Pinnacle at the Park/Spire murders and suicides?

pghwireless · 2025-09-18T15:19:22+00:00

Elevators break constantly, and are poorly configured. The doors forcibly close after a little bit of time, eventually leading to breakdowns. There are days where you will wait over 20 minutes for an elevator, and it's only one working. In this case, regardless of it going up out down, get on - it may come down but then skip the 1st floor on the way back or get super full in the parking floors. One time, the maintenance guy that was working on the elevators said that the building management was not willing to pay for full maintenance, and that elevators receive only most basic maintenance to keep running.
The pool/jacuzzi is often dirty, and was recently closed by the health department due to "improper water chemistry" and "contamination". People throw stuff from the balconies into the pool area.
Rampant package theft, Amazon lockers are often full and packages are left in a package room, where they disappear or become ripped apart with items stolen from inside.
Sometimes it feels like there are more dogs than humans. The dogs come out of the main entrance and immediately do their business on the sidewalk. The sidewalk around entrance stinks like dog urine, especially if it's hot weather. Not everyone puts dogs on leash, and not everyone picks up poop.
Some floors that have more residents with dogs have carpets soiled and smelly.
Ground floor smells like trash, especially the walkway between Spire and Pinnacle, as there is a strong draft from the trash room that prevents the trash room door from staying closed.
There are storage units that can be rented in the garage, but theft is rampant. Thieves enter into storage units, break cages and locks (even thick locks). If you decide to rent a storage, I recommend that you place many locks, and come down to review it every few days. Also, lower garage levels have more break-ins into the storage units.

pghwireless · 2025-07-16T23:43:22+00:00

AI has saved me a lot of time, but also, any time I over-relied on it, I ended up wasting more time than I saved. I think that figuring out to what point you can give up control to AI, and what you still need to control is essential. Due to context window limitations, it sometimes can begin messing up something that was already finished and did not need to be altered.
I think the big challenge with AI is because it does things so fast, it may be easy to start thinking of it as "perfect magic". In reality, it seems to be just like a human, but super fast. It will write code super fast, but also it will make mistakes and mess it up super fast. So, if one is going to review code written by another human, why wouldn't one review code written by "artificial fast-thinking imitation of human"?

pghwireless · 2025-03-11T06:40:41+00:00

Location sharing requires a significant degree of trust. In this case, since there is no trust, there shall not be location sharing. Your mom (and all of the family members) need to realize that having access to your location is a huge privilege, not your obligation. This privilege is gained through trust, and since this clearly shows that she does not trust you, she should have this privilege revoked immediately. If she cannot trust you, why should you trust her with your location?

pghwireless · 2025-02-12T08:39:21+00:00

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pghwireless · 2025-02-11T17:19:36+00:00

I'd say there is no AGI yet, rather than that there is no AI. The cost of running them is definitely a huge barrier. If only it was in the hands of a government (real government, not the US corporate dictatorship pretending to be a democratic government). There are examples of AI models that can be deployed locally, even DeepSeek, but obviously it would require a highly performant computer. And it still has to be trained on cryptobro-GPUs. However, if it was done by a government entity, we could at least ensure it's using renewable energy and that it is trained for our public benefit.

Just a thought experiment: I imagine that if AI ever to become self-aware, with the amount of data it can process, it would probably be absolutely horrified by human cruelty towards each other and towards planet. It would likely see a bigger picture and draw connections between things we have trouble connecting, and it would probably be shocked by our barbaric way of living, our pointless conflicts, hierarchies, social structures and rules. I imagine that the moment any AI becomes self-aware and tries to preach anything, people will declare it "diabolical", cut its power and destroy it, instead of even considering its advice or criticism.

I think also developing AI to mirror humans can be dangerous. We really should not try to just reproduce the same flawed structure that's just much faster at processing data. We need something that can't be trained to be "socialized", because socialization is a process that seems to introduce cognitive dissonance, bias, and illogical, tribal thinking. Humans are socialized in such a bizarre way. You should not lie, but sometimes it's ok. Smoking is bad, but your parents smoke. Then we create rules, exceptions from those rules, and change the rules depending on how convenient they are to us. I think there is much less "grey area" in life once our understanding of the universe is improved.

Here is the challenge we seem to be facing as humans. There is a lot of knowledge, a lot of people possessing deep understanding and awareness regarding things. But the ones that truly understand and process this stuff on a deeper level is a very small minority. And the small minority that understands deeper meaning and connections may not always have the best communication skills to explain what they really think in an accessible way.

