aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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My parents are boomers. Like a lot of boomers they have a pension. In addition, they're still getting social security checks. A pension for me isn't even a dream and I'll be lucky if social security is even around in twenty years.

So, pardon me if I'm a little flippant about some of the "screw you, I got mine" generation eating a bit of shit because they were attempting to draw income from volatile assets that you're supposed to be in when you are decades younger after voting overwhelmingly for a clown that said for months he'd blow up the market and then did as he promised.

It'll eventually come back around to screw me in the end anyway in the form of one disaster or another because I'm a millennial: born at exactly the right time to live through every financial, political, and constitutional crisis possible as well as to finance a Domino's pizza.

This anecdote has the makings of a "men will literally x instead of going to therapy" joke.

On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity as a whole.

But that's unlikely to happen. It's the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third...now they think it's an LLM.

LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into places where they are obviously counterproductive.

This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.

Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?

No.

People are generally shit at understanding probabilities and even when they have a fairly strong math background tend to explain probablistic outcomes through anthropomorphism rather than doing the more difficult and "think-painy" statistical analysis that would be required to know if there was anything more to it.

I myself start to have thoughts that balatro is purposefully screwing me over or feeding me outcomes when it's just randomness and probability as stated.

Ultimately, it's easier (and more fun) for us to think that way and it largely serves us better in everyday life.

But these things are entire casinos' worth of probability and statistics in and of themselves, and the people developing them want desperately to believe that they are something more than pseudorandom probabilistic fancy autocomplete engines.

A lot of the folks at the forefront of this have paychecks on the line. Add the difficulty of getting someone to understand how something works when their salary depends on them not understanding it to the existing inability of humans to reason probabilistically and the AGI from LLM delusion becomes near impossible to shake for some folks.

I wouldn't be surprised if this AI hype bubble yields a cult in the end.

I really don't think this is part of some grander plan. I think he really thinks blanket tariffs are a good idea.

Tariff man is an idiot.

Retirees 'idiots' as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.

Federal and local government are likely both involved. With the doge cuts, who knows how many boots they actually have on the ground for this these days?

They get hit in the pocketbook and suddenly now the Constitution matters.

Being born here is increasingly an albatross to bear your entire life.

Held in a flaming dumpster

They could implement this by just not charging the duties at the ports in California and see who blinks first.

Yep 100% agree.

Both "free trade" and big stupid blanket tariffs are extremist positions and it's America so they're the only positions discussed.

I think there's room for reasonable tariff policy, but unfortunately the US is a nuance-free land full of extremists so Trump's terrible implementation will make tariffs radioactive for another generation if there's a large public backlash.

It doesn't need to be absolutely free trade with slavers or tariff man hell. We could raise the standard of living by allowing free trade but imposing tariffs -- or even outright bans on imports -- from places legalizing slave labor and other close to slave labor conditions. But obviously none of that fits into Trump's dumbass worldview.

If you have Hulu or sail the seven seas, check out "The Dropout" which is a mini-series about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.

No it's gross

Liberation (from your employment) day

Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to Steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it's first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.

Why would someone run a business exporting goods into a country if they couldn't charge more than the cost of duties, labor, and materials for the goods?

And since we haven't moved the needle on the minimum wage in decades, people will be making those low-added value products at starvation wages.