I just watched this and had to pin! WHO KNEW you could download LLMs to your own computer and use them offline? I love this and wanted to share. Thanks Andrew! :)
I know little, but knew that. Companies, if not people, are concerned about privacy, security, and cost. I asked Perplexity.AI and google "what are some free open source sources of AI that can run privately on local computers?" but will spare readers the verbose responses. My interest is to run AI on my impossibly long reading queue to brief interests I've saved on my desktop.
Just a bit from google AI overview: "Free and open-source AI tools for local, private use include Ollama, Jan.ai, LocalAI, and GPT4All, which allow users to run models like LLaMA 3.2 or Mistral directly on personal computers without internet connectivity. These platforms support text generation, image generation, and document analysis, keeping all user data secure and on-device." that links (indirectly) to https://attentionmarkets.substack.com/p/private-free-and-powerful-a-guide
2. Manus AI releases My Computer, a desktop app that lets its AI agent work directly on your computer: My Computer [ https://manus.im/blog/manus-my-computer-desktop ] can handle a range of on-device tasks like organizing scattered files, building custom desktop apps without writing manual code, and creating recurring or scheduled tasks. The tool connects with multiple enterprise tools, including Google Suite, and requires explicit approval for every action — keeping you in control. Watch My Computer in action [ https://x.com/ManusAI/status/2033558672152854712 ].
Well the upside on the jobs front is that there are still tens of millions of illegals, visa holders, and other foreigners holding jobs in America. There are hundreds of thousands of trucking jobs alone being taken from Americans. There are entire industries (small hotels, gas stations, etc.) that have been handed to foreigners via SBA loans (a practice now finally ending). There are thousands of foreigners teaching in our universities. Working at resorts. Teaching yoga. Working in restaurants. Doing construction. Delivering food. On and on it goes.
There are still a LOT of jobs for Americans, if we just got rid of the foreigners who have taken these jobs. Team Trump should be moving far faster to clean up this mess.
Send them home. Or prison in their countries. However, I notice pickup trucks around my town are not boldly flying huge Mexican flags up and down the streets anymore. Or on big flag poles as well.
It's a knee jerk response to suggest that American men prefer to sit in front of a TV, rather than work. Business owners quite prefer illegals. They're picked up at the corner of Home Depot and Lowe's, get paid cash, and are grateful for a day's work.
Americans?? Well, their work is recorded, reported, with the benefit of a pay check, at a higher wage.
Yes, there are "layabouts", but many men want real work.
These days it's hard for kids to learn how to work! The lawn jobs are gone. There's no papers delivered, or it's adults delivering.
My father was a .masonry contractor. He put my young sons to work. The boys WANTED to work with Grandpa. It's dirty work, but they came home with shining eyes of what they accomplished. And, today, they credit their grandfather for teaching them how to work. How many kids get that opportunity??
I remember pulling weeds as the dreaded job in our family alongside mowing with a push mower. But that was also before the time of having someone come in and clean your house so we were kept busy doing laundry, vacuuming, cooking and washing dishes while mom was working— and the ubiquitous “dusting”. Now it would be called child abuse but then it was called being part of the family.
When the administration is chock full of democrat thwarters it's near impossible to clean house. I'm sure you've read about him being sued, yet again, for firing someone who thought they were entitled to a government job for life. He is working on it but, unfortunately, he will be out of office long before all the whiny culprits can be identified.
Bullshit. My niece tried that on me too, and it didn't work. I've worked all sorts of jobs that pro-illegal people claim I'm "too good to do", one of which was actually fucking picking crops, and I was unemployed for years begging around loads of jobs being rejected until I got that chance. And yes, I had two degrees at the time, the very definition of "too good" by that argument, not that I saw myself as "too good". I was literally rejected for those same jobs for years while desperately begging for the chance to do any job I could get. And I'm not alone.
Shut the fuck up you stupid boomer hag. American truck drivers were FORCED OUT and replaced by stinky pajeet morons and every other third world scum, who are now killing stupid old fools like you on the road. Fuck you and fuck your social security check, you fucking parasite. You're an ignorant piece of garbage from the worst generation in human history, the vile boomer class of smug self satisfied jackasses who were handed a paradise and turned it into a garbage dump.
And guess what, idiot. We don't NEED ten zillion brownie stoop laborers to pick strawberries because THEY CAN BE PICKED BY MACHINES but worthless greedy boomer farmer fucks like YOU don't want to BUY the machines when they can just import slave labor.
The good news is you'll be dead soon, and we won't have to pay to keep your desiccated, vile piece of shit ass alive much longer.
And be careful because next time I won't hold back.
As a material minimalist I do my best to live without excessive 'stuff', but I think I need to revisit the notion of building up a private library. You know, where you buy the knowledge once and, like... own it forever?
We are racing gleefully into a dystopian future like excited canines running onto a busy freeway to chase cars...
We have a library. Granted the majority of the books are history based (my husband is a huge history buff) and a lot are non-fiction opinion books, but they're books. Now when we go to the yearly library book sale (awesome deals - hardcover books are $2 and they have 10's of thousands available every year!), we look for reference type books (well, and books for pleasure reading). I immediately check the gardening and cook book section. This year I'm going to specifically search for a container gardening book. If your library system hosts these, definitely check them out.
I am blessed to live in a small town that has a library book sale every Thursday. The basement is packed with thousands of books, arranged by category, so you can find whatever you want.
Once upon a time, only the powerful could read and write... and not too long ago, it was illegal for a certain segment of the population to learn to read and write, because reading and writing are powerful skills... The Myans were right... the world and everything in it is circular.
First, it was the removal of cursive writing from the primary school curriculum... who needs to read historical documents, or accurate personal accounts of the past written in cursive, etc, etc.? (rhetorical question)... Then it was the "New Math", where only approximations were the correct answer... Try approximating your course across the ocean or through the wilderness, and see how that works out for you! The government is only supplying the tools needed to descend into slavery, this time, not by rendering knowledge unavailable, but by supplying the carrots of "ease" and "convenience", and playing on the most deeply rooted of all of human nature... "Layzeness"... it is we who, by means of our nature and naivety, are supplying the ambition to do nothing about it.
