Posts by LucreLout

Re: re: AI still doesn't work very well

In financial markets there's a moment of capitulation where everyone fighting against the start of the direction change just accepts it. It's a necessary precursor for the direction change.

I've gradually given up on rational arguments against AI. It's just not stopping no matter how much I think it should. Will the bubble burst? Eventually yes. Will it go away after? No, not now, but it would change.

I want you to be right, I really do, but I've finally capitulated and accepted you won't be. The sooner you join me the sooner this shit show can change direction.

Re: The next year 2000?

That would be the absolute sweet spot for me. Recently retired by then, come back for a last blast couple of years on a contracting gig at insanely high day rates to finish teaching millennials and gen z proper architectures and coding in a post AI world.

I'm not holding my breath mind. What we want in life is so rarely what we get. At least once you're 40+.

Re: worried that AI will dehumanize public services

Personally I'd much rather deal with an AI than many of the public servants I meet who are bored, jaded, burned out, and inefficient. That's before we get to stroppy, surely, and moody.

There's a reason most of us keep our interactions with the state to a bare minimum.

Re: Key takeaway

The problem is when you're having a piss in the pub toilet and one of these wankers walls in.

The people filmed aren't always the terminally online.

Re: Who would wear AI glasses during "extremely private moments" ...

Hi Clarence, I noticed you're trying to smash Chlamydia. Would you like a little help?

What would be infinitely better would be ensuring those in the content, owners or not, can delete content featuring themselves. Better yet, give folks an automatic right not to be filmed and enforce mandatory blurring of all who select it.

Or is facial rec not good enough for police use yet?

Re: describing the allegations as "concerning."

That's the problem I think. Like a lot of people I simply don't look closely enough at everyone in a room to know there's a pair of these there.

Maybe we could legislate to make them saleable only in hot pink, a shade reserved so no other glasses come in the colour. Knowing there's a pair about is half the battle.

Re: describing the allegations as "concerning."

I can see a use for augmented reality that takes a nice camera feed, but it's really time the privacy laws in the UK were updated.

Recording, either as pictured or video should require consent, and it's beyond certain that permission must be required to upload someone else to social media.

The alternative is clout thirsty brainouts treating every interaction with anyone else as content. The works had changed since our laws were written, when being photographed in public mostly meant the background of someone's holiday snaps, not being targeted for monetized humiliation.

Re: Another war for oil

Its you who choose to slant it that way to mark anyone as antisemitist.

If it walks like a duck....

The real question for folks of your ilk, is why you despise being called out for your antisemitism, instead of just learning not to be antisemitic in the first place. It might help, no?

Re: Another war for oil

Or the same people with the same hate for non-Jews use anti-semitism as a dog whistle to prevent any criticism of Israel

Quack quack oops. I'm neither Israeli nor am I Jewish.

Re: Another war for oil

So Israel is just incompetent then?

Careful, careful to not kill civilians.

You really are defending bombing civilians for more than a year?

They've been bombing Hamas. Can you have a guess at why? Or do Jewish kids not count?

You really are a sorry example of a human

Right back at ya champ. I don't know how you people sleep at night.

Re: Another war for oil

The problem with posts like yours, is that under the disgusting mask of antizionism always, always, lies the disgusting face of antisemitism. It's the same people with the same hate. Always.

Re: Another war for oil

Yeah, sadly it's totally true.

You again have no basis in fact for your post. It's just school playground rhetoric.

Re: Another war for oil

"Provoked", seriously?

You'd have to be dangerously antisemitic to not consider October 7th as provocation.

Palestine was a very brief British invention that ended more decades back than ever it existed for. Your obsession with it is illogical. I mean, are you campaigning this hard for Yugoslavia? Czechoslovakia maybe? If not, why not?

The land was never "Palestinian" except when Britain made it so.

The Jews are a very distinctive ethnic group, tribe if you like. If their land is not Jerusalem the where is it you think they come from?

