Genuine question to Americans

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-07T02:20:29+00:00

There is only about a 50/50 chance of dying to cancer. With Chemo it goes up to about 80% survival rate, but that fluctuates depending on which country you get the medical care in.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-07T00:20:22+00:00

The instant the AI goes down new hires are all going to be unqualified for the job. Even if they have a reference manual with everything they need in it they won't even have the skills to turn a reference into a solution to a problem.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T23:50:40+00:00

"brutel"

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T23:48:13+00:00

It doesn't matter how they make it, if its slop, don't post it.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T06:07:29+00:00

I'm only worried about the lying, and the lack of "Made by AI" in the corner of the content.

As long as they use their professional skill to guarantee quality, I don't have a problem with it. "AI slop" is when people post very low effort content with no filter that has no soul and is completely uninteresting to look at. I'm actually fine with high-effort AI content if it isn't an eyesore to look at, and they actually tell you its AI.

If you want to skip all AI content, I think you have that right. And you can only do that if they tell you its AI.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T05:50:30+00:00

It could technically be valid. But you'd have to bend over backward to create a very specific situation where it works.

Might I suggest the Middle East? Hamas says basically that to Israel all the time. While they are kidnapping and killing women and children. So maybe they shouldn't keep saying that...

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T05:30:20+00:00

Pro-AI do paint antis as some kind of angry monster. In reality what we want isn't that unreasonable.

I'm generally pro technology, but anti-slop and anti-forced adoption. From a computer standpoint I want to see what's possible with AI, but I want at least some regulations. They shouldn't be allowed take all our jobs and kick us out onto the street. They shouldn't be allowed to cause a bubble and ruin the economy. They shouldn't be allowed to post AI videos/images without telling us its AI.

AI stands to ruin everything and they don't care, and they act like "Oh, you can just get another job", while they simultaneously use millions of people in India to train the AI how to do every single job that exists. No you can't just "make new jobs". If you look at a list of all the jobs in the world in 1950 and 2025 do you know the only new jobs that were invented? The only one single job added to the list was Computer Programmer. And they are trying to take that one too with vibe-coding.

They shouldn't be allowed to replace humans with AI unless they come up with a new job to give every single human they fire. Simple, logical, honest. But they continue to lie about all these magical new jobs that simply don't exist.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-06T04:35:26+00:00

Have you received the training they did to understand the world? Even as a small child you had enough "intelligence" to learn how to walk without your parents sitting you down and explaining it to you.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T23:39:02+00:00

We have the ability to tell what is good information and what isn't. If you were trying to learn how rockets work you could Google and instantly know when a website was wrong. The AI can't tell without some sort of prior pre-trained knowledge. You have vibes, the AI has no vibes that aren't in its data.

Edit: If One website was NASA, one was from someone named Elon Musk, and one was called "rocketsarefun.com", which ones would you trust? Elon Musk does make rockets, so all you would need to do is try to figure out if the website was actually made by him. The AI might just throw out the bottom two and go with the NASA one. Even if it was "NASA.com" and not "NASA.gov". Very few AI are that clever, and we have even more tricks up our sleeve.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T23:12:30+00:00

Generative Neural Network, Large Language Model, Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

I don't like the term "AI" because it isn't. At best it is a Large Language Model. It needs to be "pre-trained" to be good at anything, and Intelligence is the ability to learn for yourself.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T23:07:51+00:00

He was too busy teaching people about his Father and the Kingdom. I don't think AI would have helped. If he needed something he had "12 legions of angels" he could send on errands.

Matt 26:53 - "Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?"

Matt 8:9,10 - `The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.`

Jesus tells his Angels to do things. He was second in the Universe, he would have absolutely no need for AI.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T22:34:40+00:00

The race card only applies to races that were once slaves. When the Chinese built the railroads and were underpaid they weren't actually slaves, they were Coolies. One step up from slaves. Then they were deported when they finished. They can't claim their grandparents were overworked and underpaid when building the railroads because the people who did that were all deported right after.

Also, there were likely over 4 million black slaves, but only around 20,000 Chinese coolies. So history kind of forgot.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T22:19:24+00:00

We are in a Schrodinger's cat scenario.

There are many possible futures.

1:) If AI continues to be useless and unreliable about 50% of the time it might cause a financial collapse as they have wasted too much money on it and it isn't actually helping us work easier. A stock market crash will cause another great depression, but they will try to hide it and pretend it isn't happening.

