Many situations have proven the contrary.

I fail to see how that is significantly different than what we have nowadays with humans.

We are dependent on large corporations already, some of us just materially while others ideologically as well.

We are denying healthcare, food, water, and shelter to people who can’t afford ridiculous prices or hold the wrong social status or have the “wrong” beliefs, skin colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, (etc., etc.) which is essentially killing them. That’s if we don’t just outright decide to ““liberate”” some other nation from whatever arbitrary reason and start carpet bombing civilians in hospitals because a handful of terrorists are supposedly active within said nation.

Catfishing has been a thing since the inception of third-party dating, and scams were a thing since before recorded history. Lying is as old as sentience itself.

Nokia were doing insanely awesome things with their hardware, beyond basically building phones which were impervious to standard human idiocy (hi, I am an average human idiot).

I thought you were referring to Musk before you actually referred to Musk. They are indistinguishable to me.

If AI were sapient/sentient, I’d be 100% for this. Sapiosexuals assemble!

Given that LLMs are far, far from sapient/sentient at this point, however, this just makes me sad thinking about the sorry state of human interactions nowadays. I don’t and can’t blame her, though…

One word: Majula.

I hope they end up in a tie. As they both run off a cliff. And into a deep ravine. Then explode.

Other end…

… can we just go with the future in which we figure out ethical self-euthanasia? I’d rather do that than have ChatGPT take care of me…

The washing machine with integrated AI broke my brain. This must be the most useless thing I’ve ever encountered in my entire life.

I sure do! Just last night I woke up from a dream in which my downstairs neighbors were yelling only to discover they were actually yelling.

Both variants are hearty and hefty, they look like something I’d have eaten in amounts which would’ve made me hate myself for about two hours afterwards!

It’s just that my digestive tract really can’t handle this type of food without repercussions anymore :(

Thoroughly hope you’ve enjoyed both the previous one and this as well! Living my best life through you!:))

Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg…

That’s a neat parallel, we’ve also started using it as a sort of covert euphemism for “bribe,” but it’s pretty much only when discussing political contexts (go figure…)!:))

Yyyep… I sure wanted to think the XXIst Century would look different, but humans gonna hume, I guess.

I mean, other than improving education just enough to bring workers up to speed with industry requirements, the Powers That Be haven’t really changed things around. Those who own rule, the rest of us are just serfs…

From what I can remember (and I may be wrong, it’s been aeons since then), there was a time when Democracy failed and a massive orange prick got elected as head of state for one of the most powerful nations on the planet.

Fun times, those were!

In Ye Olden Days, minor Lords used to pay tribute to anyone who took up the crown/took over the lands, to get on their good side. That’s actually where the Romanian word for “tip” (bacșiș) comes from, it’s what they called tribute payments to the Ottoman Empire.

Why should this be any different? I mean, it’s Trump…

I miss the lockdowns, life was easier back then… Now the big picture just looks like a planet-wide dumpster fire…

Dunno about OP, but I, for one, am not.

Well, you can’t really do that when it’s expressed in written form as long as it’s not part of a grander “manifesto” of sorts. Or better put, as long as it’s not grounded in a context.

This can only be solved by slapping as much nuance as you possibly can on everything you write, make it incontrovertible in its clarity.

But if you’re not in the mood for an adjoining essay whenever you want to post a one-liner (seriously not being snarky about this, I completely understand the feeling of utter tedium when having to explain the same damned thing for the twelfth time), you can always monitor the reaction then provide clarification. Once you’ve done that, you really don’t need to engage any further.

And the most important aspect is to never forget that this is the internet. Some people are in it just to stir up shit, and that’s a game you win by not playing.