It just occurred to me... actually, the first thing was the removal of the "Civics" class, and its replacement by "Social Studies"... So I have to admit that your accusation above does hold a certain amount of merit... :)
No, John... you're not old enough... they took "Civics" out of the high school curriculum in the mid/late '60s... Civics was the exclusive study of the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments... and if you had a really good teacher, it covered the Federalist Papers and the arguments surrounding the adoption of the Constitution.
"History doesn't repeat - it echoes". I forget who said that - maybe I should ask ChatGPT..
What you seem to be saying is that AI is intended to usher in a new Feudalism, where the peasants are denied access to the knowledge possessed by the "learned class" and the overlords. And another thousand-year battle ahead for the serfs yearning to throw off the yoke of ignorance and oppression.
I pray to God that is not the fate of humanity, that we fight that kind of future with every fiber of our being. These are dangerous times.
We've already been faced with the anti-human "corporation", an invention whose goal is to provide profit to its shareholders no matter who gets hurt or killed in the process - for just one example see Big Pharma and the horrors it unleashed in recent years. Think of "corporate personhood" and what that means in terms of distorting the election process, for example. From History.com:
'In his dissent in Bellotti, Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote that corporations were “artificial” persons rather than “natural” persons, and that granting them the right to political expression could “pose special dangers in the political sphere.” Along similar lines, Justice John Paul Stevens argued in his dissent to Citizens United that “Corporations…are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.” And soon after the ruling, then-President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that the decision would “open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections.”'
Now we have AI - completely unregulated - possibly upending nearly every facet of our lives. They already tried to eliminate the "useless eaters" with the Covid plandemic. One wonders what new population-reduction measures are being constructed with AI ready to step in to take over the jobs of millions?
And AI is influencing every aspect of our communication, as well - we can no longer trust our own senses to filter truth from fiction, although I suspect that has been going on longer than most of us might want to admit.
I don't know how we resist, but we must. The future being constructed is a dark one that involves eliminating a lot of humans and enslaving the rest. I'm trying to be optimistic, but every time I apply logic to this scenario - the same kind of cold logic I imagine our technocratic overlords are applying - I arrive at a planet in short-term chaos and violence and a long-term world with very few humans in it.
Please read my above reply to John Wright... "They" are only supplying the tools... "We" are doing it to ourselves with the tools made available... I believe it was Will Rogers who once said, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
I was on vacation for 7 days and hardly looked at email at all, and completely ignored social media.
Know what? I came away rested, relaxed and with my sense of self (and humor) intact. It's these screens and the artificial reality behind them that ensnare us. Yes, computers are tools and used as such, can be very helpful. When employed as a substitute for rational thinking or emotional closeness to others, they become addictive traps.
What worries me - and I see it all around me every day - is that the people addicted to this technology, who live and play in it and rely on it to inform their worldview, vastly outnumber those of us who can resist it. The world of ideas is being shaped and distorted by them. And that oozes out and impacts the physical world in often-dramatic ways.
When I look at the world and the general prevailing condition of society, I can't help but wonder if the greater majority of people were born with a hook in their mouths... and if not... why is it so difficult to spit that hook out?... I can't speak for others, but I concern myself with matters that I can effect a change in when I feel a change becomes necessary... and if the rest of the herd goes running off a cliff like a pack of lemmings, then so be it.
Well, yeah - we can't change what we can't change, and there's no use in worrying about that.
I assume you're of an age (like me) where you also were born with a hook - the TV. Our generation was weaned on trust in the evening news, unaware at the time of its infiltration (or maybe even its very foundation) by intelligence agencies - that we were literally being programmed as we watched. I became aware in my early 20's that my trust was ill-placed - unlike my parents, who thought I was a lunatic and went on trusting what they saw on the tube into their waning years.
Computers are increasingly interactive, and provide all kinds of stimuli that sink the hook even deeper than the TV - the programming has improved dramatically over the years. Teenagers suffer horribly when their phones are taken away - it's like their entire connection to the world has been removed. That tells you something.
As a young man I was convinced humanity was on the verge of a great awakening, that we were about to leave behind our reptilian mind and enter into a "new age" of enlightenment. Turns out that was mostly a lot of projection and wishful thinking, as well as a stubborn naivete that our overlords wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight against that inevitable collective blossoming of mind and spirit. I vastly underestimated the hold that evil had on the world.
For people to "spit out the hook", they first have to realize it's there, and then there has to be some sort of tangible payoff to counteract the suffering that disengagement will cost. We can call that "Freedom", but most people don't even understand what that means anymore, or consider it an arcane abstraction.
LOL!... While not near 1000 (maybe close to 100)... still, you should see the enormous number of books that still sit stacked on my floor (some still in open boxes), that I have yet to shelve after 3 years of moving in... I like to take my time when it comes to important matters... like books! My Motto: "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, and moderation is for cowards."
God, I still have boxes of books in the garage from our last move. Just have no where to put them all right now, but the boxes are marked as to what kind of books, so I at least have a clue what is where.
When we moved to Texas from Kentucky in 2002, I donated 17 boxes of just MY books to the local library in our new town... Sometimes one just has to purge and start again... :)
Remember all those encyclopedia sets? And the Time Life How-To books? They're making a HUGE comeback all over the US at library, garage, yard & estate sales. Don't know if people are using them for homeschools or just stocking up.
Anyone else see that 7 ton meteor that blew up over OH this morning with the big boom? And the one they just discovered in Jan that will be so close to the sun & very visible in April?
Made me think of the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle in 1977? It was about the world after a devastating comet hit the Earth and what remained and what was built back afterwards. A smart guy on insulin for diabetes finds out about it coming, thinks ahead & buys and saves all kinds of books, tapes them into trash bags and drops them into septic tanks to keep them safe from the tsunamis, fires & storms. It was his key to not be "for the road" and ensure someone would agree to make his insulin. It was the book that convinced my SIL to go to nursing school, cause she didn't want to be "for the road"; and my brother to be an electrician and many others to learn skills, like woodworking, etc that they could pass down. I even gave copies to my grandsons and several nieces & nephews when they were teens, so they could think ahead to their possible careers and learn other needed skills along the way. Interesting book and concept.
