Has anyone written a sci fi book where an AGI is developed while we still have this IoT slop everywhere? It’d be a funny premise to have an AGI take over the world using smart light bulbs, alexa speakers, and humidifiers and stuff.

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It’s not solely a profit-driven ecosystem is probably a better phrasing.

If Linux is to take over it must come PRE-installed, Must be fully compatible (read: plug-n-play); even with the weird printer your aunt found in a garage sale, at-least feel familiar to the majority of users… and for corpos… run MS office (read: excel) natively.

Or we could just not care if it “takes over”?

Even if Linux was and did all of those things – and many of them are already crossed off of the list – it may not “take over” and despite some corporate spend from some of the backing corporations, it’s not really a profit driven ecosystem. Linux doesn’t have to take over and do exactly what Microsoft does, Linux is just fine as is.

There’s multiple elements to why people won’t vote for a communist, but they still won’t.

Certainly state actions play a role, and communists were victims of free speech violations in a much realer sense than victims of “cancel culture” ever were.

In all of my debates with those types they always see shadowy conspiracies preventing Americans from having real actual communism…whereas I see that nobody in this country – especially in this country – would vote for a communist.

This is kinda off topic so I’m putting it in a reply to myself like a weirdo, but despite being something of an anarchist / left-libertarian in mindset… I don’t actually think most people are capable of living in a world where someone isn’t ordering them around. Many people need and crave a power hierarchy, and if they were ever gifted some kind of anarchist utopia by way of magic they’d likely form up another hierarchy based system all over again from scratch.

My take on it from the theory is that most advocates say that you have to go through a period of single party socialism before the state somewhat fades away and it becomes communism.

I don’t think it’s actually possible in reality for a single party state to cede the power back to the people afterwards.

I would love for this headline to be correct, but it seems far more likely that it is wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. /Drcox

It’s the Chick-fil-A sandwich of chatbots; the child in the basement of Omelas of doing busywork.

It’s made my professional life way worse because it was seen as an indication that the every hack-a-thon attempt to put a stupid chat bot in everything is great, actually.

Remote human intervention when automated systems fail should be expected and required to be honest with current technology.

The “human in the loop” is one of those things that sounds good but isn’t at all in reality.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/

A human was literally sitting at the wheel as Uber’s taxi ran someone over.

Driving is nothing but edge cases, and that’s why maybe paying drivers to drive people around is better than some half-baked AI driving people under trucks and hoping a call center employee is paying enough attention to bail them out.

The type of idiot that pays 6.2 million dollars for a duct taped banana exhibit needs those instructions.

This is why you always have to be careful when chasing metrics. If you pick wrong, it can have the opposite effect that you want.

I don’t know where the adage came from but I find it very true:

Once you turn a metric into a target, it ceases to be a good metric.

Yeah it’s similar to a computer spitting out 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

I worked on a project that had at least 4x the amount of “management” people of various stripes talking about delivery dates and status as it did engineers. There was like 5 engineers on the project and 20ish people just talking bullshit and sitting in meetings.

I spend most of my time in other time wasters like jira and fucking aha as well.

If I actually do anything, it only generates more work for me because I have to explain myself to fifteen different parties before making very minor, very necessary changes.

My company can’t be the only one like this.

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It doesn’t only cover 250k. There are different rates of coverage per account type, number of account holders, and bank. You can have millions of dollars covered by FDIC by moving portions of your money around to different accounts and different banks.

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