Me trying to figure out if the 5 year old orphan should be saved: "So the farmer must transport the wolf, goat, and cabbage across the river..."

And think of the benefits. So. Many. Benefits.

I have no idea if things are real or satire anymore...

Backpfeifengesicht.

If we restructured society in a way that makes increases in efficiency benefit everyone I'd be fine with such things. The difference here is, however, that we don't live in such a society and that LLMs aren't actually useful or better at work that people are, it's just that managers and CEOs think they are. They will realize this in a few years after most of their software is fucked over and they'll have to hire actual developers to fix it.

The problem is we want increases in efficiency that benefit 99% of people but the 1% want the opposite and can override everyone else.

No, no. The executioner needs to stay hydrated. At least 16 oz every couple of hours.

Think about how selfish marine life is, they live in water, water we could use to cool our AI data centers! Think about that!

Stupid orphans hogging all of that water, they should bring a lawsuit against them for endangering the supply needed for ai in having their place get on fire. It won't win but they can't pay for lawyers to defend it and they will go our of solvency and have to be dissoluted.

Now why do the courts let the rich file cases that have no merit to force people that haven't done wrong to pay millions of dollars indefinitely to defend themselves from bad faith allegations by shitty abusive rich people? Because fuck you, that's why. Any more questions? /s

Taylorist production has been tried, yielded objectively better results than the old production methods, and they were still scrapped. Workers wouldn't adapt to more efficient production methods without more pay, and it necessitates worker-managers to train other workers. Since the owners of the factory refuse to pay workers more, so it's DOA.

Capitalism isn't rational, and can not become rational. "Increasing efficiency" means firing workers, not improving production. I know you maybe aren't arguing for more efficient capitalism, just saying it has been tried. Taylorism is the Esperanto of production. "Increasing efficiency," to the capitalists, means firing people, not making the system more rational.

It wasn't my goal at all to advocate for capitalism, an inherently abusive system :P

Increases in efficiency should lead to less work required and a better life for everyone

I had a suspicion you weren't advocating for capitalism. But just in case someone comes along and thinks "yeah make capitalism more efficient," I like to underline the fact that "efficiency" has a different meaning if someone is a worker than if someone is a capitalist.

Actually it does if you need to clean the guillotine afterwards. But I'm open for alternatives.

Gesicht wie ein Telefonbuch.
Aufschlagen.
Zuschlagen.
Immer wieder nachschlagen.

Did he actually say this..?

No, he didn't. Please, for your sake and ours, learn to search for facts yourself instead of asking strangers on the internet to do it for you.

In a way, this whole planet is a datacenter, with the oceans as it's cooling system. We are the data.

-Neil Degrass Tyson

I know how to search the Internet but believe or not if someone posts something which may or may not be real, either they can respond accordingly or someone else easily can, as you just proved.

Why do we need an orphanage in the first place? Is the Orphan Crushing Machine not working?

Well, given that it was posted in Memes, and after what he said the other day, it's pretty easy to determine that it is parody. However, I do sympathize, as we are living in an age where most headlines appear to have come out of The Onion a mere decade ago, but are in fact the reality we face today.

God I hate him so much... Well he used to just annoy me, but now I hate him

He did not say this, but all-in-all, he did say this

"Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization"

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-know-what-else-used-a-lot-of-energy-human-civilization-2000725167

Im sure he will say it eventually, the bar is really low for this reality.

Right. My question probably should have been "is this based on something he actually said or just a weird joke that I wouldn't get?"

Thank you. This is exactly the answer I was hoping for ^

hold on i'll ask chat g pp (/s)

If it's stealing real jobs, perhaps it is time you should reconsider the 'doesn't work' perspective.

It seems to work just fine my dude.

Spoiler alert: they need orphans to run the orphan crushing machine.

It’s also easier to search for something someone did say, than to search for something they did not say.

It appears to be working, to execs and CEOs. But this will eventually be a problem when you are missing skilled workers who can handle things AI cannot.

lol get lawyers?

Those losers can’t even get parents.

This made me realize that it would be really hard to distinguish between a satirical NDT quote and something I have earnestly and profoundly thought to myself while 2 edibles into a nature documentary. And I'm not sure how to feel about that.

Plus all the water that is needed to piss on their corpse...

I've heard that coconut coir can be very absorbent.

children need to stop drinking water, selfish assholes.

In a mirror, you can kiss yourself only on the lips.

-Neil Degrass Tyson

You know what conserves energy at nearly 100% efficiency?

A guillotine.

That’s called recycling

If this is true: how disconnected from reality must you be to even say that sentence?

Better that than feeding his goddamn Artificial Stupidity company

I think this is satire, based on his 'humans also use a lot of energy' statements.

Like, a thousand times over. Why does he keep reposting that same shower thought? Why is he so obsessed about that? Is there somewhere else he wants to kiss himself in the mirror?

Phew. I am normally not this gullible, but the internet has me questioning what used to be unheard of.

Thank you.

I can't tell if this is real or not. It sounds ridiculous, but he does say some ridiculous things (like how millions of years of humanity have consumed more energy than four years of data centers...). But this just seems so comically ridiculous that I have trouble believing it.

This is why I hate when people fail to make it clear when something is satire. When people get used to doubting everything they see, then suddenly when someone really does say something comically ridiculous no one believes it.

I'll point it out from time to time and people will say "it's just a meme, don't take it so seriously." But we're supposed to be the rational and intellectually honest ones, no?

So why cultivate a meme culture where we can be just as misleading and deceitful as the fascists? This isn't a fire-with-fire situation. Their goal is to rob us of our humanity; if we stoop to their level, they win.

Even if he really did say this, my point stands, because of the simple fact that it's hard to believe at face value due to the prevalence of misleading memes. There's a line between disinformation and satire. Honest memes should make it clear which side of that line they fall on.

Actually had to make sure I wasn't on a NotTheOnion instance.

Ahhh the circle of life!😍

Why do you need to clean the guillotine? Afraid they'll get an infection?

Perhaps I was too harsh. My apologies. I'm just very worried about how people deal with information and truth recently.