I use AI to ask stupid questions like "who is the actor voicing the 'whatever' commercial?" because the voice sounds familiar to me. So yeah - not a big deal if they start charging - I don't REALLY need to know who's voicing that commercial.
My daughter has told me that people on her team at work often encourage her to use AI for parts of their jobs. She keeps telling them that they're crazy to do that. She refuses to use it for anything. She sees it for what it is - if she lets AI do her job for her, then SHE'S NOT NEEDED IN HER JOB! Hello? Common sense? Glad to see my daughter has it (she's 28).
My son is a junior in high school. We're looking at colleges. He's carefully considering his major - is it something that can be replaced with AI. He refuses to major in anything that can be. Smart kid.
Our son is a junior in high school and wants to work with his hands on physical projects, probably carpentry.
He’s a brilliant academic but refuses the “traditional” college model because he knows where the real work (and money) will be available in the near future.
I'm in your daughter's camp! I am constantly having to correct our AI "co-worker" in the area they have literally forced us to interact with it. Also, I'd like to see the thing pick up on the many subtle indications I get at customer displeasure that prompts me to make sure a superior gets the message and handles the request before the mild irritation becomes a problem they complain about to others. By the time they're screaming in ALL CAPS or using obvious language, it may be too late.
But I'm a stupid luddite and objdct of amusement because I'm the only one who openly dislikes the situation and doesn't let it replace my brain at every turn. You know, smart people are known for not using their brains whenever possible.
“If artificial intelligence becomes as fundamental to the economy as electricity, it’s not hard to imagine governments stepping in.”
Of course not! The Federal gubmint never met an idea, a utility, a licensure, etc. it couldn’t wait to tax the shit out of! All in name of safety or “ensuring competition” of course. You can betyerass that a robust % of the fee you pay for AI will be a tax to Uncle Scam or <insert name of poorly run state here>. Dolla, dolla, dolla bills y’all!
What’s sad is they are gatekeeping the data/knowledge and only the wealthy will be able to afford access. We know what happens after that. It’s a form of censorship.
When they are allowed to create their own electricity as Trump is encouraging/enabling, it should take the pressure off of the cost, not just for access but also for our own residential electric needs.
I'm a bit skeptical about the reality of "they" are going to pay for the creation of their own electricity... or that it will reduce our cost when they do? As someone on this thread previously, and wisely, remarked... They "Privatize the profits, and socialize the debt."
The time has come…I was using Clawbot for free…great assistant. Reviewed and organized spreadsheets, helped with workflow, all kinds off good stuff! Then it crashed. Why? Because it is no longer free. It is now subscription based PLUS tokens. I’d rather hire a real live person, TBH. So it’s back to my paltry staff of three (me, myself and I) because I CANNOT afford an assistant. We had a good thing going while it lasted…
Because I don't trust AI, I checked "gift to mankind." I was annoyed when it began to be used to summarize my email chains and even write responses. This is not good for my grandchildren. It produces laziness and mindlessness which leads to all manner of adverse repercussions. Now my kids can say to them: "nope, we're not paying for that. Go to the library. You can figure it out."
I really think that making people lazy and mindless is a feature to the people behind this. And of course now I realize why it was so imperative to these same people that we all get our mRNA shots and stay "up to date".
I’m not sure where all of this is going, but I’m pretty sure that the world isn’t any better or happier as a result. I do take advantage of a lot of technology, but there comes a point when we start to lose our humanity.
Which begs the question of whether or not simulated intelligence will save us time from non-intelligent work to enable us to spend more time doing humanity related activities and thinking.
Only if there is profit to be had. How will humans with no jobs in a capitalist society pay for survival much less fulfilling human activity? Only if it is provided for free, and I doubt that is their plan.
Certainly it won't be "free" at first! I'm curious about Elon's optimism of how robots are going to provide us with wonderful lives so we don't have to work.
I wasn't employed at that time, but I was nearly out of savings and desperate to find work. I was fortunate to not end up being forced to take them, but after that announcement I had one of my rare panic attacks, the sort where the damage is physical and severe and I cant eat without sucking down a couple shots of rum first.
I had another one in the last few months, this time regarding AI. That was fun. I thought I was over that kind of terror.
Im glad (to assume) you didn't lose your job or take the poison. :)
The company gets the profit, the government gets the taxes,( left over after AI corporation lawyers and politicians take their cut) and we get the unemployment line staffed by Ai bots.
If there is anything worse than not having read something, it's not having read something and thinking you have... or, for that matter, not having written something and taking credit for it. Imo, AI has all of the glitz and glamour of an electronic Cliff's Notes with a built-in microphone that has a direct line to the "Ministry of Truth"... Here's a question: Since when did it become chic to be stupid and lazy at the same time? The human intellectual vacuum being created by AI is only marginally surpassed by the marketing efforts being employed to proliferate it... one would laugh at a snowcone stand on the street corner in Nome, Alaska (in the winter), but here we all are, bellying up to the AI Bar like rats at a cocaine buffet. On a related note, speaking of mind-numbing drugs... I remember a time, back in my younger days, when I bought and sold weed (righteous weed, I'll tell you!), and I used code words to communicate with my suppliers and clients because I was cautious of being under surveillance by the cops... now people gleefully ask their surveillance overlords to play something jazzy as they uncork the wine at dinner partys... the list goes on. As for me... our would-be overlords can take their AI and shove it up their ass so far and so hard that it not only gags them, but bucks their teeth and gives them a nose bleed. I'll still read books, write my own letters, and use code words... thank you for your attention to this matter... :)
Simulated Intelligence summary of Jenna's article (for those that don't want to read so much):
Core Argument The article argues that the era of free, ad-supported AI is ending. Instead, AI is transitioning into a metered utility model similar to electricity or water, where users pay based on usage ("tokens") rather than a flat subscription or data harvesting.
