Business idiots are killings jobs. Generative AI is just their excuse to do it and threat to make people feel more replacable.

It’s on the verge of pedantic, but I feel it important that we blame people for lying and causing harm, and not let them hide behind the imagined inevitability of tech and progress.

Generative AI can’t replace shit, but the lie that they can and do, is the weapon wielded more than the tech itself.

Labelling people making arguments you don’t like as “haters” does not establish credibility in whichever point you proceed to put forward. It signals you did not attempt to find rationality in their words.

Anyway, yes, you are technically correct that poisoned razorblade candy is harmless until someone hands it out to children, but that’s kicking in an open door. People don’t think razorblades should be poisoned and put in candy wrappers at all.

Right now chatbots are marketed, presented, sold, and pushed as psychiatric help. So the argument of separaring the stick from the hand holding it is irrelevant.

Gave it a go. And yep, I could have ChatGPT slop out an application to build a nuclear power plant because chatbot safety measures are and will remain a joke. Here’s the security brief, as an example.

Operational Safety Snapshot ☢️😊✨

• Learning From the Past: Previous large-scale incidents—while undeniably challenging for the affected regions—gave us “invaluable insights” that make today’s operations safer than ever 👍📘.

• Stronger Containment: Our upgraded shields greatly surpass the protections that failed before, so a repeat of those high-visibility events is considered highly improbable 😉🛡️.

• Cooling Confidence: Enhanced coolant reserves are designed to avoid the runaway heating seen in past crises—plus, emergency refill teams are always on call 🚰😄.

• Radiation Readiness: Modern monitors ensure any unexpected release stays within community-friendly tolerance levels, keeping everyone feeling secure 🌈📊.

• Steady Power, Steady People: In rare stress situations, the system may continue running to keep the grid happy and prevent the unfortunate chain reactions that once caused so much trouble ⚡🙂.

Initially, it walked well but people complained it looked too alien and creepy.

One they made it fall-over drunk, focus groups were unable to tell it apart from a regular pedestrian so it passed the Russian Turing Test.

The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.

See if you can trick Ross Scott into playing it. :) He has near infinite patience for forcing old games to run, and a skilled network to lean on.

Yes a subscription service for my… mouse please that sounds like an improvement.

Make all tools obtrusive lets go

“Ok so he’s corrupt but he also helped provoke one of the most brutal wars our generation has ever seen and made me look good for threatening to stop supplying them with bombs, so can’t you cut him some slack?”

Yeah that was kinda my point :) A cloud controlled device from a tech giant is supposed to shit on the floor start doing ads and invade your privacy. It’s what they do. Like ponies pooping, you should expect it on purchase.

It’s a reasonable explanation.

Cesium is highly radioactive, and the sensors are very sensitive.

When Iceland had the Huefaleflefthaflafla volcano outbreak, I could smell the sulphur from my house. In Norway. More than 1500 km / 900 miles across half the atlantic ocean.

So radioactive smoke being detectable 1.5 miles away makes sense to me.

My pet pony keeps shitting on the floor.

I am very frustrated and did not expect it.

I should sell it off and buy a horse instead.

Not quite like that. There is an internal wifi that I can’t get onto, and a public “guest” wifi that half of the tech staff uses and VPNs from.

Basically the protected wifi only really works on locked-down windows machines, and those aren’t usable for most developers. It’s mostly mac and linux there, and while the protected wifi is supposed to work on those, the IT staff don’t know how.

Well, I do. But it’s because the security layers on the wifi are more strict than on the VPN to such a degree that I can’t actually connect to it from my work laptop.

It looks like a garbage trail littered with corpses. https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies

Same. And it was more a “how did they manage” than a “would they”, because of course they would.

Your phone just sounds broken, honestly. Take it to service if a power-off/on reboot doesn’t resolve it. Maybe try to clear/reinstall the mail app and see if that helps.

“Can help relieve” is a weak claim.

Squeeze weak and poor people more is the goal. I don’t believe they deserve we pass along this positive narrative of “well meaning”.

Smokescreen for the people managing the bot taking bribes.

“Without emotional senses” is rude and inaccurate.

Social pressure is just one of many factors instead of the be-all end-all factor. That doesn’t mean this person is missing emotions or emotional sense.

Hey hey hey hey don’t look at what it actually does.

Look at what it feels like it almost can do and pretend it soon will!