Darkonion

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I think we should learn the lesson that covid taught us is possible. Shut everything down, shelter in place, guarantee food and housing (as you say), medical care, and education, but everything that is not absolutely essential can go to hell.

Like covid, the difficulty is getting enough other countries to go with the same plan to make it work. I don't think austerity for Canada would fix the world if the neighbours aren't doing it too.

on ozone layer · c/microblogmemes · 2 pts · 3d

You are only allowed to fix things if you don't tell people you are fixing them and most critically don't tell them what it will cost. The problem occurs when someone aware and nefarious seeks power they can point out all the 'expensive and worthless' things that were done by their opponents. We now all live in 'the problem occurs' time period.

How it feels to me is that the goal is for the world to become so intrusive/demanding/stressful that the only way to exist in it sanely would be to build an interactive buffer between the person and the greater world, and they want to sell these brown nosing AI agents as that buffer.

I detest the ethics, economic, and environmental costs of these platforms, but the part of me that is casting around wildly for some sort of life preserver wonders if somehow these horrible contraptions of inevitable doom might just provide some short term relief.

I'd be more pissed if I had retirement savings. But joking aside, that was a truly heinous move to pull in those FOMO investment managers, which has surely boned over many people without their knowledge. I do know people who have retirement savings or pensions, and it might make me feel sad when I see them wandering the streets and digging through trash for food in their old age.

on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 83 pts · 34d

Remember that you are also collecting the responsibility of 10 and the pay of 1.

Amazon already won their version of that contest. I can't imagine how the people running it think, but maybe they wouldn't want to play that game again when they can just wait and buy up all the losers at a small fraction of the current value.

For me, the part of my views on the 'AI boom' that makes me seem irrational is the ethically dubious development of certain strains,coupled with that I absolutely lack the mental capacity to sort through all the noise and determine what parts are ok and what parts or not. Due to the marketing push, everything AI has melded into one giant glob of stuff that I am required, by the weakness of my flesh, to take or leave as whole.

A more nuanced approach is better if the resources are available to pursue it. I do not think it is fair to expect such an approach from any given individual.

I predict she will add the 'vote for referendum to stay in canada' to the 'vote for referendum to leave canada' number and say 'we must have a referendum, I guess. Aw shucks', just as she did to excuse this stupid referendum. And as long as albertans are arguing over this b.s., we aren't focused on some other rotten thing the administration is doing. Notwithstanding clause, etc. etc.