The Silver Lining: The author suggests that charging for AI might force humanity to rediscover critical thinking, creativity, and the value of doing things ourselves (writing, researching, problem-solving) rather than outsourcing everything to algorithms.
"Remember when we thought the internet would charge us per email like a snail-mail scam? Turns out, Big Tech just decided to harvest our data instead. Crisis averted! But hold onto your hats, folks—AI is about to pull the same trick, but with a twist: you’re going to pay for it."
"But hey, there’s a silver lining! Maybe charging for AI will force us to use our actual brains again. Imagine that! Reading a news article instead of asking Gemini to summarize it. Writing a birthday message for Aunt Carol instead of prompting a bot. Doing your own homework. Shocking, I know."
"In conclusion: The days of free AI are numbered. Soon, we’ll all be paying for intelligence like it’s a premium streaming service. And if you think that’s crazy, just wait until they start charging for wondering. 🤔💸"
Our library has self checkout, hastened in by Covid so the employees don’t have to deal with icky and soiled contaminated people. I worked at ours for 14 years until 2019. We were once knownas the friendliest library in our consortium. Now it’s a soulless deadly quiet place where soon I will know nobody.
I went to my library the other day and realized that they really have no books. I checked out the only two books about Alzheimer’s and one was written in 1996 and the other was copyrighted in 2002.
Like what are we paying for with our property taxes? Computers?
Our library has a great selection of old books, a smattering of new books (mostly Woke nonsense), and you can borrow ironing boards, garden tools, stew pots, and cheap prints of famous paintings.
Too many James Patterson books, IMO. One a week, it seems. My library is fairly good. But many areas very old. We can get books from 150 other libraries in a matter of a few days because mine is cash strapped like most. It’s a city boundary library. Those outside pay a fee because the library is on my tax bill. So very few close to town pay that reasonable fee . Our library trust has I million bucks in it however.
I was lectured by a former colleague I considered a friend and ordered to put my mask up over my nose one day. Then kicked out altogether by another colleague when I didn’t have a mask on at all. That killed the whole experience for me.
Unfortunately expected and will be catastrophic for our society in more ways than one.
The government has already stepped in announced Project Stargate with Larry Ellison to the tune of $500 billion tax payer dollars. Those AI databases will be used to track and control all of us while we knowingly and unknowingly give away all of our information.
But seriously, it’s so obvious. AI has to die. When Senior law partners see that they can replace ALL Junior law employees with free AI and save a ton of money, it’s a no-brainer.
But AI isn’t free to run, and those Senior law partners will have to pay. I suspect that just like the recent increases in cloud services and Microsoft licenses, they’ll have to pay dearly.
And by dearly, I mean maybe they will see the long-term cost of bringing back junior employees now that there are a bunch of them unemployed so they are hungry and willing to accept lower pay.
Especially since without junior law employees, there can never be Senior law partners paying perpetual dividends to the retired partners.
AI is an extinction event for certain sectors if you allow it to be, but it won’t make anything better. Imagine an AI prosecutor charging a human brought in by robot cops, defended by an AI public defender in front of an AI judge. How the hell is that supposed to work properly if they all have the same law and they all lie?
Rick Beato had an interesting take on this recently, could be a solution:
https://youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI
I just watched this and had to pin! WHO KNEW you could download LLMs to your own computer and use them offline? I love this and wanted to share. Thanks Andrew! :)
I know little, but knew that. Companies, if not people, are concerned about privacy, security, and cost. I asked Perplexity.AI and google "what are some free open source sources of AI that can run privately on local computers?" but will spare readers the verbose responses. My interest is to run AI on my impossibly long reading queue to brief interests I've saved on my desktop.
Just a bit from google AI overview: "Free and open-source AI tools for local, private use include Ollama, Jan.ai, LocalAI, and GPT4All, which allow users to run models like LLaMA 3.2 or Mistral directly on personal computers without internet connectivity. These platforms support text generation, image generation, and document analysis, keeping all user data secure and on-device." that links (indirectly) to https://attentionmarkets.substack.com/p/private-free-and-powerful-a-guide
Be careful what you sign up for and pay for:
Example of how well A.I. is doing currently:
"The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
Part 1: The Single-Run Test — 42 Out of 53 AI Models Said "Walk"
On a single call, only 11 out of 53 models got it right. 42 said walk.
https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
Part 2: The 10-Run Consistency Test — Can AI Models Reason Reliably?
Getting it right once is easy. But can they do it reliably? We reran every model 10 times, 530 API calls total.
The results got worse. Of the 11 models that passed the single-run test, only 5 could do it consistently.
Rumor has it that IRS is beginning to audit tax returns using A.I.
Hate to have them run it more than once, let alone get close to the correct result.
From https://www.superhuman.ai/p/okara-launches-an-ai-cmo :
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2. Manus AI releases My Computer, a desktop app that lets its AI agent work directly on your computer: My Computer [ https://manus.im/blog/manus-my-computer-desktop ] can handle a range of on-device tasks like organizing scattered files, building custom desktop apps without writing manual code, and creating recurring or scheduled tasks. The tool connects with multiple enterprise tools, including Google Suite, and requires explicit approval for every action — keeping you in control. Watch My Computer in action [ https://x.com/ManusAI/status/2033558672152854712 ].
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Well the upside on the jobs front is that there are still tens of millions of illegals, visa holders, and other foreigners holding jobs in America. There are hundreds of thousands of trucking jobs alone being taken from Americans. There are entire industries (small hotels, gas stations, etc.) that have been handed to foreigners via SBA loans (a practice now finally ending). There are thousands of foreigners teaching in our universities. Working at resorts. Teaching yoga. Working in restaurants. Doing construction. Delivering food. On and on it goes.
There are still a LOT of jobs for Americans, if we just got rid of the foreigners who have taken these jobs. Team Trump should be moving far faster to clean up this mess.
