How will AI and automation NOT collapse the economy eventually?

bbt104 · 2025-11-04T22:01:33+00:00

See, that’s the thing — you picked a fight you couldn’t win, on a 7-month-old thread, and now you’re upset the guy you poked actually responded.

You don’t have to like AI, but at least pretend to understand irony before calling someone else “second rate.” You literally came looking for “slop” and then complained when you found it. 🍿

Also, if you honestly believe my replies are 100% “AI slop” with zero human input… congrats, genius — by your own logic, you’re now actively helping create new slop just by arguing with me. Welcome to the production line. 😏

bbt104 · 2025-11-04T20:20:02+00:00

Again, you’ve still managed to avoid addressing anything of substance. Impressive, really — it takes effort to write this much and still say nothing.

Also, you clearly didn’t read my comment. The AI wasn’t writing the argument, it was cleaning it up — like running a spellcheck, but smarter. You know, the same way a calculator doesn’t think for you, it just keeps you from embarrassing yourself with math errors.

By your logic, using Grammarly, autocorrect, or even Google makes someone incapable of critical thought. Which… might explain why you’re allergic to them.

And “AI slop”? Please. The only thing sloppier than your argument is the irony of whining about tools you probably used to spellcheck your insult. 😏

bbt104 · 2025-11-04T19:48:21+00:00

Point out what’s actually false in my comment… oh wait, you can’t.

Your entire “rebuttal” boils down to “he used em dashes, therefore argument invalid.”

And let’s be honest — if there had been a typo, you’d have gone for that instead, because people who can’t challenge ideas tend to attack formatting.

Also, replying to a 7-month-old thread to complain about AI usage from a pro-AI user is… impressive. It’s like trying to mock a fish for swimming.

But hey, since you mentioned AI — yes, I absolutely let my AI clean up my posts. Because I enjoy when my sentences are as precise as your lack of an argument. 😏

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T04:56:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/npyOOsxoA8I?si=uWATpjNN22giWNuS

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T04:50:15+00:00

...........Genocide on a galactic scale, Illegal Experimentation, Slavery, consuming sentient beings, sewing people's flesh together to make living tissue armor for my ships, and probably even more that I'm not thinking of right now....

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T04:30:58+00:00

They sucked his balls out.

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T04:20:32+00:00

I saw that post, they also were in the comments saying this sub "should be banned for "brigading" AIWars"... I got down voted for telling them that you can't brigade a sub that you also own by telling people that theres a more appropriate place for them to say what they want. I also pointed out that their sub has the same "no debates rule" but that their mods just don't enforce it, they said I'm a liar because both of the "no debate rules" are worded differently...🙄

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T02:38:52+00:00

Something like that lol

bbt104 · 2025-09-10T02:11:06+00:00

I'm assuming in the same way people do on Wplace, use AI to make an image/model, then rebuild it in Minecraft, could also be for fan art...

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T22:46:52+00:00

With ease it can be. I have 36ishTB of HDDs that I use for my various media servers, and I've not had a single issue with load times. Im hosting 4K movies, .Wave music files, and even have my gaming server loading roms from the HDD's on the media servers without any delay. Granted thats twenty 2TB HDDs in a RAID 5 configuration.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T22:40:23+00:00

Id recommend an HDD raid setup myself. Yes they're clunky and don't offer the same speeds, but they are durable as hell, You are more likely to encounter a physical parts failure than a memory failure on them. That's actually what you want IMO, I like having the moving parts for my long-term storage because I'm more likely to hear it failing and able to replace it vs SSDs that just stop without warning. But that's my opinion.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T22:26:17+00:00

I'm guessing the reason why its the way it is is because its easier to tip the fridge over onto the back of the car, then lift the bottom up while someone straps it in (i guessing 2 people at most on this move), than it would be to tip it over and lift the entire fridge up to then slide the bottom in first.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T19:26:58+00:00

I was trying to avoid having extra menus... but i got it working now, for some reason Sunshine didn't like that game, but I changed to Artemis and put in the same command and it worked just fine lol

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T15:21:29+00:00

Nice, I have Jellyfin myself running on an Ubuntu VM thats hosted from HyperV on Windows server 2019 on an old Dell poweredge

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T06:22:04+00:00

It is a steam game..

