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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • everyone can see the AI BS right out in the open

    To me it is four things in particular:

    1. How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been demonstrated across all industries from software developers to radiologists. Most experience a 10-20% erosion in their skill set within the first 12 months of AI use, but others in the study groups have seen up to a 40% erosion in their skill sets.
    2. How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex while users are actively using AI.
    3. How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100%, as only less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and over 90% of them will never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.
    4. The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory or incorrect in some fashion, depending on the current model.

    In prior generations, any industry with such performance would be laughed clear out of the boardroom.

    But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.

    After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.








  • and round up people who’ve committed no crimes.

    So you have been completely asleep and unaware of current events!

    Because that has been happening in spades over the last 8 months.

    Like, gratuitously. Or didn’t you hear about that person who was forcibly deported to El Salvador simply for having an Autism awareness tattoo? No crime. No danger to society. A solid, upstanding immigrant deported as a “violent member of a gang” because of a tattoo.

    And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Turns out that over 94% of current deportees would never have been forcibly deported under normal conditions, because they have either no criminal record in he first place, or no convictions. After all, you cannot deport on a suspicion of criminality.

    94%. That’s one insane jump. Sure looks like “guilty until proven innocent” to me!

    Dude, you need to wake up and smell the fascism. Because it seems to me you have zero clue of just how far things have gone. Hell, when even experts in fascism have been fleeing America, that shit is happening.


  • there’s nothing the Administration could do. it’s all protected speech. they can’t jail someone for being Antifa.

    Have you been conscious and actually aware of your surroundings over the last eight months?

    Because there is a shitton of “protected” things that the current administration has been shattering with few to no consequences. Violation of due process rights, blatant kidnapping of naturalized citizens or permanent residents, military occupations of entire cities, deporting full American citizens, open corruption, de-platforming comedians, the works.

    At this point, the constitution is two incidents away from being wholly irrelevant and not worth the paper it is written upon.



  • many small or medium-sized companies “will tell you they actually can’t find workers to do the job”.

    Hahahahahahahaaa… BULLSHIT.

    There are PLENTY of workers out there, there just aren’t many willing to work for sub-poverty wages.

    If your business relies on H1B workers in order to exist, then you either have an abysmally shitty business plan, or you’re pulling too much out of the company for your own benefit.


  • Aside from the Rotary Un-Phone, there are pretty much no dumb phones anymore. Those that market themselves as dumb are just reskinned full-fat platforms.

    Even almost all flip phones are smart phones with a dumb skin, as they run either Android or KaiOS.

    The main reason why I would switch is for device security - a true dumb phone OS that operates purely out of the ROM and has no ability to install anything that could survive a reboot.

    And for something that primitive, it would be a flip phone on par with the Motorola StarTac. Simple black-on-green screen, low-res display, with a calendar and address book as the only non-phone, non-SMS functionality.