Also it doesn’t really matter how big your economy is, it’s like a first mover incentive. So small countries who were relying on aid via USAID and various other soft power schemes that DOGE cut have a huge incentive now to be the first to create the tools and markets.

Yeah. Basically OpenAI and the like have been convinced that the more GPU you add the better AI will be. They don’t factor in diminishing returns. Which means all these companies are spending a fraction of a trillion dollars on GPU and data warehouses. The level of expenditure and debt they have taken on means that when (if) they turn a profit by 2030ish they need to be making back trillions to pay back all the debt and become as profitable as they are valued.

The only way to do that is Agentic AI and replacing most of the workforce. This is a pipe dream, at least for now when “AI” is just different iterations of LLMs. Maybe it will happen in the future, but there is no way to tell if it really will need all these GPUs for it to happen.

Its a stupid way to get more money. It will turn people off of AI when the long term plan is to make trillions of dollars with Agentic AI. Its like being a Wallstreet broker earning 10M a year and working at Trader Joe’s on the weekends for supplemental income.

Seriously, if they have to resort to ad revenue then no one is getting those billions and billions invested back. I am not even sure ad revenue would cover the cost of delivering the prompt response.

I don’t understand why you caught so many downvotes. We probably only *need * to work a few hours a week on average to survive with current technology. The rest is just bonus… And all that bonus is going to the 1%.

A lot of the work doesn’t need doing.

I remember an anthropology class where they were talking about early hominids who found these nut trees that produced huge caloricly dense nuts. They went from every day being a gamble trying to hunt or forage enough food to break even to all the sudden having a stable calorie surplus. One individual could gather 20k calories easy, this allowed others to not work. While some slacked off some took up past times and invention and they started inventing the tools that would eventually lead to them becoming human.

There is no reason that this doesn’t hold true today. Take everything you need, food, reasonable shelter, phone, meds, etc and you come way, way below the amount you produced if you compared it to calories. We went from gathering the nuts to, farming to at least 3 periods of Industrialization and at each stage we easily 10x that amount of calories the average person produces. To the point today we could probably survive with half the people working like 12 hours a week.

My point being that I believe UBI should be done, as the surplus that we produce is more than enough to cover it. I believe that if UBI were to happen we would see a new human renaissance bigger even than the Paleolithic or Neolithic Revolutions.

It’s really not, it’s about greed and capitalism. People aren’t grinding just for the sake of grinding.

Well it also doesn’t need to work on everybody. Does a net need to catch ever fish in the sea for a fisherman to make a living? Obviously some people can be and are immune to it.

Advertising doesn’t work on me because I hate shopping, so I have my wife spend the discretionary income. I am sure it works on her though.

LinkedIn perverts could write long screeds about AI…

Lmao

We save gift bags. Some have been passed around over a decade at this point.

I just hate the consumerism of it all. Gift giving shouldn’t be or feel to be obligatory, it should just be something extra and unexpected.

What’s ZRAM?

I am honestly not sure if that’s a bad thing aside from the capitalism of it all. Almost all tasks normal people do could be done with a 10 year old computer running Linux.

I will find it hilarious if this RAM pricing issue causes people to move to Linux rather than have slow ass Windows 11.

Cameras are typically angled down and have a little rain hood.

I am wondering if a super soaker with very salty water would work. It should heavily obscure the lens when dried and if someone doesn’t clean it properly it will scratch it to hell.

100% agree.

You mention Boston, so I will share my experience with New England. There are “farmers markets” advertised everywhere, but 90% its just a free way for people to setup stands for candles, honey and overpriced crafts. The few people who bring produce to the market often realize that there is no real demand so they can sell 500% marked up veggies to upper class wives that don’t actually do any manual shopping and know what prices should be. Not to mention the difference between quality.

Same, but it’s just because I don’t comment or post as I don’t speak Mandarin, so the majority of the people wouldn’t even know what I am saying. What’s the point you know?

I have found a bunch of really cool recipes, man they love their eggs…

No, it’s not even like Tiktok at all. The vast majority of the content is in Mandarin and if you aren’t Chinese your not going to know the asinine culture rules and get banned for something you thought was silly, but they take very seriously.

The distinction is key. Honeybees are one of the biggest reason other Bees and native pollinators are going extinct. Honey bees are voracious foragers and will out compete almost all other pollinators.

There are anti honey bee non profits with missions between eradicating honey bee nests they find to just relocating them to places where they can be used for monocrops.

If the extreme native pollinator crowd got their way we would all be fucked as honey bees currently account for 75% of ag pollination, with the remainder mostly being self pollinated plants.

Doesn’t DuckDuckGo offer a subscription service that monitors/blocks those requests?