Quote (UsEr_SeLeCtEd @ Jun 4 2026 11:36am)

I Moved to Silicon Valley in 2008. My very first impression of the Bay Area and the tech work force and venture capitalists in Palo Alto was that they are all soulless drones who care about nothing but money, wine and social hierarchy. Oh and they are all closet demon worshipers who like to have orgies with high school girls on molly. Seriously, we needed to drop a nuke on the Bay Area back in like 2012 to save our civilization but I’m afraid it’s too late now. These are the very people responsible for rigging elections, covid, and now ai taking over everything.

Quote (SBD @ Jun 4 2026 12:01pm)

It is a discussion of 50 years out. Its a discussion centered around kids and grandkids future, I myself predict a sort of UBI eventually where the wealth gap grows even larger and although work-time may be reduced, quality of life will decrease since no one seems interested on putting guardrails on anything, your UBI will cover basics if that and you will be taken to the cleaners at every opportunity. Gut consumer protection even further and start to really expolit basic necessities, power, water, food, etc.

Quote (Coerce @ 4 Jun 2026 14:58)

It's not feasible for people like myself who are partially disabled. I still work, I'm not going to be one of those people for as long as I can, but I cannot do trades anymore like I used to befoee getting hurt.

Quote (KraftDinn3r @ Jun 5 2026 05:23am)

What type of injury do you have, if its ok to ask?

Quote (Coerce @ 5 Jun 2026 09:16)

I was in a car accident (not my fault) that messed up my back. I went from doing physical labor with no real problems, to having to learn new skills and try to navigate life with serious limitations.

But I refuse to be on disability or take advantage of the system until I physically cannot walk, which does happen sometimes during flare ups.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jun 1 2026 12:57pm)

Not long ago there was the tongue and cheek saying of learn to code as many struggled on main street America. We've come full circle today with coding going from 100% human to probably 90+% generated by AI very soon. The updated 'learn to code' is 'become an entrepreneur'.

I work in finance and this isn't limited to tech. AI is being pushed so fucking hard that you can't go a day without hearing about it. I have an inside joke on my team that when a managing director mentions it i need to respond and tell him i already have a Lord and Savior, because fuck me it's being treated as the end all be all. Pretty much everyone in the org has anxiety about it. Mgt wont say it out loud but we all know that the perceived productivity gains of today are the headcount reductions shortly thereafter. We have one guy resigning in two weeks, going to a different bank and we already know that his req wont be opened again, similarly to last time someone quit, they just tell us to leverage AI for the remaining team to do more with less. In reality the AI is incrementally beneficial, sure makes some things easier to do but you still need to audit it a ton and check for DQ/hallucinations and so on.

It's the reason why Nasdaq & SP500 is going parabolic, labor is a huge cost. CEOs and board are rewarded for pushing AI, so naturally the whole herd does it. We can find ourself in a scenario where all these AI companies crash but that doesn't mean humans are coming back and you will see huge headcount reversal.

Quote (Bruv @ Jun 2 2026 01:04am)

Yeah...
Some of these interviews, between shit like this, and 2026 tech keynotes is starting to sound Hella dystopian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujJ74iC41c

These guys aren't even being shy about it anymore.
They are now straight up saying they are selling ai to other companies on the premise that ai provides fast results while human labor takes years to obtain and train.
Is your job safe should be a question you ask yourself.

"Buy our products so you don't have to hire people"

We already knew that 100s of thousands to millions of workers are having career options lost or changed by ai.
We already saw this with advances in personal computing decades ago. Many people never made it back to a good economic standing.
Legitimately curious if world governments will take the next step forward to protect their citizens' livelihoods.
A person shouldn't have to compete against a machine to put food on the table. They didn't see it last time. Will they see it this time?

https://youtu.be/ugNnw4lAMWA?si=DEhZ74yAF2r6dEym

The current US government as usual can be expected to do nothing because the fortune 100 suite owns them.

The ai bubble can't pop fast enough.

Quote (Insein @ Jun 8 2026 07:44am)

I don't think there is any problem with AI advancement itself, the real problem is peoples ability to adapt to it.
Some things AI is pushing have some real limitations. For both the AI and for humans.

AI is also very expensive. It uses gold, electricity, data and it goes out of date very quickly.
These expenses will be what causes the AI bubble to hit a point where it can't go any further for the average citizen. It will get so expensive that it will be counter-productive to use it.

You will know when AI has reached these limits because blackouts will start to happen.
Can you imagine a blackout for two weeks? If you thought a lockdown for 2 weeks was bad imagine people doing that with no power on....sheesh.

Quote (IR0K @ Jun 4 2026 06:47pm)

I dont see an issue with it, what are the negatives?