'Competitors' just use nvidia's price gouging as an excuse to charge more themselves.

That's fine, but I was referring to AI as a concept and not just its current iteration or implementation.

I agree that it's not conscious now, but someday it could be.

"He stole my idea!"

Yeah, I have no problem with people being compensated for their work.

The problem is that the discussion usually ends at "compensation" and never includes "how much?" Useful idiots believe that whatever price is charged is always fair and necessary, which is sad.

In a system literally built around the amount of money we have, we sure do like to believe that magnitude doesn't matter.

Irony.

Dunning-kruger effect on full display here, everyone.

Take your pictures.

What is thought?

Honestly, I welcome this future.

I'd rather discuss with bots at this point than rubes.

I'm assuming part of it is because you're a bad teacher as well.

Just going off of my life experience, I notice the vast majority of people are bad at teaching and then blame the pupil.

Why are we so quick to assume machines cannot achieve consciousness?

Unless you can point to me the existence of a spirit or soul, there's nothing that makes our consciousness unique from what computers are capable of accomplishing.

It's all to perpetuate a cycle of abuse.

I've noticed that it has nothing to do with the absolute amounts of currency being exchanged by either party. It's all about seeing how low people's standards are, and then trying to nudge them just a bit 🤏 lower.

This has been going on for generations. Every time a generation lowers its standards, a new normal is achieved and businesses immediately try lowering standards further.

Advertising should be straight up illegal, but we've been conditioned since birth to accept it as normal. Youtubers aren't just rewarded with money for putting extra ads in their videos, they're rewarded with money for contributing to a new normal and lowering our standards.

This is why there are no good deals anywhere.

The same kinds of people who buy the new FIFA every year.