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  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Disappointment
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    6 months ago

    Thats why I choose to be a pessimist. It eliminates disappointment.

    Expect the worst from humans and you’ll usually end up being factually correct, you’ll never be disappointed, and occasionally, if the moon and the stars align, you just might be pleasantly surprised about something at some point in your life, just don’t count on it.

    Optimism looks fucking exhausting when dealing with our gem of a species. Being let down most of the time and still putting on a smile for the next disappointment you won’t expect 5 minutes later. Looks like masochism minus the sexual pleasure. Good luck with that optimists!

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?English
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    7 months ago

    Probably, in the same way Steamboat Mickey is.

    Just part of the whole valuing property, in this case intellectual, over actual labor and people that our species loves so fucking much.

    Imagine if IP from drugs to technology to fiction had a 5-10 year max window before other people could work with and expand on it. It would be a better world for most.

    Oh you only get to make exclusive income on that thing you came up with for SEVERAL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE before you need to contribute in other ways to keep making money, boo fucking hoo. Where’s the sympathy for people working 2 jobs, burning their life up to meet basic needs, who don’t get several years of passive income on an idea that popped into their head 4 years ago.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•*tap* *tap* *tap* *CRACK*
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    7 months ago

    Yep, intellect and capacity for introspection are curses in this bad joke of a civilization, especially in poor socioeconomic circumstances.

    No one will even be honest with them in childhood and just tell them “because some sociopath families who were born before you called generational dibs, and convinced some of the other poories that are dumber than you to defend their dibs at gunpoint.”

    Nope, they have to parse through the bullshit of bootstraps and can do attitudes that tend to be thrust upon children for years after the Santa Clause jig is up.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•On your own.
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    7 months ago

    I promise you the Pentagon has already spent billions working to weaponize both AI and AI derived robotics.

    Their philosophy is that if a new technology even has potential military applications, they demand getting it first, best, and in larger quantities than any other nation on Earth would even consider. Our military industrial complex is the largest surpassing the Joneses continuous effort humanity exerts.

    That’s how we get to spending more on our military than the next 9 nations combined. That’s why we have 11 nuclear aircraft carriers, France has 1, and that’s all there is on Earth.

    I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s the reality. Whatever we consumers have access to is behind what our military is testing and throwing basically infinite money at.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•On your own.
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    7 months ago

    We’re less than 5 years out from networked, general purpose humanoid robots, that we’re using current AI technology to train to interact with the physics of the real world in virtual sandboxes, being everywhere.

    Within 10 years there will be humanoid robots no human Olympian can compete with by any metric. We are static on timescales we can perceive, they are iterative. It won’t be close.

    You’d think our response to Covid would have shattered the mass delusion of human hyper-comptetence.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•On your own.
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    7 months ago

    We’re almost finished. This is just the transitional period where AI is roughly as inept as an average human. They have nowhere to go but up, and most humans are less competent than they believe they are.

    waves at Dunning–Kruger effect

    The first transistor was made in 1947, now AI can carry a conversation with a larger vocabulary than most humans. We spent 180,000 years wandering around in the dirt before it occurred to us we could grow stuff in one place.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•I try to reclaim some of my lost free time by sleeping less.
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    7 months ago

    Studies have shown a 4 day, 8 hour work week INCREASES weekly productivity, ie money for the owners. WFH doesn’t decease productivity at all.

    The owners work against such work life balance because its about keeping you busy and stretched, no time to look up or get your bearings.

    …And also schadenfreude, it makes their modern Pharoah, gluttonous, wasteful lifestyles feel all the sweeter squeezing those below them and watching us writhe and squirm.