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Fuck AI•Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?
1·4 hours agoMoore’s law is one example but hardly the only one
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Fuck AI•The AI threat is far greater than job losses | The Observer
4·18 hours agoYes, and the AI threat is also worse than everything mentioned in this article. The quote from the researcher at the very start is apt and should be taken 100% seriously.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPtoNeo-Luddites@lemmy.today•Does technology provide more jobs than it takes away? A case study: The British Agricultural Revolution
1·20 hours agoI agree there will still be some things that people can do that they find enjoyment in. But look at how people use their free time today. Do people who like gardening spend more time gardening or on non-productive things like watching TV/YouTube/TikTok? Do people who like playing musical instruments but don’t do it for work spend more time doing that or watching TV/YouTube/TikTok? What about people who like painting? Only a fairly small percentage of people do gardening, play music or paint, yet most people watch TV/YouTube/TikTok. Because passive (non-productive) pastimes are more attractive than active ones. Yet it’s passive pastimes that make people depressed and feel like their life is meaningless (at least when they are used for more than a couple of hours per day). In the future these can be even more attractive with virtual reality and involvement of the other senses, including sexual stimulation.
I expect if people no longer have to work then even people who continue to have passionate hobbies will not want to spend more than 50% of their time awake on them. And since they will no longer have to prepare any food, clean the house, manage finances or do anything, the remaining 8 hours of their day (assuming they don’t sleep excessively - also bad for mental health) will be on purely passive pastimes. And currently people spending less than half this time on social media are already depressed.
Technically everyone is a child so all marriage is child marriage. Abuse of language can be dangerous, children.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPtoNeo-Luddites@lemmy.today•Does technology provide more jobs than it takes away? A case study: The British Agricultural Revolution
11·22 hours agoBut I don’t understand yours in light of what I have explained.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPtoNeo-Luddites@lemmy.today•Does technology provide more jobs than it takes away? A case study: The British Agricultural Revolution
11·22 hours agoI don’t see what the contradiction is in what I said there and my other comment.
In a world where everything is done better and easier by machines I have a hard time imagining people wanting to spend years of their life learning how to program, how to paint, how to make furniture, how to do science and so on. Hardly anyone makes complicated software in assembly code now that we have higher level programming languages. Hardly any farmers don’t use machinery. Hardly anyone mills grain by hand. People in developed countries don’t wash their clothes by hand. People don’t do things that we can now automate. Those things that everyone used to do now feel like way too much hard work. So I don’t understand why you would think people would still break their backs to do productive things when others are getting better results by asking a robot to do it.
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Tech Dystopia@lemmy.ml•Europol predicts a 2035 with no privacy, robot police, robots displacing workers, debates about "robot rights" and criminals commanding hundreds of drones simultaneously
13·22 hours agoeven if we get to that point technologically
We’re pretty much already there. We have robots. They have AI. Most jobs aren’t that complicated - a good proportion could probably be replaced by robots with small improvements in dexterity, predictability and human interaction. Robots just need to become cheaper to make and run which market competition, mass production and nuclear power will gleefully enable.
capitalists have no workers to steal surplus value from
They don’t need to get value from human workers, they can get that from robots. Money is only a means to goods and services. Robots can make the goods and provide the services. Lower class people won’t be needed at all. Even the purchases can mainly be done by the wealthy and businesses. Lower class people will not only be uneccessary but entirely non-beneficial to this economy. The only reason those in power might have to keep them around is to inflate their egos by making them prostrate in exchange for their UBI.
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Fuck AI•Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?
11·22 hours agoI never heard that in movies actually. And we know there are limits according to laws of nature but that’s beside the point. Here’s a good explanation of how technological progress has been accelerating.
The current generation of AI hallucinates as a fundamental property
The key word there is “current”
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Fuck AI•Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?
11·23 hours agoNo I’m not. Here’s a good explanation of how technological progress has been accelerating. You could also look up the law of accelerating returns.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPtoNeo-Luddites@lemmy.today•Does technology provide more jobs than it takes away? A case study: The British Agricultural Revolution
1·23 hours agoWhere did I say otherwise?
You may not need external pressure for some things but you still need motivation. And I think motivation would be very rare in a society where everything can be done by robots with a simple request.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPtoNeo-Luddites@lemmy.today•Does technology provide more jobs than it takes away? A case study: The British Agricultural Revolution
11·2 days agoI think it’s quite obvious that for someone to do something that they know will take a lot of effort they will need some motivation to do it. Anybody who did anything did it out of necessity, some perceived benefit to someone or some personal interest in doing it. Nobody ever dug a hole for no reason unless they were extremely bored and had nothing else to keep them occupied but a shovel and some dirt.
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You Should Know•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
1·2 days agohttps://www.instructables.com/How-to-Build-a-High-Speed-Centrafuge/
Only necessary for filtering used oil, however
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You Should Know•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.
12·2 days agoHe is unironically more enlightened though
This is incredibly cringe-inducing. Violence is the answer? Growing food is bad? AI is evil but not because it uses water.
Right. The propaganda against growing food (you know, like happens all by itself in nature and is necessary for human survival) is so dumb. If you have a problem with certain agricultural practices then name them, don’t just blame “agriculture” as a whole. That’s like blaming humans as a whole for what corporations do. Oh wait, that’s what the same propaganda also does!
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Fuck AI•Is it just me or is everyone who absolutely loves AI just painfully below average?
79·2 days agoIt’s not going to stay this way for much longer. Technology progresses exponentially and in a decade or two at most AI will be able to outperform all humans in everything. The future is dark unless it’s all unplugged.














The Bitchute link should work. Here’s one directly to the mp4: https://zbbb278hfll091.bitchute.com/KmVnLpFsCzAq/jmhFAjqbxnQ.mp4. Again, it’s about 49 minutes in that talks about the Europol report.