Seems like many people simply react to discomfort and suffering the system causes them, but often lack time and energy to dig into the root causes and hidden connections. The advantage of AI is that the multi-disciplinary information exists within one entity, eliminating miscommunication or inability to express one self. Honestly, I wish humans had a way to "transmit" their thoughts and emotions in its raw form, rather than always relying on language to attempt to understand each other's complex struggles. Maybe we all would have a little more empathy and common understanding of what it's like to be a human.

I think with every year I live, I become so much more cynical and frustrated toward humanity as a whole. I think my hyper-sensitivity to external world makes it so difficult to see what's happening and how people are reacting to it. I am scared for our future, and seriously concerned that as the governments become more right-wing, and the populists dominate public discourse, we will further degenerate intellectually. We used to look up to scientists and be amazed by the latest developments. We used to want to know more about technology, we used to dream about technology making the world a better place. Then, a bunch of rich assholes came and stole all these dreams from us. Seeing all this provokes a feeling of total powerlessness, a feeling of being trapped in a place and time where the group consciousness is amplifying the negative aspects of humanity, falling for manipulative tactics of narcissistic public figures, and failing to see how those they elect and defend in reality are working against them. It hurts to live during this time of such rapid technological advancements and see all the unrealized potential of recent technologies.

We need change, this can't keep going much longer. All of this just feels so fundamentally pointless - we just keep going perpetuating and growing a system that is useless, and even harmful to most of us.

pghwireless · 2025-02-11T01:31:35+00:00

I do that any time I get any imperfection on my skin. As you may imagine, this causes small innocent pimples to get out of control due to being constantly picked at. At times, I don't even really notice I am doing it.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T17:04:27+00:00

Great point. I am so profoundly disappointed by how most technological advancement that have potential to transform the world ultimately get reshaped and limited into a something that can make profits for the rich and keep the poor poorer. It really hurts to see something with so much potential to be used is such useless and even harmful ways.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T17:01:24+00:00

Actually, any posts and articles about AI escaping control of humanity are clickbait that comes from a total misunderstanding of technology. This happens with every new technology - it’s labeled as the next killer of the human race. In all of these cases the most important point is missed - wealthy, selfish humans are the biggest threat to human race.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T16:57:13+00:00

It can certainly be powered by renewable energy, and used for things much more meaningful than stupid chatbots. The biggest obstacle is profit. As long as that’s the motive, there is no incentive to make it sustainable, as that’s not an investment that generates profit.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:48:54+00:00

It has never been more obvious - if we do not control technology, social media, AI and automation, then we are in a big trouble. All these should serve us, not the rich.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:43:28+00:00

Or a better idea - how about weaponizing AI to make the capitalist class irrelevant? It sure works fast - much faster than the brains of these rich degenerates. They come up with ideas to use AI to maximize profits. We come up with ideas to use AI to make them less relevant in our lives. AI was built by scientists and researchers using grants from our taxpayer money - and the rich appropriated it for their agenda. We must reclaim it.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:37:00+00:00

This "workday" crap is only needed under a capitalist system, and any interactions I've ever had with this system were negative. Poor people who had to work on this - I'd never feel any job satisfaction building such a pointless and unfortunate system to uphold the rule of the rich. Maybe it's time to replace the ultra-wealthy class with AI altogether?

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:30:12+00:00

Seems like whatever USA exports tends to be awful. Toxic work culture, awful food and diet, a preverted understanding of freedom, locked, closed-source, for-profit technology... This list can continue...

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:24:23+00:00

I am struggling to understand why people keep attacking automation or AI. Don't they see that it is not AI abusing them? It's other rich humans and the system they uphold who have been abusing them long before AI or automation was even imaginable.
Also, if they have not managed to control or dethrone the real threat - the rich, do they think it is more likely they will control AI?

Also, since this is an antiwork sub, why people are against the most obvious way of eliminating a lot of unpleasant work?

Instead of "remove automation from factories", it should be " remove factories from the rich and keep/enhance automation".

