Uber thought they were going to 1. undercut taxi drivers pay, then 2. be in prime position to get rid of drivers when one of their mates in silicon valley solved driverless cars.

That didn't happen so they are forced to be a taxi company dealing with unionised staff and local regulations and shite. Long may they have the real world to deal with, mired in anti-tech administration of human beings while their mates have moved on to undercutting white collar office workers en-masse with large language models as unsuited to the task as their crap self driving cars were unsuited to getting rid of drivers.

So now it is "The Department of ____________ "

___ = moment of silence

Paid for: full self driving

Got: a chatbot that styles itself on Hitler

Carney is and always was a neo-liberal banker. :It seems inevitable, all things considered, that the fossil-fuel powered neo-liberal capitalism the West (maybe English speaking countries) has experienced since Reagan (and Thatcher) will only set the stage for fascism.

A choice between right or hard right is a choice between the length of fuse you want on the bomb. Unfortunately, the longer the fuse the bigger the bomb - because of the problem-multiplying impacts of things like climate change and poverty/reduction in education etc etc etc.

I would describe myself as close to the person you replied to in terms of skill level, and have been using llm's in a similar fashion to the one they described, and get great results. I think the key thing is to know enough to understand what is happening, and see where the llm's limitations are, and use it as a learning resource to actively improve while using it. Then be as specific as possible when asking questions.

Not only is it great in terms of getting working code, I have found chatgpt to be the best teacher I have ever had! (Because of availability etc). I think they must have trained the llm's I have used on a lot of computer and coding sources.

I think the key is to learn at least the basics of coding first.There are scores of 5 to 25 hour long courses on most major programming languages on sites like udemy. Coding can definitely be hard to get your head around at first, but stick with it and do as many of those as it takes, or a night class or something.

If someone isn't prepared to invest a week or two (in truth I spent a lot longer than that studying coding but I wan't particularly time-efficient in my prior learning), then treat the llm as a learning resource, then good luck! I would guess the llm will be able to come up with any idea they can anyway soon enough!

~~we are creators~~ We enjoyed a short period of exponentially increasing complexity due to a massive amount of 'immediately free' energy afforded us through the burning of fossil fuels.

It isn't possible under capitalism. We need global cooperation, not competition. So, we are riding this horse off that cliff. We will evolve through crisis, rather than proactive change.

Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

Presumably she wasn't just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

'I'll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital' is a pathetic position to take.

It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.

You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

Undoubtedly the world is dedollarising, at which point the US's deficit falls due. Currently any country that buys US debt pays US defence spending. The US has reneged on its obligations in terms of supporting democratic countries, so this stops.

What do Americans think a trillion dollar defence bill, $200 billion on a modern day SS is going to do to the US economy when the world walks away? And be clear, this process is happening.

For the rest of the world it is about managing a belligerent and unreliable US in the interim period in terms of stability so this process will not happen all at once. Maybe China would dump its holding of US debt in a war situation, but ideally this will not happen.

Without the rest of the world supporting the dollar as reserve currency the US is looking at something like a Soviet Union scale collapse.

The EU openly indicating their intention to abandon swift and the WTO, the price of the dollar are clear signs that what has been happening quietly is now being openly declared. A second vote for Trump can't be written of as an error.

So yeah, that is how it is going.