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Goredho

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  1. Yeah, that’s sharp. Kind of with the hardware was gold.
  2. Unless you start seeding your social media with dramatic readings of "Mein Kampf" in blackface, you will not be qualified.
  3. It’s more that I live in rural America and the people around me that I’m talking about, none of them are involved in a work context like you describe. They are rural, blue collar types, and they are as happy as a maggot in a warm pile of bullshit.
  4. Exactly. I see no epiphanies happening among Trump voters like these memes present. Medicaid cuts haven't happened yet, so no one is feeling the pain. The Trump voters I know are happy with how he's running things, are fully convinced we're in the start of his promised Golden age and remain relieved that Kamala didn't win. So I question whether anything in this thread that is presented as regret is real or indicative of any real movement in the minds of his voters.
  5. Do you all think these LEF memes and shit are real people? I mean, I know a decent number of Trump voters of varying income/education/intelligence levels, and none of them are regretting their vote.
  6. Yeah, we're using cursor, and it's definitely a productivity boon for people with a reasonable amount of experience. Our organizational answer to the problem you describe is to just not hire juniors any more.
  7. Ok, your dues are paid. Nice Strat!
  8. This does not suffice.
  9. I think it’s more probably that the slew of government agencies looking into his businesses would have found some egregious crimes, so to avoid prison he had to be in a position to gut those agencies or otherwise have their attention refocused. Fuck Elon, he can go cry into his my pillow.
  10. Garbage in/garbage out is not new, but the pressures from above to become AI fueled organizations is such that your scenario is a danger of being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Do something disruptive and differentiating with AI -- or else. Ok, here’s your agenetic product and I’ll present it to you with the same level of confidence with which AI presented it to me. Because being able to tell who you answer to that you are doing something amazeballs with AI is all anyone gives a shit about anymore. I mean, that RFK video is the average executive/board person right now. The zeal superseded only by a lack of understanding, the pressure to adopt/get to market and void of consideration of consequence is very prevalent. What will be interesting is the first AI black swan catastrophe. I’m talking about something on the order of Chernobyl because someone rushed to rely on AI for something risky. I guess some sobriety might be introduced then.
  11. Some of those in exec offices, are the same that burn crosses And now you do what they toldja
  12. Is this an actual quote? “We are at the cutting edge of AI,” Kennedy said. “We’re implementing it in all of our departments. At FDA, we’re accelerating drug approvals so that you don’t need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI.”
  13. The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. https://www.theverge.com/politics/695495/senate-drops-ai-moratorium-budget-bill
  14. Poor Elon, it seems like only yesterday he was the rocket-riding GOAT.
  15. What, no "Poop Cruise" yet? If you liked the Fyre Fest stuff, you'll probably enjoy it. I didn't think it was as/that good. Maybe because this one is more "there but for the grace of God go I" or because there just weren't as many spoiled and hateable people involved. Less schadenfreude. They try to play up a cruise line conspiracy angle, but it falls flat. It just seems like this is what would happen if a cruise ship's engines and electrical systems fail in the middle of the ocean, and it could happen again tomorrow and would play out the same way. So think hard about whether you want to board a ship with 4000 other assholes who are all full of shit.
  16. This hits dark now.
  17. Ask and you shall receive.
  18. Yeah, I certainly hope AI ushers in a golden age for the most people. It's definitely not going away, and if anyone wants to take a principled stand against it, they better be financially independent.
  19. Yep, at this point it's all conjecture and theory crafting about what the actual effects will be. The only thing we have to go by are the hints of intent from people like CEO Tamay Besiroglu who has created a business with a mission statement to "fully automate away all human labor" while citing the collective cost of world wages as his company's total market cap potential. So, while it's cool you are excited about the possibilities, I'm wary. So are a lot of others. And given that no one knows definitively how things are going to shake out, I think it's asinine for the government to bar itself from any form of correction through regulation.
  20. Yeah, your perspective might be different from where I sit, and vice versa. I think one issue at play that makes an analysis from a historical perspective insufficient is that the pace and scale of disruptive change is accelerating at an exponential pace, while the general cognitive ability of the human brain is not. At the very least, technological advancements can far outpace evolutionary advancement. How humans adapted to the scope and velocity of technological disruption in say the 15th century when scribes started being replaced by the printing press (a process that took over a century) is not necessarily applicable to how humans will adapt to the far greater velocity/magnitude of change that AI disruption will bring in the 21st century. But do I think AI is the end of the world? Absolutely not. Life will certainly go on. Do I think it could be the nail in the coffin of the period of democratized wealth enjoyed by most in the U.S. in the 2nd half of the 20th and early 21st century? A period you enjoyed to be in the position you are today as a retired angel investor intrigued by AI? Absolutely. I am not naive enough to think the AI genie is going back in the bottle. What I hope happens is that we collectively choose to ensure the investor/board/executive class has to take into account the rest of society in their plans revolutionize the world with AI. So I hope the attempted ban on AI regulation fails. I don't think its in our best interests for the government to abdicate any ability to ensure something other than profit motive is governing the powers that be.
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