Ah this point?

You’re own bloody country

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No… Not really. This happens to literally every country as it develops.

Africa is experiencing Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

Yeah, the title calls this out… “Strategic Stamina”. Something meant countries just don’t have anymore

Decline population is an actual thing…? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.

Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.

Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.

There’s even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Blue indicates below replacement levels:

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see this and to see it publicly traded within the next couple years.

You make it sound as if they don’t already have a place in the world. Ml models have been employed to solve problems for the greater part of a decade or more now. Deeply integrated into damn near everything that you interact with.

When you get an MRI or a CAT scan AI helps identify and call out peculiarities.

The traffic lights and traffic management in your city is probably partially operated using “AI”.

Wear and tear on parts of your car are predicted from data using ml models.

Industry sensor data is interpreted and made actionable using ml models.

Telecommunication Network fault prediction and detection.

Energy load prediction.

…etc

But you’re probably talking about is recent hype around llms which are models that are fantastically good at understanding language. Which opens up a whole new field of possibilities when you can combine the ability to understand language with the predictability and reliability of “classic” ML models.

Honestly slapping AI onto a bidet might actually make sense 😂

None of this LLM bullshit I’m talking about more classic ML. You know the stuff that has already been in widespread use in medical, civil, and countless practical fields for the last 10+ years. To great effect.

A bidet that targets? Hell yeah.

Except that the entire premise of this is to allow ai unfettered and unrestricted access to the creations of anyone without any repercussions. And allow AI companies to copy and recreate the works of others without attribution.

Solely to benefit those owners, at the cost of everyone else.

Also guaranteed that this will be one of those situations where IP laws will be removed for everyone except those who stand benefit from this.

So overall there is nothing actually good or winning about this.

You’re cool with it until you realize that they only want to do this to personally gain from it. And guaranteed will protect their own IP, and the IP of every large corporation.

It’s just that you yourself and small businesses will no longer have the benefit of intellectual property. Megacorps can steal whatever they want with impunity since they are the only true holders of intellectual property.

That sounds good on paper until you look at the long history of these people and how everything they do is entirely focused on their own benefit over that of others. They gain something to win here, guaranteed they aren’t going to let themselves lose on anything either.

It’s the same sort of situation as AI regulation. Sam Altman and openai want the United States to crack down and make it extremely difficult to develop new models. Why? So that they don’t have any competition. They already got their foot in the door they want to close the door for anyone else.

This is very likely the same sort of situation.

… Or both?

Why make a false dichotomy out of it?

Yes because when are conversing in person you are conversing synchronously.

Only one person talks at a time and for the most part only one major subject idea question or problem is considered at a time. You talk about one thing and then you move along and talk about another thing.

This is not necessarily the case with written language. Where you have the benefit of talking about many things, changing subjects, and listing information out. And the reader can work through this at their own leisure and at their own pace without feeling overwhelmed

It really is a sad State of affairs that reading comprehension is so bad that people can’t answer questions in written form.

I mean it’s literally written down you can’t miss it.

And to clarify this is more of me complaining because I’ve experienced this a lot. It’s most apparent in online discussions, where seemingly a majority of what you say gets completely skipped missed or misinterpreted and replies often focus on just a couple words of your statement instead of understanding sometimes even just a whole paragraph.

I don’t mind paying that much for our t-shirt I really like but there’s no fucking way I’m paying for a shirt that has a website link on the back of it like some sort of advertisement.

If that link was gone I’d be all over there 😭

I was about to until I saw that pretty much all of them advertised the website on the back of the shirt and for me that’s not okay. It’s not even creatively integrated it just plastered.

If I’m going to buy a cool shirt I’m going to buy a shirt because I think it’s cool not because I want to be a walking advertisement.

Really ruins it for me

I really like these designs which makes me a bit salty about the whole thing…

You cannot get away from advertising, ever, in any society, in any financial system, at any point of time in history after tribal societie.

It’s a concept that you can’t just “ban”, nearly all the problems we have with it today is because it’s uncontrolled and abused. The concept itself though is as unbannable as the concept of “selling” something.

The concept:

“trying to find someone who can use something you made”

Is literally as old as humans moving away from tribal societies.

You can make the best thing in the world, but if no one knows about it, it’s still useless.

Are they not learning from the U.S.??

Your government can, and will, eventually turn against you. Under no circumstances should more power be given to it to compromise your privacy.

Data from now will be used against you or your children 30, 50, 80 years from now by another fascist government. Don’t let that happen at an even broader scale

Are you really suggesting that we take the low quality Reddit approach to high quality subs like /r/funny?

I suppose this is what happens when the lowest common denominator goes down coupled with ignorance of how the lowest common denominator affects community quality.

Communities lose their niche by catering to the lowest common denominator and become homogeneous with each other. This has been a long-standing phenomena on Reddit, one which I would expect to not be carried over to Lemmy since it’s largely a symptom of a user base that has more interest in memes, funnies, and celebrity worship than discussion and real news.