Send them home. Or prison in their countries. However, I notice pickup trucks around my town are not boldly flying huge Mexican flags up and down the streets anymore. Or on big flag poles as well.
It's a knee jerk response to suggest that American men prefer to sit in front of a TV, rather than work. Business owners quite prefer illegals. They're picked up at the corner of Home Depot and Lowe's, get paid cash, and are grateful for a day's work.
Americans?? Well, their work is recorded, reported, with the benefit of a pay check, at a higher wage.
Yes, there are "layabouts", but many men want real work.
These days it's hard for kids to learn how to work! The lawn jobs are gone. There's no papers delivered, or it's adults delivering.
My father was a .masonry contractor. He put my young sons to work. The boys WANTED to work with Grandpa. It's dirty work, but they came home with shining eyes of what they accomplished. And, today, they credit their grandfather for teaching them how to work. How many kids get that opportunity??
I started picking strawberries at 10 years old. 😁
I remember pulling weeds as the dreaded job in our family alongside mowing with a push mower. But that was also before the time of having someone come in and clean your house so we were kept busy doing laundry, vacuuming, cooking and washing dishes while mom was working— and the ubiquitous “dusting”. Now it would be called child abuse but then it was called being part of the family.
When the administration is chock full of democrat thwarters it's near impossible to clean house. I'm sure you've read about him being sued, yet again, for firing someone who thought they were entitled to a government job for life. He is working on it but, unfortunately, he will be out of office long before all the whiny culprits can be identified.
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How many jobs are being done by the
Foreigners that Americans wouldnt even consider ?
Picking crops ?can you find even one high schooler who would pick strawberries for any wage?
I watched my road being reconstructed
By the inch and not one worker was white?
Same for truck drivers? Men in America won’t leave their tv long enough to deliver anything?
Door dash is always
hiring ?
Bullshit. My niece tried that on me too, and it didn't work. I've worked all sorts of jobs that pro-illegal people claim I'm "too good to do", one of which was actually fucking picking crops, and I was unemployed for years begging around loads of jobs being rejected until I got that chance. And yes, I had two degrees at the time, the very definition of "too good" by that argument, not that I saw myself as "too good". I was literally rejected for those same jobs for years while desperately begging for the chance to do any job I could get. And I'm not alone.
Shut the fuck up you stupid boomer hag. American truck drivers were FORCED OUT and replaced by stinky pajeet morons and every other third world scum, who are now killing stupid old fools like you on the road. Fuck you and fuck your social security check, you fucking parasite. You're an ignorant piece of garbage from the worst generation in human history, the vile boomer class of smug self satisfied jackasses who were handed a paradise and turned it into a garbage dump.
And guess what, idiot. We don't NEED ten zillion brownie stoop laborers to pick strawberries because THEY CAN BE PICKED BY MACHINES but worthless greedy boomer farmer fucks like YOU don't want to BUY the machines when they can just import slave labor.
The good news is you'll be dead soon, and we won't have to pay to keep your desiccated, vile piece of shit ass alive much longer.
And be careful because next time I won't hold back.
I love when newbies blame the Boomers.
Boomers fought back. We marched, we protested, we circulated petitions, we demonstrated, we fought back.
The subsequent generations did NOTHING.
Did you stop the autism-causing childrens vaxxines, the flouride, the Chemtrailing, the 5(G), the dumbing-down of American children, the glyphosates?
No, you played video games.
And did NOTHING.
The subsequent generations are THE reason the New World 0rder is unfolding exactly as planned and on schedule.
You did nothing.
As a material minimalist I do my best to live without excessive 'stuff', but I think I need to revisit the notion of building up a private library. You know, where you buy the knowledge once and, like... own it forever?
We are racing gleefully into a dystopian future like excited canines running onto a busy freeway to chase cars...
We have a library. Granted the majority of the books are history based (my husband is a huge history buff) and a lot are non-fiction opinion books, but they're books. Now when we go to the yearly library book sale (awesome deals - hardcover books are $2 and they have 10's of thousands available every year!), we look for reference type books (well, and books for pleasure reading). I immediately check the gardening and cook book section. This year I'm going to specifically search for a container gardening book. If your library system hosts these, definitely check them out.
I am blessed to live in a small town that has a library book sale every Thursday. The basement is packed with thousands of books, arranged by category, so you can find whatever you want.
My husband would never leave. :)
Once upon a time, only the powerful could read and write... and not too long ago, it was illegal for a certain segment of the population to learn to read and write, because reading and writing are powerful skills... The Myans were right... the world and everything in it is circular.
That is an intriguing thought! Will the future bring governments attempting to control *who* is allowed to learn and think?
We seem to have already destroyed the ability to write (in many of the younger generation).
First, it was the removal of cursive writing from the primary school curriculum... who needs to read historical documents, or accurate personal accounts of the past written in cursive, etc, etc.? (rhetorical question)... Then it was the "New Math", where only approximations were the correct answer... Try approximating your course across the ocean or through the wilderness, and see how that works out for you! The government is only supplying the tools needed to descend into slavery, this time, not by rendering knowledge unavailable, but by supplying the carrots of "ease" and "convenience", and playing on the most deeply rooted of all of human nature... "Layzeness"... it is we who, by means of our nature and naivety, are supplying the ambition to do nothing about it.
It just occurred to me... actually, the first thing was the removal of the "Civics" class, and its replacement by "Social Studies"... So I have to admit that your accusation above does hold a certain amount of merit... :)
Maybe I'm too old, I'm not aware of what a "Civics" class is and how it differs from "Social Studies".
No, John... you're not old enough... they took "Civics" out of the high school curriculum in the mid/late '60s... Civics was the exclusive study of the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments... and if you had a really good teacher, it covered the Federalist Papers and the arguments surrounding the adoption of the Constitution.
Basically, Civics explained how the government was supposed to operate.
"History doesn't repeat - it echoes". I forget who said that - maybe I should ask ChatGPT..
