Because companies don’t do R&D anymore, they fund startups and aquire them when they’re ripe

Being able to replace workers with AI is a holy Grail for capitalism, and so a ton of companies have poured their saved up “R&D funds” in order to get in early

I think they’re too big to bail out at this point

Also, no one wants US bonds right now, so we couldn’t borrow our way out of it even if we wanted to. We’d just have to print like a trillion or more dollars all at once

Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for

Well, must be nice to live in a civilized country…

Are labels like that actually helpful?

I’m genuinely asking. I feel like they’re not, that with or without it you have to forge an understanding with others

I mean, what would an autism diagnosis provide?

At least with ADHD you get really helpful meds

And the humans move around them, guiding parts into place with mechanical assistance and doing the finer details, because it’s really fucking hard to fully automate the process

Right… Conquer the stars…hides new global warming plan to do nothing about it behind back

But like… You could just make it physical. Put a couple extra leads on the PCB, charge the capacitor, and let the button close the circuit mechanically. You might have to do a couple tests, but that’s better than having storage with a delete button on it

What does a delete button add? It’ll take minutes. Might as well put an e-stop button on your desk that connects to your computer by USB

It’s basically security theatre

I mean, you could probably pick two strategic pins and fry the wells… You might have to do a few of them to make sure that your hit every bank. If you blow through the insulation between them, I can’t imagine any method could recover the data. And it shouldn’t take much current

The liquid thing was just because… You know, solid state drive

Yeah, that’s what I want them to do. I want them to install docker, run some commands, correctly identify their graphics card and driver, and get the networking right. Then I want them to pick the model they want and download it

It’s not about making it hard, it’s about having a level of understanding about how this all works. If you’re using AI, I shouldn’t have to explain to you that it can’t search the Internet unless you manually give it that ability. I shouldn’t have to explain that the LLM is just a file, not some magical Internet djinn

Not to mention the horrifying intrusion on our rights by limiting what we can host.

Umm… You don’t have the right to host anything you want. You can’t host CSAM, copyrighted things, and you have to comply with tons of laws if you want user content

I agree with all that

But what I’m saying is you need a human-scale robot good at moving human scale work pieces to their correct place. These will range in size from something like a screw to something like a human sized sheet

What shape does this better than a humanoid one?

You could specially design a bunch of arms that will remove a workpiece from one station to deliver to the next, but do you have any idea how hard that becomes? You have to design each one to do that specific job, and you’re going to end up with a bunch of unique robots that all need to be maintained, and probably need their own backups in case they break

Everything we make is already human centric, it just does make sense to build humanoid robots. You can have one fleet that handles all of it, they’re interchangable generalists. Ideally, they can even do maintenance

Yes, it’s less efficient. Yes, specialist designs would be better at their job. But it is really, really hard to do full automation, and this is a shortcut to get there

Why are you wiping the data? Why not just slag the whole chip… Hard to read an SSD in liquid form

Because the automated tools are human scale

Even if you rework them all to be fully automatic, you still need a human scale robot to move the work pieces from station to station

I kind of think we should make it illegal to run LLMs as a service available to the public. They’re still cool behind the scenes, but it seems to only go bad when unprepared people talk to them

You should at least understand them well enough to set them up yourself or have someone do it for you. At least that will demystify it a bit

I mean, it could just be a capacitor. It’s easier to fry something than make it delete itself

Certs don’t mean much, if they help open the door that’s fine. The goal is to get a job.

Get one job fixing computers, and you’re a computer repair technician. Get one job designing networks, and you’re a network engineer

No one will be impressed by a long list of certs. Focus on the ones you want for your first job, and once you get it the certs will stop mattering

People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem

…And do what now?

Because AI is the first form of automation that doesn’t run on humans. Theoretically.

Now, can AI replace humans? No, obviously not at this stage. It can help humans do more, but only an idiot would trust it to do something important without a human in the loop

Is it? Yes. They are firing people and letting AI attempt to make the difference. They’re cutting entire departments in some cases