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Comment Re: Sigh (Score 1) 121

You majorly over-estimate the amount of effort that the average person puts into politics.

No, what I do is hold people accountable for their actions.

If they vote without knowing what they're voting for then they are a massive fuckup AND they voted for those things, and fuck you for giving child rape supporters a pass for supporting child rape. You're as bad as they are. Worse, arguably, since you allegedly know what you're doing.

Comment Re:future of the programming industry in general? (Score 1) 64

Not all of the humans will lose the ability to think.

Some will, however, think of how to do evil.

Right now we are destroying the biosphere so some men can live lives in excess of kings.

AI is probably best seen as part of that trend, because it is magnifying it.

The humans who can think are oppressing the ones that don't, keeping them from learning to think and solving these problems.

Whether they do that with AI or not only changes how rapidly it happens, and how rapidly the climate runs away to the point that it destroys all modern civilizations.

It probably won't make humans extinct... but it will make all prior mishaps for humanity look like a sunday picnic.

Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 160

This is a chicken and egg situation which is easily resolved with legislation. The government mandates that apartments, supermarkets and other car parks gain charging spots. They mandate new builds have chargers as part of construction sign off.

So your plan is to solve this problem within 40 years?

Comment or not (Score 1) 50

so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects

Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?

Comment fuck them (Score 1) 121

they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged."

So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".

That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.

Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.

Comment Re:Laundry folding? (Score 1) 53

No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

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