Sitting in a system designed from the ground up for money laundering. It boggles my mind that we have that much crime happening in the open but then again orange pedophile was President so here we are...

Just go on the internet and lie?

Seriously, of course the Amish don't go around telling people how they actually run their communities. And yeah individual Amish people are sincere and kind and fine. But they have a ruling class just like everybody else has a ruling class. And that ruling class uses religion and cult tactics to maintain their control and power and wealth and abuse people.

You've got Google you can look into this it's not hard. Amish communities are not poor. Individual Amish people are not doing great. Because again like everything else in this world the money gets funneled up to the top.

Just because you don't like the way the world actually is doesn't mean the world isn't actually that way. It doesn't have to be but when guys like you turn away from reality to pretend in an Amish Paradise then the abuse goes ignored and the abusers can continue to do whatever the fuck they want.

Then odds are your manuals are written by folks in India who don't speak English very well. One of the first things that got offshore was technical writers. So the quality of most enterprise software manuals has been shit since about 2005.

Typically the information will be there but it will be buried deep deep in the innards of the manual. Rather than spend several hours pouring through what is less a manual and more a reference guide stack overflow and Google was a good place to find answers and a chatbot can usually find them just as well or better since stack overflow has lost so many users and Google has been complete shit for some time.

Go actually look into the Amish there are really nasty religious cult where a handful of assholes get very very rich making people work for free. AKA slavery. You aren't technically a slave in the Amish cult but when you're born into it they don't educate you in any way shape or form so it's basically impossible to leave because you're not going to be able to get a job outside of the cult.

Also saying no to antisocial and destructive technology isn't being a Luddite or a member of a cult. It's just fucking common sense. You have to live in the real world whether you like it or not and in the real world we need to keep the majority of people employed because the majority of people think like 12-year-olds and if we can't maintain roughly 90% employment then we're going to have a huge problem between the people who still need to be working 40 hours a week and the people who we have no work for.

Remember we don't automate everything useful or miserable or that involves drudgery. The stuff we automate is the stuff that pays the most. We automated high paying factory jobs first and now we are automating high paying White collar jobs because the purpose of automation is to line the pockets of the person who owns the automation.

You know, the c word. The one if I mention it this entire thread goes to shit as idiots argue over what men with funny hats and bad ideas used to keep the public giving them power...

Super intelligent sounds way cooler to somebody who thinks that the love over 12-year-old.

I'm not saying this is an insult the age of 12 is based around where most people read at. About 60% of the country reads at a 6th grade level. If you are reading at the level of a 12-year-old you are probably thinking at the level of the 12 year old.

This means everything is very black and white and very simple. Marketers have spent decades telling these people that artificial is bad so it's no surprise that they are trying to rebrand artificial intelligence.

We could pretty easily raise the level of thinking in the country but it would cost money nobody wants to spend and it would undermine organized religion. Parents don't like it when their kids come home from college with all that highfalutin learning questioning established doctrine from the holy books they never read... The real problem is that well-educated children are not going to be able to relate with and get along with they're under educated parents so those parents are going to get upset if their kids are taught critical thinking skills...

It's probably just money laundering. It's just much larger scale than we are used to seeing.

This is like 6% of their total worth. No they can't cover it. If I had to guess they are in on it somehow. With the complete lack of any law enforcement for white collar crime right now thanks to the current political administration they can get away with a hell of a lot for a very long time. I am guessing this is something like a Bernie Madoff level of scam where the people involved are hoping to just keep it running indefinitely.

If they can prevent changes to the current political climate they can keep the scam going just like scams never break in Russia or China unless you don't give the party heads their cut.

Has been labeled Mecha Hitler by the internet community at Large. Naturally Twitter and Facebook have tried to bury that but it hasn't worked.

Us old timers looked at them selling shitty microtransactions slop and knew it was garbage. It wasn't like the arcades where your quarter bought you as much of the game as your skill could handle and 1ccs were part of the fun. It was an infinite money machine where you kept pouring more in and getting less out. Like when the CEO of activation famously bitched about all the time people spent playing call of duty without constantly paying for it.

