto doesn't exist and you can basically have your staff work in hazardous environments without protection (and of course without fearing lawsuits over it), you can cut costs considerably. That has little to do with the productivity increase either.

If you want to look at goods and services that can not be offshored to slave wage country, and such that didn't experience a customer explosion bordering on going up two or three orders of magnitudes, you suddenly don't see the prices drop. Quite the opposite.

Then why not reduce work hours in sync with the increased productivity?

Right, instead we'll rather fire 9 of 10 people and load the whole crap on a single person.

The article seems to be talking about identifiable sub-sequences that are used to compose more complex sequences. Whether they're the equivalent of phonemes, syllables, or words is, from the looks of things unknown. But journalists have to write accessibly, which automatically means they can't write accurately.

Analysis shows that their speech is extremely complex and definitely useful. We have already identified sequences representing personal identifiers. These are not animal grunts, they're extremely complex speech patterns that we know carry complex information.

I have no idea where you get your information from, but it's obviously not remotely accurate of from any actual researchers. It also sounds like it's a good 40-50 years out of date, at the very least.

There's actually a lot of information that they communicated in efforts to mitigate the problem of hunters.

We know that whales introduce themselves with a standardised series of clicks and whistles, followed by a sequence that is unique to that whale. Other whales in the area then send a standardised sequence followed by that same unique sequence.

The order is consistent, as are the standardised sequences, and all cetaceans enter a group by this method.

This is, without any fear of doubt, indicative of a notion of protocols and that requires at least a basic distinction between nouns and not-nouns.

How much further you can go is unclear. AI can probably detect standardised constructs, but we wouldn't necessarily know what T they referred to.

I want a signature, nothing else. I don't give a fuck about achieving anything, I just work here and get paid for it.

It sounds nicer. Just like firing and layoff sounds bad, rightsizing is so much more ... correct.

So do I, but if they tried to implement some bullshit like that here, I'm out the door.

We are decidedly not preemptively reducing labor. We have already increased productivity 20 fold. A 20% reduction in labor time is hardly an insane demand in return. All the workforce wants is 1% of the 2000% increase.

FFS, we can't even have A SINGLE FUCKING PERCENT of that gain? For real?

That's commie talk, citizen.

You bought a smart device that only works when connected to its maker? So... technically... you're not turning your lights on and off, what you do is to ask the maker nicely if he would be so kind to turn the lights on or off?

I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said.

This is the moment when I stand in front of my boss' boss and ask "Ok, so lemme get this straight: Someone who wastes his nights keeping the company's plates spinning is a slacker, but someone who comes to the office to spend his time at the water cooler chatting about last nights football game, that's the company darling?

Just fucking asking because I know what the company really wants me to do. I am not sure, but if the company needs me to, I am very sure I, too, can be a useless slacker!"

And yes, that fucking would be part of the question.