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Comment Yeah... no (Score 3, Insightful) 172

What's gonna stop obesity among Americans isn't permanent standard time. It really, REALLY isn't that.

A good start would be making healthy food that isn't 1,000,000 calories per pound, and not made of fat and sugar mixed in unknown chemicals affordable. And taxing the living shit out of junk food. And getting people to stop eating supertanker-sized servings.

Comment Re:What people do with AI isn't the issue (Score 1) 23

The question is simply, can an agentic LLM process do workload X for cheaper than a person? If yes, then the job is gone.

Typical AI shill answer (and the word "agentic" in the sentence is a dead giveaway too).

Wrong logic: a person's job should be gone if your "agentic" thing does the job cheaper AND at least as well.

As always, AI shills conveniently forget to factor in the quality of the work produced.

The reality of AI is, while it might be cheaper than real workers, it also enshittifies the entire world. And that's a fact.

Comment Re:So shut them off? (Score 1) 35

What you'd need is a military operation (a war). There are many reasons not to do that.

And many to do. It'd be analogous to how, at one point, the British Empire was convinced by Christian militants to put its Navy in the service of ending chattel slavery, and then went and did exactly that.

Too bad they don't make Christian militants like they used to.

Comment Neutral and safe (Score 3, Interesting) 77

Yeah, sure...

Is anybody surprised by this?

I know Yen retracted his statement, but that's not good enough. I don't trust him like I wouldn't trust Elon Musk if he apologized for the Nazi salutes, because doing it once kills your credibility forever - or at least makes it exceedingly hard to prove you're not that person later on.

Proton should have thrown Yen out immediately after that incident if they had wanted to preserve their reputation and they didn't. So I don't trust Proton.

Comment Re:Case in point (Score 2) 19

Elon's MechaHitler doesn't quality for the AI Darwin Awards because it's still very much alive and spreading its poison.

Winning a Darwin Award implies that the recipient removed him- or herself from the gene pool through stupidity. In the case of AI, I would assume the most important criterion is that the egregious AI has been pulled our. MechaHitler hasn't.

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