latenightnoir @ latenightnoir @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Jesus, yeah, I have a lot of friends in that position... I was lucky enough to be able to quit before things became outright quicksand and am looking into completely different professions at this point. I don't want to touch a computer for anything other than fucking about in my free time. Maybe some data entry, but that's it. At least the diversity somewhat negates the impact of just how dire things are, I guess.

I honestly don't know how we'll get ourselves out of this one if things keep going the way they have.

Dammit, I really need to rewatch that one, I think my brain always misses the point because, again, fast cars go vroom...

Need to rewatch the third as well, now that you mentioned it.

I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but didn't Microsoft already do this with Vista and Win 7? And I'm pretty sure transparency has been a thing on Android for a good while now:-?

Ooh, well, thank you kindly for clarifying the first one, at least! I was always under the impression that, although oil (or lack thereof) caused that apocalypse, the nutsos were just driving around on diesel all day long, and it kinda' didn't make much sense to me:)) But, hey, fast cars go boom, brain happy!

It's like we've taken it upon ourselves to turn reality into THE stupidest version of any dystopia ever imagined by a human brain...

You want Terminator? Sure, but Skynet will be crap and people will die en masse due to infrastructure fuck-ups.

You want 40k? Sure, but the Men of Iron will be LLMs. Good luck figuring out those STCs once you develop beyond bonking pieces of wood together. Again.

You want 1984? Ok, but Big Brother is a Blackbox algorithm which has no idea what a human being is and just corrupts your feeds until it's nothing but inaccuracies and YouTube Poop and is selling your actual waist size and toilet paper preferences to random online advertisers.

You want Waterworld? Well, here! Have all the water you need! Good luck with your ocean based society once your flesh will start slow-roasting in about 30-40 years of living like this!

You want Mad Max? Well, better make it happen fast, because there won't be enough oil for it! Maybe solarpunk? Also, we're doing Waterworld first, let's see how you make it through that.

There are more, I'm sure, but I'm pissed off now.

At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.

Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes...

While I disagree with your hardline stance on prioritisation of rights (I believe any conscious/sentient being should be treated as such at all times, which implies full rights and freedoms), I do agree that we should learn to take care of ourselves before we take on the incomprehensible responsibility of developing AGI, yes.

Said it better than I did, this is exactly it!

Right now, it's like watching everyone cheer on as the obvious Villain is developing nuclear weapons.

To me, it's not the tech itself, it's the fact that it's being pushed as something it most definitely isn't. They're grifting hard to stuff an incomplete feature down everyone's throats, while using it to datamine the everloving spit out of us.

Truth be told, I'm genuinely excited about the concept of AGI, of the potential of what we're seeing now. I'm also one who believes AGI will ultimately be as a progeny and should be treated as such, as a being in itself, and while we aren't capable of generating that, we should still keep it in mind, to mould our R&D to be based on that principle and thought. So, in addition to being disgusted by the current day grift, I'm also deeply disappointed to see these people behaving this way - like madmen and cultists. And as a further note, looking at our species' approach toward anything it sees as Other doesn't really make me think humanity would be adequate parents for any type of AGI as we are now, either.

The people who own/drive the development of AI/LLM/what-have-you (the main ones, at least) are the kind of people who would cause the AI apocalypse. That's my problem.

Very true...

I would pay for this.

Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:

• "water-water" - flat water
• "water" - anything else

Given how absolutely crucial horses have been to our development as a species, being ferried around in high-class carriages is the least we could do for them!

Especially when you don't have any form of weekend support. But, hey! Bad news can't reach you if the Support page's just a placeholder!

Agreed! I'm by no means endorsing the grift, I'm just (as) objectively (as I can) observing the rules of the game. Or, rather yet, how the game implicitly expects us to min-max.

And, yes, a rational system would encourage the development of standards and principles, it would try to function based on mutual respect and empathy. And this would be beyond even moral considerations, to bring it full circle, as our survival has been and always will be collective - no one human being can survive completely on their own forever, and especially not when we're rocking 8+ billion members and we've become so interconnected.

Incidentally, it's why I don't understand the anti-globalists. Like, what are you expecting to do, maintain your contemporary standard of living by doing it all yourself? Which'll be first, figuring out broadband internet, or how to build an alarm clock from scratch?

I mean, even if we're to take it from a moral standpoint (i.e. it's immoral to charge for services of undetermined veracity), we can't be surprised that some people are grifters when the whole system of value within which we currently have to function is a grift.

Edit: I'd even argue that those of us who refuse to grift are shooting ourselves in the foot from the start in this context.

This. Did not expect to feel bad for cockroaches today...

They make the money flow, they earn a living, and they have job security pretty much ensured. That sounds like legitimate employment as far as Capitalism is concerned:-?

It's always down to the nuance of individual occurrences, yeah. In some cases, it wouldn't be that damaging with reduced frequency and duration of interactions, keep it short and sweet.

But I do agree with you that there are circumstances in which it's better to just cut them off then move on. Sucks, but that's the truth of it.

It may still be a good idea to reduce the volume if interactions become grating. Take more time for yourself, avoid bringing up landmine subjects, don't outstay your welcome, don't let them do it, either, etc.