They are Sci-Fi.

You want to be reincarnated as an Epcot duck. Sure, there are fireworks every night, but other than that, it is easy, fat, living.

No need to subpoena Reddit. I moved to Lemmy.

There is a massive gap between rose tinted glasses and crippling nihilism. By your last comment it seems that we are both somewhere in between.

What I wrote is true, but it does not mean that it is all roses or even anywhere near as friction free as it once was, but you absolutely can still find success in this shitshow.

What you responded is also true. We need strong labor (amongst many other things) and a realistic view of the current state of our society before we can make any headway.

The point I wanted to make is that it does not serve one’s self to throw their hands up in the air, exclaim that there is no point, wait for society to magically fix itself, and do nothing but complain on the Internet.

I believe that we are stronger and more resilient than we give ourselves credit for, and maybe that’s where I concede I might have rose tinted glasses.

It is not. Don’t fall for that defeatist bullshit.

Yes, I am agreeing with you, and I figured that’s what you meant. I am just clarifying for anyone else reading.

I worked my way out of poverty so although I agree with you, I think the wording needs specificity.

You cannot work your way out of poverty by working harder at a poverty job. You have to switch jobs and grow your skill set until you become a valuable enough commodity to trigger competition for you.

That just gets you out of poverty.

Cyberpunk dystopia came before the Star Trek utopia. Earth was recovering from that period of time when humans discovered warp travel. Warp travel is, of course, heavily dependent on computers. In Star Trek Discovery, AI is abandoned because it almost ended life, but you can see the slow creep back towards that path in TNG then Picard. Go forward far beyond the end of Discovery and you imagine a time when humans go to war with and subsequently ban intelligent machines.

I love how Dune and Asimov’s Robot/Foundation series both have intelligent machines as a “yeah, that happened, and it really sucked”.

It’s the near apocalypse in between Star Trek and Dune that’s the problem.

I don’t know what you mean by that. On December 4th, 2024, Luigi Mangione was having apres ski hot chocolate (~4:30 PM Mountain time) with my wife and I in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

That episode hit so hard.

TNG had some random heavy hitters when you least expected them. Lwaxana Troi episodes were supposed to be comic relief, which makes it especially cruel that two of the saddest episodes in the series were Lwaxana episodes.

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Maybe it’s because I am in tech, but not a single person in my friends group drives a pickup truck. Even now that I’ve moved to Wyoming, there are no truck owners. To be fair, pickups suck in our weather. A lot of Subaru and vans though.

I guess what I am saying is that maybe gas guzzling pickups aren’t an American thing as much as they are a specific type of American thing.

Plenty of sedan and hatchback options on offer from Japanese and European automakers. Some are even built in the US.

It’s possible but very unlikely given that they were never given to it nor used in any system where LLMs were tested. My guess (pure guess) is that someone (probably thousands of people) asked Claude to build them something to interact with GOG and provided it with their credentials or a cookie. The LLM is probably sitting on a ton of those and it just used one to test it’s work.

Booooooooo!!!

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This indicates that Flock already pretends that it has the technology to track people and just hasn’t deployed it in a manner that is because it is vaporware and it is not usable by its customers.

So far, everything I have seen from Flock, as far as technology goes, has been lowest common denominator trash. Their too strength is their ability to sell to the ignorant, easily impressed, luddite local politicians and law enforcement.