cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66275521

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[–] 120 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Ah yes the famous carless days of 1969 where we built paved streets for children to play in that then somehow got taken over by that damn newfangled invention. And right after we destroyed all those black neighborhoods for highways! The one for the kids to play up high on!

Edit: point being, like cars, AI can fuck itself. We never should’ve built cities and fucked the country for cars and we shouldn’t fuck up the country more for AI.

Double edit: didn’t even notice the community this was posted in lol probably didn’t need to add that edit in then but whatever.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    we shouldn’t fuck up the country more for AI.

    or environment, or water supply, or power supply, or children's privacy, or people's brains, or economy...

    I still have yet to see anything from these fucks that justifies the cost in computer hardware either.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "If you're not first, you're last" -Ricky Bobby

    And that's the entire philosophy of AI investment. This is surely the next industrial revolution, so we need to be first so we win. Cause that's how you win capitalism.

    Never mind that the entire industry is facing the dead-end where all of the data of humanity has already been hoovered up and we're still not at that damn singularity, and we kind of have no plan on where to go from here. All of that is pointless details. Someone's going to figure it out, and if we spend the most money it'll surely be us.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think we should ban cars from using the streets so the kids have somewhere safe to play.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Translation: The wealthy aren't trying to improve the world. They are aware they're actively making the world a worse place for you.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Also translation: "I pivoted my entire business model towards AI, when nobody wants to use it now, I'm totally screwed."

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Whelp, when the stonk tanks to "affordable" for their failures, and they dump the AI clowns, I'll grab a bunch of it like it's the $5 PS2 games bin in 2010, and maybe I'll get a nice windfall when they start making GPUs for the people again. :D

    ...A man can dream.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    By that he mean his kid doesn't play in the filthy street like the rest of us peasant. Kid still play in the street here.

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  • Man who gains from AI peddles AI inevitability. More at 11.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago

    "The world is getting worse. Accept the loss." is a hot take for someone who is actively pushing the cause of this worsening and profitting off it.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago

    So he wants kids to “use ai” rather than play with their friends?

    Poor kids

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So it’s fine to ruin childhood?

    That’s a bad analogy

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    That's one thing that's been striking about the executive AI cheerleading, they keep coming up with simply the worst scenarios thinking they are describing something good.

    It's like they are all out of touch sociopaths that can't understand normal human experience or something...

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    Guy who sell shovels tells everyone they should be digging for gold.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    He should go back to playing in the street. Preferably an interstate.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hey, we made a machine that does the thinking, you can stop thinking now, let the machine do all the thinking for you. Btw, you should absolutely mix bleach with pipe cleaner, you certainty won't regret mixing bleach with pipe cleaner.

    PS. That is a joke, never mix bleach with pipe cleaner.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    I used to think on my own, obviously we can't do that anymore either.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is he suggesting he played on an empty highway?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    AI, this century's Radium cure.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I just crossposted this and then found out someone already did, it's a quote that's like pottery

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    AI should replace all these rich assholes first. It will learn how to do everything else first instead. I guarantee it. Those bastards will outlive us all.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Pffft! What does Jensen Huang know.. I routinely still run in traffic with scissors.

    Flyweight.

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    AI has made the internet so much worse. All the fucking AI generated websites.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I played in the streets, with the cars which were plentiful, and simply learned to not be a complete idiot and get killed. I am but a man, and these CEOs with their sunk costs cannot sway me. End this digital snake oil trend, reclaim the assets, and jail the perpetrators; then we'll all get back to playing in the streets like normal folk.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    or you could, you know, make the streets once again safe for kids to play on? perhaps by rolling back some of this car centric shit?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I am definitely for this too, walkable streets build community. I wanna say one step at a time, but really would can do both of these things at once with the right political will and politicians that actually serve the public rather than themselves and their private sector pals.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Someone let that poor broken man play in the streets

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Society has a choice. I worry that people's general meekness might make them bend the knee once again, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It has no choice to change because shitfucks like you run our governments

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