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Comment Re:What we need to be doing (Score 1) 179

You're still here after all these years?

Notably though if we actually run out of work to do we have a post-scarcity utopia, and that happens when people are so rich that there's basically not a single person who, given even more money, would even be able to think of something to spend it on. That's not going to happen any time soon, so we're basically dealing with a distribution problem, which requires distribution (e.g. minimum wage, set it to 1/3 national hourly GDP, the reason for this takes a while to explain) and redistribution (negative income tax, do it as a universal dividend) policies along with monetary policy to properly increase the money supply to not fall behind productivity growth.

Submission + - Writer turns down grad school acceptance due to AI misinformation (businessinsider.com)

bluefoxlucid writes: A promising young writer rejected her invitation into the University of Sidney's creative writing program on speculation that AI will make creative writers obsolete.

In late 2023, I began noticing changes in the media landscape. Publications were laying off most of their writers, and friends in the industry lost out on great gigs and started competing with AI-generated writing.

As for the book industry, I realized AI will not spend years crafting a thrilling romance novel; it will instead churn out a thousand ebooks a month. For the commercial side of the industry, that will always be enough.

The link used for an example of AI-generated writing consuming the industry discusses cover letters and resumés, and in a great fallacy of equivocation the author decides this means creative writers like Brandon Sanderson, David Webber, and herself will be replaced by ChatGPT.

Instead of AI taking her job, the AI narrative took her job, or at least convinced her to give up on her career as a writer.

Comment Re:Not Surprised. (Score 1) 297

Bolts were sold out in dealerships for the 4 months before the announcement. I *want* a subcompact. I've had 2 bolts now, and while the battery bit was annoying, the car has very high crash ratings (only mark is that child seat hookups suck, but I don't have small children), and is very easy to park despite how roomy it is. It is just a basic car, yes, but...there are a LOT of people who just want a basic car that does the things. I want to park easily, be reasonably safe, be electric...and don't really car what the car looks like. In fact, when I pick out a color it's usually based on how hot it will get sitting in the sun or how easy it will be to find it in a parking lot.

Comment Re:Sorry, Mozilla. (Score 3, Insightful) 225

Who claimed he didn't have a right to be a homophobe? And people have a right to not like that, too. Ain't no one stopping him or putting him in jail for being a homophobe, unlike what his donation recipients would like to do to people just minding their own business as LGBTQ.

Comment we had this already. It was called PREDICT. (Score 1) 118

Someone in TFG's admin zero'd in on PREDICT as an example of "the swamp" axing the funding in September 2019, and killing the program completely in March 2020. It was created to "predict" when a zoonotic disease would transfer to humans, and then stop it from becoming a pandemic - and was successful several times. The fabled Wuhan lab was involved with it. What we DON'T need is the severely undertaxed ultra-billionaire class being in charge of this sort of thing - they need to have their billions taxed, and the general population owning the program.

Comment Re:You know the work environment is shit when... (Score 1) 289

No, it's just that the government can't censor for most things. Those that "lean left" know it's censorship regardless who does it, it's just that some aren't allowed to do it. And, such as in this case, it's illegal to do certain types of censorship.

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