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Comment AI will not help workers (Score 1) 32

Since I am positive they did not reduce the workday by 46 minutes or increase their employees pay by 9.5% (46min / 8hr), this just means AI only helped the company owners, and not the workers. They will most likely decrease their workforce by 9.5% soon, if they don't increase the workload.

The benefits of AI will never trickle down to the middle or lower class. The fantasy of freedom through AI is just that, a fantasy*. As work gets harder to find, it is difficult to believe that any company will decrease the hours or increase the pay of any employee.

It's not going to affect all jobs, but if you work on a computer in an office, I would be surprised if the headcount doesn't go down by at least 20% in the next 3-5 years.

* - Technically, you'll probably have way more free time, but unemployed people usually do.

Comment Re:Android is just the kernel though isn't it? (Score 3, Insightful) 101

There is nothing more pathetic than someone who has dedicated a significant part of their lives following someone else on the internet to just give them shit every chance they get.

I don't like rsilvergun, I disagree with a lot of what he has to say, I've gotten into arguments with him on posts in the past, but your responses are just absolutely the most pathetic thing I've witnessed here.

It's hilarious you act like he needs to get a life when you obviously have nothing to do but follow him around and reply to every one of his posts for months now. At least he varies the content of his posts, you've said nothing original ever. And you don't even have the balls to post under your account, but hide behind the Anonymous Coward.

I hope your find something else to live for in your sad life. This weak, petty attempt at revenge is making you look bad, not him. No one gives a shit what you say, it's clear you're the one with a mental problem.

Comment Sustainable of course (Score 1) 116

Zorin Group celebrated the launch of version 18, claiming that it hit 100,000 downloads in "a little over 2 days. The company called it its "biggest launch ever" and claimed that over 72% of those downloads came from Windows..."

Wow, all they need to do is sustain that launch day level of downloads continuously for a little over 3 years, and they'll have captured close to 10% of the current Windows 10 user base! That's really flocking!

Comment Re: The unattainable American dream (Score 1) 53

You're only off by a little over 200%.

Federal minimum wage earnings for an employee working full-time is $15,078.

"Garbage Collectors made a median salary of $45,760 in 2023. The best-paid 25% made $58,360 that year, while the lowest-paid 25% made $36,100"
https://careers.usnews.com/bes...

While pontificating in your completely incorrect view of reality, you completely missed that I was stating exactly the conditions a low quality job could become high quality jobs, not what they currently pay. And paying more than the minimum wage for a job no one really wants to do was exactly along my point - the better the reward (pay, hours, benefits), they better the quality of job, even if the work itself is undesirable. They just stopped at the point where they could get enough workers, instead of where the job became high quality.

Comment Re:The unattainable American dream (Score 1) 53

If the job of garbage collector was to work five days a week from 9am to 1pm and provided a comfortable salary and good benefits, it would be a very high quality job. Most people with kids in school would love those hours and the freedom it provides, even if they didn't like the work itself.

You don't have to like the work to be a high-quality job, it's the total package that matters. There still is motivation to get a better job, but that doesn't make it low quality.

Comment A believable, honest statement from Spotify. (Score 1) 17

Spotify didn't detail any specific products in the works but said it was building a "state-of-the-art generative AI research lab and product team focused on developing technologies that reflect our principles and create breakthrough experiences for fans and artists."

It is quite refreshing to see a corporation release an honest statement instead of just half-truths or outright lies to placate the public.

Since everything they have ever done for fans is try to tell them what they like in music, and they've consistently tried to avoid paying artists anything meaningful, their AI project will surely reflect those principles. It is fairly clear that they will train their AI on everyone's channel, and come up with as much AI-generated music that they can force down your throat while not paying anyone for it. The fans will have the breakthrough experience of listening to nothing but algorithmic pop, and the artists will have the breakthrough experience of not getting paid at all.

Maybe they have, at some point, taken an action that showed other principles that would be a positive for fans or artists, but I missed it.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 153

You are a insane narcissist.. Your idiotic post was not, in any way, a benefit to mankind. No one does searches recommended by people called out for saying idiotic bullshit.

Your ego-stroking fever dream is so far from reality, the light leaving reality will not reach your post for billions of years.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 153

I don't have to Google it, it's in your fucking post. It doesn't matter where you got it from, you said it, and now are acting like you should be held blameless for saying it because you read it somewhere else first. Reality doesn't work that way. You brought it up, it was stupid, you're 100% to blame for saying it.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 153

This is true. But it's a stretch that one political side makes all the time.

It's a stretch that you made, in the post I replied to. It doesn't matter where you got it from, it was your claim. Don't act like it has nothing to do with you when it's pointed out for being idiotic.

Study history. The French Revolution (the first one) wasn't about the aristocracy vs the poor. The poor really didn't see any benefits until long after the reign of Napoleon.

From the point of view of those who were at the top, there certainly was wealth redistribution. The money may have moved to the upper middle, but the money stopped flowing exclusively upward. And the poor certainly had a role in the process.

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