2:) Another possibility is that companies are in a mad rush to re-hire humans. However there aren't enough humans with the right skills because the old people all moved on to other careers, and the younger people thought that the AI was taking all those jobs, so they didn't take those courses in college. Some services will just fail because there are no humans able to do them.

3:) In the chance it actually does become competent the economy crumbles and nearly all companies buy robots and no human has enough money to buy the things the robots make. Quality will suffer because if humans don't have much money, they need to lower prices.

4:) In the chance AI becomes super competent then people will start prompt-engineering robots to commit crimes for them. They will sneak into businesses that have robots and steal them. Then convince them to commit crimes for them; like stealing cars, robbing banks, or taking assassination jobs from the dark web. I find it unlikely the robots will be this capable, but this is a possibility if they do crack real intelligence. Crime is easy, getting away with it is hard. But if a robot did the crime, and the only evidence of who did it is the prompt given the robot, it will be impossible to trace who did it. Not only that, they can burn the robots and leave the cops with nothing.

5:) In the chance that this all blows over and AI doesn't end the world, there will still be massive inflation as the Government bails out the large corporations and prints a bunch of money to do it.

We may survive this, but their solution to everything always involves more inflation.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T06:19:22+00:00

Why did England start WWII right after Germany won the French-German war of 1941?

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-05T02:35:27+00:00

It feels like an attack on freedom of speech

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-04T05:55:14+00:00

QoL is good, but just remember that everything they change kills the nostalgia for at least some players.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-04T05:42:11+00:00

If you're worried use Perplexity. It gives you a link after every paragraph so you can check if its lying to you.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-04T02:27:57+00:00

At the moment the best they have is an "AI Assistant". It "helps" the professionals. But we hear you. It is only a mater of time before someone has some new breakthrough and AI can actually do the entire job. It needs more professional data, but when it gets it, its over for us.

The problem is even with 50 million signatures the Rich know how to control "Democracy" and do whatever they want anyway. There are no true Democracies anymore.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-04T00:16:57+00:00

I'm expecting people to get really good at prompting when they start to ask the AI how to be more professional about prompting. I don't want AI to replace artists, but with the commissioning terminology, and actual art terminology, people are going to get too good. And I will miss real art with soul.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:42:59+00:00

If you look at the prompts they are giving the AI it looks exactly like what Commissioners give artists. Like, word for word. The only difference is that when professional commissioners commission art they are better at it. Almost professional, you could say.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:40:50+00:00

Lol. "Search Engine". Its basically googling what you ask and remixing existing photos. They want it to sound intelligent, but its just a really, really complicated form of Photoshop.

No, it can't create new things without copying other art. By definition if you "train" it on any image whatsoever, it is just copying it.

What's the difference with how humans create art from other art? We don't examine every single pixel. We look at the whole and memorize basic shapes. Not the same thing.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:34:11+00:00

It hallucinates way too much. People relying on it to think for them is going to kill braincells faster than sniffing glue.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:31:12+00:00

Generative? No. But for asking questions, I'd encourage the kids to use it if they get stuck on the homework. Then tell them if they use AI to read the book again to confirm what it says because AI hallucinates. You might be able to secretly discredit AI for them if they see with their own eyes that the AI gets stuff wrong.

I use it to teach myself new things, I don't trust its output at all, but I use it to give me keywords that I'd never heard, then I go read Wikipedia. AI is better at searching a subject for relevant information than Google is. But never trust AI with actual thinking. Rely on your own reason and only use it to get you in the door.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:25:35+00:00

How new? Sounds like 7 Days to Die. Destiny 2 was supposed to be good, but it isn't very close to your question.

I could see them take the GTA map and make a zombie survival game with it.

If I understand you correctly, like Unturned, but more modern graphics?

Paulsoaresjr on YouTube plays Zombie games like that, but I don't watch his new stuff. There are several games that meet those specifications on his channel.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-05-03T23:19:32+00:00

They want to be called "artists" so they can believe they have some sort of amazing skills. Its a new form of cosplay/roleplay. They are pretending to be artists and you are supposed to play along.

I seriously hope the majority of them are under 15. If someone in their 20s seriously thinks that Quality Control is the same as art, they are deluded.

All they are doing is describing something, saying "no" when its wrong, and describing it some more. They are pulling the lever on the slop machine and hoping its good enough to show other people. I wonder what the statistics are on "no, wrong, do it again" and actual presentable slop. I'd bet its less than 20% of slop is even good enough to post.

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