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So all these companies that replace all their employees with AI and then immediately need the human’s back. They’re just doing it wrong are they?

I wouldn’t mind AI if it actually worked as advertised. If I could run a pure AI company from my home office that would be fabulous thing. The thing is it doesn’t work, you can’t do that.

Have you read the report about where they tried to get an AI to independently run a vending machine, it couldn’t even cope with that.

I don’t understand why they can’t just make electric versions of their most popular cars. I’m not saying take the chassis and literally just get rid of the engine and put motors on the wheels because that’s where you get things at the Nissan leaf from. But they can start with their popular cars as a good jumping off point.

Personally I want an electric version of the Ford Estate, with fold down and removable back seats for when I need the extra storage capacity, two hook on the back, roof racks on the roof, and lots of buttons. I don’t need self-driving unless it actually works and I don’t anything clever doing with the door handles, It’s a car that’s going to be driving on the road at 60, it doesn’t need to be particularly aerodynamic.

You mustn’t work in an office then. It’s all over the corporate world.

Damn it, now I’m lost

Yeah the app I use doesn’t show pinned comments unless you’re actually in the community. If you just on all you just see some of the most recent top rated posts.

It must be so weird living in the head of a MAGA. They seem to be constantly bewildered by the most obvious of things. But I suppose that’s what happens if you live your entire life within a 80 radius of your house and have never left the state.

Well the arguement they always put forward is something about trickle-down economics. Essentially the rich people will spend their money which will benefit the local economy.

Accept of course it doesn’t work because rich people don’t spend money in the local economy they spend it in Monaco. Who’s economy I don’t care about.

Personally I would advise keeping money out of AI just generally anyway, not on any moral principle but simply because everyone knows it’s a bubble. No one wants to be left holding the bag and you could end up with a less money than you had to begin with. Over long enough time periods risky strategies like that aren’t worth it.

So you might as well get out of AI in the long run it will probably save you money.

It may be too late but it would probably be a good idea to quit the drinking, your remaining brain cells will thank me

Not in 1910 they hadn’t.

Like most rich people his wealth is purely theoretical. If I needed to demonstrate my entire wealth I could just extract it all from my bank account, but a lot of his money is based on perceived worth of his businesses, which of course don’t really have a value because they haven’t been sold to anyone and in many cases haven’t actually generated a profit.

So basically the IPO is saying that if the company was sold, it would be worth x amount of money. But of course we don’t know that, and unless he actually sells the business, he doesn’t get x amount of money.

This is what people mean when they say we are in another tech bubble, companies are getting massively overvalued for what it is even remotely conceivable somebody would be prepared / able to pay for them. So you get stupid headlines like this that say that Elon Musk is a trillionaire, even though he has substantially less than 1 trillion dollars in his various bank accounts. In terms of actual dollar amounts he probably has 10 or 20 million at most. Absolutely not chicken feed by any stretch of the imagination but also not more money than most countries GDP.

You can direct your provider to invest however you personally feel comfortable. But it’s incredibly boring for most people to have to administer this and the whole point of a pension fund is you don’t have to worry about it. Otherwise I might as well play the stock market myself.

A lot of pension managers now are starting to become increasingly wary of AI and “fledgling startups” that have been going for 20 years and have still yet to generate a profit

No it doesn’t because he doesn’t get any money from the IPO, he gets money from selling the shares, the initial evaluation can be whatever the hell it wants to be.

The best he can do with this is use it as collateral in order to get a loan to by a helicopter, which he could probably already do, so nothing’s really changed for him.

That concerns are also really inconsistent. They don’t seem to have a problem with cigarettes and alcohol, and are quite prepared to authorise payments to strip clubs.

But they have a problem with porn games. How does that track?

Not that anyone was actually cleaning otherwise of course.

I have no idea what your problem is. I didn’t start the war (obviously), I don’t think it should be continuing, I don’t revel in anyone’s death on either side, and I have nothing to do with your friends death.

What exactly is it that you’re upset with me about?

Internal walls are made of brick as well. At least in northern Europe, they have to be it’s too cold otherwise.

I don’t think anyone thinks the dog actually shot the gun. She was clearly weaving it around for some reason and accidentally pulled the trigger.

Even if the gun was loaded, and it had an incredibly light hair trigger (I don’t think the actual type of gun is ever mentioned) I can’t imagine a dog picking the gun up in its mouth would trigger it.

I’m trying to work out exactly how this is supposed to have happened. If the bullet was shot through the floor above then there’s no path the bullet could have taken that would intersect the PC before it would hit somebody sleeping in a bed, unless the computer is in some way suspended above the bed, which not only doesn’t really sound realistic, you can also see from the photo that it clearly is on the floor.

In order to be able to hit a PC on the floor, it would have to be horizontal through a wall.

Also the word neighbour would almost always be used to refer to someone next door.

This is happened twice now. What an utterly stupid country.