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Comment From what I understand (Score 1) 25

When you are running the custom UI it shuts down the main Windows environment freeing up a bunch of resources notably 2 gigabytes of RAM.

But you can shut down the custom UI and go back to regular windows and it will load the rest of Windows

It's going to be way more than I want to spend on a device, probably somewhere in the ballpark of a $1,000 USD. But it would be nice to get the software and be able to turn off some of the Microsoft AI bullshit that they want to use to spy on me and train their eyes with my computer.

Comment The uses aren't niche (Score 1) 28

There is pretty good evidence that llms are drastically increasing productivity. Hell if you contact chatbot customer support and they can't figure out your solution they don't give you to a person anymore they give you to a more advanced chatbot.

Again you have to start thinking in nuanced terms or you're going to get blindsided.

Llms are likely to increase productivity substantially, realistic estimate so far are around 20 to 30%.

You should be expecting layoffs equal to that. Probably a bit bigger as companies like this one push it a little too far.

If we still had antitrust law enforcement those layoffs would result in lots and lots of competitors and companies couldn't risk them.

But with half of voters obsessed with woke and trans moral panics freaking out over 14 girls playing field hockey in the Midwest and the possibility that they might get drunk and drop some n bombs in public...

Well at that point all you have to do for the super rich to screw us all over is a little bit of voter suppression and they can do pretty much anything they want to you and you have to suck it down.

If for some reason you have figured out what a moral panic is and you're not falling for it anymore your neighbors haven't.

Comment God are you about to? (Score 1) 40

I hope so. Anyway do you have any idea why a bot is following me around? I mean you're probably a bot to there aren't a lot of people left on this forum but still...

At the very least I hope you're getting paid for this. Because God it would be so sad and pathetic if you did this for free... On this dying web forum to waste that much energy. Hell whoever wrote the bot I feel sad for that was a lot of time and effort to spend on a dumbass like me.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 109

but they're generalist eaters. No creature relies on mosquitoes solely; they eat other insects like flies. Also as someone below pointed out, there are many species of mosquitoes; these kinds of solutions target only the species that carry disease.

You're jumping to the answer that is "No" The question was should we eradicate the mosquito, not should we target disease carrying subspecies in a particular area. The fact that only the latter makes sense objectively means the former is a bad idea.

But you're also missing the point. Just because something doesn't eat one thing exclusively doesn't mean that they can live without it. We're not talking about supplementing the mosquito, we're talking about removing a chunk of the food chain. You can see the impact of that in humans who lost their shit about the price of eggs thanks to supply chain issues in the USA.

Comment Re:Foolishness. (Score 1) 55

You give a calculator to a child who is just learning math because they'll only ever learn to punch in numbers to a magic answer machine.

We give calculators to kids and then test them on their ability to use it. A calculator is a tool, just like AI is. I think you're missing an important point here. Students can very quickly learn that AI will give them the wrong information and in doing so will learn a real world lesson that definitely will apply after they graduate.

Comment Re:Looks like a theorerical result (Score 0) 36

Indeed. It will convince the same morons that think AI is sentient, we will be going to Mars next year but vaccines do not work. There was no better time in history to learn about the limitations of the average person than now. Lack of educaton or access to information is not a factro anymore. It is all 100% genuine stupid.

Comment Re:The public does not really like AI (Score 4, Insightful) 28

I don't think it matters what the public likes or dislikes. There is so much market consolidation anymore that the public just has to suck it down. We would need drastic changes to our government and our voting to make any difference in that.

Most likely the technology didn't work and he's back peddling because of it.

What he was probably trying to do was a pump and dump with investors. Right now there is a bunch of Rich assholes buying up companies firing everyone and saying they're all replaced with AI and then getting a fuck ton of money coming in from investors.

Don't get me wrong this is the problem with America we have absolutely no concept of nuance. Either every job gets replaced with AI or no job gets replaced with ai.

So when everything is washed out we are probably going to have around 20 to 30% of the jobs permanently gone and we are probably going to have people forced to work 80 hours a week to make up the difference and a huge amount of permanent technological and social unemployment

But it's not going to happen all at once to everyone and everything so people can't comprehend it. Everything has to be like a light switch. Either on or off but no gradation for them to understand it and the impact.

It's more like boiling a frog. Only the frog is smart enough to jump out.

Comment You're responding to a bot (Score 0) 40

This is a bot that takes bits and pieces of my comments and strings them together to form weird comments for the purpose of trolling and mod bait.

The reason everything is a non sequitur is because this is a shitty LLM trained on my comments. It is kind of hilarious to see you somebody putting this much effort into my dumb little slashdot comments though.

Anyway the original context is that my kid really does need to go to grad school and would be a very useful member of society if they did but the overall cost is going to be somewhere in the ballpark of 350,000

With Donald Trump destroying the department of education the loans that would even make that vaguely possible or likely to be shut down so that money can be redirected into tax cuts for billionaires.

I don't think he's going to do it quite yet, it'll be after the midterms when the Republicans are still in control of the House of Representatives and a senate using voter suppression.

But with the collapsing economy there's no way my kid is going to get in and out of grad school by then.

So society loses a extremely useful worker who would be wildly productive and my kid doesn't get to advance their education and join the solidly middle class

But at least Elon musk has a shot at being the first trillionaire...

Anyway that is the context of the bot you are replying to.

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