Another reason why, while AI might be a fun toy, no one who is serious about getting work done will touch it with a dirty barge pole. The gratuitous hallucinations alone ought to be a sufficient deterrent.
Works wonders in letting me sleep like a baby through my wife’s chainsaw-like snoring. Just make sure they’re inserted firmly enough and not sticking too far out or in.
Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.
The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.
Sure there is. Our problem is that the tiny ultra-wealthy cadre that benefit from capitalism is well-placed to pour trillions into defending it, and have also spent the last 75 years denigrating the only viable alternative - which has always collapsed into autocracy/authoritarianism within months to a year or three of its attempt to be established, and so has never been successfully done - such that the mere mention of its name acts as a thought-terminating cliché.
This is shameful. We should all be questioning Canada’s participation - or lack of action - in the genocide happening in Palestine. To have that kind of pro-genocide intimidation happening to anyone, much less legal scholars…
Or maybe mom responsible adult, dad irresponsible man-child?
It’s the funny anti-male gender bigotry of this century.
I don’t think great-grandpa could make a meme like this, so your characterization is probably going to be the much less likely source. And honestly, it has the same man-hating, man-as-incompetent-idiot stench as a lot of feminist propaganda.
Involuntary detention is the unnecessarily cruel answer. It’s punishing people for the crime of being traumatized, and does so by healing even more trauma onto them, making them even less capable of recovering.
Involuntary detention the answer of choice by idiots and the ignorant, and by those for whom abject cruelty is the entire point.
Utterly shocking that this came from the NDP and not any Conservative Party - this is straight up the conservative’s alley, as the NDP tend to be far more science-aware and science-accepting than this.
The FBI is probably going nuts here because someone inadvertently archived the Epstein files and everyone at HQ is panicking. They need to purge it for the Internet before someone discovers that archived content, and so they’re using CP as an excuse.
How AI use erodes skills in the subject AI is being used to assist in. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been demonstrated across all industries from software developers to radiologists. Most experience a 10-20% erosion in their skill set within the first 12 months of AI use, but others in the study groups have seen up to a 40% erosion in their skill sets.
How AI use shuts down critical thinking, and makes users more stupid. This is a 100% occurrence, and has been clearly demonstrated by MRI scans of the prefrontal cortex while users are actively using AI.
How AI use makes the user slower. This is the only user point that is not 100%, as only less than 2% of the most senior and skilled users show a slight increase in work completed… after more than 12 months of using AI. Projections have been made on the other 98%, and over 90% of them will never work faster with AI than without it, regardless of training or experience.
The gratuitous hallucinations, which are only increasing in scope and severity with every AI generation. It arises entirely from the constraints the AI are rewarded with - providing no answer is weighted just as negatively as a wrong answer - and anywhere from 60-80% of all responses are hallucinatory or incorrect in some fashion, depending on the current model.
In prior generations, any industry with such performance would be laughed clear out of the boardroom.
But because capitalism is desperately seeking a solution to what they perceive as a problem - how to obtain labour without having to pay said labour - AI is being adopted hand-over-fist.
After all, the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Both platforms have problems, and some of those problems are big ones, but Google’s actions with the Play Store makes Apple’s shenanigans look like that of a choir boy or Boy Scout:
If California, Oregon and Washington State form Cascadia, and Canada’s Alberta (our Texas/Alabama) makes a successful attempt to split from Canada to join the states, British Columbia is liable to join Cascadia. We would be too isolated from the rest of Canada if Alberta decides to cecede.
That could easily create a country that could - and should - monopolize the west coast’s access to Asia.
This looks small enough to be installed within the wheel hub itself. Imagine a car with four motors, one inside each wheel. The entire floor pan could just be one thin battery, and everything above it could be passenger and storage space.
Conditionally agree, except for the immediate effect of income taxes themselves: they are deducted straight from payroll, every time payroll happens, so they are taken on a much more frequent basis and before the paycheque is ever received by the worker.
This means that the worker does not need to allocate anything out of their paycheque towards those taxes because in most cases those taxes have already been fully paid. This dramatically lowers the cognitive load for the worker, who already has significant cognitive loads by virtue of their socioeconomic status.
So there is a downside to that method that I would seek to eliminate or dramatically smooth over so that the working class don’t have yet another brick to trip over in their lives.
This could be ameliorated by having “payroll” (and if need be, even time cards themselves) run through a CRA server that does all calculations and demands a certain amount of money from the employer such that wage theft (aside from tips and a few other things) is almost completely eliminated.
Any employer wanting to dispute when an employee clocked in needs to provide evidence that the employee lied about when they walked in. Government-provided time clocks could then accept standard-issue ID as evidence that the employee clocked in, as any normal person wouldn’t want to just give away their ID, and the employee could track everything through the CRA’s website. Even employee scheduling could be run through this, allowing the CRA to ding employers seeking to game the system for financial gain.
There are many options possible, we just need to engineer the entire system to benefit the working class and (rightly!) treat the employers as the adversarial and untrustworthy belligerents that they are. We could even engineer an entire “worker resources” division which protects the worker against employer depredations, instead of protecting the company at the expense of the worker.
Another reason why, while AI might be a fun toy, no one who is serious about getting work done will touch it with a dirty barge pole. The gratuitous hallucinations alone ought to be a sufficient deterrent.