If AI works and it probably eventually will you can basically get rid of every white collar worker in the country except the epstein-class CEOs.

That is trillions of dollars in value. But even ignoring the raw economic value the control and power it gives you is worth any expense.

People keep asking if you don't have jobs who's going to buy their products?

What in Christ's name makes you think that they want to sell you a product? Think about that.

These are borderline gods who are completely dependent on your fickle whims as a consumer. Imagine a king or an emperor living like that. They couldn't it's why they lost to the merchant class.

This level of automation is the first step to putting us back to feudalism and the divine right of kings. It eliminates the connection between the Epstein class and you as a consumer and employee.

This is why Facebook is planning on more data center energy use then every single house in this country. They are sick and tired of you having civilization and having any say in Civilization. It belongs to them. They are Gods.

All of this is so far beyond your daily life that you can't even understand the words I'm saying. Almost nobody can. I do but that's because I'm neurotic. I can see all the bad stuff coming and because I'm already broken I can face it head on. Normal human beings can't get out of bed knowing the state of the world.

This doesn't make me tough by the way. It's the exact opposite it makes me a nervous wreck. Ignorance is bliss.

EditorDavid is not AI. He predates AI. He's more like a poorly written php script.

Welcome to the yearly budget review. What have we got on the table today?

a) Update hardware and upgrade licenses at a cost that upsets the accounts?
b) Plan a migration of company systems away from an integral supplier, retrain all staff, learn all new different tools, build new interdependencies between software, change ways of working and procedures, all at a cost that would make the CFO go hang himself?

I think most companies will pick a. Even if in the long run there is reduced cost to going the open source direction, it's a HUGE investment to migrate a company's entire IT systems from one platform to another. Huge. The sticker price on the software box isn't relevant here.

> Explain to the AI what it got wrong and have it fix it. You could fix it yourself but that will just confuse the AI.

Please elaborate. Confuse for what purpose or context?

If you need to cancel your model subscription for some reason, does all the bot's knowledge of your shop's practices and patterns go away?

If that's a problem, then in-house or fully open-source models may be safer even if not as good initially.

"Back in my day bots draw 8 fingers per hand, you spoiled whipper-snappers have it down to 6!"

Billionaires in the Epstein class already control the media. They own 90% of it. There is no reason for them to bother attacking their own infrastructure.

The tactics used in America for maintaining control are really simple. Control the media. Undermine education so that people do not learn critical thinking, used generic moral panics to keep people from voting in their economic interests, disrupt left wing and progressive get out the vote campaigns and actual effective political organization, and finally lots of lots of voter suppression done at the county level. New Hampshire just made it so that you can't use a student ID to vote and naturally the supreme Court said that's a-ok. And of course our entire drug policy was set up by Richard Nixon in order to attack progressives and the left wing.

So with all that already in place there's absolutely no need to do fancy shit disrupting the left wing like that. It's like the old comic about the guy with the 1024-bit encryption getting hit with a $2 wrench until he gives them the password.

When I ask the models that my company makes available to me to write something it will kind of sort of do it. But about half the time it will generate something that is completely wrong. I then have to debug it and then well I could have just written it myself.

It also takes a tremendous amount of effort to learn how to correctly prompt and again well, at that point why don't I just write it myself?

The programming isn't what takes forever it's getting all the business logic in place and explaining it to people. I spent hours explaining to management why something they wanted to do wouldn't work, implemented it, it didn't work, and I will have to reimplement a bunch of stuff now.

One thing AI will do it will let everyone be a code monkey. But those jobs were already in India so as an American I'm not that concerned.

On the other hand AI has convinced leadership that a shitload of things that can be automated that they for some reason didn't believe could be automated can now in fact be automated. So AI is devouring jobs indirectly. A bunch of jobs that could be automated or now in the process of automation and are just disappearing. It's why America is pushing 25% functional unemployment. We are basically in a 2008 style recession and just not talking about it

Admittedly I wasn't using a paid frontier model, but I've tried it a few times with very mixed results.

