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Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen

we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value eg. magic beans and going to take all our jobs

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leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It seems you’re firmly entrenched and going out of your way to see a contradiction. I’ll let you be.

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- Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.
  
  mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096
  
  Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.
  
  www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967
  
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  - leftytighty@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I didn’t think your point was as shallow as “different people can have different opinions”
    
    I fail to see how this invalidates that someone can hold both the position that current AI is a waste of electricity and pumping out garbage while pointing out the potential social and economic disruption of future iterations of the technology.
    
    If your point was simply that some people hold one position, others hold the other, and others still hold both. Then… thanks? I think we can also call this a waste of electricity.
    
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    Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)
    
    but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect
    
    also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat
    
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