I think so too. I really dislike that this was a big deal on the campaign trail, and now its “why are you wasting time talking about Epstein?”.
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A lying politician, breaking news.
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This is where I don’t care.
There is no fallout too big where children and these crimes are concerned. This is not going away and if anything just furthers the void / gulf filled with hatred between the rich elite / government and normal folks.
Fuck them all - it is going to burn. It is just a matter of time and shit like this pushes it even closer.
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I don’t think the whole house of cards can do anything except burn down at this point, at least in the USA. X is the #1 news platform in the planet, bro podcasts are crushing mainstream media, and increasingly few people have any trust in legacy media.
Plus so much of the grift is visible to the public through the massive web of NGO tax returns, which AI enables DOGE types to reliably unravel.
Democrats have to hope for or somehow provoke a catastrophic move from Trump, which they still haven’t been able to do in 10 years of trying.
A great awakening is upon the American public that goes WAY beyond Trump. MAGA.
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I’m not an expert on AI, but it is now measurably outperforming PhD students at the highest levels of testing in applied science. It was already passing the bar exam years ago.
I’m still skeptical that it can make the kind of mental connections that result in new scientific discoveries, I.e. pure science and mathematics, but it certainly seems plausible.
Yeah I’m just not sure if beating college students on tests means it has made scientists obsolete
It passes the bar, but Lawyers aren’t obsolete yet
There’s more to a job than passing a test about the material, and while I’m sure it will Impact lots of knowledge-heavy professions I don’t think it has made any obsolete yet
Although lots of really smart people are saying it’s going to obliterate X % of jobs in the next 5 years so obviously other people are very hyped about it
I don’t think it has made anyone obsolete yet, but if a business can pay $300 a month to have AI reliably solve engineering problems to design new widgets, the business case for employing a team of 100k/year low to mid level design engineers becomes rather difficult to make.
Of course, all of the laid off engineers could conceivably use ai to accomplish the same, so hopefully we’re entering into a new explosion in creativity and productivity.
This is all uncharted waters for humanity, including our present political situation. The fact that Maine Democrats are so desperate to compare Trump to Hitler is another strong indication of this to me.
They have been in total control of Maine’s government for years, and that’s all they can seem to talk about. Ukraine, too, I suppose.
I agree. I wouldn’t give even a remote controlled flying fuck about heads of state or businesses being prosecuted and convicted of sex crimes against kids. I think its entirely unjust that they aren’t and won’t be.
I just mean for the typical bobblehead news consumer. It would look like the end of the world.
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A.I. is causing a tremendous decline in critical thinking skills…i.e…people are becoming dumber because of it
how far it goes, only time will tell
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I’m worried for all of the kids who are already leaning on it for academics. If all you know how to do is manipulate AI, you aren’t very valuable for most businesses.
It leaves society open for massive manipulation even more so than we always have been.
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I think that AI will be one of those inventions that’ll have huge potential to improve our life, but it will be used to create larger gap between ultra rich and others.
And yeah, it will definitely make people more lazy. There’s already signs of cognitive decline in societies, and not just among youth.
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It just sounds like the internet all over again, late 90’s early 00’s.
Look how that turned out.
98% porn.
.5 % cat pictures.
.5% intellectual advancement.
1% miscellaneous debris.
My 20 year prognostication:
Octo-jelly tits and weiner sensations wi-fi’d or bluetoothed straight into the brain.
Complications will include gooners malnourishment syndrome, and pants will be redesigned to accommodate enormous hypertrophic prostates.
A large percentage of males will simply turn into doughy smelly snails that leave a streak behind them everywhere they go.
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Yes. Information overload, of which 90% is garbage/shit (the cat videos, porn, made up information etc…)
You can see AI doing that already. It will flood the internet with even more of this stuff.
Actual useful stuff of course exists, but it’s marginal, as you said.
Don’t kink shame bro. Just cuz you haven’t hammered out a nut to some coffee grounds and a crumpled cereal box doesn’t mean its bad.
I think as long as X remains free from censorship in the USA, the cream still rises to the top and prevails in the information war. There are too many smart and ethical people who can filter out BS, recognize facts, and communicate clearly.
Maybe the new Democratic strategy of gutting education with social and emotional learning will result in a large enough voting base to vote for lies and manipulation, but my hunch is that the ship has sailed for that in the USA.
That’s why they are leaning into the whole “threat to democracy” and “fascism” rhetoric. Hoping to provoke violence and chaos or a grave mistake by Trump is their only hope in the USA at the federal level.
Their voting and census base is literally being deported, along with the pipeline in being shut down.
Germany might be cooked. Again.
Definitely a optimistic prediction, but lets hope so.
Ps.
Playing a little devils advocate here, but I doubt X is completely free of censorship or a honest advocate of free speech. Musk is known for silencing and demonetizing his critics on the platform.
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New Engineers and Newly Certified Inspectors are utilizing it in the Nuclear Industry…can be very dangerous if you are not verifying the specifications required…i.e. ASME, ANSI..etc
A.I. is a tool that can bu used but it needs to verified before it’s trusted
I told my Level III that he owns the QA program and needs to keep a close eye on what the inspectors are using to verify documents to specifications
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Compared to everything before it, I think it is functionally free from censorship, at least in the USA. I’ve only been on it for a few months but it appears as though every political and religious belief you can imagine are present. You can see every opinion that seems possible, including Hitler was right, Marx was right, Satan worship, Maoists, paganism, actual modern fascists, anarchists, you-name-it.
In more practical terms, politicians getting ratio’d by everyday citizens calling out their bullshit might be the best example of what I’m talking about, especially when those people would be getting a knock on their door from the state for doing the exact same thing in Germany today, or 90 years ago, for that matter.
Here’s an example of a private citizen getting an 80:1 ratio on a sitting congresswoman.
Sounds interesting. I have no first hand experience, I stopped using it when it was still Twitter. Maybe I’ll check it at some point.
”Good servant, bad master.”
I only posted here for well over 10 years now, more recently on a local political discussion group on Facebook.
I don’t have any desire to post on X due to character length, but it appears to be an amazing tool for communicating. It’s all about who you choose to follow, along with being able to recognize propaganda, AI crap posts, and other forms of bullshit.
My favorite account is DataRepublican (small r) and I just realized one of my favorite YouTube history academics is on there, TIK, when he posted this banger that found my feed yesterday.