Sure, but I assume it’s easier to collect wastewater for proper disposal than the air pollutants.

Are you not aware that the “dictators who were killing their people” live was being used on Iran during the protests? Does this mean you’re okay with bombing Iran now?

Debt isn’t a problem until it suddenly is. That inflation you’re brushing off can get worse, eventually to the point where they’re printing money just to stay afloat. We’re already at the point where $1 trillion goes to just paying the interest on the debt each year.

It’s a sensor relying on image recognition, which is only as reliable as the image recognition software. The more clever software tries to be, the more potential failure states that exist.

They’re still planning on making a new Xbox? Sometimes I forget there’s an Xbox console anymore.

How much do executive payouts, lobbying, and marketing costs take out from those profit margins?

OpenAI has published a report

Into the trash it goes.

I love dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, all of it. I don’t get the elitism over a matter of taste.

They can be trained to understand the distinction.

No it can’t because of how LLMs work. All “safety” built on top of models now are just band-aids and bubble gum stuck in strategic areas hoping that cases get caught.

How the hell did these lawyers do their jobs before?

I also yearn to catch some sun when I’m stuck working.

There are multiple goals in mind such as surveillance, pumping the stock market, taking control out of people’s hands, excuses to do things like lay people off, etc. In this case or in general for local governments, it’s a matter of a select number of people getting a lot of money in their pockets and thus pushing for these data centers to happen.

One problem with capitalism is that everything is for sale, including the government. The AI industry is intentionally positioning themselves as “too big to fail” so that they can guarantee a government bailout. As for the dotcom bubble, sure the smaller players were allowed to fail, but that just meant more room for the larger players like google and amazon to take over and now they’re definitely too big to fail. With AI, we already have a small handful of huge players and they’ve convinced the government that this is a matter of national security.

On top of that, people’s retirements are more tied to the stupid stock market than ever before, so the government will use that as an excuse to bail out these companies, hence the rush to IPO and enter indexes.

The more that franchisees can bear to pay in rent, the more corporate can charge, so the franchisees hiring fewer people is maximizing shareholder value even if indirectly.

But I feel so bad after a sneezing fit from allergies.

Sure, but the longer the game goes, the more likely capital concentration will lead to what we have now.

Nobody said feudalism is better, in fact my post was saying the opposite and using that to make the point that we can still improve things.

Capitalism is the current system we’re living in that is creating the rich and poor as they exist today. That isn’t to say there isn’t inequality in other systems, but it’s possible to adopt a different system that is less open to abuse, just like how we moved on from feudalism. Why continue playing a game with fundamentally broken rules?

Off-hand, I can see the affordability crisis and over-reliance on debt to finance people’s lives, while at the same time threatening labor with outsourcing, AI, whatever to replace them and their ability to make a living leads to tremendous amounts of stress. A constant high level of stress is devastating for mental health. These all work together to squeeze people at both ends, maximizing money made off people just living and then offering paid services to promise relief (even though the situation the capitalist class has created is the problem itself).

Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though. It’s why the auto companies bought up streetcar lines and tore them out to make people more dependent on cars. Capitalism is not responsible for all mental health problems, but there is a clear incentive to promote it so that the capitalist class can sell services, and it wouldn’t be out of the question to over-diagnose or even help create the conditions to gain more customers.