JackOfCrows

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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
Dairypharmer mentioned it but in the late 90s-early 2000s, you could find a lot of folks on Slashdot saying that there was no point majoring in computer science or learning to program because all those jobs were going to be outsourced to In
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
Define intelligence. One of the issues with academia and academic training is it defines intelligence very narrowly. For example, it teaches people that simply having the right answer (or even just saying the right answer) is enough to be &
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
I mean most of the "AI" companies are all about copying everyone else's intellectual property, why not just start copying companies wholesale? That seems like real bigbrain time.
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
Canceling our weekly stand up in the Metaverse. Don't worry, though, AI is definitely gonna be the thing.
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
1. Nobody has really convincingly shown a "killer app" that the mass market and/or regular people need or want or even desire. So far it's techies selling to techies with massive losses and "don't worry we will
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
Shocked, gambling, establishment, etc.
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
I mean cities pay tons of money in police violence settlements but it doesn't seem to stop police violence at all
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
This is why he is worth his huge salary package, where else are you going to get this level of work?
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
They're gonna full self drive the tesla roadster all the way there and since they'll have all that time to kill, they are gonna make Twitter the everything app ans also the global town square.
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
I don't want my washer and dryer to connect to wifi and use an app to send a push notification that only works if I pay a subscription fee and set up an online profile when my laundry is done and then send me push ads and email upsells
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
I mean start here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/ai-bubb...
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
On the other hand it is genuinely hilarious that what it took to crater tech stocks was someone going "Hey are you guys ever going to make money with any of this AI crap?" "I mean, if you keep giving us billions of dollars, m
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
This is, quite literally, exactly what Marx talks about with the bourgeoisie: the wealthy capitalist class gives a few crumbs and elevates a chunk of rhe working class to middle class and uses them to keep the workers/lower classes dow
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
Bro please I promise it's coming we just need another 10 billion dollars then computers will be sentient c'mon bro please...
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by JackOfCrows 2y ago
It's going to turn out exactly like virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri where there's a massive rush to integrate it into everything and scoop up that VC funding (and hey, get that bag!) Because dorks think it's cool and
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
What, they're going to prosecute the WHOLE polycule?
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Starting to think the whole "put my ex girlfriend in charge of the business where I am committing massive financial fraud" plan had some flaws but I'm a boy genius on magazine covers so that can't be right
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
For people who worship capitalism as much as folks here do, a lot of you sure don't get business processes. Yes, you wind up having to plan things, because the rest of the business world runs on deadlines and contracts and milestones a
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Lots of companies are spending a ton of money on office leases and a lot of loans and debt are tied up in commercial real estate (feel free to google), so your choice is either get the proles back in the office or take a haircut trying to g
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Maybe people should learn to handle their emotions everywhere.
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Given techies have spent years sneering at every other field that they should "learn to code", it is pretty funny that techies have built technology that may make themselves obsolete and it is causing them the same distress they i
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Isn't Naomi Wolf the chick who wrote a whole book because she misunderstood a word and only figured it out when she got called out on a radio interview?
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by JackOfCrows 3y ago
Very few people remember this now but when outsourcing was starting to become a thing circa 1998-2000, it was "common knowledge" that learning programming or getting a CompSci degree etc. Was going to be pointless because all thos
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
Literally everyone in any field has a drawer full of great ideas. The "idea guy" is a myth unless you're rich enough to buy companies and actually make your great idea. Until you actually have something what you have is the s
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
Elon finally returning to the fold, I see. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is the kind of thing the crowd here will sneer and roll their eyes at but for me it felt like the missing manual I never got for socializing and
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
This will be revolutionary because Hispanic moms will finally have a true child seeking missile to replace la chancla
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
Most people will use time to save money. However, your time on earth is limited unless the Silicon Valley weirdos happen to be right. Money is infinite in that you can earn more or get a second job or get a better paying job or whatever. (O
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
This whole push has felt like one of those GREAT IDEAS you get with your buddies while drunk (in his case probably doing ayahuasca with Jack Dorsey and the other techie guys) and then you're kind of embarrassed the next day, but Zucc d
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
Good security and good security people cost money but don't generate any visible revenue. So if you care about your balance sheet, they make you look bad. Optimism bias is also a thing. People assume bad things won't happen to the
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by JackOfCrows 4y ago
I am a single person in a city where I don't know anyone because I just moved here. I need something that will set me up with someone to run me home from the medical clinic as I need minor surgery and can't drive myself home. They

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