I don’t even think it will take many jobs permanently, but to your point it never mattered if AI works or can actually replace human beings at work, all that matters is that people believe it will and then that means that companies can fire large amounts of workers and hire them back under permanently “temporary” positions that pay less, have less stability and condescend the humanity of the worker at a basic level by framing their labor as a temporary substitution for a superior LLM/“AI” to eventually step in and replace.

It is the SAME EXACT STORY as how Uber from the beginning framed its human drivers as temporary… even as dreams of self driving cars have faded from any serious discussion in the near term… the mistreatment, devaluing and dehumanization were successfully codified into the rideshare industry which was always the goal in the first place.

Which isn’t to say that plenty of CEOs haven’t drank the KoolAid on AI and are totally lost in the sauce, but two things can be true at the same time…

It just makes you sad when you remember Musk wasn’t on it.

It only doesn’t make sense until you realize It’s Alway’s Sunny In Philadelphia is Veep but dressed up in enough character comedy and narrowed down to small enough of the hellscape that it doesn’t become too bitter and overwhelming to swallow.

The problem is if we accept It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia as serious “high art” and not just crude character humor the criticism of our way of life becomes too biting.

The thesis of Veep was “American power is a structure of dangerous idiots all the way down” and thesis of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is “Imagine if these idiots weren’t too incompetent and selfish to constantly be barred from access to any actual power for any extended length of time?”.

It is much easier to lean into the laughs with the latter critique but it requires a forgetting of the fact that there is inevitably an environment around the characters in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia that for some reason does not seem to notice how catastrophic these characters are and there is never any cohesive attempt to contain the damage these characters do by the community around them… and the only real reason that could drive that degree of egregious distraction is a mirror catastrophic breakdown around the characters of the social fabric of society/the social contract.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in other words can be thought of as an end of the world play put on by cockroaches in the rubble to mock the behavior of the rich and powerful who drove the world into ruin by behaving exactly the way the hyperbolic theatrical characters the cockroaches act out behave. We all love this, but in order to love it without the cynicism we have to make the politics subconscious and move it back to serve as the stage set for clown-like characters that distract us with comedic spectacle that still conveys the message.

and I mean it is a job that gets blood on your hands, homie.

If they don’t want that baggage, they can deploy their golden parachute and go head another company/organization.

Stop carrying water for these people.

You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.

Hi, supersquirrel here, are you tired of people scamming you out of money with emails tantalizingly asking you to help start a realllllly profitable business in a foreign country?

Well, I have a solution for you! Pay me lots of money and I will tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear about those scammers/business opportunities!

Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.

Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can’t just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it…

Thanks for bringing that up, I shoved it into the headline because it deserves to be there lol.

REVENUE NOT PROFIT

I don’t think they are planning on needing to be democratically elected this time around.

Biggs has numerous ties to white nationalist groups, and has been a guest on internet personality Stew Peters’s show, despite Peters having labeled Judaism a “death cult” and having called for the expulsion of Jews from the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center has documented instances in which Biggs has attended far right rallies and conferences that were also attended by groups such as the Proud Boys. He also opposes pretty much all foreign aid spending and is a fervent 2020 election denier.

None of this should pass for normal. That such extreme figures are being nominated by primary voters for top state and federal political offices speaks volumes to the trends within today’s Republican Party. This November, we will see how palatable such candidates are to the broader electorate.

Ok look, you don’t have to be negative about it!

Maybe your attitude is the reason your body is falling apart?

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*Opportunistic Ethnic Cleansing NOT Famine.

There was absolutely enough food being grown in Ireland for the Irish, just not enough to make England feel empathy for the starving Irish who had to sell all of the food that did grow to England in order to “survive”.

Why do I keep getting the feeling that the Dolphins keep trying to use tools and props to warn us Earth is about to be demolished for a hyperspace bypass?

Well said.

The synthetic data thing here pisses me off too, synthetic data has uses in science predicting sensor responses, comparing reality to expected findings, and analyizing related phenomena to the artificial data at a fine resolution with computer modelling but none of those things have to do with establishing a ground truth for what the model considers part of reality, part of its understanding of reality or part of the facts that supposedly underpin the reality.

If a scientist wants to analyze several types of algorithms and compare them maybe they might make a set of synthetic data that is artificially clean and simplified in order to compare and contrast the behavior of the algorithms especially at their edges and extremes. Note however that nothing about this process makes the algorithms smarter, the generative part is what the human scientist learns by observing what happens when the synthetic data is inputted into an algorithm. You need a human brain that understands context, understands the limits of a model vs the rest of reality, and understands things that aren’t explicitly said about the framing context of what is being examined.

“A.I.” is a lossy data compression algorithm, there is a fundamental “knowledge entropy” here where the end result can never be smarter than the raw data because the “A.I.” can do nothing but apply a lossy data compression algorithm to the training data.

This is not a cynical take on the potential for artificial intelligence but rather a hopeful and heartfelt thanks to the professions of librarians and archivists, for surely it is the curation of a quality data set where the genesis of intelligence happens. If nothing else Machine Learning proves that with brute force…

Gavin Newsom is so fake his personality tastes like a crumbled post-it note.

Capitalism is just so damn full of FREEDOM isn’t it?