They operate on the same wavelength of evil as banks do, so I guess why not?

I keep defending Musk against overblown accusations (primarily because I think the man offers more than enough proper reason for critique).

THIS, though, absolutely hits the nail on the head. He has had some good talking points in the past. He has a good sense of what morality would do the world some good (not always but often enough) but it always, always excludes himself as a subject to said morality.

Only the ability to actually replace wages has yet to emerge. It's always just around the corner... like fusion.

At some point, the CEOs clinging to the idea will get ridiculed by other CEOs.

Now CEOs being removed from reality dumb fucks they are, it could be a while... But the turning point will come unless AI starts indeed making workers actually redundant.

So far, I'm not holding my breath... The people who successfully were made redundant, in my opinion, had a pretty hard time defending the usefulness of their jobs already. It is quite possible that many of the cases in which AI made people redundant... you could argue that they could have gone ahead and scrapped the position altogether and saved the cash on AI too.

Have I said anything other than AI lets a man spread bad genes more efficiently than normal procreation?

Haven't blamed a single person.

One point of interest here... Perhaps the only one: Without artificial insemination, a man gets to spread his genes to fewer than ten offspring, usually.

200 is quite a bit of damage.

Until we're going French Revolution on the "intelligencia". It's pretty easy to build a guilloutine, you know.

Which brings me to a funny thought: The communists went after academics... and today communism is growing primarilly in academia. How the turntables, huh?

While you're probably not wrong I also hold steadfastly to my conviction to never buy VW group. Or BMW. Or MErcedes for that matter.

I had a JAC drive in front of me two days ago. Didn't know the brand. Googled it. On the website, they reiterated three or four times that 75% were owned by VW... I found it cute how they think that's something they can brag with.

To be fair though... there aren't any good car brands coming to mind. When others notice the trend back to physical buttons, Mazda, the last holdout, is now turning to touchscreens.

Too much electronics and integration in ALL of them. I'm not buying anything newer than 2015.

My phone is primarily a tool. It must be usable as a tool.

Where I live, I don't have to worry about my phone getting yoinked. As such, the greatest threat to my principles is having gApps installed. Which I do. So at that point, I'm installing LOS primarily so the user experience remains about the same across devices.

But that's my point: Someone who is all about security isn't looking for the same things as somebody who isn't. I am optimizing for workflow. You are not. Hence completely different use-cases.

You shouldn't talk for everyone.

That GrapheneOS? Was a pain in the arse for me and I went back to LineageOS in under 48 hours.

The same can be said for human reproduction and yet nobody's cheering for crack-babies.

Would make sense. Even normies are fed up with Win11.

Well, I do... But I ignore at least half of the results I get from the thing.

This just opened my eyes to just how overeducated a numbskull these people have to be to be so easily replacable by AI.

And they earn THAT much pre graduation?

America sure is a weird and silly place.

I have been using both Grok and ChatGPT relatively extensively lately and in versatile scenarios... all I can say is there is merit in using them but only to a very limited degree.

If you can put to them a task they're good at by design, hey great for you... but I find most tasks we want to give them are not that.

Hey here is a simple idea... Why not do a toll? You know something simple that they do with trucks. For what I hate about this tax is what happens when you are outside of the country?