https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOrville/comments/b65nct/porn_addiction_cigarettes_can_drive_a_moclan_to/

Sigh sorry for the reddit link but the only place I can find the video

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This honestly shouldn’t be surprising. Tech is often untrusted at first.

This caused the dot com bust and likely will fuel the AI bubble. New cool tech comes out and actually does cool stuff, people hate it, distrust it, don’t want to use it, meanwhile others think it’s the wave of the future and throw all their money at it.

And there’s one big problem with that, the last thing specifically… they throw their money at something new before a market is ready to trust and adopt it, and they do so in an unsustainable way. Unsustainable investments cause bubbles. This is money that can’t keep getting pumped into the tech, money that a lot of startups depend on.

People didn’t think you’d ever spend money on weird websites, trust credit cards to be entered online. So many groundbreaking ideas busted in the dot com bubble because they came too soon, not because they were bad ideas. WebVan was online groceries! Groundbreaking idea that was literally 30 years ahead of its time, and now they failed, but who does what they tried to do? Amazon, yes the little online marketplace for books Amazon, the quaint little site where you can buy books over http.

The market needed credit card safety measures, needed PayPal, stripe, fraud detection and management, needed new technologies to build consumer trust. Eventually, we started using the internet to buy shit and it worked out.

Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit. Same phenomenon really. It’ll take a while before the market adopts the tech and consumers trust it. Eventually they will, but not yet.

As someone who has never farmed, I don’t understand why people think they’ll retire through farming, arguably one of the most back breaking jobs with least pay to produce stuff that costs the least out of anything… And is due to become more and more difficult as climate change gets complex.

This is not the type of manual labor you want to learn how to do and invest in as you’re older?

But yeah maybe managing some chickens and an herb farm, whatever that’s not a big deal. I just would expect to only be supplementing what groceries you buy as a hobby, not homesteading. Don’t get fucking acres of farmland that you won’t know how to use… Grow some rosemary and thyme, maybe potatoes. Fuck even one fruit tree is a lot of work. Try that out first. Potatoes! Try stuff you can do with a balcony first. Maybe a goat if you’re really wild.

But these are hobbies, not retirement income.

these are billionaires surrounded by yes men. Idiots like Elon Musk used to have smart PR but then their ego and narcissism took over and they built some weird cult of personality where if you disobey you lose your source of income, so they’re surrounded by followers.

I’ve been relatively close to a techie who became a CEO and it corrupts them. They think that shit lasts forever and start acting like how they think heartless money worshipping CEOs should act.

People like Zuck don’t realize that luck is half of what made them that big, that it’s not genius level business maneuvers. They were just lucky entrepreneurs. When they put money where their mouth is, you get the Metaverse, the cyber truck, stupid shit driven by ego.

Now that Facebook elders are dying off, they get “AI layoffs” which arent actually ai related, and courts that are no longer in favor of them.

Chatgpt, how can I create the grandest pizza morale boosting party without spending money?

Is there an advanced white paper that describes the baby fur to Nazi fur pipeline in relation to Elon Musk?

Also stretching. Or yoga, but stretching is easy.

Literally the thing that is best for all this shit is just stretching your muscles. I stretch every night before I sleep and I’m over 40, not feeling weird back pain that late 20 years olds complain about.

People act like you hit a certain age and your whole body starts to ache and you sleep worse. No, that’s the sum of bad choices. Shit, I made bad choices but then I made good ones and now I’m fine.

Work means surviving. You either have the energy for it or you’re fucked.

“Training” can be a fancy way of saying you are very focused on one aspect of athleticism for your health, and you’ll discover that you have more energy for other things if you maintain your health and exercise. At first you feel like you don’t have the energy for it, then you do it, then you have the energy for that and more.

Also many sleep way better after getting healthier, so it builds upon itself even more. Some people struggle with sleep apnea and shit like that, and one reason is the tongue holds a lot of fat. Lose weight and you sleep better. Sleep better and it’s easier to lose weight and have energy to do other stuff. It’s the opposite of a downward spiral.

Are you not using AI at all? I still think this is a bubble about to burst, but also, they each do have actual groundbreaking products. Doesn’t mean I believe Altman or OpenAI will necessarily be around in 15 years, but in my opinion they’re more of a WebVan than they are anything.

They are conning people by selling the lie that they are replacing the working class, that I agree with. But they still have something that will stick around, even if it ends up being less loud in our lives. The bubble will burst, but it won’t disappear.

I did the exact same after. Love that service.

No hidden fees… Because if you try to charge past that limit I set, it gets denied lol

Some of them not so easily, no. I had a subscription where I had to call and get forwarded twice over an hour to get someone who kept asking what they had to do to keep my service, dropping fees and halving my monthly rate for 6 months, etc. They make it really hard to cancel.

Honestly it’s fucking evil. I had cards expire and thought, awesome, finally done with those subscriptions! Then I noticed I was still getting charged for them on my brand new card.

We’ve let them take our money, manage it for us, and now they’re turning around and saying “don’t worry, you’ll still get everything you need … Just turn over your finances and decisions to us”.

Fuck this

We know this, but they’re gambling on current children to be raised in this world and not know any different.

Teach them different.

They want to close the loop and get the human out of it

I used to think that but I’m also noticing a pattern where it is just a waste of time and energy.

AI generates the big wordy email that sounds super formal. Someone else uses AI to summarize that email.

It’s like a dumb idea is decompressed and recompressed immediately and unnecessarily. We should never be using AI to do shit like write blogs or lots of words. That should be the human. It should only ever summarize if that’s it’s purpose. But inevitably, people get lazy and want it to write their article…

Sometimes I just keep clicking these things over and over and have them regenerate new prompts and keep spending tokens just so they think they got a surge in engagement but I couldn’t give a fuck less and just want to burn as many of their tokens as possible before I never visit their site again

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2016 you mean?

With the economy of scale, it is probably cheaper to just drop a microcontroller in products