Anonymous
05/25/2026 18:27
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:People keep saying it’s a tool and it won’t “replace” human jobs. I think the framing of that line of thinking is flawed. What will happen is organizations will simply stop hiring and rely more on AI platforms, and just let normal attrition shrink down their workforce. Almost like a slow drip death.
AI is here and it is going to be phenomenally better within five years. So much so that entire business processes will be converted from human form to machine form.
There is no stopping the integration of AI into the business world at this point. It's like climate change. It is what it is.
Anonymous
05/25/2026 18:07
Subject: AI is good
People keep saying it’s a tool and it won’t “replace” human jobs. I think the framing of that line of thinking is flawed. What will happen is organizations will simply stop hiring and rely more on AI platforms, and just let normal attrition shrink down their workforce. Almost like a slow drip death.
AI is here and it is going to be phenomenally better within five years. So much so that entire business processes will be converted from human form to machine form.
AI is here and it is going to be phenomenally better within five years. So much so that entire business processes will be converted from human form to machine form.
Anonymous
05/25/2026 17:32
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:AI is good at destroying the water we need to drink.
Remember in elementary school when we were introduced to renewable resources and non-renewable resources
Fresh water is mostly finite..
Anonymous
05/25/2026 17:25
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The most critical issue with AI transformer technology is how incredibly resource inefficient it is. As a result:
1. It produces massively bloated code. Nobody cares because it works, and things have worked that way for a long time. It’s like designing a bus to transport a pallet of popcorn. Ship it after refactoring with AI. Good enough.
2. Data centers are using huge amounts of energy and resources. The advancements in the models are from exponential time in training each round using these massive resources.
3. There is no current signaling condition to get the companies working on these technologies to slow down investment because of speculation that AGI is just around the corner. At some point, if you stop paying people working on this who actually pay their bills and buy food, the whole thing is going to explode.
Eventually, the music is going to stop. Users are already getting throttled. Then, when the rug is pulled out or the fees are go way up and the ROI isn’t there for the end user, the tool goes away. If you have based entire workflows and working environments on the availability of the tool and a bunch of people have rotted their ability to do the work themselves, everything is fooked.
Or it’s all going to work out and nobody will have to work again or save for retirement
This is what I’m afraid of. Combine this with the fact that a whole generation of current teenagers and young adults has grown up with this and don’t know how to do much themselves, and we’ve got a problem.
And they are just going to be giant surveillance networks.
Anyway, people aren’t really happy about their being built where they live.
https://truthout.org/articles/as-towns-and-cities-fight-off-data-centers-calls-grow-for-a-national-moratorium/
Anonymous
05/25/2026 17:17
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:AI is good at destroying the water we need to drink.
How?
Different methods of cooling the data center.
https://www.fwpcoa.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=859275&item_id=130961
Anonymous
05/25/2026 17:16
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:Data centers suck and AI seems to be looking for justifications. There are billions and billions invested in AI and now it seems people are trying to protect their money not actually meet a need.
I thought we wanted to cut power consumption, reduce water consumption and keep green spaces!
Anonymous
05/25/2026 10:30
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:AI is good at destroying the water we need to drink.
How?
Anonymous
05/25/2026 10:29
Subject: Re:AI is good
Anonymous
05/25/2026 10:21
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:The most critical issue with AI transformer technology is how incredibly resource inefficient it is. As a result:
1. It produces massively bloated code. Nobody cares because it works, and things have worked that way for a long time. It’s like designing a bus to transport a pallet of popcorn. Ship it after refactoring with AI. Good enough.
2. Data centers are using huge amounts of energy and resources. The advancements in the models are from exponential time in training each round using these massive resources.
3. There is no current signaling condition to get the companies working on these technologies to slow down investment because of speculation that AGI is just around the corner. At some point, if you stop paying people working on this who actually pay their bills and buy food, the whole thing is going to explode.
Eventually, the music is going to stop. Users are already getting throttled. Then, when the rug is pulled out or the fees are go way up and the ROI isn’t there for the end user, the tool goes away. If you have based entire workflows and working environments on the availability of the tool and a bunch of people have rotted their ability to do the work themselves, everything is fooked.
Or it’s all going to work out and nobody will have to work again or save for retirement
This is what I’m afraid of. Combine this with the fact that a whole generation of current teenagers and young adults has grown up with this and don’t know how to do much themselves, and we’ve got a problem.
