I don’t want to talk too much about what’s around me just out of data privacy reasons but I appreciate the help. I’ll figure it out. I’ve been living like this for years and I’m fine.

Thanks, that’s a really good idea. It’s a good compromise while I’m saving up for a new phone. I’m definitely using this

Thanks! Like even If I don’t find one for this phone, if I find a dirt cheap phone somewhere it gives me options

There is but it’s not a walk in affair. It has too many people depending on it and not enough food. I’m not exaggerating when I say unless you show up 4 to 5 hours early, there’s a solid chance you won’t be getting anything. It only runs every first and third Wednesday of a. Month, and you need proof of residency, a utility bill, a photo ID, and proof you’re on ebt to get signed up. It’s not a reliable source of food. Once or twice a year If there is simply no other way I’ll take the gamble and wait and hope I get there early enough to get something good, but I usually try to fend for myself.

I live in a very rual area and they have very limited resources for people who need help. We don’t have any public transportation whatsoever. It’s not an easily surviveable place for people in poverty, I’m extremely lucky to have a job out here. I just don’t have the resources to leave. No family, no real friends, no money or savings. It’s a bad situation. I’ve been in it for years.

I appreciate the help and advice, but I’m not a good target for it.

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I didn’t know much about y2k, I was just a kid and my family wasn’t tech savvy and hated the idea of me ever touching a computer, which given my hobbies now is extremely ironic, but I know enough about the IT field to know a lot of people worked very hard to fix it.

I don’t know the extent of how bad it would have been, I’m a Linux hobbyist, not a technical engineer, but I’m sure it would have been bad.

Honestly, there’s tons of people here far more qualified than me who could probably tell you how bad it would have been.

Thanks, I’ll take a look when I get home

Quite the opposite. I appreciate you being frank about it. I’m actually extremely bitter about this world. If I didn’t have friends and family who care, I would have left it behind already.

Save up and buy a pixel it is then. Thank you for your honesty.

I was homeless for just shy of five years a little over a decade ago before I got help and eventually got where I am now. It’s not much, it’s not a good situation, but it’s better than where I was and there’s hope of it improving. I’m doing a lot better than the vast majority of the people I knew back then.

I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

Yeah I’m on Medicare but I only get like 37 a month or something on ebt. I’m making too much money for most public assistance as I’ve been on disability for something for decades, but I managed to find a job with decent pay I can actually hold and have been trying to get fully independent. It hasn’t been going well. I’m making too much money for help, but not enough to live.

Still a hell of a lot better where I was like a decade ago. I used to be entirely homeless before I got help. I’m barely surviving but at least I’m doing it with a roof over my head. My situation sucks but I’m one of the lucky ones. Most people like me just fall through the cracks and never get back out.

I’m already on a 1 meal a day over the course of the entire day diet due to poverty. Like not even a big meal. Today my entire days supply of food is going to be a sandwich. I don’t think I need to skip my only meal for the day.

I actually am very lucky to do a lot of foraging that when it’s a good year, supplement what little foods I can buy so it’s not all bad, but I am not eating well. I don’t think many people in America are right now.

Hey I found Waldo!

Jonathan Greenblat can smile and blow me.

Also fuck Isreal.

They would have to wipe out the vast majority of people on the planet. Like the VAST majority. They’d be killing themselves too because they would be killing off basically the entire work force that holds society together. What little of humanity that remains would just be doomed to die a slower death, as nobody would be around to produce food, mine resources, manufacture goods, keep supply lines moving, maintain public infrastructure.

They’d just be signing themselves up to slowly starve to death once the food runs out and nobody is around to make more of it. Not to mention it’s not like the vast majority of people are just going to sit around and be genocided by these monsters. The war effort alone would be enormous, and whoever is left would be traumatized.

Definitely a solid shit post.

