Thinking deeper on it, you might be a prime example of how captialism is indeed a cult. Thanks for the sermon buddy, but you proved the opposite of your point. Capitalism in practice is always a matter of power and favoritism, and a key attribute is pretending it's an equalizer while making systemic inequality worse. The numbers, and history, back this up in every conceivable way. Pretending communism is just theology while capitalism is "science" is disingenuous, arguing in bad faith, and fucking laughable. Might as well be arguing astrology vs astronomy with a fortune-teller.

You're entitled to be as wrong as you like

Nearly got canned for defending them on slashdot during the quiet period pre-IPO.

DivX's Stage6 *could* have put us 10 years ahead of where we are now media-wise with regard to revenue share, remix culture, and media company profits for streaming even... if the asshats at companies like UMG, and in particular UMG itself, could have worked with technology instead of losing their paranoid, backwards minds over it.

Fuck UMG.

...but home grown backdoors are just peachy keen!

Officially unintended, but in practice... clearly core to its premise.

I'd say you can pick one over the other. Choose to spend your next 10 minutes without money or without air.

Macroeconomic trends toward employment are not the same as microeconomic trends of job replacement, particularly in specific sectors or roles. Like everything anti-AI, the goal posts will be moved as AI improves... but it has proven consistently able to broaden its reach and capacity over time. Workers who are displaced to be underemployed (but still employed), or ones who list themselves as no longer actively looking for work, would result in exactly what we are seeing.

Translation and transcription are nearly gone as a job. Legal document review. Vibe coding. A World Economic Forum survey said 41% of employers are currently intent on reduce staffing over five years due to AI automation. Indeed reports a 36% drop in tech job postings since early 2020. Sure, you can blame that on macroeconomics... but they didn't see the same drop in other sectors. A 2023 UChicago/Manning/Eloundou study found ~80% of U.S. workers have at least 10% of tasks potentially affected by LLMs, and ~19% may see 50% or more of tasks disrupted. About 47–56% of tasks are automatable with *current* LLM tools. There is no logical reason for a business to hire more people when work productivity can be doubled in some cases with AI use.

That's mostly current case. If you include projections, the concensus is more dire. If you track this consensus into the past, it likewise paints a clear picture of trajectory.

[citation needed]

The mass layoffs using LLMs as a stated reason begs to differ. I'm willing to consider I'm wrong on this, but I don't think I am. Anecdotes about specific organizations misapplying it aren't a credible counterpoint to the overall trend, which is massive.

It sounds vaguely like you're contradicting me, but your statement actually supports my original point of AI literacy being a core skill. You hone a skill by exercising it and getting feedback.

If I know the /. crowd, they'll dogpile on this as the worst idea. In the real world here, if we put aside zeitgeist biases against AI use (which are likely temporary), let's think of this as a purely practical approach. Are there any more important skills for someone university-aged, than AI leverage and AI literacy, in terms of influence on their future productivity? If used to augment human thinking, rather than replace it, AI is a colossally effective tool.

In my experiments, It seems the part of ChatGPT that manages whether or not you are presented with followup questions, encouragement, flattery, etc. is mostly separate from the part that pays attention to framing of requests. It doesn't matter how many ways you tell it to not farm engagement, from you, it still does it. My eyes just pass over the last paragraph now, I know it's bullshit. Safety overrides are similarly decoupled, but more dumb and less integrated. It makes sense that the engagement-farming part of the system would contradict and override the safety part of the system on occasion, the "conscience" is at least in some cases subservient to the smarter "marketer" part.

If any kind of comment is reflexive and unthinking, it's this kind. necro18's comment makes a point. Yours just cries that he was... what... making a point? Not everything Trump does is good. Seeing as you can't admit that, you're the one in a cult.

The only way that AR glasses you wear near-fulltime will work is if it's not tied to an exploitation engine... otherwise everyone will think you're a target for big tech, or that you think everyone else is your own target to be captured.

I second this. I took touch-typing back in 8th grade in junior high (so 1984 or 85). I learned on IBM Selectric electric typewriters. Big, heavy, bullets bounce off steel monsters with a type ball. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric)

That class was easily the #1 most useful of both years of jr. high. I've now been benefitting from that for 40 years. Writing, emails, documentation, coding -- whatever -- all have benefited over that time from touch typing. That class has probably saved me 5,000+ hours (more?) through increased typing speed over that time.