This is actually what Ted Kaczynski said.

He argued that most people spend their time engaged in ultimately unfulfilling pursuits to cope with these abnormal conditions; he called these “surrogate activities”, wherein people strive toward artificial goals, including scientific work, consumption of entertainment, political activism, and following sports teams. Kaczynski states people do “surrogate activities” to satisfy the “power process” in which people strive to be independent and to achieve power over themselves.

He predicted that technological advances would lead to extensive and ultimately oppressive forms of human control, including genetic engineering, and that human beings would be adjusted to meet the needs of social systems rather than vice versa.

In the end, Kaczynski predicted that with the rise of artificial superintelligence, the mass of the population would become a “useless burden on the system”, and the elite would either keep them in a genetically manipulated state of subservience or eliminate them altogether.

This guy had a high IQ and studied in elite universities. I‘m not advocating his actions (killing people) but see his strong forewardthinking. I hope humankind doesn‘t walk the dark path ge described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

„I known that I don’t know the unknowns“ is even more valuable. This sentence can be said by mastery only. See the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

That’s vibe coding bugging

Wow, can the Tech-Bros bridge the Democrats-Republican-Divide in US? Everyone hates these Uberrich oligarchs (how we call them in Germany „way-too-rich“)

I mean their entire life is running on autopilot. No idea who they are and what they wanna do with their being. Hard questions with possibly tough outcomes. It’s way easier to wander your mind then to focus on your life.

Indeed. Most run on autopilot.

It‘s not the emdash you miss — it’s the comma you love.

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews.

Unfortunately, the regional court is the lowest court stage. This will climb up until highest German court and after this to the EU court, I expect to see.

Being then a „Grundsatzurteil“ that is leading all courts in Germany. Our legal system isn’t case driven.

In my German region are many family names called „Lange“ „Langer“ „Langes“ which means tall guy.

https://medium.com/the-investors-handbook/the-spacex-openai-ipo-wave-a-once-in-a-decade-wealth-shift-108044b270e3

Short: Hands off SP500 and Nasdaq ETF as they will buy the three mega IPO to list price, even though their guardrails say only stocks that are one year in market at least. For their uberrich buddies the bankster stretch the rules. Typically, the IPO list price is fantasy and the price goes down first months. In essence, all ETF holder gets a devaluation through this, meaning a money transfer from standard peole to the uberrich billionaires. I moved to SP500 small&med cap ETF.

It more and more reminds me on Futurama and this chamber with the speaking heads in jar glasses. Just let those AI bots talk to each other and feel competent. In their little dull chamber.

And thanks to Banksters all standard people will pay the bill. Through the ETF „we pay IPO price“ scam

Having this indicator in mind, it’s a bit fad to spot AI text easily (and everwhere)

I‘m not a bot — AI m a bitch.

Browsing over this text, I see directly, that it’s written or at least fine-tuned by AI. The overuse of emdash is obvious — instead a simple comma.

It isn’t new — it’s interesting 8-P

Good point. I wonder what will happen when those robots drive towards a mirror.

Deserved to get fired.

He wrote about the danger of AI as well and the need to supervise/ check it. And did not do it himself!

I love it.

Just bought one two months ago and it’s pretty easy. Technical progress is fast and it’s cheap.

You best buy a combi: a battery including a microinverter. This allows you to feed in up to 2000W or 4 PV panels. However, here in Germany you can only feed 800W max into your house grid. All above will stored in the battery in given back slowly after sundown.

Technical setup: I have three current lines in my house (don’t know how in US it looks) and the system feeds power into just one of it - the one where the plug is plugged. I have a smart meter that tells me if this very current line has demand (oven, fridge,…) and I can open, adjust or close the power feed. This way I feed ZERO power into the grid out of my home as the system adjust the power amount to what I need in this moment.

I bought mine with 2 panels, 900W, 1,8kWh battery for 700€. Payback under 2 years.

That’s where a vicious cycle can form: increased capability leads to increased output, which leads to higher expectations, which then pressures further expansion

Same as The Digitalization promised. Instead of reducing work we receive and send even more emails, chats, and notifications.