What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:
There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions.
“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”
Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.
This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.
Capitalism is so insanely evil it’s honestly kind of impressive
“if you force companies to pay their staff more than starvation wages they’ll just fire people and then those people will starve even faster and that’s just how it is and there’s literally no way to change it or fix this serious problem of people starving”
“if you force landlords to maintain their properties instead of allowing the buildings to decay around their tenants then they will just charge higher rent which will price people out of housing and then they will be homeless, this is an incontrovertible fact and is both inevitable and a morally neutral phenomenon”
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“helping people is bad, actually, and hurting them is objectively a good and positive thing 100% of the time, the world would be worse if nobody was suffering and dying for stupid, preventable reasons”
i can’t wait to see this shithole of a nation burn to the ground!
“A coroner in western Illinois is facing sharp criticism for how he handles poor people who can’t afford to bury their loved ones: He has them sign over their rights to the deceased, leaving them without the death certificate, then cremates the body and keeps the ashes until the family pays $1,000.If they cannot come up with the money, the ashes are eventually buried, along with others, in an unmarked grave. If the family needs the death certificate to access bank accounts or life insurance, the coroner first arranges for the county to recoup its costs from any proceeds.“
My family has literally been living paycheck-to-paycheck since hurricane harvey but we dont make enough to cover all of our monthly bills and the hurricane expenses. Every month we have to pay our loans from the hurricane on top of everything else (rent, utilities, car payment) and even with help we have been struggling almost every month! Late fees are literally destroying us and keeping us this pit that we can’t seem to get out of! We literally don’t spend money on anything recreational besides tv for the kids! We are gettting evicted tomorrow and once again working side jobs besides our full time ones to try and make rent. We have $1205 but are short $670. Please if there is anything you could help with we would appreciate it more then you would possibly know. We just dont wanna get kicked out of our home.
because there can be a store like this full of food and people on the same block starving because they don’t have enough pieces of paper to trade for it.
because the people who planted, maintained, harvested, and inspected all that produce are compensated barely enough to sustain themselves
because in order to drive down the prices of bananas, the us government and american fruit corporations destroyed the democratically elected leftist governments of numerous central american countries, placing murderous despots at the head of these “banana republics”.
because the scars of these crimes against humanity still haunt millions to this day.
I work in a grocery store. We are considered one of the better chains for produce quality, and out of the stores of this kind in the local area, we actually have good produce sparing procedures. Despite all of that, we waste 40% (FOURTY) of all the produce we receive. I throw out my own body weight daily in produce. I am not exaggerating or joking. This is capitalism.
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Not to mention, in order to put acceptable produce on shelves tons of it is thrown away before reaching the store. Most produce grows in thousands of varietals that are suppressed to make Supermarket ideals of produce for the public. Generic strains tend to be less healthy than wild versions, corn is a good example. But the idea of plenitude is what capitalism loves to sell. Unless it’s Amazon, then there’s only 2 left, buy it now!
Procrastination Station 