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Unfortunately, people have thrown out all pretense of caring about proper justice or first amendment rights. There really isn't any point in arguing with them because they'll continue to make spurious associations or illegitimate defenses as to why their enemies deserve to be locked up for life.

> What makes you think it is not happening right now?

The fact that they don't exist? You have to prove that they exist to make your point, and so far nobody's been able to actually prove their existence. And I'm speaking from direct, professional experience here.

Those stories if you notice are mostly from decades ago, or are from the wealthy csuite deciding to start their own company with rich connections. AI has supposedly accelerated massively in the past two years yet we haven't seen startups appear at that same rate, even with the level of layoffs in the industry. Well outside of AI startups all looking to buy shovels for gold.

They don't have to prove anything, they can just lock you up waiting for either a trial or a plea deal for over a year and still ruin your life.

Seems like a remarkably stupid idea as opposed to just having an extensive encyclopedia downloaded with a very thin client you can use to read from it.

In an actual survival scenario power isn't guaranteed and errors of any kind can be life or death. So you need to minimize the resources used to get the thing working.

Who is going to fund these smaller companies? Why do you think this isn't happening right now as we speak? Where are these companies made from these layoff discords in the past two or so years?

> There is enough until the company hits the early 2020 approximate headcount

This is an incorrect way of looking at it. Microsoft was growing at approximately 10-15% headcount year over year prior to COVID. If they reverted to the approximate 2020 headcount that would mean an overall decline in growth in comparison to a situation where COVID did not exist.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize we're on a forum where you're not allowed to criticize how people price things. My mistake, I'll be sure to tell other people to censor their posts ahead of time.

> Why does this matter? I see the AI detractors still can't cope with the fact that you're allowed to charge for AI generated work.

It's interesting that you immediately call them an AI detractor because they refuse to pay for something that's low effort. You're not entitled to someone's money and people certainly aren't required to pay for something if they think they can just make it themselves. You're complaining about a bed of your own making, where you want to act like it requires a lot of effort while people replicate it effortlessly.

People drink the koolaid incredibly hard about AI capabilities, yet none of it has materially resulted in anything beneficial for your average person. Software is at minimum still buggy and at worst you see larger and more frequent bugs (see: the recent gaffes by Microsoft). Anything involving a computer is now far more expensive, AI has become highly intrusive into our daily lives as it's foisted upon us no matter how many times we say no. There's so many ways it's made our lives a little bit worse that it's no wonder why people outside of the tech bubble despise it.

I mean, 17% as a whole. But when you have the younger generations going as high as 40% saying that murder was acceptable (and note the question phrasing here is about as negatively charged as it can get) you surely have to see the disconnect here.

Unfortunately, all of these slop-ports will wow and amaze people that have zero intent of actually playing the game. They're the software equivalent of clickbait.

Companies aren't earning the majority of profit from your average joe buying products anymore. The consumers are investors: Rich assholes with too much money, gamblers, and true believers. It's a lot like how McDonalds true income comes not from consumers but from holding and renting out valuable plots of land.

I think the job numbers somewhere down the line are being massively cooked. Speaking personally, I and a lot of other senior software engineers I know have struggled to find employment in a job market that is among the worst we've seen. Layoffs keep going up while available jobs can't keep up.

There is a huge disconnect between the worker experience and whatever the job numbers say, similar to the disconnect between consumer sentiment and the stock market/corporate profits.