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« Reply #69795 on: November 11, 2025, 04:36:08 pm »
So far breaking windows at Starbucks isn't getting people to insured either.

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« Reply #69796 on: November 11, 2025, 08:03:07 pm »
Perplexity is an asshole too.
All AI is an asshole. It is fake.

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« Reply #69797 on: November 11, 2025, 08:04:24 pm »
I have a pre surgical CT scan coming up on my neck then surgery. This ain't no day surgery.
They wouldn’t if it wasn’t needed. I think you are in good hands.

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« Reply #69798 on: November 11, 2025, 08:06:13 pm »

So you are defending anarchy. One thing your sort has never been able to answer: What is your point?????
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« Reply #69799 on: November 11, 2025, 10:10:18 pm »
All AI is an asshole. It is fake.
It’s a machine.

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« Reply #69800 on: November 12, 2025, 12:27:23 am »
It’s a machine.
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« Reply #69801 on: November 12, 2025, 12:38:35 am »
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« Reply #69802 on: November 12, 2025, 06:46:48 am »
It’s a machine.
It is a tool. You do not seem to understand that.

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« Reply #69803 on: November 12, 2025, 11:25:33 am »
It is a tool. You do not seem to understand that.
A machine and a tool is the same thing.

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« Reply #69804 on: November 12, 2025, 12:48:09 pm »
"..Reminder that AI is "propping up" the economy the same way a tape worm props up your metabolism.

It has completely choked off all capital investment to any other activity for years. It completely devours resources needed by any other endeavor. And for all that, it produces practically nothing that people want or need. It's strangling the economy.."
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« Reply #69805 on: November 12, 2025, 01:35:43 pm »
"..Reminder that AI is "propping up" the economy the same way a tape worm props up your metabolism.

It has completely choked off all capital investment to any other activity for years. It completely devours resources needed by any other endeavor. And for all that, it produces practically nothing that people want or need. It's strangling the economy.."
This statement makes no sense.
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« Reply #69806 on: November 13, 2025, 09:21:56 am »
How AI is Devouring the Economy


I didn't think my job would be touchable because it takes a lot of years to have the experience I have and you also have to be reasonably fit because it's fairly physical although not exactly chain gang. I have to move all over the place between areas of a building and machines and different tools I use. So I figured that's just physically too much complex movement for a machine to efficiently duplicate. You could probably train a monkey after a while but not a machine.

 Here's how it can happen and probably already is... Big chunks of houses are prefabbed in a shop, trucked (eventually by driver-less trucks) to the job and assembled. There will be robot tenders and people tending computers that analyse every movement and cross-reference that against every shred of financial data related to the movement and calibrate it for maximum return on investment. Everything is timed, video'd, recorded. All family owned business....cabinet shops, tool and die, veterinary clinics, dental offices, funeral homes, houses, are being snapped up by private equity groups, the long-term expensive employees are replaced and AI  overseas the management of the robots and the interpretation of all the data and making things ever-more cost effective and concentrating the accumulated wealth among a smaller slice of the population. It's feudal.  It is abso-fucking-lutely dystopian and I'm glad most of my life was lived before this evil shit descended upon our species because I think it'll be our ruin.

Also, why the fuck are people shopping insurance companies instead of doctors and fearing coverage being denied more than whatever cancer is eating them? It's insane.  All this crazy shit happened during my lifetime. 
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« Reply #69807 on: November 13, 2025, 09:29:18 am »
There will be no more pensions - there are almost none now. Houses are unaffordable. The average house in America is 400 grand. Cars are 50k. Simultaneously, jobs are $15 an hour packing boxes at Amazon warehouses or sweeping the floor at Walmart...until drones do that. There are no more architects, estimators, artists, realtors or writers. That is all gone.  "machinists" sit at keyboards with clean hands. A $100,000 bachelor's degree gets you  minimum wage.  We're there.
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