Basically you do the evil thing and kids grow up with the evil thing and the evil thing is normal so kids don't know any better.

It's like how you can live in China was absolutely no civil rights whatsoever and it's just normal so you don't think about it and you just live like that. Or like how in America every few years we freak out about some stupid moral panic because that's just part of Living in America. And we all act like it's normal and good.

They will do the same thing with ai. They'll keep cramming it down our throats until we have to take it because they're the ruling class and we're too much of a bunch of freaked out weirdo cowards to do anything about the ruling class. If all else fails they'll use the classic hey that guy's going to steal your cookie trick from the joke about the union guy and the non-union guy at the table with the factory owner...

I don't know what you do with these basic problems with human cognition. I don't think our species has enough time to evolve around them.

This is exactly what the PR company was trying to do and they succeeded wildly with you

Both Depp and his ex are pretty terrible people by all accounts but his publicist was better than her publicist and so you're only focused on what they want you to be focused on. Meanwhile why the fuck would you even give a shit about any of this in the first place?

Do you have enough money in the bank account? Have you got enough retirement savings that you don't need to go back to work when you can't anymore? How is gas prices treating you? How are your kids doing? These are all things that should be substantially more important to you but a publicist managed to make Johnny Depp's messy divorce the most important thing for a brief period in your life and Lodge it in your brain so thoroughly that you immediately responded to my post when I brought it up as a knee jerk defensive action.

You're not defending Depp and you're not going after his ex, you're defending yourself because they managed to convince you that for you this entire thing is personal.

That's the point I'm trying to make. The PR company very easily manipulated you and you're not even aware of it. If you manage to read this post congratulations you're now aware of it but what you do with that knowledge is up to you.

Odds are you're going to go back on the defensive rather than learn anything from this experience because people really do not like being reminded that they got tricked and easiest way to deal with that situation is to just pretend you were never tricked in the first place...

Sue. Go look on YouTube Rebecca Watson has a video about it where she describes it in detail. Again it all came out during the trial proceedings and discovery.

To go after his ex. It came out during their divorce proceedings that he did it.

The PR company had a bunch of people go around social media pretending to be people saying bad things about Depp's ex.

It created a eating frenzy and the right wing picked it up and ran with it.

The head of the PR company in internal emails expressed... Let's just call it concern about how easy it was to turn the entire public against somebody with a handful social media posts that weren't even automated.

The point is it's really easy to set the public off. Especially these days when if a cooler head shows up and tells everyone to calm down they get dismissed as one of them Washington insider expert scientist types...

And it was a disaster. It turned into the samurai armor into cylons. When I first saw the screenshots I thought it was somebody making fun of AI instead of actual AI slop. They have the pull the game from steam.

So yeah we know it's being used in the industry and it's laughably bad and it's damaging the industry and costing the industry money for very little or nothing in return. Stop it already.

They know what they're doing. This is France telling American social media companies to fuck the fuck off and stop fucking with our political system.

This is them kicking Facebook and Twitter which are both owned by fascists out of their country. If America can't do that themselves France is going to do it for them and try and let America go to shit. Of course that didn't work out really well when the rest of the world ignored Germany in the 40s so but you know how that goes

America can no longer be trusted and American tech companies especially cannot be trusted. This is Europe cutting them off but not in a way that could be challenged in their courts.

America elected orange pedophile twice now. The first time could be chalked up to a fluke but the second time not so much especially with threats to invade Greenland that carry the implied threat of invading the rest of Europe. That's a real thing that orange pedophile did and I don't think we freaked out anywhere near enough about it.

I think Europe was hoping that orange pedophile getting elected would just give their billionaires a leg up on the markets as America's economy collapsed. I don't think they were expecting full on fascism and neo-nazis in the White House. And they certainly were not expecting threats to invade Greenland that orange pedophile doubled down on several times and only backed off when Congress finally said knock it off.

I don't know if you're up will be successful with cutting America off and they probably need to do something about Russia running roughshod over our voting system but at the very least they're trying to do something about Russia running roughshod over there people. And these moves against social media which is really what they are are all about that