Anonymous
05/25/2026 07:40
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:Pope Leo would like a word.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/europe/pope-leo-encyclical.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lFA.g0nH.1Y6KvQ2l9eU-&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Anonymous
05/25/2026 07:39
Subject: AI is good
Pope Leo would like a word.
Anonymous
05/24/2026 17:58
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:The most critical issue with AI transformer technology is how incredibly resource inefficient it is. As a result:
1. It produces massively bloated code. Nobody cares because it works, and things have worked that way for a long time. It’s like designing a bus to transport a pallet of popcorn. Ship it after refactoring with AI. Good enough.
2. Data centers are using huge amounts of energy and resources. The advancements in the models are from exponential time in training each round using these massive resources.
3. There is no current signaling condition to get the companies working on these technologies to slow down investment because of speculation that AGI is just around the corner. At some point, if you stop paying people working on this who actually pay their bills and buy food, the whole thing is going to explode.
Eventually, the music is going to stop. Users are already getting throttled. Then, when the rug is pulled out or the fees are go way up and the ROI isn’t there for the end user, the tool goes away. If you have based entire workflows and working environments on the availability of the tool and a bunch of people have rotted their ability to do the work themselves, everything is fooked.
Or it’s all going to work out and nobody will have to work again or save for retirement
Yeah, the technology became significantly less cool, when they realized it takes a very skilled person to deploy and maintain all of these AI "solutions" and that your garden variety computer user wasn't going to be writing prompts because most users don't understand the technology well enough, you can't just feed it pdfs.
Then it's an existential threat to Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic's only real revenue streams appear to be extorting Microsoft, trading Microsoft, "early access" so that they can use it to find all the exploits before they release it to hackers. AI doesn't need spread sheets. AI isn't going to license Office Productivity software. Bye bye Microsoft. It's why Microsoft's stock and revenue have been going down.
Anonymous
05/24/2026 14:11
Subject: AI is good
AI is good at destroying the water we need to drink.
Anonymous
05/24/2026 12:21
Subject: AI is good
The most critical issue with AI transformer technology is how incredibly resource inefficient it is. As a result:
1. It produces massively bloated code. Nobody cares because it works, and things have worked that way for a long time. It’s like designing a bus to transport a pallet of popcorn. Ship it after refactoring with AI. Good enough.
2. Data centers are using huge amounts of energy and resources. The advancements in the models are from exponential time in training each round using these massive resources.
3. There is no current signaling condition to get the companies working on these technologies to slow down investment because of speculation that AGI is just around the corner. At some point, if you stop paying people working on this who actually pay their bills and buy food, the whole thing is going to explode.
Eventually, the music is going to stop. Users are already getting throttled. Then, when the rug is pulled out or the fees are go way up and the ROI isn’t there for the end user, the tool goes away. If you have based entire workflows and working environments on the availability of the tool and a bunch of people have rotted their ability to do the work themselves, everything is fooked.
Or it’s all going to work out and nobody will have to work again or save for retirement
1. It produces massively bloated code. Nobody cares because it works, and things have worked that way for a long time. It’s like designing a bus to transport a pallet of popcorn. Ship it after refactoring with AI. Good enough.
2. Data centers are using huge amounts of energy and resources. The advancements in the models are from exponential time in training each round using these massive resources.
3. There is no current signaling condition to get the companies working on these technologies to slow down investment because of speculation that AGI is just around the corner. At some point, if you stop paying people working on this who actually pay their bills and buy food, the whole thing is going to explode.
Eventually, the music is going to stop. Users are already getting throttled. Then, when the rug is pulled out or the fees are go way up and the ROI isn’t there for the end user, the tool goes away. If you have based entire workflows and working environments on the availability of the tool and a bunch of people have rotted their ability to do the work themselves, everything is fooked.
Or it’s all going to work out and nobody will have to work again or save for retirement
Anonymous
05/24/2026 11:56
Subject: AI is good
Anonymous wrote:Data centers suck and AI seems to be looking for justifications. There are billions and billions invested in AI and now it seems people are trying to protect their money not actually meet a need.
There's suddenly a lot less self-congratulatory hype-guy talk about AI replacing all the jobs.