We could oblige and give them an end and the nothing that would finally satisfy them :)

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They still have people that can say no to them, their workers can quit, they need to deal with consumers boycotting their products.

Globally, China is rapidly catching up to and surpassing Americans in more and more industries, and they need to protect their status.

Nothing is enough for them.

lol what a fucking stupid thing to say

That’s a fair point, improving the subscription feed would be in their best interest for the people who use it, even if that number is low.

The problems with that feed which he touched on in the video are pretty significant. If you subscribe to channels that put out lots of content and ones that rarely do, it becomes much harder to use.

One thing he didn’t mention is also that it’s not conducive to discovering and gradually catching up on the back catalogue of a new channel, which is something the home feed excels at.

I’m sure YouTube prefers you use the home feed and has no plans to improve subscriptions, and there are real issues with it, so it’ll probably continue to decline.

Thanks for the explanation, I wouldn’t necessarily draw the same conclusion but I see your point. I suspect we won’t know the true toll for maybe ever… however I hope it’s not that.

Not that numeric details matter but 800 000 surpasses any figures or estimates I’ve seen relating to Palestinian deaths, I am only seeing it with respect to displacement from Rafah. Where are you getting that number from?

Switching it out for any other number doesn’t change your point, but I’m just trying to understand the source.

You’re on lemmy.ml now, the worst part of it is the militant liberals from world coming here trying to feel smug. That’s about the worst I’ve seen at least.

I didn’t think your point was as shallow as “different people can have different opinions”

I fail to see how this invalidates that someone can hold both the position that current AI is a waste of electricity and pumping out garbage while pointing out the potential social and economic disruption of future iterations of the technology.

If your point was simply that some people hold one position, others hold the other, and others still hold both. Then… thanks? I think we can also call this a waste of electricity.

It seems you’re firmly entrenched and going out of your way to see a contradiction. I’ll let you be.

Consider that there’s no widespread double-think happening and it could just be in your own head at this point.

The cars that replaced horses were several iterations in, early “automobile” devices included steam powered carriages that moved slower than walking.

A technology may start with limited usage while still having lots of potential.

Technologies are always useless until they’re not.

right?

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Agreed. I’ve been following the technology of neural networks and generative AI since before LLMs were the new hotness and it’s fascinating and powerful stuff.

My qualms with what’s happening now are more about how we organize our economy and society. Rushing them to market, aggressively trying to cull workers, etc. are critiques of capitalism not AI. In a different world we would all be excited about the prospect of having to work less and reap the benefits of AI, but we wouldn’t be reopening coal plants and leaving people to starve on the street.

Early cars weren’t a threat to streetcars and trains and urban planning but modern cars have reshaped every North American city. You can criticize the inefficiency, poor quality, energy waste, etc. of the technology today while also pointing out the dangers of tomorrow.

are those competing?

It’s being rushed to market and is still very inefficient, but part of the reason it’s being rushed to market is because companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees.

And no matter how many protectionist measures that the US implements we’re seeing that they’re losing the global competition. I guess protectionism and oligarchy aren’t the best ways to accomplish the stated goals of a capitalist economy. How soon before China is leading in every industry?

oh competely agreed, I’m just pointing out the dishonest framing by politicians and pundits

but how will we pay for <anything that’s not increased military spending>???

talk about social services and taxes are like a bake sale, talk about funding war and it’s what you describe

It seems like a symbolic (but obviously still immoral) move, Orthodox Christmas is usually celebrated later (January) but it seems like Ukraine aligned with the December 25 date in 2023. Russians still celebrate on the traditional Orthodox day.

how has slow progress worked for you in the last hundred years