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Hey, remember that “Jade Helm” thing that the Republicans went completely apeshit over back when Obama was president?

Hm.

There’s also prayer wheels going back to the 4th century.

I don’t see anything in here to support saying ChatGPT is exacerbating anything.

A pervert problem, or a pervert opportunity?

As far as I’m aware there’s no “wartime” exemption from the term limit.

This is the state of American Democratic politics these days. If the candidate is not exactly what you want, then they’re Satan incarnate and they might as well let the Republicans win.

So if 2028 rolls around and you’re presented with a ballot with the choices “Donald Trump” and “Kamala Harris” on it for president, you’ll not vote for Kamala Harris?

The memo is about whether to release figures about secondary water usage, ie, what water is being used in the generation of electricity for their data centers. A process that I expect isn’t even really under their control in most cases, electricity is bought from the grid. The memo is from 2022, before ChatGPT was even released to the public, so the second paragraph about how Amazon is planning to increase its AI capacity is completely unrelated to this.

Dislike Amazon if you wish, but let’s not misrepresent the news in the process. There are enough real reasons to dislike them without doing that.

Make those heating coils out of superconductors and it’ll be even more efficient.

So it’s about on par with humans, then.

The “just give us money” part of the artist’s wish is usually left unspoken.

Personally, I’m a supporter of UBI. It’s not reasonable to expect the companies to do something like this, this is the role and responsibility of government.

Pornography.

Yup. We’re in a situation where everyone is thinking “if we don’t, then they will.” Bans are counterproductive. Instead we should be throwing our effort into “if we’re going to do it then we need to do it right.”

Isn’t this what all those artists were insisting they wanted? AI replacing rote labor instead of their “creative” jobs like producing advertising and concept art?

Last headline I saw about this said 7 minutes. Pretty soon the thieves will be reaching back in time to grab these things.

Okay? I’m not sure how any of this is detracting from the point I’m making here. You can’t do everything yourself. Nobody can do everything for themselves, society is too complicated now. So we pick the things we’re good at. Not being good at troubleshooting your PC doesn’t make you “stupid”.

Except for the medicine stuff

So aside from the things that you can’t do, you can do anything.

Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

I bet you Google it.

Can you fix your own car? If your refrigerator fails, can you fix that too? How about medical conditions, are you able to treat any and all of those? Prepare any kind of meal? Assemble a wooden cabinet from raw materials? Weld and cut metal? Sew clothing, plant a garden, paint a picture, play a musical instrument?

There’s always things that people are good at and other things that they’re not good at. We live in a civilization where we specialize in things because it’s impossible to learn everything that needs to be done. You think you’re good at troubleshooting computer problems, and that’s a fine thing to be good at. Other people are not good at it. They need help with it. That doesn’t make them “stupid.” It makes them people who’ve chosen to focus on other things.

Why specify just “newer generations?” I do tech support for older generations in my family and they’re just as un-tech-savvy.

The vast majority of people don’t care how a computer works, they just want it to work. And that’s fine. There are lots of machines and other technologies in my life that I can’t spend the time to fully comprehend, I’ve got other stuff I need to do. As long as there are a few people who focus on each kind of machine and each kind of technology then civilization carries on okay.

As is frequently the case for relatively tech-savvy people, I do free tech support for my older relatives. In the past year or two it’s become so much easier because 99% of the time all I have to do is remind them “have you asked Copilot how to do that?” And they’ll go “oh yeah,” go ask Copilot, and that tells them how to fix their problem.

You are on the Fediverse, a niche platform that has inordinate appeal to people with a particular attitude and aptitude toward tech. And this particular community has its own set of attitudes that tend to get reinforced thanks to the upvote/downvote system. This is a bubble we are in here. If you look around at the people here and draw conclusions about what people in general want you’re going to get a very inaccurate view.

Chatgpt.com is the fifth-most heavily visited website as of August. AI is popular.