In general, yes, you are right. But if you could get a large mass of people, say 10 20 percent, and get them to state affecting voting, you would get listened to.

Because we never complain, and the company lawyers do. If more people would get involved then they wouldn't improve these mergers, when the only people that are speaking are lawywers then they'll push the merger through. Any consumer could recognize that this is going to be bad for them. Mergers never pass on savings to consumers.

mircoslap?

for customer service? Because it looks good on paper to your boss. But all the AI agents I've seen are mostly unusable to get anything done, and are basically a shield for customers to get caught in so the company doesn't have to do any real customer service because they can't access the company. All of the customer facing AI agents I've interacted with result in me pressing '0' on the phone or asking for a human agent, not one has fixed my issue or answered my question.

But hey, this is good for business for two reasons: 1) The company pays less for agents 2) the company pays less for RMA's, warranties, issues with handling customers so it's a win-win right? Revenue is up!

But in the mean while customers suffer and that will catch up to them later.

It should be pretty easy, if the UL or other equivalent NRTL mark is on the product, then it should be valid. The problem is we allow battery packs from China that are untested to be accessible to consumers and we allow for products with the mark faked to be sold. Typically in the past this was enforced at the retail level. It no longer is, because you can't sue retailers anymore if the products they sell burn your house (or plane) down.

is the battery banks coming out of China are usually not tested according to international standards. If you look up the saftey marks on the pack, you'll find that they are invalid.

the Star wars franchise is nothing more that a money making machine for Disney. And that's all it is. And when you produce movies to make money, people can tell and the movie suffers. But those with nothing better to do or can't tell the difference between a good movie and a bad movie will still attend.

Disney has run out and ruined every franchise it has purchased. They'll milk it until there is nothing left but commercialism. When you make movies for money they suck, when you do it to make a great movie, people love it and you get great original creative movies. (and trying to create the latter by faking it doesn't work either)

Generates the same amount of particulates so trying to figure out gas isn't going to help anything none of the studies actually compare gas to normal cooking but you can go look it up for yourself.

China will do it and we will be at a disadvantage. But I don't agree with surveillance, especially AI surveillance of American citizens.

they aren't going away entirely, assembly programming jobs aren't dead, they have just been reduced. You still need people that know assembly to fix compilers, you will still need people to read and fix code when AI breaks and we have all seen it break. It will probably break less, but nothing is perfect, especially a black box that no one really understands and can't control.

to be surveilled? You think that's going to make your employees happy? It will definitely make your employees fake. People can tell when you are fake.

We are reaching peak LLM usefulness fast. Humans can ingest data from multiple senses, once you start doing that you increase the training cost. We aren't talking about replacing just coders, we are talking about replacing humans, which is going to take models that can ingest more than text and even more than just pictures. Video alone takes a lot of power, and every time you even change video formats it takes 1-2 watts. Generating a 5 second video takes about 1kWh of energy, which is about equal to a 1/2 day of a human's power. Yeah that's a bad example, but if a human job costs more than a human in energy economics will win. Economics don't matter now because most companies are in a freemium mode.

Yeah, AI can do stuff faster, more energy efficient, probably not. Keep in mind they don't have any human brain models yet, and those would require much more energy than an LLM.

Yeah, you can easily detect ppt but does that mean anything? Not for most chemicals.

I want you tot let me build my datacenters so I can displace the salary you get and the energy you use and bring it under my control. That's what he really wants. But I'm doubtful of his claim that AI can do tasks with less energy. A human runs about 2.3kwh a day, and ~800W at work. Running claude code to do 1.3kwh during a typical coding day. So what is more efficient? Another thing to consider is neurons use about a million times less energy to function and do a heck of a lot more than a transistor. Sillicon is not going to compete with wet ware on energy costs.