wouldn’t it be nice if the profit motive wasn’t the only driving force of the economy?

and that’s all it is, a reference not a joke.

A good example of a pavlov joke is the one where pavlov goes to a bar after work, and just as he’s about to order the phone rings in the bar and he shouts “oh shit I forgot to feed the dogs!”

They’re actively being combatted by the right.

You had me believing you thought in the first half of your comment but then your proved otherwise

Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances… This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison

Yeah sounds like you’re straining yourself

Oh I guess I missed the joke, then. I thought it was a bit of a non-sequitur. I think I still prefer my version

This is a fair point. It becomes a matter of which questions we’re asking as a society, though. Of course we are not at a stage where capital is the only driving force for science (thank goodness for public funding) but it’s not far fetched that we might be, and a world where questions are only asked in the context of profit generation (and unsatisfying answers are suppressed) is a dystopian world indeed.

It’s fair to say capitalism is having a negative impact on science (e.g. journals) but it’s not as dire as what’s suggested

The structure of this feels off, the punchline already happened in panel two and the text in panel three isn’t adding anything. A panel 3 without text would be funnier imo because it would let the joke soak, I also think moving the punchline to panel 3 would have worked better.

Capitalism isn’t just about “things need funding” the point of the meme is that capitalists determine what gets funding. A socialist state might put economic force behind other scientific endeavors, ones driven by capital are intended to create profit. The profit motive drives innovation instead of the pure ideological pursuit of truth or any other driver.

we’re not far off from grocery store workers having to do the same

100 point top thread based on the second and third hand opinions of a Windows non-user really sums up the quality of this discussion lol

The average human driver is tried and held accountable

Yeah exactly, if you are talking about winning an online argument you’ve already lost in many ways

How’s that different from any other platform? What a coincidence that American capitalists want you to hate Chinese capitalists

The platforms are responsible because they curate and serve the content. Their algorithms can be and are exploited, but the fact that they’re algorithms doesn’t absolve them of responsibility.

Nobody told them they have to serve and intake millions of hours of content every day. If a human editor put that stuff out we’d hold the business accountable for that person’s actions.

Algorithms and AI aren’t excuses.

Here’s the actual statement. It’s not truly singling out China for being “China bad.”

https://mediacenter.org.ua/russia-s-disinformation-and-propaganda-efforts-on-social-media-ukraine-s-center-for-countering-disinformation-warns-of-growing-danger-on-tiktok/

You guys are lapping up and spreading sinophobia, just as bad as what people are doing on Telegram and Tik Tok.

Pot, meet kettle.

I’m pretty sure this story was blown out of proportion and exaggerated. These people were training and validating the automated systems not watching the cameras 24/7.

That’s how AI is trained, manual intervention. It wasn’t working as well as they hoped, but it wasn’t humans watching cameras in real time.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133029/amazon-just-walk-out-cashierless-ai-india

I basically stole your comment but made a worse version. On this note, though, there’s sometimes value in using words like “fix” or other kinds of tagging or consistent formatting in the sense that you can do a meta-analysis of the repo history to look at trends (like the ratio of fixes to feature work) over time.

Issue tracking software obviates that, somewhat, but having that info embedded in the repo history lets you go further and look at which files have the most fixes etc.

Existing tools out there sometimes do this exact thing, but it can be manually done as well