Re: Another war for oil

70,000+ dead in Gaza

Yeah, no. All we know about the numbers is that hamas lie and massively inflate them. Also apparently no terrorists have died, if you believe hamas.

Remember the hospital bombing where they claimed 500 died until it was shown to be their rocket, where miraculously, the number dropped to 50. That's a big miscalculation somewhere.

It's done nothing to minimise civilian casualties

Lol. Aside from leaflet drops, supplying aid, safety zones, evacuation corridors, and withholding their biggest weapons from use. Aside from more than any other military in history you mean? Facts after man, start using some.

Re: Another war for oil

Genocide? In Gaza? Lol, no.

If Israel wanted to kill Gazans there would be millions dead. They're actively trying to avoid it more than any military in history.

You've clearly absolutely no idea what genocide actually means. Again, I ask not to insult you but to understand, but are you still somewhere in the school system? Only, I'm wondering if you're just too young to know what a real genocide is.

The NHS death toll isn't all that far behind the IDF, so they can't be trying all that hard.

Re: "the good sense to leave the US & Israel to slog it out"

Lol. That's just factually incorrect. They're the only democracy in the middle east and our only strategic ally in the region.

Re: There are elections later this year

So you don't care about Iranian citizens? Or you do but this was just too much of an opportunity to dump on your favourite hate objects? I'm genuinely unclear which message you want us to understand.

Re: Another war for oil

You're not going to come here and try to pretend Iran wasn't developing nuclear weapons, are you? That would be really quite incredible given its satellite tracked activity at its nuclear mountain base.

Re: Another war for oil

Why on Earth would you be worried about Israel having nukes?

Everyone knows they have nukes. They have been provoked to the extreme by Gaza, and still did not nuke them, in fact they went extensively out of their way to reduce and minimise civilian casualties in Gaza. Two big bombs would have wiped out about 80 to 90% of Gaza's population at one stage, quite without using nukes. Israel isn't the problem.

The problem is the last 8 years of ambitious advancement of Iran's nuclear capability. As we've seen the last few days, they're completely unsuited to nuclear weapons, or half he middle east would be gone this week.

Re: Just Weird

That would have to be the weirdest and probably the most innocuous conspiracy theory I have encountered in a very long time

Its not a conspiracy theory, its a fact.

You have google, you can literally google this and see for yourself. It's been widely reported for a while now.

Re: "the good sense to leave the US & Israel to slog it out"

Keith already managed to get the UK involved

As much as Starmer is an absolute cretin who has been a disaster in every job he's ever had, and does always chicken out (SACO), it's hard to blame him for this one.

There's no way any war this close to us doesn't end up using our bases at some stage, and Iran have mindlessly lashed out at everything in reach, including us and our allies (Israel and the USA). There's nothing else he could do but allow our bases to be used.

Re: Another war for oil

Given the widespread distribution of attacks over the weekend by Iran, which can only reasonably be described as mindlessly lashing out at everything in reach, is that really a regime you'd be happy to see achieve nuclear capability? Really?

Negotiation totally failed. They've had decades to come tot he table, and were not many months or years from a nuke. This had to be done, and done now. Its genuinely astounding that you don't seem to see that.

Re: Clarification needed

In English, get HR to help managers automate webinar workloads.

Re: > AI's seem to come to the same conclusion.

Just switch the damn things off

I'd love for that to happen, but I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that it's never going to happen.

AI will only play a larger role in our future than it does in our current day, with what is likely to be large scale job losses through increased automation. I've got about a decade left in my career, and I'm switching all my future upskilling to working with AI because, sadly, its that or get crushed by it.

Think about all those 20 deep hierarchies in the public sector - most of you are in one - once you remove those at the coalface in public facing roles, and you remove the top tier interacting with ministers etc, its probably most of the organisation. All of those roles are massively at risk, because their main function is writing reports which get incorporated into the next level of reporting above. That can all be readily automated now. Its not just the number of jobs in the public sector at risk though, its all those career paths folks assumed they'd have that won't exist in what has to now become a much flatter hierarchy.

