Why tho?

Fair question and it’s telling that your post has downvotes but no one willing to put forward a counter point.

I’m out of the loop.

Didn’t the embargo start because Cuba were allowing Russian military bases with nukes? Presumably they’re not doing that anymore so why still an embargo?

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If you say so

The mob is fickle, brother.

The hive mind has concluded AI=bad and any comment that doesn’t go along with the consensus is going to get downvotes.

It’s really not that different from the beginning of the industrial revolution, when cotton mills first started to implement the spinning jenny, leaving many workers out of a job who’d go in to the factories at night to smash the machines up.

No one wants to go back to spinning cotton all day now though and it will be the same with jobs taken by AI.

Well your comment sounded like you were implying that regulations are needed that currently aren’t there.

Right. We survived the ice age with stone age tech.

Not saying that this makes any of this OK but resilience is absolutely one of humanities highest spec traits.

Imagine getting downvoted because it was fine for you. Completely stupid.

It was fine for me as well, bring on the downvotes!

Hard disagree. I think we’re born stupid, that’s very different.

Honestly, your comment sounds a lot like the “original sin” shit that the Christian church tries to push.

I used to be against losing the headphone jack, but now I’m without one, I honestly don’t miss it.

No more wires getting caught, tangled or damaged and the sound quality is just as good unless you’re an audio engineer.

You make a very good point.

However, some people would say despite the great suffering that some of us go through that ultimately, nothing matters. No matter the triumphs of humanity, a meteor could wipe it all out tomorrow and there would be but a trace that we ever even existed.

Your point also implies that we have freewill, whereas others would suggest that we only have what appears to be freewill. Whether you help those in need or you don’t, your path is set.

This is the most pedantic reply so far.

Is the insinuation here that the AI industry is unregulated? Because I’m not against regulations that would drive these improvements.

I think it’s exactly what I’m thinking about, unless I’m missing something specific that you’d like to put forward?

If I own a bottled drinks company and the energy cost is 10p a bottle but a new, more efficient process is invented that would lower my energy cost to 5p a bottle, that’s going to be looking like a wise investment to make. A few pence over several thousand products adds up pretty quickly.

I could either pocket the difference as extra profit, lower my unit price to the consumer to make my product more competitive in the market, or a bit of both.

I think it’s fair to say that pretty much every industry is more efficient and cleaner than it used to be and I don’t see why AI would be an exception to that.

I don’t understand the hate for AI. It’s a new technology that has some teething issues, but it’s only going to get better and more efficient.

The worlds a magical place when things just work and stuff just happens. Never study engineering lol.

If it makes you feel any better, on a universal scale we’re as insignificant as bugs and I’m sure quite nearly as ignorant.

In the late 1800’s someone said that we nearly know all that there is to know, look at what’s happened since and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if knowledge continued to increase a such a rate.

The first thought that comes to my mind is that the people in Twitter are just going to migrate to another social network. It won’t be problem solved, it’ll be problem moved.

The second thought I have is the amount of hate and comments full of misinformation on sites like Facebook. Should we ban Facebook too? And if so, where does it stop and who is it that gets to decide that a site is getting banned for “wrong think”.

Personally, I believe this isn’t so much a petition against X, but a petition against Musk, who I think wouldn’t be absolutely gutted even if X went out of business. I think he bought it with the aim of derailing anyway.