Canconda
@Canconda@lemmy.ca
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 days ago:
Totally. But that’s not what I’m saying. Just to recap.
Buddy said AI/automation/clankas/gonks save money so if we want humans to provide us services we need to be willing to pay more. I posited that money being a barrier to human interaction is probably not a good endgame.
When I had my first ever surgery, I got wheeled into an operating room full of strangers operating who all introduce themselves and participated in making me feel safe and calm. If it weren’t for them, I’d have 100% freaked the fuck out.
Now I’m okay with robot surgeons and dentist doing what they’re programmed to do… but I don’t fucking trust them. I would only accept that kind of treatment if there a human in control of that situation.
That’s where my mind goes when I imagine a world where human provided service is paywalled.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 days ago:
The prices you’re paying for your purchases are lower across the board because they don’t have to pay for as many cashiers.
In theory yes. But that’s not going to be universal for every product. Not every product can become a “loss leader”. So to a degree it depends on the individual shopper.
I should warn you, those stores are probably more expensive to shop at.
While that’s true, you have to admit that stores with zero checkout automation also likely lack the buying power to purchase in bulk like the large retailers who can afford checkout automation.
My philosophy with grocery shopping is I want it to be done asap. IMO self-checkout isn’t inherently faster than cashiers. It’s arrangement of single queues leading to multiple registers that speeds up the lines.
Additionally, I prefer to bag my own groceries so that I know the fragile items won’t be damaged getting them home.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 3 days ago:
I would fully agree. But it could still get worse.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 days ago:
because its significantly cheaper to the consumer of the product/service."
This. The only example where I pick a robot over a human is self checkout… and that’s cuz it’s faster due to there only be 1 queue for several checkouts. Not because it saves me money.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 days ago:
what do you really save when you personally save for example $.30 on a transaction when the AI spends five dollars in energy?
Exactly. The economy right now is a big ball and cup game so that the rich can convince workers to keep funding their kleptocracy.
We pay taxes for public services and utilities that generate private profits while the rich get to benefit of the infrastructure that we funded. The cups, the balls, and the god damn table were all built and paid for by the working class.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 days ago:
business point of view, how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator
Inversely; How comfortable would you be in a society where you couldn’t access another human if you couldn’t afford one? Because that’s where prioritizing profit over people is going to lead us.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 days ago:
tools to delete or garble their entite post history
I had a 6 year account when the API scandal hit. Paid a small fee to deny reddit whatever 2 cents my comments are worth.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 5 days ago:
$10000 ICE will use this data to charge POC women crossing state borders to access abortions with murder and deport them.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
Well the value of the USD is based on the bond market which is essentially based on USA’s GDP.
I’m not saying stable coins don’t exist. I’m explaining the fundamental valuation difference between crypto and national currencies.
Also traded /= transacted. In the context of OPs question, the existance of stable coins has not pushed the needle on crypto from a trading asset to liquid transactable colloqueal currency.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
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It’s actively transforming global agriculture. While the USA failed to innovate Canada has integrated blockchain into it’s agricultural sector to facilitate unparalleled trackability.
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Blockchain transactions are painfully slow compared to other payment processers. BTC is only 7 transactions a second. VISA handles 65,000 transactions per second.
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Crypto currency isn’t backed by a nation’s GDP; which is effectively the mechanism that gives money value. However USA just passed laws recategorizing crypto issuers as financial institutions; that must comply with regulations such as having a % of their liabilities(crypto) as collateral (Cash). So we shall see where things go.
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- Comment on USA right now. 1 week ago:
Sir this is for shitposting. Please take your comedy gold elsewhere.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
some have interpreted that to mean cats see us as really strange kittens,
Not just the meowing. Bringing dead animals is also thought to be related to maternal instinct or some other social behaviour.
I do agree though that people are running with this stuff further than the science has verified.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
No oligopoly is when several companies control the market. Monopoly is when a single company controls the market.
Quit jerking off during zoom class bud.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Free market baby. I’d wager you have crypto wallet if you the kind of person who cares about hentai games. Go support the developer directly if it matters so much.
Hentai games are not going to make the 98% of people who don’t play them care about Payment Oligopolies.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Totally. I’m arguing that the only people with puritanical reasons are the Australian karen group.
VISA etc are acting for purely financial reasons. Like they literally have matrixes for this kind of thing. Corporations don’t give 2 shits about fuck if it doesn’t make them money.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Collective Shout is Austrailian.
I think they also got Left 4 Dead 2’s poster edited to remove the V fingers.
They also got an rpg rape simulator delisted, though that probs would have happened on it’s own.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
A Action group of Karens who in the past have succeed in getting other games (one of them an rpg rape simulator) taken off of game stores.
This recent story they convinced payment processors to pressure steam into removing most of their adult games as well as some other site that I guess has even more adult games.
IMO if a platform decides they don’t want to host adult content, that is their prerogative. The people conflating this to “art destruction” or “censorship” are just another flavour of people who misunderstand what free speech is and isn’t.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
Well thanks for letting me know I don’t need to bother with that site /s
- Comment on Trump Media Is Now a $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet 2 weeks ago:
It’s not gonna collapse until it becomes properly regulated. The rich have realized they can pump and dump crypto and leave retail investors holding the bag.
- Comment on Trump Media Is Now a $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet 2 weeks ago:
It’ll work to because MAGA supporters will see the USD tanking and buy right into the grift.
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Truuuue. ty
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
you made me lol
- Comment on Think about it 2 weeks ago:
Oil is made from trees that died before bacteria evolved the ability to digest lignin, not dinosaurs.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 3 weeks ago:
Good. Lot of these companies contribute nothing to society other than GDP and consumerism.
You can replace workers with AI but not customers.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t Italy elect a far right neo-fascist government?
Hopefully gamers take notes.