• ladicius@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ai will shorten a lot of lifes due to overconsumption of resources.

    These tech bros really want to kill the biosphere.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I like what John Rennie has to say about Ray:

    Therein lie the frustrations of Kurzweil’s brand of tech punditry. On close examination, his clearest and most successful predictions often lack originality or profundity. And most of his predictions come with so many loopholes that they border on the unfalsifiable.

    Futurist is such a bullshit title, imo. Leo Laporte has a woman on TWiT fairly often, can’t recall her name, but she’s a “futurist” and she’s constantly sniffing her own farts when she’s on.

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      3 months ago

      Anyone who has any wisdom whatsoever would at least reject the title “futurist” and i would expect fart smelling to be the least egregious offense of these self titled so and so’s.

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    3 months ago

    I suggest that the tech bros should be the first to inject llms into their brain stems, if it can be located.

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    3 months ago

    I’m aboard the “AI is overhyped” train, but… if AI allows people to diagnose illnesses faster, that would absolutely lengthen some lifespans. It’s actually a fairly simple conclusion. Maybe the guy is otherwise a douchebag, I haven’t looked into him, but this claim is reasonable.