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This guy figured out how to break a rock and get a sharp edge on it.

As someone British who lives abroad now I simply don't get why more people don't leave, especially people who have a choice and have skills. The UK at the moment is the shitty middle between low-pay and high costs of living. You can move to the US or australia and be paid more, or you can move elsewhere in the EU like Germany Holland etc and have a way better cost-of-living/wage ratio plus much b…

I think the idea is, care is needed in parts of the world where people can't afford it (due to circumstances outside of their control). Without care, the impoverished nations of the world fall even further away from the goals of health and self sufficiency, so the nations that *can* afford to help, do so in order to save lives and help the global community, rather than just hoarding all the money…

meh, at least they imprisoned the PM. in america there's a president that shits all over the emoluments clause from day one and nothing is done.

Turns out the globalism smart Republicans helped implement was what exactly would hurt us the most when the new Republican party took over. Grade A irony right there

Help what? Fight is lost. Look at how we responded globaly to the past devestating reports. Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye!

I mean the word robot comes from Czech for slave so... Edit: apparently more accurately it comes from forced labor you owed to your feudal lord as a peasant so even more on the nose if not as concise.

Same thing as many countries claiming they went ‘green’ but sends all of their non recyclable plastic waste to Asia

Fun fact. There is an entire specialty in software for automation. It's called QA automation or SDET usually. It's what I do. I get paid the rate of 1.4 or so testers, but get the work load of 3 or 4.

Oh...it will get worse. Covid showed us that even in the middle of a pandemic we can't come together as human beings. Also, climate change went past the point of no return so we are doomed either way. We are about 30 years away from the collapse of the society as we know it, if it doesn't happen before. Just enjoy the present.

as someone who attends therapy, I don't know how I would feel about this. I somehow always long to have someone to talk to about problems. I feel like talking to an AI would diminish that fact and it would be the same as journaling or something. It wouldn't be as "real".

What annoys me are the armchair experts that go around with a 5 minute google, read some primer on neural networks written from 7 years ago, and think they know how these new chatbots work. "Oh it doesn't have feelings, it's simply completing sentences!!!" In the past several months, the new chatbots are qualitatively more advanced than what existed before. They crossed a line that was never cro…

AI has the potential to just gut entire industries, massive amounts of labour just suddenly redundant, practically overnight. Probably more jobs than we can reasonably replace too. That's not a transition I think many modern governments have the will or competence to reasonably manage, so it'll be a complete shitshow.

Some guy earlier this year was sentenced to prison for using AI to produce nudes of girls he knew in high school, using their under aged photos to seed the AI, technically making CP. [Found the article.](https://abc7ny.com/patrick-carey-deepfake-sentencing-man-charged/13149957/)

It just tells you that while we are getting very advanced with AI, they still can’t understand a deeper context why something is the way it is. The thing is with Gemini, google put a “safeguard”, but it just gave them an unexpected outcome. That being said, something like this shouldn’t have slipped QA. Put it simply, being racist towards white has a more “acceptable” outcome compared to when …

I think where it gets really tricky is when you have AI models not necessarily cloned from a VA's voice, but where the VA could have been the alternative. Like Troy Baker doesn't have _an_ iconic voice. His value is that he can do _tons_ of iconic voices tailored to what the licensors want. AI is more of a threat in that context. Not the, "I want it to sound like Troy Baker," context but in the,…

This. Even if AI was capable of making amazing books, music, movies or games, the speed it can pump out content will just completely over saturate the market and make it extremely difficult for anyone to stand out. The same way it was easier to become a youtuber or streamer 10 years ago compared to today except with AI it will be thousands of times worse.

>I'm starting to be all for replacing all CEOs with AI, actually. CEOs are probably the best roles for AI replacement, spouting nonsense buzzword drivel is basically what the chatbots are great at.

Kinda ironic that our sense of self is a hallucination. It makes us believe that we have a fixed self and a central "I", and may re-inforce that belief linguistically (e.g. through inner narrator). Similar to what AI does when it claims it has a self.

Current AI systems [do not “think” or “reason”](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191), it is merely the appearance of reasoning. There’s pretty good academic work demonstrating this, like the article I linked. We’re definitely in the upswing of a hype cycle but who knows what’s coming. People may find ways to generate real revenue using LLMs, or AI companies may come up with a new approach.