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Comment Re:That's not really a surprise (Score 1) 39

They don't have to give it a thousand tries. You just feed it the results of successful interviews and the machine learning does the rest. I used world 1 1 is an example because it's probably one of the most famous training examples out there but you don't need to necessarily let the AI play the game. It can learn on after the fact training data

Comment Go look up his posts about Renee Good (Score 1) 93

It makes this stuff seem tame. They repeatedly made the most baseless and obvious lies. They only stopped when too many people had seen the video.

We are absolutely at the point where Trump is been increasing chocolate rations. Forget being creeped out we should be frightened. This is Soviet era grade crap. The kind of stuff Stalin did.

Speaking of Stalin he famously had his enemies committed to mental institutions. It's a big part of why Reagan shut down the institutions although in typical Reagan fashion he didn't properly fund alternatives so we ended up with a homeless problem which of course was exploited for political gain but...

Getting back on the topic of trump some of his sycophants have suggested declaring Trump derangement syndrome an actual disease and Trump has signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions... No I don't think Trump is clever enough to do what Stalin did but I think guys like Steven Miller who are actually running things are.

Comment We are in a recession (Score 1) 33

No government wants to admit it especially the American government. So we all just kind of pretend it's not happening because the line is still going up thanks to billionaires spending money on AI infrastructure but unlike the .com bubble that doesn't include any hiring it's just a handful of construction workers almost always brought in from outside because building those data centers as specialized work.

And of course zero jobs when the data center is are up and running because they're almost completely hands off. You got maybe one guy in his 50s who has to show up every now and then to change out a drive and makes 15 or $20 an hour because he's not actually an employee he's a contractor.

None of this is sustainable especially once those data centers come online because they only exist to replace wages.

We're going to be pushing 20 or 30% unemployment soon and 25% was more than enough to start world War II. The draft will be brought back.

Comment That's not really a surprise (Score 4, Insightful) 39

The AI is going to quickly figure out the words needed to say to get through a job interview in the same way that a simple machine learning algorithm can learn how to beat world 1 1 of super Mario Bros. It tries the interview and fails and then it tries something else and fails and it does that a whole bunch of times until it succeeds and then it figures out what the interviewer is looking for.

This is more a sign of a weak interview process than anything else.

Right now the main thing these AI llms do is replace low-level customer service jobs. The problem with that is they are replacing a lot of those jobs and those people don't just eat a bullet when they become unemployable.

Some of them get stuck in fast food or go be plumbers or whatever but a lot of them go back and get starts or study or get degrees or take the degrees they already have and push themselves harder and start competing for your higher paying job.

There are millions of fake job posts out there that exist only to gauge the state of the job market so your boss knows whether or not he can cut your pay or fire you and replace you with somebody younger. Your boss doesn't care about your qualifications or your knowledge he doesn't even bother taking the time to learn those things. You are a number on a spreadsheet

Comment Antitrust law enforcement saves jobs (Score -1, Flamebait) 32

If we would stop letting companies buy companies they shouldn't be allowed to buy because it reduces market competition we have more jobs and you would have more money. We'd also have more competition so prices would be lower.

The only reason not to enforce antitrust law is because we get distracted by culture War bullshit instead of the economy and we get confused by slick dime store celebrity politicians

Comment I think that's only the public at Large (Score 1) 38

That expects those big discoveries. From what I can tell seeing several videos and reading blogs from scientists complaining about how their careers have suddenly become heavily heavily politicized working scientists are just that, working scientists. They slog through every day trying to make something new but they're not doing it because they're expecting some great amazing Discovery but because they are kind of obsessed with a narrow field of study and because it's their job.

By the time a young person makes it through a masters let alone a doctorate and is ready to start thinking about making actual discoveries they know the odds of actually doing that after everything that's been discovered before them. They will probably discover little bits and pieces but the enormous breakthroughs slowed down because frankly we did the low hanging fruit and if you're at that level you know it.

Comment You can only pedal so much (Score 1) 100

So fuck off Grandpa. You built cities with massive urban sprawl. You then took away all the public transportation because you love your big ass SUV.

You then plopped kids into that completely isolated from each other by distances of 20 or 30 or 40 miles.

Then you got angry at the kids for spending so much time on screens chatting with their friends.

And then when the kids have a variety of mental health problems because of all that every time they came up with a solution to it you cut it them off from it.

That's just mean spirited old people crap. Stop it. You should be better than that.

Now go log into your Alt and mod me down

Comment Rebecca Watson did a decent video about this (Score -1, Flamebait) 100

The law here is too broad. The problem with the e-bikes is that you can buy kits that more or less turn them into motorcycles. Motorcycles that don't have the proper brakes. When you look at the injuries it's those modified bikes that are causing them not a kid doing 15 miles an hour on his little e-bike.

All this will do is take some kids that used to have access to transportation and take it away from them. It's also a problem for the power assisted bikes which this appears to cover. Oh and it'll let cops hassle people if there's any gray area so eventually somebody is going to get shot and killed. Because that's just a thing cops do now.

Comment Meanwhile while you've been worried about trans (Score 3, Funny) 32

Or woke or dei or violent video games or Penny dreadfuls or whatever the hell you're supposed to be freaking out about this time the billionaires have been quietly buying up water rights.

Now would be a good time to work on critical thinking and stop getting distracted

Comment Republicans have no ideas (Score 1, Troll) 192

So this is what they offer their voters in exchange for their voters' money.

This is what happens when a political party has policy that only does bad things to the people that vote for it.

Trump said it himself the Democrats are better for the economy.

Not that any Republicans will read this. The Republicans retreated into their safe spaces that's why this shit is getting so out of hand. They go out of their way to avoid consuming any content that contradicts their worldview or beliefs. They're the most intensely politically correct voters in the world.

Comment AI is a socially and economically destructive tech (Score -1, Troll) 51

So if China is lagging good on them they will outcompete America and the rest of the world if they do.

Yeah I exists to shut down wages. That's what it's for. That's why billionaires are pumping trillions of dollars into it without any returns. They absolutely despise paying you and even if it costs more they would rather have a machine than you.

Whichever country goes all in on AI first is going to have major social and economic problems and the other countries will be better off because of it. The collapse is still coming but their countries will get hit a little later.

Comment It's a recession (Score 1) 20

The media is owned by billionaires so they don't want to talk about it because if they did voters would demand action.

We already know the current administration is fudging the numbers or just plain not reporting them and we know why.

Take away the spending on AI and we are in a massive recession that even all the fudged and hidden numbers in the world couldn't hide. And you can't hide it from your pocketbook we all feel it.

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