Well, not that shocked.

I never see anyone announcing a 10-20% executives cut. Seems like it would be simpler to let go a handful of people that receive the highest compensation and do the least work, especially after a merger where upper management is extremely redundant.

You get a lot more job opportunities. Every time these companies merge they fire somewhere between 10% and 40% of their staff.

That means fewer job opportunities for you and that means supply and demand kicks in and lowers your wages.

If you're American you are also losing out on jobs to countries like Canada and Germany and United Kingdom where they have universal Health Care.

That's because as an American every company that hires you needs to budget at least 10,000 a year to pay for your health insurance on top of your premiums. Assuming you're not working at some place like Walmart that just tries to put you on government programs because they pay you so little...

It's all connected. We need to start thinking about how these systems are lowering our pay and costing us our jobs.

If you think of it from Google's perspective, they want to provide you LLM-based services that adapt to your actual data....storing that on servers and mining it is costly. It is cheaper to do as much on device as possible. If it can't be done on device? It is tangibly cheaper to throw away the data. Sorry, not everything you do can be monetized and Google has so much experience privacy raping, they can be selective about what they want.

Also, they know so much about you from their various other offerings, how much point is there? Can they really monetize your dick pics on your phone? You've already agreed to give them access to your e-mail, photos, map history, calendar, contacts, text messages, browser history and phone calls (did I miss any?) if you're a typical Android users. If you're an apple customer, you probably still have gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Maps...which is where the valuable data is.

Think of it from Google's perspective....assume they're fully evil....what will an LLM tell them that they don't already know? It costs money to store and process your data...wouldn't it make more sense to just not bother?...pretend to be the good guy?...save a few bucks?

Most would consider bitcoin a scam and 3DTV a dud. They're both still around, but didn't live up to the hype. What LLM companys promised and what they delivered were faaaaar different to the point they should be investigated for fraud. Housing and dot-com companies delivered value, just not profitably.

Pets.com and Kozmo.com offered legitimate, valuable services...just not profitably. They didn't lie about what they offered. Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and all the others are outright lying about LLM capabilities...but hey, don't you dare question that...or else we'll lose this imaginary AI arms race to the Chinese!!!

Now all those houses have residents. Remember when the "train stations to nowhere" meant that the Chinese economy was definitely going to collapse? Now those stations are surrounded by businesses, industry and homes.

It's not the same kind of economy as we have, or the same kind of culture, and people somehow are unable to understand that.

Isn't all the infrastructure and hardware. That stuff's going to get used because the goal of AI is to replace white collar workers and that tech does work. Not perfectly but it's improving every day and it already does quite a bit.

The problem is that the nature of llms means that when things shake out we're going to be left with just a couple of big players. That's because the only people who are going to be able to stay in the game are the ones who have access to training data from real human beings and that's basically going to be people that own a platform. Basically Microsoft Google Apple and Facebook.

The real problem though is banks are loaning out money to anyone who so much as sneezes making a noise that sounds vaguely like AI.

A lot of those loans are going to be bad, they're going to collapse and the banks are going to go with them.

When that happens we have basically two options.

First we can nationalize the banks to prevent a global economic collapse. Let's not get ourselves we're not going to do that. We have been programmed that is socialism and socialism bad, m'kay.

The other option is a massive 2008 style bailout followed by mass layoffs as companies boost their stock.

There isn't a single economist who doesn't know this is coming and I'm guessing most of the people here even know it's coming but we can't do anything to stop it because our thinking is too constrained to come up with any other solutions besides letting the corporations fire 25% of us, praying that we're not in that 25%, coping with the very real possibility we will be in that 25% by convincing ourselves we are the ultimate badasses that the company couldn't possibly live without...

I'm open to other solutions but I literally do not know of any. Voters around the globe simply will not accept the correct and well understood solutions of regulation and short-term government control. And if there's a third solution nobody has come up with it

I'm asking out of ignorance I really don't know how well it works but you really need to be able to easily control access to logins and such.

Like with my company I've got single sign on for tons of apps and they seamlessly integrate with multifactor authentication apps.

That's all just kind of built into active directory and it's all plug and play and just kind of works (as much as anything works with modern computing).

As much as Windows 11 sucks because it's so incredibly user hostile you still need the administrators to be able to cheaply and easily set up all the permissions and logins and all that. Otherwise it's a cost of administering the devices goes up it defeats the purpose of saving money by buying non Microsoft software and hardware.

Why not a PNG or PDF in an email that I can access offline?

It's almost like Ryanair intentionally harasses their customers.

Oh, I don't want one of them either, and yes, they aren't terribly reliable. I'm a Jeepguy. I prefer the Trailhawk versions. Son has a Patriot, Wife has a Cherokee, And I have a Compass Trailhawk. Climbs rocks. gets me to and from my off-road adventures with a comfortable ride to and from them.

My point in all of this is that Landrover is still viable, while Jaguar destroyed their brand going woke. So weird that the companies don't get that. Gillette with its outright attack on the demographic that gave them money, Bud light forgetting a big part of their brand is rednecks. And Jaguar with abandoning its core group with whatever the hell it was they were trying to appeal to. Circus people I think.

The point isn't judgement on rednecks, Dylan Mulvaney, Circus people, or ad campaigns for men put out by people who hate men. It's a matter of knowing where your money comes from.

The US/EU are not the entire world, just the most profitable portion of it. As Belt & Road improves electrical infrastructure throughout the Third World those countries will be snapping up anything that comes in at a reasonable price point.

I love love love Stanislaw Lem....The Cyberiad, Star Diaries, etc etc. Great stuff.

Even Solaris was pretty good, although the film adaptation was a little underwhelming.

If it is not on your computer. If it is not air gapped. If it is on the cloud, or on the internet - it is not private.

Sounds more like a big honeypot to me. People - never put anything on the internet you wouldn't tell or show your mother. Kryste, how long are people going to buy into this canard?

Often the direction changes after a bubble. If you built a fancy little e-store for your niche store in 1999, likely it would be rendered nearly useless in the face of Amazon a decade later.

If you purchase a car from a soon-to-be-defunct company, you will have maintenance and resell headaches down the road.