That isn’t it. If you think bad weather and a flu is something to be scared of, try imagining what several thousand hydrogen bombs would do.

Leaving aside the reductionism, the difference is that we are already seeing the effects of the "bad weather" and we all lived through [1] (and, to a point, are still feeling the effects of) the "flu". No "ifs" about it.

There's no need to worry about a threat that has been theorized for 70 years (and may very well never happen) when there are actual, real catastrophes happening right now.

[1] Well, except for those who didn't make it through. They are not here by definition, but their memory is still fresh.

Consider that stores create reward point systems specifically for the purpose of connecting a customer profile to purchases.

Yeah, the bigger chain stores already have most of this information. I don’t know if tying it to an actual ID would make much difference.

Might be worthwhile to find a provider that lets you use a mask and inpainting

I’m not sure there will be consolidation. There’s too much room for specialization and even when the models are trained to do the same task they have very different qualities and their own strengths and weaknesses. You can’t just swap one for the other. If anything, as hardware improves I’d expect even more models and providers to become available. There’s already an ocean of fine tuned and merged models.

Somethings not adding up. Why is Amazon making financial plans for the next decade based on continued OpenAI spending but you’re saying AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t even close to being profitable, so how can they last a decade or more?

Who’s wrong?

I take it you don't remember 2008

Are we before or after the part where they start throwing money out of helicopters?

That's the interesting question, right? Because if this unwinds during a period of external inflation (say, because of a big war and energy shortage) then even the Bernanke would say helicopter money won't work

The marginal cost of food/electricity/bed for adding one additional person to a family is drastically less than those things would cost for a person living alone. Whichever way you slice this, the employer is making out like a bandit under this scheme.

In fact, you could do this for a homeless person today, in any city on the globe! And never even ask them to do anything for you!

Absolutely crazy they haven’t revived this yet given the popularity of streaming.

Yes and then in the TTRPG Shadowrun

That’s exactly what they’re supposed to be. The Flipper Zero is also a type of cyberdeck.

There is a possibility that the agents become better at managing the company than the people and businesses become as automated as farms did during the industrial revolution.

Yeah and you’re doing a lot of heavy lifting with the term agents.

Billions have been poured into agents and there’s no sign that they will get to a place where they on the path toward generating returns to justify more good money being invested into chasing bad.