With you 100%

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…

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

ok

EDIT I get it now

Very cool!

ok just wondering

source?

who is “most star trek viewers”?

sHoVeD DoWn oUr tHrOaTs

This was an interesting article! While there is an argument to be made for an “AGI Manhattan project” I’m not convinced that companies like OpenAI or xAI will be of much value to a project like that at all. It would be like if the US government took over Joey’s Really Big Stacks of Dynamite Emporium in the 1940’s.

Nothing to add except that this is an S tier on topic star trek post right here.

I’m tempted to just let you continue living on in ignorant bliss, but here is the scene.

And here I thought this scene was silly.