Smartphones were a joke until the iPhone. There will be some resistance, but someone will crack the code to make it easily acceptable and then the race is away with the AI products

Interesting read.

My pain point at the moment is where do I go to start to find interesting people? I am in a city I haven’t been in for 8 years, the people I used to know our lives have drifted apart.

Small towns are so much easier to meet others, in the city there are so many people but they are all rushing to do their thing.

I like your optimism, fairly unrealistic but the optimism is nice to see

On this point, it would be stupidly hard.

Just from a programming and software perspective. All the old code that runs banks and the back end of air travel. It barely runs as it is, do a switch up of years, even leaving the months alone and it would probably freak out. Standadize the months while you are at it and the whole thing falls apart.

Are you old enough to remember Y2K? That required a lot of techs to spend a huge amount of time fixing code that was never intended to see years change from 19xx to now just even consider 20xx.

That is before we go about changing paper Birth Documents, marriage documents, house deads, … Should I go on?

Endless meetings all focused around creating value for shareholders at any expense

It’s a big ad It’s a big ad Fooooooorrr beer https://youtu.be/_wM2c3WtDjQ?si=7G_HBu8FMGMZpdoe

Mushroom mushroom badger badger

Legally the product is no longer their priority, maximising shareholder profits is their priority.

Not many companies manage to not get twisted to a worse product for the customers, though their ads get really good

Vegans hate this one weird trick

Worth saying I am sort of playing devils advocate here.

Change it to what? It is easy to back seat yell “Capitalism Bad” but change to what? Every other isim has it’s own laundry list of issues. Which one is least corruptible by sosciopaths?

You don’t think sosciopaths are going to take more than there fair share in socialism, or skew the system over time? They aren’t going to find their may to the top in every single form of government to change the rules to their desires?

Quite a few will argue that we aren’t even in capatalisim any more, it has been corrupted and changed, massaged by “government” to the point of failure, the Austrian school of economics.

So it is easy to stand on the roof top and say “Capitalism is the problem” but it seems like a much deeper rot to me

By that definition to get rid of capitalism we need to get rid of the people.

I was thinking about this the other day. I think no matter the system those willing to break the rules and find the cracks will always do so.

It isn’t a capitalism problem it is a human problem

Random thought, do Lemmy posts show up in searches?

I’m pretty sure that’s how I ended up at reddit. After so many google searches lead me to the site, I decided to check it out some more

As a slight positive it will hopefully reduce the reliance on wide spread pesticides and fertilizers.

For some people admitting they were wrong is too hard

I think GPT5 will be eye opening. If it is another big leap ahead then we are not in this local maxima, if it is a minor improvement then we may be in a local maxima.

Likely then the focus will shift to reducing hardward requirements for inforarance(?) Allowing bigger models to run better on smaller hardware

I have heard that name a lot, I will have to give it a go

That is the double edged sword though. Get cool features - lose true plain text

All the benchmarks put the equivalent Nvidia cards almost 2x more in Stable Diffusion https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/stable-diffusion-benchmarks

I hope that is an old benchmark and times have changed, but I can’t find anything like it that is more recent.

For a bit of my soul I get a lot more ai power.

AI works on AMD but the speed doesn’t seem to be anywhere near Nvidia.

I wonder this with obsidian also, it is one of the things that keeps me from diving in head first.

It seems a lot of its “powerful” functions are against it’s plain text advantage. However I don’t really see an easy way around it.

At least at the end of the day you or someone else could write a script to modify the plain text files for the next app.

Imagine being able to take your data model of someone and generate short form video just for them. Imagine the retention and ad revenue. Could even make AI generated ads purely targeted at a person. The possibilities are endless for the souless corporation

Infinite growth on a world with finite resources, what could go wrong?

If a company doesn’t make their projected 7% gains every year it is front page news and it is deemed a failing business. “ohh no we only made 120 million dollars this year, how will we feed the shareholders kids”