Is this good? This is good right?

Yeah it’s a reference to the president’s day protests. He’s mocking you.

For sure there are plenty of people that don’t produce any real value in their work, but that’s been the case since forever and they’re hard to weed out because in some ways their full time job is to ensure their ongoing employment.

As in most things, it’s a question of extent.

The most accurate statement you can make is that AI will make “most” office employees “more” efficient.

The thing is, this has been happening with every technological advance for hundreds of years.

There’s no evidence that “more advanced AI” is going to emerge in the next few years.

Sorry this is just plain wrong and there’s no evidence of this at all.

People have been saying this since the invention of the comptometer.

Anyone who’s job can be replaced by an LLM isnt producing any value.

For the rest of us it’s an incremental improvement at best.

It’s a good point and deeply concerning.

It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if Trump decided to invade somewhere just because he can.

Especially if his economic measures start making him look bad.

My global political history isn’t great, and maybe others can correct me here, but it doesn’t feel like the US has had much of a stabilising effect in the last 30 years.

There’s plenty of conflicts that just don’t make the news that the US just isn’t interested in. Poor places with no oil or other resources. Presently Burma comes to mind. There always seems to be somewhere in Africa, last decade there was genocide in Congo IIRC.

Also it’s not really clear whether their involvement in the middle east over the last few decades was positive or negative.

It’s nice to have them hovering around South China Sea to keep China in check I guess.

I don’t think it’s surprising at all that you’ve never heard of a Dyson sphere. It’s not a very popular idea even in science fiction.

There’s not really enough to sort. I just put them in a box.

You can describe someone like this as a socially conservative democrat.

I only keep one spare of each type.

I use cable ties to keep them coiled

I’ve discovered that I find drinking hot water to be very refreshing and hydrating. Just sip from a cup of hot water just like coffee or tea.

Its probably not very hydrating because you can’t just chug half a litre like you can room temp.

Just saying, a preference for cold water even when it’s cold is for sure a learned behaviour IMO.

Ooh good one. I wonder what the flat earth explanation for this is.

Anyhow, the persistent belief in something like a flat earth isn’t really a question of evidence.

To most people the way we understand the world around us is through the scientific method. As in I have not personally observed the results of testing vaccines on thousands of people to ensure that they are safe, but others have and others have reproduced their findings, so I’m happy to accept their published assertions.

However, there’s plenty of people for whom the scientific method is merely one belief system amongst many, and you can simply choose which group resonates with you.

Additionally science tells us all sorts of unpleasant things about ourselves that we don’t really want to hear. Why would I want to listen to “science” telling me I need to exercise more when this nice lady on facebook tells me that this crystal can realign my chakras and restore my health.

Yeah it really was pathetic.

Like they took a stand while it was cool, but then capitulated rather than face removal.

I’m deep in phase 2, just building up to phase 3 I think.

ADHD memes do seem to resonate with me, but I’m not sure I experience the deleterious effects to a severe enough extent to really have diagnosable ADHD.

Even if I am, I’m not sure stimulants would be the right way to go, and I’m already doing my best with ADHD style interventions to support productivity et cetera.

Australia checking in. It’s a Tyre. Tire is seppo spelling.