What you seem to be saying is that AI is intended to usher in a new Feudalism, where the peasants are denied access to the knowledge possessed by the "learned class" and the overlords. And another thousand-year battle ahead for the serfs yearning to throw off the yoke of ignorance and oppression.
I pray to God that is not the fate of humanity, that we fight that kind of future with every fiber of our being. These are dangerous times.
We've already been faced with the anti-human "corporation", an invention whose goal is to provide profit to its shareholders no matter who gets hurt or killed in the process - for just one example see Big Pharma and the horrors it unleashed in recent years. Think of "corporate personhood" and what that means in terms of distorting the election process, for example. From History.com:
'In his dissent in Bellotti, Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote that corporations were “artificial” persons rather than “natural” persons, and that granting them the right to political expression could “pose special dangers in the political sphere.” Along similar lines, Justice John Paul Stevens argued in his dissent to Citizens United that “Corporations…are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.” And soon after the ruling, then-President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that the decision would “open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections.”'
Now we have AI - completely unregulated - possibly upending nearly every facet of our lives. They already tried to eliminate the "useless eaters" with the Covid plandemic. One wonders what new population-reduction measures are being constructed with AI ready to step in to take over the jobs of millions?
And AI is influencing every aspect of our communication, as well - we can no longer trust our own senses to filter truth from fiction, although I suspect that has been going on longer than most of us might want to admit.
I don't know how we resist, but we must. The future being constructed is a dark one that involves eliminating a lot of humans and enslaving the rest. I'm trying to be optimistic, but every time I apply logic to this scenario - the same kind of cold logic I imagine our technocratic overlords are applying - I arrive at a planet in short-term chaos and violence and a long-term world with very few humans in it.
Please prove me wrong!
Please read my above reply to John Wright... "They" are only supplying the tools... "We" are doing it to ourselves with the tools made available... I believe it was Will Rogers who once said, "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."
I was on vacation for 7 days and hardly looked at email at all, and completely ignored social media.
Know what? I came away rested, relaxed and with my sense of self (and humor) intact. It's these screens and the artificial reality behind them that ensnare us. Yes, computers are tools and used as such, can be very helpful. When employed as a substitute for rational thinking or emotional closeness to others, they become addictive traps.
What worries me - and I see it all around me every day - is that the people addicted to this technology, who live and play in it and rely on it to inform their worldview, vastly outnumber those of us who can resist it. The world of ideas is being shaped and distorted by them. And that oozes out and impacts the physical world in often-dramatic ways.
When I look at the world and the general prevailing condition of society, I can't help but wonder if the greater majority of people were born with a hook in their mouths... and if not... why is it so difficult to spit that hook out?... I can't speak for others, but I concern myself with matters that I can effect a change in when I feel a change becomes necessary... and if the rest of the herd goes running off a cliff like a pack of lemmings, then so be it.
Well, yeah - we can't change what we can't change, and there's no use in worrying about that.
I assume you're of an age (like me) where you also were born with a hook - the TV. Our generation was weaned on trust in the evening news, unaware at the time of its infiltration (or maybe even its very foundation) by intelligence agencies - that we were literally being programmed as we watched. I became aware in my early 20's that my trust was ill-placed - unlike my parents, who thought I was a lunatic and went on trusting what they saw on the tube into their waning years.
Computers are increasingly interactive, and provide all kinds of stimuli that sink the hook even deeper than the TV - the programming has improved dramatically over the years. Teenagers suffer horribly when their phones are taken away - it's like their entire connection to the world has been removed. That tells you something.
As a young man I was convinced humanity was on the verge of a great awakening, that we were about to leave behind our reptilian mind and enter into a "new age" of enlightenment. Turns out that was mostly a lot of projection and wishful thinking, as well as a stubborn naivete that our overlords wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight against that inevitable collective blossoming of mind and spirit. I vastly underestimated the hold that evil had on the world.
For people to "spit out the hook", they first have to realize it's there, and then there has to be some sort of tangible payoff to counteract the suffering that disengagement will cost. We can call that "Freedom", but most people don't even understand what that means anymore, or consider it an arcane abstraction.
Oh, btw... I don't believe you're wrong; I simply believe that your indictment is misdirected.
Personal libraries are awesome!
It's not as fast as querying a simulated intelligence application, but the extra thought and pondering of doing research yourself is very rewarding.
The challenge is when you move. All those books are a lot of exercise to haul! (they take up a lot of space too... pushing toward larger homes)
Moving is a challenge in itself... the pleasure comes when one unpacks all of those books and relishes in their treasure.
That's why unpacking takes forever! Have you ever tried to *read* 1,000 books while you try to figure out which bookshelf to put them on?
LOL!... While not near 1000 (maybe close to 100)... still, you should see the enormous number of books that still sit stacked on my floor (some still in open boxes), that I have yet to shelve after 3 years of moving in... I like to take my time when it comes to important matters... like books! My Motto: "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, and moderation is for cowards."
God, I still have boxes of books in the garage from our last move. Just have no where to put them all right now, but the boxes are marked as to what kind of books, so I at least have a clue what is where.
When we moved to Texas from Kentucky in 2002, I donated 17 boxes of just MY books to the local library in our new town... Sometimes one just has to purge and start again... :)
{laugh} I like that. "Moderation is for cowards"
And books are dust collectors. Sigh.....
The dust will fall off when you pick up the book and read it... ;)
Not until I've sneezed 4 or 5 times.
Creating jobs! Someone needs to employ the dust dusters! Oh wait, maybe I can get a robot to do that?
Our college library actually hired a woman to dust off our books (including the pages)!
Isn't that called "reading"? {grin} 😇
Maybe the college should get some actual students to read the books?
Remember all those encyclopedia sets? And the Time Life How-To books? They're making a HUGE comeback all over the US at library, garage, yard & estate sales. Don't know if people are using them for homeschools or just stocking up.
Anyone else see that 7 ton meteor that blew up over OH this morning with the big boom? And the one they just discovered in Jan that will be so close to the sun & very visible in April?
