I used my computerized assistant, which is way better than my Palm Treo or Blackberry, but does essentially the same thing. I am not even saying that they are not useful, your application sounds interesting. I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process.
I used my computerized assistant, which is way better than my Palm Treo or Blackberry, but does essentially the same thing. I am not even saying that they are not useful, your application sounds interesting. I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process.
"I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process."
You blog about sustainability. I blog about Culture and philosophical and operational Politics. AI impacts both of us but I'm not whining about it. Like the US Marines maxim: "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome". You can either do that or go sit in a corner.
And you ARE better than just sitting in a corner - buckup, bucko. It's merely another Disruption in the Marketplace like the Information Era before AI and the Industrial Revolution before that. Agriculture, bronze, iron, steel...advances changed what was the status quo. Creative Destruction. I've lived through it just in my industries. Learn to learn anew is the best advice I can give you.
Be brave - DO something!
Seek and find out the opportunities that your entire life experiences have prepared you for, Lloyd - and then LAUNCH yourself at them. Well, at least one.
"I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process."
So what of the millions of jobs you're actively hoping to axe by ridding the world of fossil fuel extraction, refinement, and delivery industries? Or of the ICE auto manufacturing, maintenance, and repair industries? Or monoculture farmers and cattle ranchers? There are a myriad of industries facing annihilation each and every day by gullible climate "crisis" blowhards who think nothing of the people's livelihoods that are at stake should all those industries go away. (It's like Biden saying West Virginia coal miners should "learn how to code" instead as a way to feed and support their familiesтАФtotally out of touch with reality.)
I find it deliciously ironic that only *NOW* after A.I. has begun impacting your *OWN* personal industry you're expressing concern of the perceived perils of what A.I. can render obsolete, wanting its use/impact limited or banned. Why not afford that same freedom and equality to those people who's livelihoods are dependent on things you don't like, such as fossil fuels and large-scale agriculture? Why is your industry the one needing protection but not those who provide 86% of the world's energy use and feed billions of people around the world?
Ok so we are climate crisis blowhards trying to kill those fine jobs in the fossil fuel industry and gasoline cars, oh and cows, you donтАЩt believe a word that I write. Why are you here? I like having a тАЬloyal oppositionтАЭ as GraniteGrok calls it, but it seems like you are wasting your time.
VB makes great points on the hypocrisy front. "Sustainability" requires that millions are out of jobs, either directly or by death.
Doubt me? Look at the "sustainability" strictures that the EU and national bureaucrats have tried to place on farmers by a myriad of ways. THEY lose their jobs - the food that they are not allowed to provide means death to others.
You rail about "progress" in the computer field - I rail about the actual harms from "progressive" (re: socialists and de-growthers) all too willing to accept the broken eggs from their Utopian omelet.
At least with AI, people can re- or up-skill themselves and move on from the current "buggy-whip" computer industry. To the second, people just die.
Which is more evil, Lloyd? The first still allows choice - the second removes ALL choices (in the name of sustainability).
I used my computerized assistant, which is way better than my Palm Treo or Blackberry, but does essentially the same thing. I am not even saying that they are not useful, your application sounds interesting. I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process.
"I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process."
You blog about sustainability. I blog about Culture and philosophical and operational Politics. AI impacts both of us but I'm not whining about it. Like the US Marines maxim: "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome". You can either do that or go sit in a corner.
And you ARE better than just sitting in a corner - buckup, bucko. It's merely another Disruption in the Marketplace like the Information Era before AI and the Industrial Revolution before that. Agriculture, bronze, iron, steel...advances changed what was the status quo. Creative Destruction. I've lived through it just in my industries. Learn to learn anew is the best advice I can give you.
Be brave - DO something!
Seek and find out the opportunities that your entire life experiences have prepared you for, Lloyd - and then LAUNCH yourself at them. Well, at least one.
"I am in a business where people are losing their jobs to AI and I do not see why we should aid and abet the process."
So what of the millions of jobs you're actively hoping to axe by ridding the world of fossil fuel extraction, refinement, and delivery industries? Or of the ICE auto manufacturing, maintenance, and repair industries? Or monoculture farmers and cattle ranchers? There are a myriad of industries facing annihilation each and every day by gullible climate "crisis" blowhards who think nothing of the people's livelihoods that are at stake should all those industries go away. (It's like Biden saying West Virginia coal miners should "learn how to code" instead as a way to feed and support their familiesтАФtotally out of touch with reality.)
I find it deliciously ironic that only *NOW* after A.I. has begun impacting your *OWN* personal industry you're expressing concern of the perceived perils of what A.I. can render obsolete, wanting its use/impact limited or banned. Why not afford that same freedom and equality to those people who's livelihoods are dependent on things you don't like, such as fossil fuels and large-scale agriculture? Why is your industry the one needing protection but not those who provide 86% of the world's energy use and feed billions of people around the world?
Ok so we are climate crisis blowhards trying to kill those fine jobs in the fossil fuel industry and gasoline cars, oh and cows, you donтАЩt believe a word that I write. Why are you here? I like having a тАЬloyal oppositionтАЭ as GraniteGrok calls it, but it seems like you are wasting your time.
It is always good to know what your "opposition" is doing. We must know what is coming around the pike so we are not blindsided.
VB makes great points on the hypocrisy front. "Sustainability" requires that millions are out of jobs, either directly or by death.
Doubt me? Look at the "sustainability" strictures that the EU and national bureaucrats have tried to place on farmers by a myriad of ways. THEY lose their jobs - the food that they are not allowed to provide means death to others.
You rail about "progress" in the computer field - I rail about the actual harms from "progressive" (re: socialists and de-growthers) all too willing to accept the broken eggs from their Utopian omelet.
At least with AI, people can re- or up-skill themselves and move on from the current "buggy-whip" computer industry. To the second, people just die.
Which is more evil, Lloyd? The first still allows choice - the second removes ALL choices (in the name of sustainability).
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/10/green-activists-menace-humanity/