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Tons. I think if people read my opinions on AI they likely see me as a luddite.

My concerns are not about whether it's useful. It's that if the 1% use it to replace most actual workers, the lack of input will make future models actually worse than current ones, and at the very least would stifle innovation.

I'm very concerned about models built on the IP (voluntarily given or not) of people, being used to replace those same people.

I'm very concerned with where we go as a society if we do go down the route of losing so many jobs.

I'm concerned about the race to get the best model, using so much energy and natural resources.

But do I think AI is and can be a very powerful tool, to enhance productivity? Without a doubt it can.

Well see, a lot of businesses are B2B. Now yes for sure ultimately their customer's customer's customer is going to be a normal person. So eventually the lack of custom and with it, revenue will hit them. But, here's the thing I've observed about large organisations (not just businesses). I liken their operation to be very similar to insects. That is, they don't really plan ahead, they're reactive purely to stimuli, and mainly just do "what the other orgs are doing" without thinking about the effect beyond the only horizons they can see. Month end, quarter end and year end. Anything after the end of their current financial year. They're not even thinking about right now.

So, the point is, this logic while completely correct will fall on deaf ears.

Yeah. Pretty sure back in the 90s, no one actively used GiB. Well, MiB (not the will Smith one) more likely back then.

You said it was 8mb of memory and people knew, it would be the nearest power of 2. You'd say 120mb hdd, and well, going to be honest a lot of people said it was "formatting losses". I don't think most people were aware they were being fleeced back then.

This was my thought too. 64GB is 64GB (powers of 2) when it comes to RAM unlike storage media. So if it shows as less, something is allocating it at or before boot.

Time to pull a Trump and invade the Falklands as a distraction? (Again).

I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check.. Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!

Yeah I could convert it. But there's some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.

Yeah one of them was Debian 12 for sure.

I mean I updated my servers and some of them on LTS releases that were not the very latest one were still vulnerable after a reboot. Hence I disabled the module on those servers. So it's worth checking your version definitely has a fix available.

Just to note, if you are on an LTS version (which many people running servers will be), it's likely an upgrade will not solve this. In which case you should check your installed version and if not yet corrected, disable that module. For most people it is not used anyway.

Right. I mean I don't know how far back we'd need to go to find a truly free market, possibly before we have the concept of money. I think fair is also too subjective for me to give any real definitive article for too.

I'm not writing a wikipedia article here[1]. Just writing a comment on what is just an internet forum.

[1] https://kbin.life/m/workreform@lemmy.world/t/588402/CEO-pay-soared-in-2025-20-times-faster-than-workers/comment/7663743#entry-comment-7663743 "just a comment" posted to kbin.life, part of the threadiverse.

So. Ultimately, yes. But I think their hold on politicians all over the west has not loosened yet. But governments will need to do something at some point. Not least because if AI and robotics continues to remove the number of available roles humans are required for, and the number of humans needed for the roles that do remain we'll reach a point where not enough tax is being paid. But in any case there is a definite feeling that while those that were middle class and above were safe until now, I would argue they're targeting everyone who isn't in the 1% now to try to siphon more upwards so that they can become the 0.1%.

Recall that the only trickle down economics that exists is the tax system. Those with money don't pay tax. But they do pay the employees that pay taxes. Pretty much all the taxes. There will be a critical point where there will be too many people unemployed, or just not paid enough to be covering the cost of the benefits systems, especially those over here in Europe etc. It should be no surprise why those on the right that are seeking power and are backed by those with money, are also wanting to shut things down like the social healthcare system here in the UK as an example. Eventually these will collapse if things continue how they are.

Governments will need to collect money from those people they've always been happy to give a free ride. Either that, or there will be a revolution. Again, no surprise the richest people are building bunkers/otherwise finding hideaways for themselves. They know the end result of their way of life.

When talking about this, I generally say we've not hit the bottom yet. We've not reached the worst this will get yet. We have some way to go and things are likely to get pretty bad.

So in summary, yes it will be needed. Don't hold your breath for seeing anything like that kind of action any time soon. It'll take a lot more visible depravity before they're forced to act.