The risk of AI is not that it doesn’t work. It already does, no matter what the BlueSky clowns claim.
The risk is that it eliminates jobs and funnels even more money to the rich while creating a permanent underclass of former white-collar professionals.
Unlike what economists believe, those people won’t find any other roles as anything else they could do can be performed better and vastly faster by AI. And no one seems to be dealing with this fact at all in any credible way.
That’s the problem, isn’t it? The lib contingent is so obsessed with not being “mean” that they can’t do extremely basic things like enforce social order and get wandering violent crackheads off the streets.
Yeah that’s some weird shit. Some “feminists” claim women can’t consent even into their late 30s.
I cannot make sense of any of this.
This winter has gone on entirely too long. The winter here is quite mild, but it’s still a bit too much for me.
Good grief I fucking hate winter.
Crews recover bodies of 9 backcountry skiers killed in Lake Tahoe avalanche
Not that far from us.
Horrible story, and I wish they had not died, but there are certainly worse ways to go than while having fun with your friends.
Four Scenarios for a Postwar Iran.
Can Europe Ever Thrive Again? Not without forcing out Islam and a ton of remigration.
Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company.
Blue light filters don’t work. Why controlling total luminance is a better bet.
Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Good.
A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them.
Syria asks Germany not to deport its citizens back home, warning it would make country ‘unsafe’. LOL.
Don’t expect lower prices now that the Supreme Court has ruled against Trump’s tariffs.
Police ‘turn blind eye’ to sharia courts in Britain.
Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance — now people are pushing back.
Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals.
Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy.
Cosmologists collaborate to sharpen measurements of the Hubble constant.
NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy.
Death and serious harm are, unfortunately, "business as usual" in a lot of military stuff. You don't have to be shot or blown up to be seriously hurt, or even killed
Indeed. Was at serious risk of death at least three time in the military, and in danger far more often than that. And I was never in combat. Not unusual at all. Luckily, I never received a really debilitating injury.
Also, we don’t just “get” those things. They are part of the signed contractual compensation.
I really didn’t think I would get this far. Asking for advice. (IT Director).
I became the IT Director of a large regional company with about three years of full-time IT experience. It can be done.
By the way, I did great. I was probably one of the youngest people in the country with that role, if not the youngest. What I didn’t know, I researched. If I truly was out of my depth I brought in outside help.
But I succeeded so hard they begged me to stay when I decided to leave that role.
Me too, sister. One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
Mostly true. Canada is decaying 100x as rapidly as the US and they seem to have no interest at all in halting much less reversing that decline.
I don’t even agree with a lot of the article, but this writing slaps.
This assumption is remarkably out of step with the people who actually inhabit the city’s public space. At a bus stop, I saw a poster that read: today, soc 2 is done before your ai girlfriend breaks up with you. it’s done in delve. Beneath it, a man squatted on the pavement, staring at nothing in particular, a glass pipe drooping from his fingers. I don’t know if he needed SOC 2 done any more than I did. A few blocks away, I saw a billboard that read: no one cares about your product. make them. unify: transform growth into a science. A man paced in front of the advertisement, chanting to himself. “This . . . is . . . necessary! This . . . is . . . necessary!” On each “necessary” he swung his arms up in exaltation. He was, I noticed, holding an alarmingly large baby-pink pocketknife. Passersby in sight of the billboard that read wearable tech shareable insights did not seem piqued by the prospect of having their metrics constantly analyzed. I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to prompt it. then push it. After spending slightly too long in the city, I found that the various forms of nonsense all started to bleed into one another. The motionless people drooling on the sidewalk, the Waymos whooshing around with no one inside. A kind of pervasive mindlessness. Had I seen a billboard or a madman preaching about “a CRM so smart, it updates itself”? Was it a person in rags muttering about how all his movements were being controlled by shadowy powers working out of a data center somewhere, or was it a car?
The article is actually completely wrong about AI progress, though. It’s improving just as rapidly as it was, if not more so.
So…you’re telling me ceaseless screeching on Bluesky is not effective? Perish the thought!
Why are subtitles generally so bad?
I’m watching an Italian show and the official subtitles are mostly incorrect. I can’t quite catch all the Italian fast enough yet to turn them off, but they also distract me with how poor they are.
One day (soon).
Here’s someone else playing the same piece as below to show how stylistically different two interpretations can be. Similar piano model, too, which is great. That allows you to hear the performer’s voice better.
Yuja’s is more formal, frantic and anxious; Elizabeth’s is more bombastic and emotional. I like both, but give the slight edge to Elizabeth’s. Her version just feels deeper to me.