Made me think of the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle in 1977? It was about the world after a devastating comet hit the Earth and what remained and what was built back afterwards. A smart guy on insulin for diabetes finds out about it coming, thinks ahead & buys and saves all kinds of books, tapes them into trash bags and drops them into septic tanks to keep them safe from the tsunamis, fires & storms. It was his key to not be "for the road" and ensure someone would agree to make his insulin. It was the book that convinced my SIL to go to nursing school, cause she didn't want to be "for the road"; and my brother to be an electrician and many others to learn skills, like woodworking, etc that they could pass down. I even gave copies to my grandsons and several nieces & nephews when they were teens, so they could think ahead to their possible careers and learn other needed skills along the way. Interesting book and concept.
Can we emphasize the meme: "You ask it questions, and it confidently lies to you"?
That's simulated intelligence summed up in one short sentence!
I use AI to ask stupid questions like "who is the actor voicing the 'whatever' commercial?" because the voice sounds familiar to me. So yeah - not a big deal if they start charging - I don't REALLY need to know who's voicing that commercial.
My daughter has told me that people on her team at work often encourage her to use AI for parts of their jobs. She keeps telling them that they're crazy to do that. She refuses to use it for anything. She sees it for what it is - if she lets AI do her job for her, then SHE'S NOT NEEDED IN HER JOB! Hello? Common sense? Glad to see my daughter has it (she's 28).
My son is a junior in high school. We're looking at colleges. He's carefully considering his major - is it something that can be replaced with AI. He refuses to major in anything that can be. Smart kid.
It's CRAZY that kids have to think about that... heartbreaking, actually.
Our son is a junior in high school and wants to work with his hands on physical projects, probably carpentry.
He’s a brilliant academic but refuses the “traditional” college model because he knows where the real work (and money) will be available in the near future.
GenZ gets it.
-Ryan’s Wife
I'm wondering if at 47 its too late for me to move into carpentry or electric or masonry or something.
It's never too late!
I'm in your daughter's camp! I am constantly having to correct our AI "co-worker" in the area they have literally forced us to interact with it. Also, I'd like to see the thing pick up on the many subtle indications I get at customer displeasure that prompts me to make sure a superior gets the message and handles the request before the mild irritation becomes a problem they complain about to others. By the time they're screaming in ALL CAPS or using obvious language, it may be too late.
But I'm a stupid luddite and objdct of amusement because I'm the only one who openly dislikes the situation and doesn't let it replace my brain at every turn. You know, smart people are known for not using their brains whenever possible.
“If artificial intelligence becomes as fundamental to the economy as electricity, it’s not hard to imagine governments stepping in.”
Of course not! The Federal gubmint never met an idea, a utility, a licensure, etc. it couldn’t wait to tax the shit out of! All in name of safety or “ensuring competition” of course. You can betyerass that a robust % of the fee you pay for AI will be a tax to Uncle Scam or <insert name of poorly run state here>. Dolla, dolla, dolla bills y’all!
Without a doubt the government will interfere and mess it up in the name of "protecting the children".
Thank goodness we're having fewer children!
Age old reality. Privatize the profit—socialize the loss. Both sides do it.
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What’s sad is they are gatekeeping the data/knowledge and only the wealthy will be able to afford access. We know what happens after that. It’s a form of censorship.
When they are allowed to create their own electricity as Trump is encouraging/enabling, it should take the pressure off of the cost, not just for access but also for our own residential electric needs.
I'm a bit skeptical about the reality of "they" are going to pay for the creation of their own electricity... or that it will reduce our cost when they do? As someone on this thread previously, and wisely, remarked... They "Privatize the profits, and socialize the debt."
The time has come…I was using Clawbot for free…great assistant. Reviewed and organized spreadsheets, helped with workflow, all kinds off good stuff! Then it crashed. Why? Because it is no longer free. It is now subscription based PLUS tokens. I’d rather hire a real live person, TBH. So it’s back to my paltry staff of three (me, myself and I) because I CANNOT afford an assistant. We had a good thing going while it lasted…
Ah, the efficiency of a staff of three! Now are you more or less likely than Clawbot to erase your hard drive?
I used a back-up computer to host Clawbot…it had zero access to my real stuff lol! 😂
I think my hardrive is safe ;).
Uh oh! You used human intelligence to use software properly as a tool! Clever!
Maybe us humans aren't obsolete just yet?
One can only hope…
Because I don't trust AI, I checked "gift to mankind." I was annoyed when it began to be used to summarize my email chains and even write responses. This is not good for my grandchildren. It produces laziness and mindlessness which leads to all manner of adverse repercussions. Now my kids can say to them: "nope, we're not paying for that. Go to the library. You can figure it out."
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I really think that making people lazy and mindless is a feature to the people behind this. And of course now I realize why it was so imperative to these same people that we all get our mRNA shots and stay "up to date".
I’m not sure where all of this is going, but I’m pretty sure that the world isn’t any better or happier as a result. I do take advantage of a lot of technology, but there comes a point when we start to lose our humanity.
Which begs the question of whether or not simulated intelligence will save us time from non-intelligent work to enable us to spend more time doing humanity related activities and thinking.
Hmmm….. good question. We’ll have to see. 🤞
Only if there is profit to be had. How will humans with no jobs in a capitalist society pay for survival much less fulfilling human activity? Only if it is provided for free, and I doubt that is their plan.
Certainly it won't be "free" at first! I'm curious about Elon's optimism of how robots are going to provide us with wonderful lives so we don't have to work.
I think the covid shots were intended to “solve” that problem.
Well, they (refusing them) darn near put me out of a job.
I wasn't employed at that time, but I was nearly out of savings and desperate to find work. I was fortunate to not end up being forced to take them, but after that announcement I had one of my rare panic attacks, the sort where the damage is physical and severe and I cant eat without sucking down a couple shots of rum first.
I had another one in the last few months, this time regarding AI. That was fun. I thought I was over that kind of terror.
Im glad (to assume) you didn't lose your job or take the poison. :)
Well, looks like we will have time to grow our own gardens?
