HobbitFoot

I’m not expecting it to get better for the middle class. However, Texas has enough resource extraction and high value manufacturing where the state probably could weather independence.

Probably, likely starting as a prison sentence.

I can see Texas being relatively well off. Quality of life for the poor is going to drop, but the state has a relatively diversified economy.

Given that some Danish savings accounts had negative interest for a while, I’d believe it.

I didn’t say AI, I said LLM.

A combination of personal vetting via analyzing output and the vetting of others. For instance, the Pentium calculation error was in the news. Otherwise, calculation by computer processor is understood and the technology is acceptable to be used for cases involving human lives.

In contrast, there are several documented cases where LLM’s have been incorrect in the news to a point where I don’t need personal vetting. No one is anywhere close to stating that LLM’s can be used in cases involving human lives.

Yeah, I figure this isn’t going to be an American only problem.

How are other countries different?

How are other countries handling it? I can’t imagine AI being an American only education issue.

If you want to compare a calculator to an LLM, you could at least reasonably expect the calculator result to be accurate.

Meta is paying to make its bots, Reddit gets it for free!

Employees like this usually cost the company at least double their salary in support and benefits, so you’re probably talking about half that at most.

Along with that, there is probably a lot of R&D expenses as well.

Finally, Meta seems to be subsidizing the consumer hardware, so that’s probably hurting the bottom line even more.

The development of standards doesn’t have to be seen as capitalist, though. There are benefits for non-capitalist economies to define standards as a way to achieve interoperability across different devices. For instance, I don’t see why a communist country wouldn’t standardize a power plug.

But you’re going to get a lot of people who don’t want to be around Glassholes as all AR includes a camera.

You can?

S**t!

You aren’t supposed to make the President look bad. That is illegal.

Trump was relatively ineffective on his first term because he didn’t know how to be effective and didn’t choose to ignore the courts.

Trying to put myself in the shoes of a Trump supporter who isn’t an idiot, they probably thought the damage Trump could do for a second term would be as limited as it was for the first term while still keeping a governmental status quo.

Trump did state he was going to raise tarrifs. The problem is that a lot of voters thought he was going to govern like he did in the first term.

Mexico will let you become a permanent resident if you can show that you have about $300,000 in savings or investments. Because of that, there are retirement communities being built in Mexico for American retirees.

It isn’t that much different moving to the Yucatan than it is moving to Florida except the cost.

I had a grandparent commit suicide due to being broke.

They were in relatively good health and had family nearby that could take care of them. However, it meant living at a lower quality of life, including withdrawing from some organizations because they couldn’t pay their dues any more. Their partner had also passed a few years prior, so it wasn’t like they were living for their spouse.

They probably could have lived for several years if they chose to and had the resources to do so. However, they chose that the reduction in quality of life wasn’t with it.