Parzivus

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Surely this will receive as much coverage as the initial reporting clueless

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to do the labor aristocracy thing, or that the entire service industry can be automated, just that a lot of the jobs that only exist to keep people employed can also be done by AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I mean, something like 75% of the US economy is service sector now. We successfully automated a lot of physical labor and outsourced the rest to the developing world, but instead of working 15 hours weeks, everyone just does meaningless shit. At least some of that can be done by the shitty AI we have now - customer service, receptionists, telemarketers, etc.

I guess this is basically just the premise of Bullshit Jobs, but now even some of the service sector can be automated. Ideally that would lead to UBI or something similar, but I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (6 children)

A lot of jobs at big companies don't have any justification to exist in the first place, I'm sure AI can do a nothing job just as well

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Texas is trying to make the Mexican border look like a parody of Saw. The Feds are still sane enough to know that's bad optics and got the Supreme Court to let them cut it down. Texas won't budge, their governor (Abbott) has mobilized the national guard and started frothing about secession, and some other Republican governors are also sending troops over there.

IMO this is more election year blustering but January 6th proved that Republicans can go hard on that shit so who knows

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will vote for Biden if he starts the civil war 2 in Texas

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I don't care enough to remove it tbh, especially on mobile. Fixed this one though peppino-suave

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

This is how I found out Texas is "seceding" btw

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (19 children)

Blockade is working

 

The author estimates that limiting consumer vehicle height to 1.25m would save around 500 lives per year in the US

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