Take the rate of growth we currently have and subtract the growth increase from AI data center bullshit and we are in a deep deep recession.

Now if that AI data center bullshit created jobs that wouldn't be true but it doesn't. All it does is suck down water and electricity and raise the prices of both. I guess the technically does also raise the ambient temperature in the area by around 5 degrees causing all sorts of environmental problems so there's that too I guess.

And I don't mean shave the whales problems I mean less rainfall problems.

Look up what a heat island is.

You're thinking is too lateral and simplistic. You've been trained to do that by somebody. You should be asking who. It's not a limitation of intelligence it's social conditioning. You need to become aware of it so you can break that conditioning

Indeed. The actual reality is that general LLMs are not useless, but they are not a game-changer either. They are a gradual improvement of some things. And they are not yet at a point where they can actually get profitable and will not be there for a few decades at least. Hence a total economic collapse of the space for general LLMs is inevitable and will happen some time within the next few years. Depends on how much stupid money the LLM makers can get on top of what they already burned.

I think he is saying that the free market will somehow take care of this because a 24/7 surveillance State controlled and built for private individuals and companies won't be profitable.

Basically the grandparent views everything through the lens of profit. And that's the mistake they are making.

In addition to profit people want power. And a 24/7 surveillance state owned and operated by billionaires will give those billionaires power. The power they get from that is well worth the expense. Especially because at the end of the day all their money is stolen from you and me so it's not like they're spending their own hard-earned cash. Because none of those fuckers ever earned a dime in their lives.

But CEOs are very often disconnected from reality and typically have "visions" instead of understanding. Makes them east prey for typical commercial LLMs. I am convinced that these LLMs were specifically designed to attack that vulnerability.

You are confused. And you should look up "argument from authority" and why a simulation is not reality and a fundamental principle within a simulation does not make that principle fundamental for the thing simulated.

Sorry, but in a somewhat fuzzy sense, "race" _is_ real. It just does not mean what people that try to elevate themselves by their racial membership think it means. For example, Science says no impact on intelligence. But try to ask a skin-doctor whether he can treat black and white people simply the same. (Obviously, this is more complex than just black vs. white.) There are countless medical effects from racial membership. Note that racial membership can be stronger or weaker or mixed. But it has medical effects that need to be taken into account for good treatment outcomes.

So claiming "race is not real" is a lie. Claiming that some races are dumber or less capable of "inferior" regarding mental capabilities is also a lie. On the physical side, hilariously, the genetics of "white" is generally the weakest as it is the most specialized. (This is, again, simplified.)

C has everything to do with it. C requires that programmers be infallible. They're not. They never have been. They never will be.

Rust's designers understand that programmers are human and will always make mistakes so the language allows and even requires building safe zero-cost abstractions that allow the compiler to check for huge swathes of common mistakes. Rust isn't the first language to do that, by any means, but it's the first language that (a) does it consistently and thoroughly (C++ fails this test), (b) is efficient enough for low-level system and kernel coding (managed-runtime languages fail this test) and (c) has achieved sufficiently-broad adoption (many niche languages fail this test).

Looking at effects of Christian religions is not "Christophic". Claiming so is fundamentally dishonest and an attempt to shut down a factual discussion.

Now here is a fact: All religion is made-up. And many of the followers understand that on some level. They just do not want to be reminded of it, as they (mis-) use religion for things like dealing with existential terror.

My guess is that this is the deeply religious that deep down know their certainties about death are imaginary. They really do not want to be reminded of that.

No surprise. Textbooks tend to not call things fundamental that are not. Especially as there are better words, like "standard approach", "best understood approach", etc.

Thanks for the reference.

Boundless arrogance is boundless arrogance. I am a PhD engineer.

Thanks for pointing that out. It is, obviously, a rhetorical question though. These idiots replace facts and insight with "how they feel" and then apparently expect reality to conform to that.

"All input is evil"

A lot of the layoffs are because we are in a deep deep recession caused by incompetent leadership. But there is absolutely layoffs happening because of automation and of course outsourcing.

You can do fuck all about the outsourcing no matter how many tariffs you levy on your citizens. You can't compete with somebody who makes 1/10 what you do and doesn't have clean drinking water and electricity year-round.

The automation push is where we need to be paying attention. Donald Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted that even if factories come back the jobs won't because the factories will be full of robots. And yes ai and its cousin machine learning have been automating tons of shit.

There is a paradigm shift that I don't think anyone accounts for, which is the idea that billionaires going on trillionaires would be willing to spend more money on automation then it costs to hire humans because of the power it gives them to be able to do Mass layoffs.

Think of it this way, you get to the point where you can automate 20% of your workforce but it costs you more money to do so. However when you fire 20% of your workforce thanks to automation you've created a huge supply of desperate labor and you can pay the remaining employees much much less. The end result is you come out ahead.

CEOs, captains of industry and billionaires are absolutely paying attention to and manipulating the overall labor market and your overall bargaining power in that market. This is not something we as employees like to think about because it's like thinking about cosmic horror. What the actual fuck do you do about it?