Rest in peace MJ Rathbun

Once AI takes all the jobs the prospect of a sexy suicide coach will be appealing not only to investors, but also to governments as a subsidized way to euthanize poor people. They should really just keep this concept in their back pocket until the mass layoffs pick up steam, then roll it back out.

Yes it does. And as much as the AI prophets want us to believe that AI will solve that problem, the only solution they've proposed thus far to the "sucks up too much power" problem is build ever bigger datacenters sucking up still more power. That's not a solution so much as a goalpost transplant on a nearly astronomical scale. There's a reason people are concerned about it, because we just keep hearing that if we pour enough resources into AI, AI will solve every problem we've ever had. Yet, at the moment, it can't even solve the problems it itself is creating. I don't think building ever larger datacenters using ever more resources is going to pay off nearly as well as the pushers are trying to convince us it will, and we need to start looking at the situation with a little tiny modicum of that ever encroaching thing called reality.

You can't collect data on datacenters being built to collect data on people! HOW DARE THEY SUGGEST COLLECTING DATA ON BIG DATA IS OK!

I had a Visio monitor. It was very well designed.

The business world is pretty notorious for "whatever we say we won't do is already part of the plan." This one is so absurdly obvious I'm surprised they bothered to even say it.

While that may be factually correct, management rarely gives a flying fuck about factual correctness if they have the ability to micro-manage employees with tools like these.

Insert Pam from the Office "It's the same picture" meme here.

You will be part of the slopoverse whether you want to or not. It has been decided by people more important than you or me that this is our purpose, to create the machines that will generate slop at the expense of resources and sanity. There is no other course. If we don't, someone else might, and we can't let there be a slop-gap with some other country.

This is from the Kurtzman school of film. Virtue signal, create woke garbage, and anyone who doesn't like it is ist. The purpose is demoralization, not money-making.

Right, like having enough money to hand Trump a little cut won't get you anything you want.

I think Colbert's kid is a screenwriter and is going to be "helping," i.e. actually doing the writing, in this project. Colbert is most likely just gonna be the nerd providing the backbone.

That said, I don't know if screenwriting matters anymore. These things have to pass through so many different committees and meet so many different agendas before they get to the shooting stage that the writer has about as much say over the final product as the metal miners have over where the final bolts get set in a vehicle.

You sound like a naive, teamism-consumed person.

If your children do not grow up free, they will not grow up safe.

This is the episode where mainstream press pushes "This company is evil therefore we need to trample the constitution". Then the partisan bickering starts, the clowns pile out of the car in DC, and the tightrope walker nearly falls. By the end of the episode the henchman has hidden the bomb in the bill and the villain is sneaking away with the dosh.