I feel you, but most of us don’t work for silicon valley, in most countries the salaries are average to slightly above average, and being fired or forced to work with tools you don’t want sucks, which is also a workers issue

The red flag is calling people SJWs, not necessarily being one. Most of the time it’s just random progressives who gets labeled as such. So using the word as a pejorative makes it sound like you absorbed the term straight from the alt-right. Which is a red flag.

Nothing wrong with disliking performative people, but again, SJW isn’t even the best word to call them.

Using SJW unironically is a red flag

How good/bad was it compared to the HDD?

Conversely, there are people whose accounts have been frozen either by the US or the EU for political motivations

Don’t let the world change you, this is wonderful

They can vary wildly and it’s very useful to keep a track on it

Considering the MIC is in bed with AI corporations I worry they will get bailed out to some extent, and that the gains will remain completely private, with taxpayers being expected to foot the bill (or alternatively, dealing with the inflation while their wages remain stagnant). I hope you’re right though, I really want there to be a positive in the end, I’m just skeptical on this front.

The silver lining to me is that there’s encouraging developments in FOSS AI, developed mainly in China. Maybe after the crash we can get somewhat cheaper GPUs to run them locally.

That makes the metaphor imperfect, but the data centers are being paid with circular money that isn’t there, based on the assumption that AI will make obscene amounts of money to actually pay their bills when currently they’re losing lots of investor money to subsidize the price, and they’re already talking about transitioning to a usage based system, which might push some enterprises to use a FOSS alternative from China.

We’re in a bubble, when it pops it’s likely many data center projects will be abandoned before they’re done.

Right?

That made my day, thank you

I think at some point we might get better and better at simulating intelligence, and maybe even building actual intelligence in machines, but we can agree that LLMs is closer to your phone suggesting the next word than it is to your brain. If we ever get general AI it can’t be based off LLMs so the current wave of speculation is little more than hype to drive profits up and distract from the problems that already arose.

It’s as we grown ups say, “a hooker who takes all your money but wont love you back”.

I’m so glad I read this lmao

They’ll find a way to make us all pay, but I agree with the sentiment

Maybe they meant abandoned projects that never quite got through the todo list but you’re right. Even my abandoned projects are generally better than the legacy I’ve seen lol

Their point might be that “sexism” is misogyny, that negative attitudes toward men aren’t equivalent to the very deliberate oppression of women, that the enforcers of men’s oppression tend to be men. Comments like that from the post aren’t nice and I don’t care to defend it, but it’s somewhat equivalent to a marginalized person making a snarky comment at those who benefit from their oppression, calling it sexist isn’t accurate if we’re discussing systemic oppression (which generally we are whenever women come up).

That said I don’t know this user, for all I know they’re just reactionary lol

If Google wasn’t directly incentivized to screw us over for infinite growth and profits I’d also believe them here, it won’t stop here, they’ll keep making it harder for us to control our own devices

I hope you rest and recover soon!

I think they’re like bribes so they always remember who they serve

In religious studies, daemon or daimon is used to refer to pre Christian supernatural beings as I said. There’s a huge difference between beings that may or may not be evil vs demons who are generally regarded as evil by definition. Demons got their name from daimons, but they’re not fully equivalent.