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  • Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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  • Yeah, Trump's first presidency showed that he was a moron. He's not the dangerous part. The dangerous part are the millions that worship him. Assassination, or worse, attempted assassination, is a surefire way to make sure that ideology never dies.

  • Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network

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  • How could this be?

  • AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

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  • Totally get where you're coming from. Corporate greed seems like the boogie man behind capitalism. It's easy to understand: make line go up. But I'm afraid the dark parts of capitalism are spookier than that. They don't just want money. If that were the case they'd sell all those expensive corporate offices and let people be more productive at home.

    They want people to lord over, they want the power to surveil them. To make them do team building exercises. They call themselves a family. They take team pictures with the CEO smiling in front. People think of them as heartless machines. But machines would try and make people happy, that's when they work the best. No, they're happy to have offices full of people twiddling their thumbs, they're narcissists. Their whole incentive to climb the ladder is to be standing on someone else's head.

    Who are you king of, if there's only robots around you?

  • AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

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  • I think it's important to consider these elements and try to mitigate them as we move forward. But they'll never be completely fixed.

    If anything has the power to collapse capitalism, it's AI automation. Capitalism is all about keeping people working for the benefit of those above with the threat of not getting what you need to survive. That threat is predicated by there not being enough to go around.

    Once we're able to make an enormous surplus without the labor of the common man; the basis of capitalism begins to crumble. I fear that if we give corporations time, they'll try and make the world run on AI WITHOUT anyone losing jobs. That terrifies me more, because people will accept the status quo but lose the only power they ever had in capitalism: The combined value of their labor. A strike doesn't work so well if your whole job is pushing a button to make AI do it.

    I think the beginning of AI will be painful for the reasons we both have outlined. But I believe that's growing pains towards a better future. Giving corps time to boil the frog won't be good. Keeping the corps fighting each other to be the first by pushing this tech forward is the quickest way for them to create their own obsolescence.

  • AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law

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  • Yeah, because it's good stuff to point out and think on... But ultimately inconsequential as the previous comment points out. The world is getting AI eventually, the question is do we want to be the first ones with the keys?

    All the same arguments could have been made about the internet. Inb4 someone makes the incredibly likewarm take that the internet was a mistake. It was inevitable, if we had "pumped-the-brakes" on it we wouldn't have found some clean way to implement the internet where no one gets hurt. Someone who wasn't concerned about ethics would have got there first to set the standard.

    Actually a better analogy for AI might be the nuclear bomb. If we slow down someone else will get their first. Silicone Valley doesn't have the best track record with ethics. But call me crazy, I'd rather them figure it out before China or Russia. Because they sure as shit ain't using their brakes.

  • Physics Girl Long Covid and ME/CFS Livestream [Fundraiser + Interviews]

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  • Yeah her story is horrifying and tragic. I hope they get the help they need until she's better. If that day ever comes.

  • Physics Girl Long Covid and ME/CFS Livestream [Fundraiser + Interviews]

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  • Wouldn't wish that on anyone. I hope Diana gets better and no one ever has to deal with chronic fatigue syndrome.

  • AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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  • One of the key features of capitalism is that it keeps the masses in service. When we're working to make the CEOs rich we don't have time to rally against them. They make us complicit in the system. It's why they try and pay talent as little as possible. Sometimes the same amount as someone who slacks off all day. Because the longer it takes us to retire the longer we'll be in service to them. Once there's nothing for us to do anymore, my hope is that people will realize that the rich and powerful don't deserve to hold the keys to society. My fear is that corps will slowly transition everyone into mindless drones hitting a "Do my job, AI" button all day and nothing will change.

  • AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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  • Wholeheartedly agree! I would love for us to seamlessly transition into a society with automated surplus where people never have to worry about how they'll feed themselves. But I have a feeling that the transition will be a lot more rough than that unfortunately. And we're starting to see that now.

  • AI art steals from the poor and has no place in modern society

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  • So AI is invalidating capitalism because it's showing that people's value shouldn't be tied to what they can produce... And you're mad at that too? It's so weird to me to see people mad that AI is not allowing them to participate in capitalism when they themselves have a dislike for capitalism. Like... I understand the immediate problem is because of AI... but it's highlighting so beautifully the main problem of capitalism. Which is the real problem.

    AI is like the climate change of the economy. We all knew automation was coming and would be the death knell for capitalism. But now that it's one or the other, people are choosing capitalism because it's what they know. Even people that are still outspoken anti-capitalist! What we should be fighting for is more open sourced models and AI projects.

  • Measurements

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  • I've used Blender for years. Recently I was looking for a video editor. Somebody suggested use Blender. I thought, okay this will be funny, let's try it. Don't get me wrong Premier (best IMO) is better if you can get it for free. But damn... it was actually comparable!!

  • Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

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  • It's still ideas the group agrees with. The idea is: that we all disagree with this idea. It's subtle, until you look at the same story on CNN vs Fox. Two bubbles discussing the same issue with two VERY different emotional valences.

    To put it another way: the discussion of these ideas that are oppositional to the community, is not with the intention of seriously considering them. It's with the intention of dismissing them in a group act of catharsis. It maintains the bubble and safely dispatches an idea that threatened to burst it.

  • Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

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  • We also do it to ourselves. Everyone has someone in their life they'd rather mute. But they're forced to coexist with them. Online is so appealing because you can find communities of like minded individuals. Then forget all about those other opinions you don't like.

    You grow in this bubble as they grow in theirs. By the next time you're forced to interact, you feel so alien and unpleasant to one another it's confusing and frightening. Corporations are right there to sell you on a story about how the other side are demons destroying the world. We gobble it up.

  • Alec Baldwin’s case on track for trial in July as judge denies request to dismiss

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  • Actors are not and should not be responsible for gun safety on set. You expect a low IQ former drama kid with a coke habit who worships scientology from a country where it's not even legal to own a firearm to be responsible? When every other scene in an action film explicitly requires that they break every single one of the 4 rules of gun safety?

  • Alec Baldwin’s case on track for trial in July as judge denies request to dismiss

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  • Trusting actors who studied Shakespeare in college to be responsible for determining if a prop is actually a lethal weapon is absurd. That's why there's a trained person on set where that's literally their whole responsibility. I like Baldwin's acting. I've also heard he's shitty to his daughter. I'm not defending him as a person. I'm defending him because he's innocent of this charge. His job was to point something that resembled a gun at someone and pull the trigger. It was someone else's to ensure that would be a safe action.

  • "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

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  • The best one I've used for coding is the InelliJ AI. Idk how they trained that sucker but it's pretty good at ripping through boiler plate code and structuring new files / methods based off how your project is already setup. It still has those little hallucinations especially when you ask it to figure out more niche tasks. But It's really increased my productivity. Especially when getting a new repo setup. (I work with micro services)

  • Paris Hilton testifies to Congress on being ‘sexually abused and force-fed meds’

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  • Glad to hear that. The top comment is talking about the people that do think the rich should be killed. And those people co-existing with people that empathize with Paris Hilton on lemmy.

  • Paris Hilton testifies to Congress on being ‘sexually abused and force-fed meds’

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  • But why doesn't that apply when the guillotine is getting rolled out?

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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  • There's projects that fully replace the Google Home Mini mobo. No reason you couldn't do that with Alexa