I don’t hate Ai because Ai is a tool. I hate the people who are misusing, and mismanaging it. The people building datacenters in the worst ways and worst places possible, the people trying to force feed it to the world regardless of their consent, people who know all of the massive risks of agi and yet don’t seem to care, there’s are so many bad things to dislike about the ways it’s being used that I could be here all day.

But at the end of the day, if someone is using something to hurt you, you don’t hate the tool, you hate the person using the tool.

Those things are not contradictory they just required nuance. If you put an llm in a customer assistance role, it will be almost entirely useless. One had a full on breakdown when it tried to run a vending machine in a test. But give an llm obscene amounts of information to sift through to look for patterns and it will thrive.

People tend to say llm is useless because people running the llm companies tend to push it into deployment in places it has absolutely no business being in, it’s their only real experience with them, and it is usually forced on them without their consent making the interaction negative before it ever began.

It’s not useless but many people encounter it in areas where it’s either not helpful, or an active hindrance. They’re working with the information and first hand experience they have and when they encounter it, they’re usually correct in that circumstance that it is indeed useless. Nuance goes in both directions.

I am not an expert but I know more about llms than the average end user. Let’s go through everything.

• AIs are going to be forever incompetent

  Ai already isn’t incompetent in proper use cases and is improving. HOWEVER when llms are used in inappropriate ways such as far customer service, or legal advice, which they frequently are, they are and will most likely remain harmful and incompetent. They’re great for finding and predicting patterns and processing large amounts of data. The problem is that the people in charge of llm companies are forcing them in everything possible, even when they clearly have no reason to be used for certain things, which causes a ton of issuesm

• AIs cannot create new things

  This is a gray area. It technically creates new things but you need to remember that llms are not humans, what an llm is doing is compiling what it has in its database and regurgitating it back up to be used. When an llm “creates” an image what you’re looking at is bits and pieces of its stored data. Llms do not have the capacity to create anything on their own without this base data. If an llm didn’t have it’s training, it would be a paper weight. This is where this argument comes from.

• AIs cannot do very simple tasks

  Entirely incorrect, it can and does many things. As stated before, it’s great at processing large amount of data. It’s extremely useful for researchers. People have found new planets with llm technology. However most end users only see llms when they are forced to interact with them, and in many of those situations, the llm is being used for something completely inappropriate for an llm, which does make it come off as completely useless. If the people responsible for pushing and deploying llns were not doing this, and were deploying them responsibly and ethically, I’m quite confident there would be far less hate for them.

• AI will replace my job

  Without knowing what your job is I can’t tell you that but they can and have displaced many people’s jobs, and has been a massive bane especially in the art and tech industry

• AI will bring mass surveillance

  Ai is already used frequently for mass surveillance.

• AI can produce deepfakes that are 100% convincing

  It’s already alarmingly close to being able to do this

• AI can be superpersuasive, manipulative

  There are many cases of it doing this. Ai psychosis would not be a term if it didn’t happen frequently enough to need a term

Llms can both be helpful and incredibly destructive. When it’s used properly it can be a major boon, and when it’s used incorrectly, or maliciously, it can and has destroyed lives.

Those datacenters are also extremely harmful to the communities they are built in. They make people’s utility bills spike dramatically, cause immense harm to the environment, and yes, they do use up and pollute a massive amount of freshwater. They are also extremely loud and can cause sounds in frequencies we can’t detect but can and do cause people to get ill. I encourage you to look up everything I’ve said here to confirm for yourself.

Anything can be both helpful and harmful. Uranium can be refined into fuel for very clean and efficient energy… It can also be used to make bombs that are powerful enough to end life on earth. A hammer is great for driving nails into wood, but it can also be a murder weapon. Something can be both helpful and extremely harmful at the same time.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Oh that’s way more intelligent and scientifically grounded than what I was going for… So I assume this means I cannot mark you as down as “Ass-Kin”

Wait. You’re saying that you were born from a dirty asshole and so was I? Does that mean we’re siblings?

This is not execution. These people have done nothing wrong. This is mass murder.