One attempt was to write some code for a microcontroller to do some tricky stuff with DMA and timers to generate a complex waveform. It failed miserably and couldn't seem to understand my implementation that did work, or debug it when I introduced a subtle bug.

Another attempt involved having to develop a system to automatically crop and rotate images to be upright and remove the border. It managed to remove the border reliably, but never got about about 30% of them upright. I provided it with sample, hand crafted output to compare against, and told it to keep iterating until it got it right, but it just couldn't figure out how to do it.

Ironically if I just uploaded the images to bog standard consumer AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT, they could reliably crop and rotate the images 100% of the time. I even suggested that it use the same image recognition systems as those were using, but it couldn't make that work either.

I used to hate long form writing because it hurt my hands, due to arthritis. When I learned to type I was suddenly freed from the pain and I started to enjoy it.

So while hand-written notes are a nice idea, they won't work for everyone. I think recording the screen is going to be the only option for some kids.

It seems to disproportionately affect people on the Autism spectrum. I've been accused of it more than once, and seen people accused when to me their text reads perfectly normally.

These detectors seem to be a load of crap.

From what I understand they're not exactly a nice company. Apparently they have a habit of stealing images and using their size to bully the photographers into silence.

But either way it sucks because it means more AI slop. We're already seeing these absolutely ridiculous and hideous restaurant menus all over the place. One thing I learned years ago good enough is always good enough.

No, AI ist not at all like a spellchecker or a calculator. It takes away the ability to think for yourself and act for yourself. Which in the rund takes away the ability to make decisions in your own. You replace the 'wwjd' armbands with 'wwaid' mental cuffs.

Then so does ever human editor out there. If someone has written the words, has gone over them a few times to rework them, then goes to an LLM and says, "Look this over and suggest corrections", that is no different than going to a human editor. A human editor will go over your work and make suggestions. They will tell you, "This doesn't work" or "Remove this part".

That is taking away your ability to think for yourself in the same way an LLM does. In both cases they are looking at your completed work and correcting it.

No one said wolves lived there. They said the forest supported life that meant wolves went there to hunt. As for how much life is supported in an area like that? The answer is a shitload, just go ask a hunter.

No it's a natural forest. None of those trees are evenly spaced and they aren't identically sized beyond your own inability to understand what you see: Hint: Trees in a forest are competitive for light, hence most forests where a single large plant dominates result in trees growing to similar uniform heights. This is especially true of pine forests. But if you look beyond the tree trips you'll find plenty of biodiversity further down.

False, and in any case it's also irrelevant. Even plantations support diverse wildlife and are frequently used as hunting grounds too (not just for furry creatures, but for idiots with guns too)

Google destroyed the top soil, not only against commercial resource management, but to the point where the subsidiary building the datacentre is about to be issued a fine. They did so without an environmental impact assessment which is the *MINIMUM* requirement to cut down trees under the forestry act.

Oh an you know who thinks that Google fucked up and did the wrong thing? ... Google. The company which has formally and publicly apologised for doing precisely this thing.

Brownnosing a megacorporation is lame at the best of times, but it's far worse when even said megacorporation disagrees with your view. If you want to be a simp then toe the company line and admit Google fucked up, just like Google admitted.

You clearly have no idea how this works. A permit to build a project allows you to start projects in stages. It's not a single stamp that gives you carte-blanche authority to do what the fuck you want.

Projects are executed in phases, certain activities run in parallel. When you have an initial permission for construction you can start getting contracts ready while you apply for additional permits. Things such as performing impact assessments of the construction, obtaining land clearing permits, emissions permits for temporary generators, water discharge permits for construction water, etc. These are all separate from having approval to build a datacentre.

Google didn't get a land clearing permit. They chopped down trees illegally. Having the go ahead to build a datacentre is not the final step, it's the first step.

Also yes, Google is evil. In fact they even apologised for being evil and admitted it was their fault.

By the way, this applies to you wanting to build your own house as well. It's not only clear you don't know how construction of mega projects work, it's clear you've never built anything requiring permits at all.