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All of those things make sense when there aren’t constant headlines calling the regime you work for evil and pointing out daily all the bad things they are doing.

That’s the difference between working for the government during presidents previous to Trump and working for the government now.

There are a lot of things you can do working for the government that in years previous to the cancer currently running the place now could be seen as valuable and important.

Doing research into the effects and safety of drugs, climate change research, allocating public funds to education and the park service etc. Testing food safety.

Those jobs are still important despite the fact that the Cheeto in Chief is wrecking everything he can get his hands on.

At the same time, there’s jobs that people do where it’s obvious that they are looking to reap benefits now and hoping those benefits will protect them in the future. Press Secretary, Political Advisor, Head of Homeland Security.

There’s a line somewhere. Where you might be able to convince yourself that your work is important or meaningful or just plain not evil but you’re absolutely not telling people what you do for a living because you know that they won’t like it. People don’t face backlash for being garbage men or forensic investigators or Hazmat cleanup.

The people building AI are getting a daily dose of the harms that AI causes. This industry popped up basically over night and this isn’t a slow burn kind of thing. Its been moving fast and breaking things and ruining lives all in the public eye.

People also view their government as a sort of necessary evil. Psychologically that’s different than any random corp.

I think I’m just saying that when you’re faced day in and day out with the harm your work is doing, to the point where you recognize and admit it’s doing harm, rather than being able to say “my work is insignificant and makes no difference”, then rhere has to be something else.

Nah. They don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it’s likely that these ads have been reported a lot and still ran as long as they did. Continuing to run ads like this when you get complaints is more than suspect.

This, even after they were told they could no longer stop and frisk you for just standing around.

Not necessarily right, just inconvenient for him. That’s what happened with Anthropic.

You’re doing great!

And a snack.

Your guess is as good as mine. There’s lots of people working in industries that are actively killing us. The whole “no ethical consumption” bit extends pretty far. When you’re poor it’s acceptable to do “the best you can”. As your economic standing grows/when you’re rich, there are diminishing returns on how much sympathy society will give you over what they view as choosing to destroy the planet or humanity or whatever.

The view is that if you have money you can do something about it.

So maybe some of them think they are helping. Maybe some of them view it as a damned if I do damned if I don’t type scenario. Maybe some of them think that the money will help them in the future that is coming.

This begs the question, why continue to build it? If you believe AI will “kill us all” then why are you continuing to help. This guy quit but he references this being a common belief in the industry/workforce building out AI.

My best guess is the money is good and you figure you’re here for a good time, not a long time.

Yeah. Wheel chair users are a good example. If you can’t leave the wheel chair at all, then it’s acceptable. But if you have the ability to walk short periods without it’s all the sudden “you’re faking”.

Same with if you have some vision but your vision is heavily impaired. Or if you’re hard of hearing but only in a certain range.

We just don’t hear about it as often when people have physical disabilities.

False. It follows directions or hallucinates. The problem is that when it follows directions, those giving the directions haven’t given any thought to the scope of what it’s capable of or what it has access to. So they give directions that are incomplete or open ended, and add no constraints. if it hallucinates usually that involves its output to the user which almost always means the user has to be able to understand what the output should be and therefore be able to vet the answer given.

The people leading the push for his prosecution are very much out of touch with that reality though. Cops and prosecutors have some of the best healthcare in the country.

To convince the public he’s guilty. It’s one of the ways they skew the narrative.

Remember in the movie “SWAT” where that mobster guy who entered the country illegally to kill the one guy and then offered money to get him out? That’s Hollywood doing their part to put the idea in our minds that this kind of thing is warranted.

People do want to help Luigi and that scares the shit out of them too. They expected people’s moral compass to make them side with the CEO he shot. But that’s not what happened. The general public is very much pro Luigi.

Socially there is the potential for some lack of social skill development. But on the other hand, Autistic people generally don’t have the same social skill building or the same social norms as neurotupical people so what you are experiencing may just be that on top of societal pressures.

All that being said, no one is the same. If (when societal pressure is removed) you are okay with your place in life and how you’re living it, that should be enough of a reason to not worry about it (I know that anxiety can play a role in whether or not you actually can “not worry”).

I would say you’re doing the best you can, but if there is something you personally want to get better at (social communication etc) then I think there’s no reason not to work on that.

I’m high masking. People generally only find me off putting after prolonged exposure to me where they start to see my mask slip. I have a hard time being articulate mostly at times where there’s a high stress high emotional environment. I lived at home with my parents til my mid twenties when I joined the military. I have a younger brother with more severe and debilitating autism and he needs constant care. But my parents are divorced now and neither of them is in a situation where if I went back I could do much to help. All that to say I’m not exactly in the same boat but I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong.

It helps the police track your kids.

It’s better for them because it does two things. It keeps you on the page longer (which allows them to steal more data from you or sell you more ads), and it normalizes their LLM.

I work in the field. I really liked the weather tile from Windows8/10 because my computer often would tell me at a glance if the weather was going to turn nasty. That was handy.

What makes you think creatives don’t benefit? I think it depends on what it is and who publishes the thing. Lots of Indie game developers do benefit from purchases of their games. There are entities that tend to benefit more (publishers, store fronts, etc), but that doesn’t mean that the people who made the game don’t benefit.

It’s the same with music. Labels definitely benefit more. Streaming services benefit more. But at the same time that doesn’t mean the artist who made the music doesn’t benefit.

I think people should be paid for their work. I was happy to pay for music and movies and games. But I am not going to pay for something just to have it ripped away at a moments notice just because of corporate greed.

Additionally, I fully understand why someone would pirate when the thing they want isn’t available to them to purchase, or is out of their price range.

It would be simpler to just overlay Bluetooth or RF signals it can read with signals so numerous and strong that it is overwhelmed. The main problem with that is the size of the hardware you’d need.

You could pull the 20 phones in a trench coat thing that one guy did to create “traffic jams” where there were no cars.

lol. Guess Rumbas are illegal now. I guess it’s good the company is out of business.