I still have not got around to watching Game of Thrones because I have so many other things to do including a stack of books I have not read.

TBH, it is starting to feel like too much media, not too little.

Trying to look up troubleshooting info on Google for anything that has a price tag is like 1/3rd ads and links to storefronts at a min.

That is what I saw.

IRC, Usenet, and the like were well-used in my silicon valley gigs in the 1990's and early 00's.

I remember being told not to buy all the new O'Relly books in 2001-2002(?) for the tech library our IT/RD used because we could just look up the info on the internet.

IT has always worked like that.

Check out old usenet posts back in the 1990's.

Like my mom said to my dad when he came home drunk for the umpteenth time, "Flowers ain't going to cut it this time chief."

Eliza is 40 years old and works as well as a therapist for many people, we still have therapists.

All forms of human labor were bound to be automated at some point. Human labor isn't special.

It will become more and more boutique though. Folks drive cars nowadays they don't hire coachmen except for special occasions.

Computational chemistry has plenty of of AI-driven platforms.

Old school quantum/ab initio, dynamic, and process chemistry platforms in the 1990's had fuzzy logic, expert-augmented-ML, and neural networking plugins.

That was 30 years ago.

Labs, engineering shops, etc don't need anywhere near the amount of skilled labor to filter negative/worthless AI-generated results than it would have taken to create them with human-derived labor.

Take for an example chemistry - which has been using AI for decades. Computational chemistry in three or four decades has eliminated something like ~75% of all wet lab chemists. Pharma companies aren't running warehouses full of wet labs anymore, not even in China. Look at the size of old wet research labs like Eastman Kodak's in Rochester NY and compare that to any modern wet research lab in Triangle Park or the like. They aren't even relatively close in size.

AI is straight magic in some industries at the moment.

CAD software plugins with AI can take a catalog of blueprints for 1000's of homes and spit out endless variations. Something that would take an entire floor of an office building 20 years ago.

The Big, BIg difference when it comes to China's semiconductor/solar industry is that 30-40%+ of these companies are state-owned, the rest are heavily subsidized, and the West comes nowhere even close to that sort of market manipulation. Even Biden's semiconductor handout is like ~4-5%.

This ain't a free market, and shouldn't be treated as one. China's foray into mass solar panel construction has seen mass subsidies and boom/bust cycles that would be impossible if they had to compete on the same playing field as the rest of the world. Over half of the solar panel manufacturers in China at one point or another were operating at a loss - and that was pre-covid when labor was chepaer. Why should the China be able to manipulate global markets with no repercussions?

It is still leagues better than most streaming options like YT Music, Spotify, etc when it comes to responsiveness for downloaded files/cache.

YT Music still hangs every time the network changes, PlexAMP at least doesn't do that. That is my #1 gripe with all these streaming clients as I travel in an area with no cell service for 10-15 minutes at a time, and it drives some of the apps absolutely bonkers.

I'd rather be "that guy" than some ultra-libertarian asshole.

Removing the safety feature - to keep your hands on the wheel on the car while driving - is not a burden for drivers. Driving is a privilege, not a civil right FFS.

We need guardrails not just for AI but how humans use AI. I'm willing for politicians to make mistakes in over regulating rather than whatever the hell is happening with stuff like Tesla's "self-driving" safety features being disabled by $5 of plastic and metal.

There is no option just to see the feeds that you are subbed to, they force feed you political wonks, sports chuds, and rando influencers.

This ain't 2009, no one wants a non-curated social media feed firehose like ol'school Facebook.

Robots needs batteries and shiny metal asses.