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Today I learned that "snuck" is a considered by some to be a non-standard American word, because I read that sentence and mentally puked, then did some research.

All this is to say, I fucking hate AI and enjoy research.

Dude, I pickup my own food with my own car 99/100 times.

I'm not saying a system couldn't be designed/work. I'm saying time and time and time again, it's been shown that consumers want a monopoly platform for convenience.

The companies are losing money so the C-suite are doing what most small business owners are doing and not drawing a paycheck so they can make payroll, right?

...right?

Donald Trump is worth billions of dollars despite dozens of his projects "losing money"/going bankrupt. I will stop "waving about capitalism" when it stops doing the same fucking thing while incredulous passersby go "surely it must be something else causing the problem".

That sounds great, now convince consumers they don't want Monopoly one-stop platforms where they can order/purchase anything they can think of.

>>So where the hell is the money going??

Are we really asking this question in the year of our Late Stage Capitalism lord 2026? Are we confused about the American Oligarchy working with private equity to dash all the labor gains of the mid-20th century?

It's going to billionaire's Yacht & Bunker funds. The gig economy is about inserting tech into the middle of a functioning system to extract wealth for 4-5 dudes' benefit.

The word is "less", not "no" and I think that's the magical thinking OP was trying to address. Electric cars create LESS emissions, not none.

So it sounds like you're solving for different problems here. If I'm taking a long trip, the primary problem I'm solving for is "time to location" and "difficulty planning" and ICE wins, period, if charging is required mid-trip.

Maybe people want to take leisurely strolls while charging up or will be stopping for lunch at that truck stop anyway, but that does not solve for my problems as well. I don't have a pet, my car's heating/cooling is perfectly cromulent, and I enjoy the act of driving a car.

Also, what is "smooth ride"? Are we talking suspension or accelleration/braking?

Seconding this (also migraines, also someone who works in the healthcare advertising space).

No, I did not try "this one weird trick that doctors hate" and I'm not going to. I'm going to do my own research, I'm going to speak with medical professionals and specialists who understand the MOA of the treatments they're discussing (and what "MOA" even means) because I'm an adult, thanks.

To anyone saying it's not rude: It is when it's just "have you tried X?" because, who the fuck are you? Are you a doctor specializing in my disease? Are you also a sufferer of my disease? Are you a caregiver for someone with my disease? No? Then go away "dude who read something one time".

You want to wander in with unsolicited medical advice, you need to show me that you're not just the same losers I've dealt with my whole life saying "oh man, I have a migraine" when they mean an extremely bad stress headache. I assume everyone with chronic illness has had the same well-meaning gibberish.

It's great that you want to connect with me, but weird that you want to do it about my disease. It might even be a good discussion. But it never is if the lead is "have you thought of this?"

I am not the person to tone police, especially when we're philosophically in agreement that Pelosi is not the issue at hand.

Utah could demand the moon, it doesn't mean that the federal government would agree they have a right to that demand.

Utah can't tell businesses that service the country (or the world) how to do anything in this regard. You can't demand a list of the VPN exit nodes, because no VPN would ever give you that, and if they're outside of your jurisdiction, how could you possibly enforce it (assuming you got the Feds to agree with your law regulating interstate/international commerce now). You can't tell websites to only accept residential traffic, for the same reasons.

The internet sorta fucks states rights (in a good way).

Quick question: How many "fields" do you think this is, and what percentage of all "fields" do you think this represents?

Tech people talking about tech trends spilling outside of tech always gets a bit ivory tower to me...

Remember VR? Remember how Oculus was going to revolutionize visual interface and change gaming forever? Remember how their acquisition by Meta was the beginning of the Metaverse? Because middle-aged couple from rural Missouri probably doesn't.

>>Three of these are what I said to begin with (people consume the AI output instead of patronizing the source) and the fourth is that the quality of the output sucks, which is the part they're actually improving over time -- but that's going to make the first problem worse.

What? The art is not "improving" it's "different". Also, as slop output increases, the models train on more slop. GIGO doesn't seem like it can fix itself if you just robot-centipede it.

Why so many hit pieces? Because public sentiment and media protectionism align. Your original post seems to be arguing a "wag-the-dog situation", when this is more of a "arm the insurgents" situation imo. Why are there so many people upset about AI data centers when data centers have been around for decades? Idk, go look at the buildout rate and tell me if you notice anything in the trend line changing around the time of AI rollout. And it's not just burning fossil fuels, they also require tons of construction and water usage.

And again, some people just hate AI. Full Stop. There is nothing good about it to those people. Hell, I barely think the internet was a net good, so trying to tell me that AI is anything other than a capitalist fever dream to finally replace knowledge workers is going to be a hard sell. This isn't because I'm technologically illiterate or incapable of critically reading an article. Also, plenty of people are using the data centers as radicalizing topic to get people to...stop using fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Your stated thesis was "the better explanation is that the media is out to kill AI/Data centers" and I think misunderstanding how little people outside the tech world actually want AI (you're not alone obviously, it's why we're in this bubble in the first place).

I'm friends with a lot of creatives and artists. We all genuinely hate the plagiarism machine because 1- it's a plagiarism machine 2- it's killing creative jobs 3- it makes bad "art" and 4- it's killing jobs.

I don't think people need to be convinced that "this job-stealing robot that makes trash and accelerates climate destruction faster than the internet was already doing" by hit pieces, plenty of us are just proud Luddites (now if you want to talk about hit pieces, that's a movement that got decimated by bad PR)