Not really their fault. We have sown this by giving them unlimited internet access instead of playmates and babysitters, and now we reap what we sow.
If you're complaining about gen Z, brace yourself for gen alpha, though. The poor things had tiktok and twitter as babysitters.
If your retirement hinges on the next generations being productive... I would rethink my future plans.

I mean, hey, Nvidia is worth 5 Trillions for some fucking reason.
You would think that somewhere along the way, we would have found our stop and gotten off this senseless ride, but some people just want to watch the trainwreck happen... While inside the train.

Exactly. The stock market is so disconnected from reality that it's basically a casino. The cryptocurrencies market is even worse.
I would rather see them pit these AIs in something actually measurable, but then we would all realize that these are just tools and there's no inherent understanding behind their decisions.

I like the way a certain book, "Bullshit Jobs" if I remember correctly, puts it.
A job is there to make you miserable because, if it was fun and fulfilling and made you feel better when you spent 8 hours doing it, you would actually PAY for the privilege to do it, not ask for compensation. Hence why jobs are miserable and not fun (except rare exceptions), you're not supposed to enjoy showing up, otherwise your boss is getting scammed paying you.

Tech is simply catching up to the rest of the economy. It's the only field that was booming and constantly hiring, and now that too stopped. The "Learn to Code" line came to life 10 years ago not because tech was hiring, but because no one else was.

There's something fundamentally wrong with the economy and we just managed to kick the can down the road because we shoved every child into a CS career. Now that this "solution" has been milked dry, we will be able (or will have) to actually look the economy in the eyes and do what we should have done since 2008, which is to change how the whole thing works.

I think that your post is more symptomatic with the issue than anything else, to be honest. Everything is getting overly complicated.
No, sex is just sex. When a man and a woman (genders can be shuffled at random) get frisky in bed, it's sex. That's it.
Life lost a bit of its taste because everything is now labeled, categorized, planned, monetized, judged and archived for future reconsideration when the zeitgeist changes.

Sex is just sex. And people are having less of it. In fact, people seem to be doing less of everything and have less of everything. The gray, monotone plastic life of modern society seems to be draining everyone of everything.

The third type of stories, which Altman hates, is the "You can now run this open source model on your phone".
With all the data of the internet having been consumed twice for training, the only option now is efficiency, and more and more small-size precision models are coming out that are specialized for one use (Translation, programming,...) and are easier to run locally.

There will always be people who will just fork cash for an AI sub, but running one locally will also keep getting easier.

Exactly, the last line is pretty much saying "Do your homework and only invest with us".

Of course, if anyone did their homework, they would be keeping their AI investments to a minimum.

I think the issue is that we have moved from the "Show you want you want" stage to the "Show you what will make you stay" stage. Stage 2 contains much of stage 1, but it's inherently malicious because everyone these days spends too much time watching constant brainrot, feels bad about it and thinks "I have wasted my whole day doing nothing. Am gonna stop doing this", then proceeds to do it the next day.
Sounds familiar? It's how addiction works and these algorithms are modern electric cocaine.
I am not for censorship, but we made drugs illegal for a reason, and if social media can be addictive, then a serious thought should be put into whether we have to consider it as a drug or not.

And yes, I know it's very easy to say "Just look away from the screen lmao", we can do it because we grew up without this and have built in tolerance to electrical garbage, but alcoholics who start drinking young find it extremely hard to quit later in life. Shouldn't the same consideration be put unto this as well?

The issue is that such math is extremely short-sighted.
Children are opportunity cost, but they're also a retirement plan. Sure most people put money now in social security to get it out later as retirement money, but the truth is that it's just a game of hot potatoes. The money you put in now pays for the retirement of your parents, and the money your children will put in later will pay for your own retirement.
Social Security and the government paying for elderly care made people forget that the government is really just the current workforce paying for everyone. If people are refusing to rear the next workforce, who's paying for anything later, really?

Of course, the other option is to spend your youth grinding so hard that you will end up with enough wealth (in the millions) that you can forgo all reliance on social security. But if you're spending your youth grinding for a hypothetical future, have you lived at all?

A story old as time. Government (clown)officials get voted for promises while being in the pockets of their oligarch owners. It has been happening since the ancient greek days and the birth of democracy.
It's how democracies die and are reborn, better and cleaner. We're just the un/lucky few who were born at the right time to enjoy the show of it.

No. Just no.
Every single online forum I visit felt the arrival of a new kind of users. That kind that makes discussions difficult and makes you wish that their website would go back online as fast as possible.

There's a rumor that the CIA is operating 4chan, or at least keeping tabs on it, and I can see a good basis for that rumor. It's basically a containment are for what we would rather not have somewhere else.

But it is a simple fact of life that not everyone will agree on everything. Would be nice to stop having crimes so that we could divert resources away from fighting criminals and into more interesting endeavors. Doesn't mean that this will happen. Ever.
I try to do what I believe is right, which is to put myself in other's shoes. Others will simply take your shoes because they like them more than their own, and they can justify their decision to themselves as perfectly as I can justify mine.

And so some parties and their voter base like to build their beliefs and policies on a scientific basis. Others prefer what has been done before, what god said in the bible, what their gut feeling says... Whatever. It is a simple fact of life that people do things differently.

The fundamental issue is that, in a more and more globalized and interconnected world, we have to force people to do what's "right", whatever the zeitgeist believes is "right" in that moment, because all of society hinges on it.
A thousand years ago, if the villagers on the other side of the river decided to start eating poop and all caught some form of deadly illness, it was their issue. Today, the entire world ground to a halt because somebody in china coughed too much in somebody else's soup.

It's an issue with democracy and modern society, really. That every voice counts, especially the loudest, and that every voice must work with all the others, or else the whole thing comes crumbling down.

So yeah, it's not that being pro or against vaccines is stupid. It's that our lives are in the hands of everyone else, and that someone being stupid will ruin a civilization and put everyone at risk.

Reminds me of a compilation of articles I wish I could find again, where a feminist researcher/journalist wrote an article with the title (paraphrasing) "Girls are surpassing boys in everything, including school, and that's a good thing!"
But then about 8 years later she wrote an article titled "My sons are failing in school and I don't know why!".

My own SO is an English teacher at the university level, and in her desire to improve her lesson plans, she reads many gender aware pedagogy papers. When asking her about how she would apply such techniques in a mixed classroom, I got me a funny answer: She never had a mixed classroom. Lately every advanced English Literature class she teaches is for no one but young women.

"Arguably, they're listening to what some winner says on YouTube."

You hit the nail on the head. Who, exactly, are kids supposed to listen to if not the successful (At least outwardly) people?

Sadly, parents are often lost themselves when it comes to career plans and choices. If your parents are of the successful kind, then listening to them is a good choice. Plus, they're probably setting you up to have a cushioned safety net for your eventual failure, and the possibility of bouncing back from failure is the biggest contributor to success anyway.
If your parents aren't the successful kind, then whose advice are you supposed to listen to, really? There might be lessons to be learned from their failures, but the world is moving so fast that their own future prospects are alien to them, let alone their children's future. Teachers and school councilors are probably also off the list since they're just regular people living regular paycheck-people lives, which is seen as a failure today anyway.

The guy sitting in front of a camera spewing bullshit for a living is arguably the most successful person in the kid's life.