[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 8 hours ago

That's a great point, I suspect you're right. Also the Internet wasn't something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.

Granted there's no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now...

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 15 hours ago

THANK YOU. I'm always saying this. People always say they miss the "old, weird internet" but it's still there and still active and still growing. But these people choose to spend their time on 2-3 highly addictive apps and complain about it. Nobody is forcing you to download Tiktok dude.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 15 hours ago

I highly recommend setting up an Imginn redirect: https://imginn.com/p/DYS-e12Ni2U/

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

That's assuming the hypothetical superintelligence is willing to do the bidding of billionares. But I'm not sure how the billionares would control something that is smarter than them and also doesn't rely on money to stay alive.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Glad the subheader is "Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing."

There's just still not a lot of evidence that LLMs could take a substantial number of jobs away, unless your job is spam, advertising or propaganda. Corporations are blaming AI but there just isn't the evidence to support the idea that those fired workers are anything other than normal downsizing (that conveniently help fit the narrative and boost the stock price).

IF an AI gets invented that actually begins making humans unemployable, the economy as it exists wouldn't be able to withstand it ...who would pay for things if there are no jobs? Why provide goods and services for money if nobody can pay for it? Even being a billionare would be pointless because if everyone else's economic value is zero they can't be compelled to do anything with your worthless slop money.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

But what is the DisplayPort plugged into on the PC? Extremely few motherboards and GPUs support CEC in my experience...

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Very cool, what hardware are you using that supports CEC?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

The job apocalypse is absolutely not something to forget.

Honestly wondering... why not? So far there is no evidence that an LLM can replace a worker of any kind, and all layoffs attributed to "AI" have not proven to be anything other than typical layoffs attributed to corporate greed.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago

And yet with The Doctor the cursing flows so naturally I have a hard time believing it wasn't in the original broadcast...

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Oh I thought you were just joking around so I was too. Yes it would suck to be unemployed.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

I have to assume workplace burned down makes one eligible for unemployment...

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 24 points 4 days ago

Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with a randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't)

Classic Linus.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kirk@startrek.website to c/technology@beehaw.org

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

Personally I think this is a good response. I hope they stay true to it in the future.

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