Those studies do not refer to item volume, they refer to monetary value.

If a business can earn more by selling 5 cars worth half a million each per year, instead of trying to sell 20 or even 30 Cars under 40k to average people their entire business model will shift to cater to billionaires and multi millionaires.

The bulk of average people are becoming irrelevant to the current capitalist market, that’s the point.

Don’t fucking tone-police me. I’m not a politician idgaf about being palpable or “appealing to all sides”.

Being rude doesn’t make someone wrong and appealing to everyone doesn’t make one right either.

I want socialism, education and welfare and decent living standarda for all. I want fascists and the multimillionaire class to stop existing. That’s it, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it.

People need to be willing to accept that their votes have been supporting fascists and going against their best interests and they need to be willing to consider a different perspective for that. It’s not my responsibility to cater to those that spent their lives shitting on the very possibility of critical thinking.

Very possible yes, it’s been a awhile since I saw it.

Depressing bit of the day: I don’t have the source with me right now but there was a claim on youtube that the top 1% make up for like half of the consumer market in the USA.

Half of everything sold in dollars is done by the ultra rich. Everyone else is basically irrelevant and driven to extinction under capitalism, if that is accurate.

I’d argue it does. You can’t improve things if you don’t first identify what the root cause of the problem is.

Frankly, between blaming welfare and going for eugenics or blaming capitalism and going for socialism I’d much prefer the latter.

To be fair, Poe’s Law on the Internet has been at the peak of its power in the recent years due to AI and geopolitical events.

It doesn’t have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.

Try searching for the theory of “bullshit jobs”. It’s all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.

IMO if your “A*” style algorithm is used for chatbot or any kind of user interaction or content generation, it should still be explicitly declared.

That being said, there is some nuance here about A) use of Copyrighted material and B) Non-deterministic behaviour. Neither of which is (usually) a concern in more classical non-DL approaches to AI solutions.

Sounds like win-win really.

Yes and idfaf. Work as much as you want to. No one gets a second home before everyone has at least one. That’s my position.

If we had a fair distribution of wealth I wouldn’t care about either of these really.

Most artists care about attribution/fame somewhat but if they could live comfortably they wouldn’t care about royalties much or others using their art.

Likewise for AI, automation is an amazing thing for civilization but when it is gatekeeped and used to make the rich richer it’s just exploitation of workers everywhere since they have to work as hard as they did one century ago with, arguably, less buying power.

Allowed to live sure but I’d argue they shouldn’t be allowed to exist as billionaires.

that kind of wealth is just immoral, unreasonable by the scale of human’s lifetime, and exploitative by nature.

The majority of the world considered slavery and women being subservient normal, that didn’t make it right.

You think it’s brain dead to reject a digital ID.

I think it’s braindead to sacrifice privacy for the sake of safety, especially when it’s so transparent that the goal is control and suppression and not “protecting the children”.

To each his own.

The problem is not the ID cards that other countries have. That would be reasonable, even if one could argue NINO is sufficient.

The problem is the online/app nature if them which, in conjunction with OSA, makes it dystopian control scenario.

I’m not ignoring those upsides that you mentioned, I just didn’t mention them or wasn’t aware. I like most of them for what it matters.

But I do still consider OSA and digital IDs an authoritarian measures and I do find this to be of high enough importance to potentially overshadow all of the above.

What’s the point of living in a, arguably, more socialist state if your privacy doesn’t exist? I’m not a bloody tanky and I don’t like that angle, like many others.

His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist’s wet dreams.

Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That’s a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it’s surreal.

People reasonably feel cheated on given the party’s supposed focus.

Ofc, how didn’t I even consider ff7 in the literal post with title

Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year

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I’m not saying that technology and progress is bad nor that we should stop pursuing it.

I’m saying that progress that only benefits 1% or less of the people doesn’t interest me.

If your innovation cannot reasonably exist without economic bubbles and worker exploitation, then it doesn’t deserve to.

Even if we found the cure to cancer tomorrow but it was so expensive and restricted that maybe 1000 billionaires alone could afford it I literally wouldn’t care for it.

The cost for achieving all that is exploitation. It literally worsens the lives of many, so that few can taste the fruits of advancement. I’d rather we discovered that cure 20 years later if it meant that 99% of us had better quality of life.

The rich want the opposite and try convince you and me and everyone else that this is to the benefit of humankind because advancement happen faster with capitalism.

I have no sources on that. But even if they do, I simply don’t care about it. It doesn’t benefit me nor anyone I know.

It’s really bad yes. I’m no communist but I really think we should have had mixed economies and better tax policies to keep the rich in check. AI and other automation could have led to us working 20hrs a week on average while everything runs smooth, if used for the benefit of all.

Right now they have snowballed so much money and power and tech that I just can’t see how we can out of outside of revolts. Democracy has been corrupted almost everywhere and people are being manipulated into thinking other religions or immigrant are the problem.

There was a time we banned cloning to prevent the rich from making armies to exploit. But religion/ethics made that easy. We never considered doing the same with tech and important means of production.