Out in the private sector, the job losses, at least in tech, are well in train already. Linked in is full of folks that haven't worked in 12+ months due to not being able to find the next job thanks to greatly reduced hiring. The tax base is very likely to be meaningfully smaller over the next decade and so that will further force the state to cut its cloth according to its means, because we can't default on the massive public sector debt we're carrying already.

There's gonna be hard times to come, so yeah, I'd love to just switch the damn things off for a few years, but its not going to happen.

Re: Benjamin Franklin and human rights

Lol. People disagreeing with you aren't apologising for anything or anyone. They just think your take is laughably wrong.

I don't mean this in a bad way, but are you still in school? I ask because all you've done is show up, hyperfixate on one very badly made point, stamp your feet and abuse anyone that doesn't agree with you. Which on the face of it appears to be pretty much everyone. It's the sort of mentality you find in school common rooms.

At one point Britain was balls deep in slavery before we pulled out and abolished it everywhere. The fact we chose to end slavery in the world is of far greater importance to the modern world than the fact we used to make money off it.

Not all historic facts carry equal weight, and Franklin's later life carries more importance than his youth. It just does.

By hoarded do you mean saved and invested?

Re: Blaming the wrong people

Hilary I don't know what my husband is doing in that jacuzzi with the teenage girl Clinton?

I find it hilarious that in the UK the democrats are the lefts favourite party yet they're so far right leaning they make Reform look like Marxists.

The empty moralising of the left is tiring and pointless, given that almost all the horrors of modern history begin with one flavour of Marxist or other going too far.

Human rights, freedom of speech and science are not leftwing values. Not only not exclusively left wing values, but barely left wing values at all.

Re: Blaming the wrong people

Let me guess, the right party is labour, right?

So ID cards, war, surveillance society. All the good stuff, yeah?

I realise SACO, but is there really anything you can think of to point at that this right sort of government of yours are doing that is going well?

Re: Kathy Burke said it best...

Liberals are centrist or slightly left of centre and believe that people should be left to get on with their lives but that the state should be there as a backstop.

That's accurate only in so far as it's what the center right believe. The center left believe in the state as a partner in their lives, not a backstop.

All socialism is about control because you cannot have socialism without first establishing control of the people. Nobody will accept equality of outcome without it, a core belief of the left. Note the difference between equality of outcome and equality of opportunity, which is a right wing belief.

Re: Kathy Burke said it best...

Also history, that their entire concept was created by the literal stasi.

Re: Strive to be the Earth's Best Employer?

At 4:30am you are not in problem solving mode. You are not rehearsing arguments. You are not reaching for policy documents or drafting responses.

Genuinely interested in what you think that achieves? At best you're trying to stay where you're not wanted.

By the time you're being consulted about redundancy decisions, in my experience the outcome has almost always been determined. What is it an employee is going to propose that the management structure hasn't already considered? There's almost never anything to be done about it other than address practicalities - notice, enhanced redundancy payments, last day etc.

There's no good way to be told about it, though there are certainly much darker shades of bad.

This is why, no matter what anyone may tell you, you never confuse an employer for "family". Jobs come, jobs go, its entirely normal, and just part of everyone's career arc.

Re: "too many firsts in Artemis III mission"

I'll go. It'd be worth the risks.

And that right there, becomes the problem. No matter how big those risks become, there's very definitely someone out there willing to have a very large firework jammed up their ass and go for launch. NASA, at least after Challenger, embraced the idea of extreme risk reduction, which as we can see in the essence of the do more on each of fewer launches approach, has once again gone out the window.

But fuck it, gimme a seat and I'll still go. My life has been lived and that long painful death at the end is getting closer, much closer, and I'll take my chances on the best ride in the solar system.