Just wanted to butt in and say that you definitely need your hard drives checked. Strange hills and what not.

Four hundred thousand dollars.

Hey man, he didn’t say any of that! Weird thing to bring up

You’ve been fed a ruse, even those who make nothing pay taxes.

How can you be so sure?

Our thought processes contain mechanisms that are not well understood, to the point where LLMs (as a side effect of human programmers’ inability, not to their discredit) are unable to effectively mimic them. An example of this would be ChatGPT encouraging self-harm where a human assistant intelligence would not.

Man I sure hope it’s the former!

At least we agree it’s spam

What’s more likely, few guys created numerous accounts just to downvote your spam or people just tend to dislike spam?

The inner workings of “AI” (see: large language model) are nothing more than a probabilistic game of guess the next token. The inner workings of human intelligence and consciousness are not fully understood by modern science. Our thought processes are somehow “better” because the artificial version of them are a cheap imitation that’s practically no better than flipping a coin, or rolling a die.

The solution you mention includes millions starving to death.

I wish we had better options, but you can’t enact change on a system until you’ve secured your own survival.

Owning a car does not secure your survival, quite the opposite effect in most cases actually.

Furthermore the idea that publicly traded companies have some kind of obligation to make as much money as quickly as possible is a reddit-born myth.

Shareholder primacy wasn’t born on reddit, it was actually Milton Friedman who theorized of it, the Michigan Supreme Court who wrote it into precedence, and now American citizens who have to live under the consequences of publicly traded corporations having a distinct legal obligation (against the belief of some legal academics who argue otherwise, in bad faith nonetheless) to provide a profit for shareholders. This also applies to PE, who take this notion of a, once again, distinct legal obligation to provide profits for shareholders above all else, as what you would call a “Get out of jail free card,” i.e. fraud and thievery is completely fine if you’ve got shareholders to feed.

But a CEO acting in good faith has no other obligation than to fulfill the tasks asked of them by shareholders.

Shareholders: “We demand more profits, please start acting in bad faith so I may purchase another boat this afternoon”
CEO: “ok”

Alternatively:

Shareholders: “Profits, please”
CEO: “no”
Michigan Supreme Court: “The death sentence is on the table”

This is how this has played out since 1919, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. Wax poetic about theory, in reality people are starving over the sheer necessity that the shareholders want another buck.

Perfect, you’ve now successfully created a car-dependent society. Deaths by auto accident have skyrocketed, your people are constantly road-raging for some unforeseen reason, and your air quality sucks. But muh freedumbs.