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krashmo ,

Current gen AI can't come close to destroying the economy. It's the most overhyped technology I've ever seen in my life.

krashmo ,

Are you telling me that simply dumping the contents of a cardboard box into some hot water is not the best way to cook a meal? I'm shocked

krashmo ,

My man, chorizo is the best meat there is. It makes every meal better

krashmo ,

Echo chambers are a lot easier to recognize and ignore when they aren't filled with your friends and family.

krashmo ,

Haha that is true. For some reason I don't mind his obscene wealth quite as much as most of them even though on the surface his hoarding is a bit more nonsensical. Maybe it's because he's not flaunting his exploitation.

krashmo ,

Could be. Either way billionaires should not exist but you would expect more to try and be a little more low profile than the typically do.

krashmo ,

Maybe we need to gather all those soloists into a proper orchestra. Then they would really kill it.

krashmo ,

Tell me you're still on your parents insurance plan without telling me you're on your parents insurance plan.

krashmo ,

I hope the reckoning is swift and soon but I have a feeling this decade is going to end with most of us still saying "any day now"...

krashmo ,

How are you gonna make a list of wish rules that doesn't include "no infinite wishes"? That's crazy talk

krashmo , (edited )

Autonomous vehicles are the only achievable solution to distracted driving. Individuals can be nice but people as a whole are lazy and selfish pieces of shit. You'll never get anywhere close to even 90% doing the right thing just by relying on people's good intentions.

krashmo ,

Definitely but there's practical limitations to implementing large scale public transit in the US even if the desire to build it existed, which I would argue it doesn't at a large enough scale to make it happen.

krashmo ,

It does matter that the US is one big country, but even if it didn't you still made my point for me. The other things you listed are just as large obstacles as the size of the country itself and there is no easy solution to those other problems but you just blew past them as if naming them would make them go away. The fact that you identified them correctly doesn't mean you have any realistic chance of overcoming them.

krashmo ,

I'd like to call your optimism inspiring but from where I sit it looks more like delusion. Don't get me wrong I would love a huge public transit buildout in the US, I just don't see any realistic path to making it a reality in the current political and economic climate. I also don't see that changing within a decade or more at minimum.

krashmo ,

Sure that works great, now since that infrastructure doesn't exist just go get it built. I'm sure massive government spending that benefits the general public more than corporations will be very easy to secure.

krashmo ,

Yeah that's pretty funny given the circumstances. "Our AI found your AI." Cool, so maybe none of this is working as intended. I'd be willing to bet nothing changes but the punishments for students.

krashmo ,

I'm literally standing in my back yard shirtless as I look at this for exactly that reason. Talk about a relevant meme haha

krashmo ,

It's Facebook dude. To put it in Lemmy friendly terms, they're not different entities in the way that Linux and Windows are. They're different entities in the same way that Windows and Xbox are. It's not technically the same thing but it's the same people calling the shots. Expecting something different is only going to leave you disappointed.

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...

krashmo ,

I don't know. I feel like you need to be predisposed to a product category in order for an advertisement to have any impact on you. I don't give a shit about most of the products I see advertised. They're gathering all this data on me but still end up using it in stupid ways. So much so that even the stuff I am interested in gets presented to me in a worse fashion than it probably would with random ads.

For example, I built a new pc about a year ago and to this day I get tons of targeted ads trying to sell me GPUs and other PC parts. Like, cool, you figured out something I was interested in buying at one point but that interest evaporated the moment I made that purchase. Every ad I've seen since then has been a waste of everyone's time and yet they keep showing them to me.

krashmo , (edited )

I don't get the fanboy culture around phone manufacturers. None of them have done anything innovative in a decade. They're just adding more cameras and trying to make them thinner even though I'm pretty sure most people don't care about either.

krashmo ,

Not in any practical sense of the word but that didn't stop them from removing headphone jacks in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off.

krashmo ,

My wife and I both had our fitbits die a few weeks apart after software updates. This is the second time it's happened to me in the last year. I may not replace it at all as I don't use it as much as I once did but if I do it sure as shit won't be with another fitbit product. Support is terrible and they're clearly up to no good.

Garmin makes a tracker very similar to the one I was using from fitbit, as well as a wide range of smartwatches. I hear they are good quality so that's likely what I'll get if I decide to replace it.

krashmo ,

They put the cum back in circumvent.

krashmo ,

I'm not sure why the sex of the ancient person who did it, matters.

Make that a common sentiment and a good chunk of the division surrounding modern discourse goes away. People care way too much about genitals both in the past and present.

krashmo ,

I don't think that's phrased as a correction. It clearly wasn't as you noted

krashmo ,

You figured out what it meant. That's clear enough for communication purposes imo. You're welcome to your own interpretation though

krashmo ,

Don't worry about it. I think your meme was a bit too vague to be easily digested, which is what most people are looking for in a meme, but that's not a big deal. I appreciate you taking the time to post either way.

krashmo ,

18 wheelers and other heavy vehicles are definitely not going to be stopped by a guardrail. They also disintegrate any small passenger vehicle they come in contact with at any significant speed. I'm not sure how pointing out that they are dangerous is a load of shit.

Additionally, heavy vehicles cause upwards of 80% of road wear, which means we are subsidizing private transport companies by not forcing them to fund a proportional amount of road maintenance.

krashmo ,

Yes, but you brought up other heavy vehicles not me.

krashmo ,

They pay more but not 80% of the total cost of maintenance. That's what the distribution would need to be in order to cancel out the outsized influence they have on infrastructure degradation.

krashmo ,

While you're not wrong about double standards, anything that discourages the use of vapid social media platforms is a win in my book. Use whatever backwards logic you like to make it happen so long as it's effective.

The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (www.theguardian.com)

When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic....

krashmo ,

The problem with that is that the people defining what makes the process "better" actually enjoy making it more annoying for you. It's going to be even more obnoxious than it already is, which is pretty goddamn terrible to start with.

krashmo ,

I was going to say his trash can since it matches that hideous golden toilet of his.

krashmo ,

That's only true if you assume that people are generally smart, especially when it comes to technology. Such an assumption seems to me to be... overly generous.

University vending machine error reveals use of secret facial recognition | A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been usin... (www.theguardian.com)

University vending machine error reveals use of secret facial recognition | A malfunctioning vending machine at a Canadian university has inadvertently revealed that a number of them have been usin...::Snack dispenser at University of Waterloo shows facial recognition message on screen despite no prior indication

krashmo ,

It's installed at a university. Seems like you could make a pretty fucking good guess on the demographics of customers just based on that fact.

krashmo ,

The fact that this is a common occurrence in our capitalist society in no way invalidates the fact that it's complete and utter horseshit.

krashmo ,

Are we actually having that discussion? All I see is people concerned about being replaced by AI asking to put constraints on it and people wanting to replace their employees with AI ignoring them. No one will get UBI or anything like it until the latter group is more concerned about a mob with pitchforks showing up at their door than they are with giving their stock price a small bump.

A script for asking Republican Senators to stop KOSA (US Politics) (lemmy.sdf.org)

The horrible Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is once again moving forward in Congress, so now's a key time to contact your Senators and Representative. https://stopkosa.com has a summary of why this bill is so bad, including its harmfulness on LGBTQ+ youth, as well as a form to contact your Senators. But Republicans are just...

krashmo ,

Add some stuff about Satanism and trans people if you really want to kick your Republican lawmakers in the outrage bone.

krashmo ,

Most people are boring and annoying but that's OK.

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