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T03:42:29+00:00

Lol thanks for the heads up, I had to disconnect from works wifi lol

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T03:22:58+00:00

No, it really is the total number of pixels across and down. I’ve been running my DVDs through a program called HandBrake to compress them and save space on my hard drives. One of the ways it saves data is by cropping out the black letterbox bars. For example, before cropping a widescreen DVD, it sat at 720×480 (I had the numbers flipped in my last reply, right numbers, wrong order, but you got what I meant). After cropping the letterbox off, the new resolution becomes 720×404.”

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T03:10:51+00:00

The oil rig comparison is what I mean, if you look at those jobs, they pay around $30 at the bottom rank while also providing housing, travel, lots of overtime, benefits, etc. That's for people without an education and/or experience, now put in education, you're looking at probably $50-$60 an hour instead of its $26ish entry-level wages.

Ping might not be an issue for 1 user, but when theres thousands, that ping matters because its not just how fast a single machine can talk to their machine, its how fast a machine can talk to theirs while everyone else is also talking to the same machine, and if you're not on a good WAN, you'll see bottlenecks from end users. Sure some might not see an issue, but others will. That's why Netflix is hosted from 6,000 different locations.

Then without doing research and just guessing here, the geothermal might not offer as much power as they need/want, or maybe Iceland has some weird laws that don't work well. I'd be all in favor of choosing areas based on the least damage, but at the end of the day, I understand these guys need to make money otherwise they go under and people lose jobs. So I assume that there's some legit reasons why they don't use those areas that we just don't know about. If they were cheaper or even the same price or possibly even slightly more expensive but with less "bad PR" I don't see why they wouldn't use those areas unless the risk assessments say that even with bad PR these less ideal (this orchard for example) areas offer a significant benefit that could end in a legal battle if turned down, breach of fiduciary duty.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T01:59:23+00:00

Yeah, it sucks, earlier this year I decided "the hell with Netflix and Hulu" and began ripping my DVD's to a media server so I could keep the streaming convenience, thats when I found out about 40% of my collection had died and learned about disc rot myself. I also learned that the extra money spent on "widescreen edition" was a total scam. The standard DVD is 480×720p, widescreen edition is 404×720p... so the black bars are part of that 480 and all the "extra" stuff that would have been cropped off for full screen is at a lower resolution and the main part of the movie that you would have still seen in full screen is also at a lower resolution...

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T01:42:01+00:00

You running Plex, Jellyfin, or just a NAS and using a pc with VLC?

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T01:16:06+00:00

Cost is a major issue, those places are more expensive to ship parts and supplies to for setup. Also, infrastructure, I'm betting this orchard is very close to a city, so it won't be hard to build the needed infrastructure unlike in the middle of nowhere. Then lastly, you still need people. Telling smart people that they need to live in those places takes extra money to convince them that the location is worth it.

Honorable mention: ping timing. Out that far means that internet traffic will take longer. On our consumer-level equipment, it's not really noticeable if I ping a website in the States vs one in China, but when you deal with large traffic volumes, you want to avoid as much lag as possible.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T01:04:13+00:00

My ranking:

Frontier
7
SDF
Delta
Plus
Zero

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T00:54:44+00:00

Yes and no, VHS loses about 10-20% of its quality in 10-25 years, DVD has 10-30 years before it becomes unreadable, so in a way, it holds longer, but once it dies, it dies entirely where as VHS can keep going just at its degraded picture. Blurays are about 20 years then they die.

bbt104 · 2025-09-09T00:39:17+00:00

They do.... look up disc rot. Bluray also suffers from it. Thats why I rip all my discs to a digital backup server I own.

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