“You need 2 years of experience for this entry-level ditch digging job”

Yea, Court. Whoops. Thanks for the link!

Noted. Wishlisting Titanium Quest for when I carve out some time

I’ve been playing my favourite kind of cozy point-and-click adventure on PC… Doom Eternal. (The demons are the puzzle and you point and click until it is done.) (Doom 2016 is better, tho - no Marauders, more ammo, more upset Hayden…)

As for phone, I’ve been trying out Google PlayPass and it might be the only Google service I keep using (unless/until I find a non-google alternative). I love no longer seeing ads or microtransactions in games. Some games I tried:

• Mini Metro (fun subway/tram/train network building game with daily challenges)
• Monument Valley (puzzle game about impossible architecture, alien geometries, and regret)
• There Is No Game (looks inside, finds game. False advertising smh my head)
• Human Resource Machine (great programming puzzle game, terrible IDE)
• Machinarium (cute robot-themed puzzle game from at least 10, possibly 20 years ago… UI design didn’t age well)
• INMOST (small horror metroidvania-ish adventure thingy)

Yeah… and I don’t think we can leave the outcome to chance. Because wealth disparity, if left unchecked, is still going to exist after this happens (and probably get even worse).

AI generated “content”. Especially when it’s blatantly obvious and/or when they’re lying about it.

(checks climate chart) …it’s not just you, unfortunately

Please elaborate.

We can still make it happen. The AI isn’t coming as fast as the techbros are hoping. We still have time.

Yeah, having people’s livelihoods threatened tends to get them a little upset.

I am glad you are fortunate enough to not yet suffer the consequences of capitalist automation.

Thank you, and likewise!

(Got some restful sleep, will make progress next)

I believe they are saying that since the previous state was not functional, returning to it would not count as recovery and one needs to fix underlying problems that existed for most/all of the USA’s history.

In git terms: Reverting the branch to the pre-2016 state will not be enough because the issue was caused by old technical debt and one will have to refactor that as well.

They’re basically the same “adapt or be left behind” hype

Because of all the other stuff connected to “AI” that pisses people off. Deepfakes, slop, interview algorithms, threats to livelihood, big data mass surveillance, autonomous weapons used for human rights violations, …

You can try to convince people not to hate the technology itself, but you’d be putting the cart before the horse. We need to deal with the cause of the problem first.

Unfortunately, big tech soured the entire field. Your fight is with them, not with regular people having imperfect yet understandable human reactions to that.

The problem is that, to most people, the idea of AI doing their job seems like a threat to their livelihoods given the current system. And it’s a reasonable concern to have.

Please elaborate.

“Everything” was supposed to mean chores, not art and all the other stuff that makes life worth living.

Also, there’s this whole “having to earn a living” thing that we haven’t gotten rid of yet.

And tentacles. Best stay inland and away from aquariums and seafood.