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Comment Re: Climate change accelerates evolution (Score 1) 31

Jkechel you have no idea what you're talking about. If people keep pushing greenhouse gas theory, which is predicted to have a maximum effect if less than 2 degrees by 2100, it's blood that will be on your hands. Regreening, restorative ag practices,etc have way bigger impacts in a shorter time frame, and active destruction of habitat and pollution are killing us way faster than any greenhouse gas model concerns.

If you are really worried about climate change you would focus on the worst issues. You've been brainwashed by with marketing materials. If you have arterial bleeding, you don't ignore it and make an appointment to check out a funny looking mole.

flag me as a troll to your hearts content, but I'm guessing I'm the only one here with papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Comment Re: Climate change accelerates evolution (Score -1, Troll) 31

The only causes of 'Climate change' that are proveably man-made and rectifiable are deforestation and desertification caused by poor ag practices, poor land management, water fuckery. Pollution is destroying our ecosystems directly, not indirectly through greenhouse games.

The concept of Climate change was invented to increase profits, and shift blame away companies and practices that are directly harming the environment.

I work in Climate tech, ecoegineering and coastal protection. I talk to scientists, politicians, activists everyday. Whatever anyone's opinion on 'Climate change', almost everyone agrees that if you were to triage causes and what the most impactful actions you could take would be, almost none of those actions are incentivized because they are not as profitable and imply liability on specific organizations and corporations.

The hardest challenge in this sector isn't "what can we do to fix things", it's "how do we shoehorn carbon credits into a solution we think will actually do some good."

Comment They framed it wrong. (Score 1) 32

AI won't replace half of white-collar jobs, AI SHOULD replace half of white-collar jobs.

anything can can be automated should be automated. It's not the jobs that need to questioned, it's the concept of 'earning a living' that needs to be questioned in the face of automation and efficiency. If 70% of jobs are considered non-essential wtf are we doing as a society? Inventing busy-work to pay our dues, and keep idle hands from questioning the status quo.

Comment Re: Technological Singularity in Reality (Score 2) 109

The tech singularity threat was never real in the sense of the tech itself becoming a superpower.

The threat is the exponential growth and power of a company that has the most resources.

Far before AI will have any real agency of its own, it will be used by a corporation to dominate all industry, all information, etc.

We already have a small handful of groups with majority ownership of almost everything -the investment singularity. They will use their resources to exponentially increase their dominance with AI as their fiduciary duty demands.

Comment Re: Time for site devs (Score 2) 109

Why use chat when there are models specifically trained for translation?

This and the problem in the article are user problems. I'm not saying that the AI space doesn't suck or hasn't gotten worse in many ways, but it's gotten way better in many ways as well. Most of the ways it's gotten worse, besides becoming more restrictive, just require more careful prompting or using models most appropriate for the task at hand.

Comment Are they dumb? (Score 1) 73

Amazon is a big company specifically because people prefer shopping online. No physical store can have all of the inventory options a person wants all in one place.

Brick an Mortars are for service companies where it is a necessity the customer, service provider and any goods are co-located. Most Amazon sales are cheap crap and consumables where no customer service exists or should even be required.

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