Being concerned about at technology and being against that technology are not synonymous.

Companies and programmers who are using it for real world development don’t care about $1000. A good programmer will run a company $10k or even $20k a month for their salary. If they can add even 50% to the output from that programmer they will throw $2000 a month at it and not even blink an eye.

The Anti-AI folks don’t talk to that kind of person much. They’re not running in the same social circles.

Meanwhile, I have a working application I built to replace a shitty corporate android app for a product I own that’s used for my side hustle. Built using an agentic harness using a local opensource LLM. Coding such a thing myself was beyond my development skill level, and it probably would have cost $100k-200k to pay a programmer to rebuild it to the level that it’s currently at now.

I only park in one specific aisle at Costco. I will wait for someone to walk back to their car just to get a spot there.

That has nothing to do with the technology. The last crash was caused by a global virus, and the one before that was the banking system…

For an equivalent prompt and similar quality answer, yes. Inference prices are dropping.

However, higher quality answers (or more complex prompt handling) are currently going up in inference price.

The fun part will be once quality hits a point where the average user (or even business) doesn’t care about the incremental quality change any more. Then it’s going to be a race to the bottom for performance per dollar.

Who cares if the not all companies or investors make money? They can make their bets, some will win and some will lose. I just want better tech for cheaper prices.

History loves to repeat itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Some back of the napkin math says about $50 trillion dollars in value for the top 1% in the US. That would pay off the whole US Debt of $40 Trillion, with about $10 trillion left over.

However, there’s a caveat here. Given that’s about 3.5 million people (1% of the US population) that only works out to about $14 million dollars each.

While that’s a lot of money, it’s not really an egregious amount of money. If you limited the 1% to keeping say $10,000,000 each (get rid of the obscenely rich) you would only have about $15 trillion dollars, which doesn’t even pay off half the debt.

We’re all products of our environment.

The ironic part about your statement is that you seem to have negative feelings towards your parents open sexuality, but there are cultures where that’s within the realm of normal. It just so happens that the environment you were raised in outside your home happens to consider the environment you were raised in inside your home dysfunctional.

Especially in areas of extreme poverty, there often isn’t enough space for privacy, so it just isn’t a thing. If you have a single room hut with 14 children… that didn’t happen because the parents snuck off into the bushes every time. It’s not considered improper or dysfunctional.

What defines an ethical company?

That’s an example of a false choice.

The most practical distribution is actually a mixture of the three systems divided up based on industry and other factors.

There is no reason we can’t have communism for the food industry, socialism for housing, and capitalism for clothes and movies.

Marx while influential isn’t the defining authority.

When they start acting like it.

First three always, fourth sometimes, definitely not the last two.

I was going to say a human can’t carry it, but yours is good too.

You still don’t get it.

You don’t need to eat Lettuce to be healthy, you’ve been taught to think that way but it’s not even close to the truth.

Do you think that people 100 years ago had fresh produce all the time? That’s not how it worked for most of human history and they definitely ate healthier than we do now.

Frozen vegetables don’t have extra salt. Canned sometimes does but a) salt isn’t unhealthy and b) you can rinse them to get most of it off if you wanted.

Juice is not healthy. That’s pure marketing bullshit. It’s almost as bad as soda.

Your mindset is wrong. You expect what society has told you to to do. That’s expensive because our society is built around selling you shit you don’t need.

This is only true if you have fallen into the trap of not understanding what healthy means.

Eating healthy can actually be very cheap, you just won’t get to eat the things that societies thinks are exciting or the most delicious. You won’t be getting “I can’t believe it’s not meat” and the latest type of chia seed detox bullshit.

You can eat rice, lentils, onions, carrots, potatoes, oats, chickpeas, beans, tomatoes, bananas, and some dairy products and keep your meal prices down to less than a dollar while filling all nutritional requirements.

A basic Indian Dahl on rice works out to significantly less than a dollar per serving if you buy the ingredients in more than single use packages, 500 calories, 17 grams of protein, 8 grams of fat, and 80 grams of carbs for $0.75 is pretty fucking healthy.

Two servings of oats and a banana for breakfast? 50 cents, for again around 500 calories, 17 grams of protein (mostly the oats), and 7 grams of fat. You could splurge on a bit of yogurt and keep it under a dollar easily.

In terms of “effort” if you consider cooking 10 portions of Dahl for an hour and then freezing them individually to be too much effort, you don’t actually care about the cost of eating, you’re just too lazy.

That last thing could be said for most humans, especially those in the lower salary brackets. We still employ them in droves, and supervisors to supervise them too.

Now THAT’S a stupid question.

Good Job.

The answer to your first question is yes.

Children don’t get to set their own boundaries, that’s why we consider them children. Once they’re ready we call them adults.

If I allowed them to set their own boundaries, they’d probably already be dead. They get some pretty stupid ideas sometimes.

I’m laughing so hard right now.

You’re so idealistic. When you grow up and join the real world you’ll realize that what you said was funny too.

A) You clearly don’t have kids.

B) If everything they did as parents was perfect, people would have felt it was unreal, more so than even the super powers part.

C) It’s a TV Show, conflict and drama keeps people paying attention.

D) Homelander… there may not be stupid questions, but clearly there are stupid statements.