Dairypharmer mentioned it but in the late 90s-early 2000s, you could find a lot of folks on Slashdot saying that there was no point majoring in computer science or learning to program because all those jobs were going…
Define intelligence. One of the issues with academia and academic training is it defines intelligence very narrowly. For example, it teaches people that simply having the right answer (or even just saying the right…
I mean most of the "AI" companies are all about copying everyone else's intellectual property, why not just start copying companies wholesale? That seems like real bigbrain time.
Canceling our weekly stand up in the Metaverse. Don't worry, though, AI is definitely gonna be the thing.
1. Nobody has really convincingly shown a "killer app" that the mass market and/or regular people need or want or even desire. So far it's techies selling to techies with massive losses and "don't worry we will…
Shocked, gambling, establishment, etc.
I mean cities pay tons of money in police violence settlements but it doesn't seem to stop police violence at all
This is why he is worth his huge salary package, where else are you going to get this level of work?
They're gonna full self drive the tesla roadster all the way there and since they'll have all that time to kill, they are gonna make Twitter the everything app ans also the global town square.
I don't want my washer and dryer to connect to wifi and use an app to send a push notification that only works if I pay a subscription fee and set up an online profile when my laundry is done and then send me push ads…
I mean start here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/ai-bubb...
On the other hand it is genuinely hilarious that what it took to crater tech stocks was someone going "Hey are you guys ever going to make money with any of this AI crap?" "I mean, if you keep giving us billions of…
This is, quite literally, exactly what Marx talks about with the bourgeoisie: the wealthy capitalist class gives a few crumbs and elevates a chunk of rhe working class to middle class and uses them to keep the…
Bro please I promise it's coming we just need another 10 billion dollars then computers will be sentient c'mon bro please...
It's going to turn out exactly like virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri where there's a massive rush to integrate it into everything and scoop up that VC funding (and hey, get that bag!) Because dorks think it's…
What, they're going to prosecute the WHOLE polycule?
Starting to think the whole "put my ex girlfriend in charge of the business where I am committing massive financial fraud" plan had some flaws but I'm a boy genius on magazine covers so that can't be right
For people who worship capitalism as much as folks here do, a lot of you sure don't get business processes. Yes, you wind up having to plan things, because the rest of the business world runs on deadlines and contracts…
Lots of companies are spending a ton of money on office leases and a lot of loans and debt are tied up in commercial real estate (feel free to google), so your choice is either get the proles back in the office or take…
Maybe people should learn to handle their emotions everywhere.
Given techies have spent years sneering at every other field that they should "learn to code", it is pretty funny that techies have built technology that may make themselves obsolete and it is causing them the same…
Isn't Naomi Wolf the chick who wrote a whole book because she misunderstood a word and only figured it out when she got called out on a radio interview?
Very few people remember this now but when outsourcing was starting to become a thing circa 1998-2000, it was "common knowledge" that learning programming or getting a CompSci degree etc. Was going to be pointless…
Literally everyone in any field has a drawer full of great ideas. The "idea guy" is a myth unless you're rich enough to buy companies and actually make your great idea. Until you actually have something what you have is…
Elon finally returning to the fold, I see. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is the kind of thing the crowd here will sneer and roll their eyes at but for me it felt like the missing manual I never got for…
Dairypharmer mentioned it but in the late 90s-early 2000s, you could find a lot of folks on Slashdot saying that there was no point majoring in computer science or learning to program because all those jobs were going…
Define intelligence. One of the issues with academia and academic training is it defines intelligence very narrowly. For example, it teaches people that simply having the right answer (or even just saying the right…
I mean most of the "AI" companies are all about copying everyone else's intellectual property, why not just start copying companies wholesale? That seems like real bigbrain time.
Canceling our weekly stand up in the Metaverse. Don't worry, though, AI is definitely gonna be the thing.
1. Nobody has really convincingly shown a "killer app" that the mass market and/or regular people need or want or even desire. So far it's techies selling to techies with massive losses and "don't worry we will…
Shocked, gambling, establishment, etc.
I mean cities pay tons of money in police violence settlements but it doesn't seem to stop police violence at all
This is why he is worth his huge salary package, where else are you going to get this level of work?
They're gonna full self drive the tesla roadster all the way there and since they'll have all that time to kill, they are gonna make Twitter the everything app ans also the global town square.
I don't want my washer and dryer to connect to wifi and use an app to send a push notification that only works if I pay a subscription fee and set up an online profile when my laundry is done and then send me push ads…
I mean start here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/ai-bubb...
On the other hand it is genuinely hilarious that what it took to crater tech stocks was someone going "Hey are you guys ever going to make money with any of this AI crap?" "I mean, if you keep giving us billions of…
This is, quite literally, exactly what Marx talks about with the bourgeoisie: the wealthy capitalist class gives a few crumbs and elevates a chunk of rhe working class to middle class and uses them to keep the…
Bro please I promise it's coming we just need another 10 billion dollars then computers will be sentient c'mon bro please...
It's going to turn out exactly like virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri where there's a massive rush to integrate it into everything and scoop up that VC funding (and hey, get that bag!) Because dorks think it's…
What, they're going to prosecute the WHOLE polycule?
Starting to think the whole "put my ex girlfriend in charge of the business where I am committing massive financial fraud" plan had some flaws but I'm a boy genius on magazine covers so that can't be right
For people who worship capitalism as much as folks here do, a lot of you sure don't get business processes. Yes, you wind up having to plan things, because the rest of the business world runs on deadlines and contracts…
Lots of companies are spending a ton of money on office leases and a lot of loans and debt are tied up in commercial real estate (feel free to google), so your choice is either get the proles back in the office or take…
Maybe people should learn to handle their emotions everywhere.
Given techies have spent years sneering at every other field that they should "learn to code", it is pretty funny that techies have built technology that may make themselves obsolete and it is causing them the same…
Isn't Naomi Wolf the chick who wrote a whole book because she misunderstood a word and only figured it out when she got called out on a radio interview?
Very few people remember this now but when outsourcing was starting to become a thing circa 1998-2000, it was "common knowledge" that learning programming or getting a CompSci degree etc. Was going to be pointless…
Literally everyone in any field has a drawer full of great ideas. The "idea guy" is a myth unless you're rich enough to buy companies and actually make your great idea. Until you actually have something what you have is…
Elon finally returning to the fold, I see. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is the kind of thing the crowd here will sneer and roll their eyes at but for me it felt like the missing manual I never got for…