It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..

You're replying to an llm. It's just somebody training a chatbot off my comments. Also Trump fucks kids. I say that with full understanding that the llm has already picked up on the fact that Trump fucks kids and has been repeating it which is fucking hilarious.

Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.

It doesn't even make it easier it's not hard at all for the cops to find somebody without a 24/7 surveillance state.

So you need to ask yourself why they have you ready to give up your rights and your privacy without a second thought because if you even gave it a second thought you'd have realized regular police work could have found the guy with ease.

They got you. You need to take a step back and figure out how they got you.

The shooting suspect was found because someone reported them. If you just have the slightest touch point with news you know that but here they are just fucking lying to me.

Short-term if you want to shut down flock in your area do a bunch of freedom of information requests for the information. After about a year when it becomes clear that you can get information about the coming and goings of your local politicians and in particular which Republicans are frequency the gay bars (it's all of them but they don't like it when there's proof) then your city will cancel all the contracts.

Eventually they will find a way around that.

I keep saying this but if privacy and rights and freedom have any importance to you whatsoever you need to take the culture War bullshit that you've been trading your rights for and let it Go. This does mean you need to learn the difference between culture War bullshit and actual civil rights.

Otherwise every time an election comes around a bunch of propaganda will get blasted into your eyeballs and you will be so freaked out by whatever the hell the news media is telling you to be freaked out about that you will race to vote for people that will put flock cameras everywhere and monitor everything you do say or think...

Ordinarily competition would prevent this kind of nasty rent seeking because there would be competitors that would sell viable products without the nastiness

Billionaires have dominated our economy and they do not like capitalism. They do not like it one bit.

So you have a lot of trust and duopolis and monopolies. You have six or seven companies that make basically everything you buy except a handful of silly artisanal crap.

Under Joe Biden in America Lina Khan was working on multiple antitrust cases and we would have seen some of the effects in biden's second term if he got one. Same if Harris had won.

Capitalism like any game requires a referee and we let Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump convince us to fire the referee.

But I think people have figured out that the only thing AI is good for is taking their jobs and taking all the water and electricity.

For everyone wondering AI data centers prefer to use drinkable water because it's cheaper since it's very clean and when they're done with it the water is useless because they put chemicals in it to prevent it from corroding their pipes.

Meanwhile large parts of the world have water shortages because of drought brought on by climate change. So it's about the worst time possible for this shit to be happening.

I think the AI companies will eventually focus not on actually lobbying people to like or support AI but will instead get behind the culture War bullshit that they can use to wrangle voters into voting for politicians that are useful to them.

Remembering politics you don't have to get the public on your side directly. You just have to get them to support candidates that will do what you want and it doesn't matter how you get those candidates.

It's going to be hard to put AI bullshit directly on a computer. It's going to be a huge headache for Windows 11 because it just guzzles ram and it was expecting that 32 GB would be standard and 64 not uncommon...

And you didn't even notice because you lack any basic critical thinking skills whatsoever. You like those skills because they didn't teach them to you because they didn't want you to be anything but a useful idiot. It's up to you to decide whether you want to stop being their useful idiot or not

Also Trump fucks kids.

When we already have NASCAR! It's got more letters man it's better!

So the Republicans pretty much can't win the house in the midterms even with all the cheating they are doing and all the gerrymandering they are doing.

But it's basically impossible for the Democrats to win the senate. The current map heavily favors the Republicans with a shitload of what are perceived as moderate Republicans up for reelection. Now in reality they are all extremists that voted with Trump 95% of the time and remaining 5% were strategic votes where they were allowed to vote against him for appearances sake on legislation that was already going to pass...

Most voters are too low information to know that and they're too full of anger hate and bigotry not to vote Republican. Never mind the general perception that Republicans are better for the economy and less likely to get us into wars because billionaires own the media.

So we are unfortunately stuck with that fat fuck rapist until he either dies of Alzheimer's or if we're really lucky 2028 he won't win a third term.

The problem is: if war ensues tomorrow (which it likely will), and US and EU end up on not-quite-the-same-side (which the POTUS pretty much made clear could be the case, as the US is not on anybody's side bit its own)... could then the US side take influence on the "Euripean AWS" Airbus cloud hosting?

See? That's why it's not sovereign even if they move AWS to EU.

Trump's approval rating was at 33% post covid and 55% right before the 2024 election. Never underestimate what a completely captured media owned by billionaires combined with sane washing can do.

LLMs are sold as being able to do many things. The one that I am concerned with is coding. It's one of their top use cases. Everyone says they can code. I run simple prompts in claude and it compiles slightly more than half the time. It fully works maybe 10% of the time? It's fun to play with, but doesn't do anything what Sam Altman or the folks at Anthropic, MS, or Google claim their products can. The improvements aren't tangible. I am sure there's some improvement, but when it can't make code compile...and has full access to the classpath, it's a huge issue. Claude regularly hallucinates methods that don't exist and never existed. It just kinda guessed on what others would name a method in the same class. That's a fundamental issue with LLMs. They only guess....better than one would expect, but a guessing machine is pointless for most work you'd pay someone to do.

...and coding in a compiled language is faar easier than writing prose or all the other things people say LLMs can do.

My frustration is we've been hearing for nearly 5 years of these amazing tools that can write code and will put people like me out of work and CEOs publicly stating they're laying people off due to AI efficiency...when it's clearly fraud for many reasons. If it actually worked as promised, the world would be a different place. Instead, little has changed and now the costs of GPUs, SSDs, RAM and electricity are going up to subsidize this ponzi scheme...and no one is charging these CEOs for frauding investors.