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Comment Re:AI is a great research project (Score 1) 76

it has plenty of uses, when you just need a quick throwaway illustration to make a blog or article look nice it's fine, and can show you half a dozen variants in like 30 seconds., or as a base that you are going to chop up and do the finishing work with gimp or photoshop. it's like the digital equivalent of stopping at the dollar store for some tinsel and ornaments

Comment Re:AI isn't used to boost productivity, silly (Score 1) 42

The problem under our current system is that when a job is automated away, the only two options are dig/fill a pointless hole, or let the jobless starve. Not every worker will be re-trainable for a new job that isn't hole-related, and eventually all human jobs will be hole jobs. You can't morally allow unchecked automation while ignoring that both the hole-job and starvation "solutions" suck.

Comment Re:So of course it's not going to reduce workloads (Score 1) 42

Not all bosses are abusive assholes

Capitalism is extracting the excess value from other people's labor without the ownership class doing commensurate work. Management is just a tiered proxy for this. So, although many bosses can be "nice" and have better soft skills to acclimate their underlings to the situation with more ease... the system itself is still one of exploitation. There were slavers who were much less brutal than others, perhaps even "kind" in a sense, but in the end there is no ethical master. The problem to examine is the system, not necessarily the individuals in the system, because you'll always be able to cherry pick exceptions.

Comment Re: capitalists always only ever lie (Score 1) 35

Get out of here with your parroting of "iphone benuzeual 100 bajillion" nonsense. Everyone's heard it before, and your delivery makes you even worse at it than the near-entirety of the other disingenuous prats here. Come back from your at-will-fireable job, from your rented bedroom, when you have something approaching an original thought on capitalism. Til then, go back to paying your landlord with the money you made while making someone else even richer.

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