Don't worry... a robot will do that for you!
The company gets the profit, the government gets the taxes,( left over after AI corporation lawyers and politicians take their cut) and we get the unemployment line staffed by Ai bots.
If there is anything worse than not having read something, it's not having read something and thinking you have... or, for that matter, not having written something and taking credit for it. Imo, AI has all of the glitz and glamour of an electronic Cliff's Notes with a built-in microphone that has a direct line to the "Ministry of Truth"... Here's a question: Since when did it become chic to be stupid and lazy at the same time? The human intellectual vacuum being created by AI is only marginally surpassed by the marketing efforts being employed to proliferate it... one would laugh at a snowcone stand on the street corner in Nome, Alaska (in the winter), but here we all are, bellying up to the AI Bar like rats at a cocaine buffet. On a related note, speaking of mind-numbing drugs... I remember a time, back in my younger days, when I bought and sold weed (righteous weed, I'll tell you!), and I used code words to communicate with my suppliers and clients because I was cautious of being under surveillance by the cops... now people gleefully ask their surveillance overlords to play something jazzy as they uncork the wine at dinner partys... the list goes on. As for me... our would-be overlords can take their AI and shove it up their ass so far and so hard that it not only gags them, but bucks their teeth and gives them a nose bleed. I'll still read books, write my own letters, and use code words... thank you for your attention to this matter... :)
LingOL! Thanks for the teeth/nose visual! :)
If only that were actually possible... then we'd be able to spot them when they raised their ugly heads... ;)
Fuck yeah!
And you know it!
Simulated Intelligence summary of Jenna's article (for those that don't want to read so much):
Core Argument The article argues that the era of free, ad-supported AI is ending. Instead, AI is transitioning into a metered utility model similar to electricity or water, where users pay based on usage ("tokens") rather than a flat subscription or data harvesting.
The Silver Lining: The author suggests that charging for AI might force humanity to rediscover critical thinking, creativity, and the value of doing things ourselves (writing, researching, problem-solving) rather than outsourcing everything to algorithms.
Wow; that’s a sad example of how much we need the real Jenna: because we want our information delivered with wit, sparkle and creativity!
Hmm... maybe I should have asked it to respond with a sense of humor?
Here is the humor version:
"Remember when we thought the internet would charge us per email like a snail-mail scam? Turns out, Big Tech just decided to harvest our data instead. Crisis averted! But hold onto your hats, folks—AI is about to pull the same trick, but with a twist: you’re going to pay for it."
"But hey, there’s a silver lining! Maybe charging for AI will force us to use our actual brains again. Imagine that! Reading a news article instead of asking Gemini to summarize it. Writing a birthday message for Aunt Carol instead of prompting a bot. Doing your own homework. Shocking, I know."
"In conclusion: The days of free AI are numbered. Soon, we’ll all be paying for intelligence like it’s a premium streaming service. And if you think that’s crazy, just wait until they start charging for wondering. 🤔💸"
*cringe* ;)
If that's AI's idea of humor, I think you're safe, Jenna!
"Hold onto your hats, folks!" Hahahahahaha
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Our library has self checkout, hastened in by Covid so the employees don’t have to deal with icky and soiled contaminated people. I worked at ours for 14 years until 2019. We were once knownas the friendliest library in our consortium. Now it’s a soulless deadly quiet place where soon I will know nobody.
I went to my library the other day and realized that they really have no books. I checked out the only two books about Alzheimer’s and one was written in 1996 and the other was copyrighted in 2002.
Like what are we paying for with our property taxes? Computers?
Likewise, my last visit to the library was disappointing. My home library is superior!
Our library has a great selection of old books, a smattering of new books (mostly Woke nonsense), and you can borrow ironing boards, garden tools, stew pots, and cheap prints of famous paintings.
Whatttttt???
IKR! But tis true. All it takes is your library card and you can enjoy the use of snow shovel for two weeks.
That would have come in handy in January. But at least my library lets us check out state park passes!
Wow! Soon they will be like Target where you can get anything!
Garden tools?
You can borrow paintings? (I like that idea - change up the décor of your house once a month!)
I have borrowed several Monet's over the years.
Cool! How long do you get to keep them? Two week check out would be far too short!
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Too many James Patterson books, IMO. One a week, it seems. My library is fairly good. But many areas very old. We can get books from 150 other libraries in a matter of a few days because mine is cash strapped like most. It’s a city boundary library. Those outside pay a fee because the library is on my tax bill. So very few close to town pay that reasonable fee . Our library trust has I million bucks in it however.
Grift.
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I was lectured by a former colleague I considered a friend and ordered to put my mask up over my nose one day. Then kicked out altogether by another colleague when I didn’t have a mask on at all. That killed the whole experience for me.
Covid was a serious blow to humanity. For many of us it motivated us to no longer desire human company.
Along with TDS, that moment has arrived for me in some ways.
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Unfortunately expected and will be catastrophic for our society in more ways than one.
The government has already stepped in announced Project Stargate with Larry Ellison to the tune of $500 billion tax payer dollars. Those AI databases will be used to track and control all of us while we knowingly and unknowingly give away all of our information.
Stop the madness!!
I love a good meddling callout.
But seriously, it’s so obvious. AI has to die. When Senior law partners see that they can replace ALL Junior law employees with free AI and save a ton of money, it’s a no-brainer.
But AI isn’t free to run, and those Senior law partners will have to pay. I suspect that just like the recent increases in cloud services and Microsoft licenses, they’ll have to pay dearly.
And by dearly, I mean maybe they will see the long-term cost of bringing back junior employees now that there are a bunch of them unemployed so they are hungry and willing to accept lower pay.
Especially since without junior law employees, there can never be Senior law partners paying perpetual dividends to the retired partners.
AI is an extinction event for certain sectors if you allow it to be, but it won’t make anything better. Imagine an AI prosecutor charging a human brought in by robot cops, defended by an AI public defender in front of an AI judge. How the hell is that supposed to work properly if they all have the same law and they all lie?
Terrifying thoughts 🙈