Week 26 - AI's Double-Edged Sword: From Humanoid Robotics to Job Disruption, SpaceX Valuations, and Canadian Political Controversies
Another week of utter disbelief with the world we’re in - and I can’t even rant about it on LinkedIn without being called a Luddite.
I don’t think I’ll ever truly get the Valley’s obsession with wanting to replace humans. Laying off people en masse, creating robots, pumping up fake and utterly useless stocks to make everyone in on the Ponzi rich, while we’re all left scratching our heads wondering what the rules were ever for.
Actually, scratch that, I could go in-depth on all of that, but I won’t here.
Funny enough, I’m all about the bread and circus and fully in on the World Cup.
Canada comes up big, first time making it to the round of 16.
Iran gets screwed bigly - you’re telling me we got VAR to the millimeter calculating offside, but the stoppage time clock, well that’s just a vibe? Dunno man.
Also - who doesn’t love a dose of Liberals being pansies - says this bleeding heart centrist who just wishes we could all be friends 😬.
“Anyway, here’s hoping this week of Futbol, Football, or as the purists call it - Soccer - is as fun as it has been.”
Tech
Humanoid robots are just egotistical. Why confine robots to two arms and two legs?
Why not robots with six arms or others designed to scale walls? Why apply the same physical limitations to machines?
This obsession to replace people is diabolical.
I actually rate this.
The medical system can be opaque as hell. Using AI to figure out the right questions to ask seems a bit liberating in self-advocacy.
I would think acting on AI recommendations alone to be a bit cracked out, but as a sounding board for ideas, I am for that.
So, let me get this straight.
Tech Bros use a plagiarism tool to generate an app and get defensive when accused of plagiarizing from a free, open-source project. They blame the plagiarism tool for possibly plagiarizing, all while insisting they didn’t plagiarize.
Sounds to me they likely plagiarized. 🤔
In ‘The Big Short,’ they explain how the housing financial crisis was caused by wrapping worthless assets in more worthless assets and pretending it had value.
That is SpaceX. It is just a matryoshka doll of Elon Musk’s failures and debts, one buying the next, buying the next.
So Kind of You, Sir.
‘I think once we realized it was something we had to do, we made the decision it was the kindest thing that we could do for the team to do as early as possible,’ Prince said.
Cloudflare saw a 34% year-over-year revenue surge to $639.8 million.
LOL. Fuck these cunts.
Ah, man…
I am so deeply saddened by this news. There is no way anyone ever saw this coming.
What heartbreaking news! My sincerest condolences to all those affected. If only there were signs, warnings, or safeguards to prevent things like this.
Hopefully, Elon recovers quickly.
Could You Make the Switch?
As much as I want to, and as much as I think I am not addicted to this thing, there are too many creature comforts to give up.
Maybe a side-burner phone for certain moments? Am I ready to go back to fully analog?
Probably not. Maybe that is more of a sign that I need to. 🤔
Was fun while it lasted.
Like woodworking and most other crafts, AI will replace most software development, while niche, bespoke software development will live on for highly specialized and valued cases where the Ikea-esque code will not fit.
Sucks. I have to find that pivot.
Politics
Social Media Is The New Media, and it should probably be governed as such.
I got off X (formerly Twitter) because the race-baiting and the polarization became so extreme (it was tweaked to be so).
It is interesting watching racists and fascists adopt the language of civil rights movements and spin it as their own.
The Bait and Switch.
Most actual progressives have known about this bait and switch for some time.
It is the right-wing individuals who are in denial about it.
Liberals definitely get away with right-wing policies that conservatives know they would get killed for.
Monsanto Would Be Proud.
‘CropLife Canada urges the government to move quickly towards the implementation of the updated mandate.’
No kidding?
Food scarcity and optimizing yields are good things.
Using ‘cheat codes’ that can potentially poison us? Probably not.
Sports
The Straits Never Getting Opened.
We had to travel a couple of hours for every game.
We were screwed on VAR by a last-second goal with a hairline offside call and a sneaky goalie.
We were eliminated after Austria scored in the last second of an oddly extended stoppage time.
This much misfortune makes one think. 🤔🤔
Surprising… Kind of.
When you pre-book all the hotels, anyone traveling can’t get in, especially as prices spike, so they need to change plans.
Even if those rooms are given back later, people have already moved on.
Not to mention how stupidly expensive tickets were.
Culture
YOOOOO!
Avatar is back! 😁😁😁😁
I had no idea this was coming back this year for some reason.
I thought it was slated to return over Christmas or something.
