And many delivery robots are helped along by a remote worker.

Problem is that it doesn’t really circles but ellipses.

Journalists that are critical and environmentalists first. Then harass anybody with left leanings, make a few examples out of them. The usual authoritarian stuff. It’ll get worse once there are false flag operations.

Too big and entrenched

Switching the PC off when it was updating in the background and now the application will never run again on that PC, but continue to hold a license that can only be revoked from the application itself. Running out of hard disk because it for some reason fails to update the application and is now busy downloading it again for attempt #73, of course without cleaning up anything because that only happens after a successful update. Blocking applications daily or weekly because of updates, and of course you urgently need them now.

That´s standard enshittification. They know they´ve got users locked in without any alternative.

The article is very light on details. There are better articles with some real numbers.

Chargers for a phone draw 0.1W roughly. That’s 0.9 kWh per year, and with a price of €0.35/kWh would be €0.32 / year / charger you leave plugged in. That’s not even a rounding error compared to what my heat pump uses.

Devices with an indicator light barely use anything more. The ones with a display or clock do use more power, usually a few watt, what then comes down to maybe €10 / device / year using napkin math.

And then the subscription price goes up, repeatedly.

Respec the AI with lots of points into Charisma and Legal Dexterity. It also needs a large amount of Gold to get started.

Those rich idiots figure you just have to act a certain way, and they conveniently forget that you also need the talent to justify the act instead of just being born with a silver spoon. It´s also that silver spoon shields them from many of the consequences and being called out.

¨Shall we then donate a substantial amount of money to programs for minorities to show you are not a racist nazi, sir?¨

¨I think not.¨

Selection for juvenile traits – low aggression, openness to novelty and new people – likely made us more social, and produced our immature-looking skulls as a side-effect. Ironically, it may have been this sociability and low aggression that made modern humans so incredibly dangerous to these primitive Homo sapiens.

So we partied the others to death?

And in five years everybody has an app that parses the global raw data and uses its onboard AI to generate all the news and reports in your favorite format and style. It’ll cut out the middle man, like business insider.

That’s something people have wondered since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Is a mechanically mass produced widget the real thing? People even make fun of the biological locally grown artisanal produced food and the recycled hand made furniture. Shein is quite popular with their fast fashion. Except the rich will have tailor made clothes of course.

It’s by definition trying to merge two opposite specs into one vehicle using the worst aspects of the two.

That’s going to be great fun when the AI bubble pops and the subscription prices go up exponentially.

On the other hand, there have been other opinions about education that say it should be about making or researching something. Give a student a goal and let them figure it out using chatbots or whatever.

Technically even 1950s computer chess is classified as AI.

Like the cliché goes: when it works, we don’t call it AI anymore.

Historically AI always got much better. Usually after the field collapsed in an AI winter and several years went by in search for a new technique to then repeat the hype cycle. Tech bros want it to get better without that winter stage though.

And it’s always used to harass a certain group, making that group nervous and causing things to happen so people from that targeted group can be arrested. That in turn is of course the proof they need to say the system is working.