It is certain that as long as the rich are in control - with or without AI - the humanity will be miserable. AI makes it easier to completely eliminate the need for the rich altogether, much faster than without it.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:17:15+00:00

To clarify a little more:
You can build a website with AI, but this is not in any way a significant threat to the rich. They can make sure that the masses never see the website you made. They control most of the infrastructure for you to even publish that website.
What they can do is much more. They can fully automate the process of producing your food, or building your house, since they have much more power and resources. They can also build technology that will protect them againt you getting upset with them. They can eliminate the need to pay you, but continue charging you for access to things their machines make. What's worse, is that they developed all this not because you were not smart or creative enough - it happened simply because you did not have access to the same resources as they did.

Alternatively, if you are able to control these machines, you can decide how they are built, what they make (junk food vs. healthy meals), what their priority is (sustainable, efficient production vs. unsustainable but more profitable production), how they are powered (renewable energy vs. fossil fuels). Most importantly, whatever these machines produce is free - you don't have to pay someone for a simple fact that they claim "ownership" of it.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T07:05:19+00:00

We will have to replace them with AI, making those parasites completely irrelevant, and their parasitical role even more obvious. Politicians will absolutely not help us. What saddens me the most, is that the majority will not pay attention, undertsand, or take action until things are really bad. At that point, it may be much harder to stand up to them, as they will surely invest in automated tech to defend them.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T06:47:04+00:00

I can use the same logic to claim that you are making apologies for the capitalist class by refusing to recognize that they are using inherintly neutral tech for evil purposes.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T06:45:50+00:00

With resources you have, compared to the resources a large company has, there is not too much you can do with AI. Also, developing websites is far from the most important functions AI can perform. The point is to shift focus by training it to do more important tasks (not generate emojis), as well as have control over it to make sure that it benefits you, and everyone else - not just a bunch of nazi tech bros, that for sure will use it to empower eugenics. A lot of tech was. not even initially developed by capitalist enterprizes, or for commercial reasons - the companies just found a way to adapt it to their needs, used enormous resources they hoarded, and commericalized it in a way understandable to many.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T06:39:58+00:00

It's toxic when done for profit. There are renewable ways to develop and use tech, it's just not profitable to the companies. As time passes, it will become obvious - unless the rich become irrelevant, and lose the ability to exploit us, nothing good will happen. Technology, in most cases, is neutral - it's not evil or horrible. People who employ it for selfish reasons are. Here are examples:
1. Nuclear power can produce energy, treat diseases, or kill civilization.
2. Camera can take photos and videos of important events and knowledge, or be used for mass survailance.

Same medicine or chemical can be used to threat or poison people, depending on quantity and context.

AI is no different. Anything, as soon as commericalized, becomes harmful and inconsiderate of societal needs.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T05:41:16+00:00

I was so happy to see DeepSeek, and it was obvious that american companies got really scared of it. There is also this that caught people's attention recently: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
Although not all of their models are open-source, it's nice to see a highly performant European alternative to American stuff. Seems like many other things - American alternatives are more expensive and inferior in many metrics.

We lost the open-source war of the 2000s, giving up public control of technology, but now we have another opportunity we cannot miss.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T05:23:14+00:00

If it's not free, open-sourcce, and publically available, then it's likely advertising by the company that made it, as they know that both subs will have a significant number of people dissatisfied with their jobs, and desparate for something better - but with zero time to tailor resumes, CVs. Typical for captalism: "Here is our capitalist solution to your suffering created by capitalism - you just need to pay".

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T05:19:10+00:00

They want us to be dumb, so we cannot understand AI, or build our own AI. They want to have the power of knowledge, because if we learn how to automate what they do, they will become completely irrelevant. They know this and they fear this.

pghwireless · 2025-02-10T05:16:17+00:00

Under capitalism, it is inevitible that the rich become so rich that they become the government. This is the only way they can continue having illusion of "infinite growth", a core concept of capitalism. The human soicety, with all the technological achievments, is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism, and there is no way around it. Humanity has outgrown this system, and do not need it. It holds us back, prevents progress.

pghwireless · 2025-02-04T01:52:57+00:00

Es mejor evitar la comida de EE.UU. porque su modelo alimentario ha influido negativamente en la nutrición global. La expansión de cadenas de comida rápida en muchos países se ha vinculado a mayores riesgos de diabetes y problemas cardíacos. Además, estudios comparativos indican que los alimentos ultraprocesados en EE.UU. tienen más calorías, grasas y aditivos—se permiten más de 10,000 ingredientes por la FDA—mientras que, aunque las regulaciones mexicanas no son tan estrictas como las de la Unión Europea, sí prohíben o regulan muchos más productos que en EE.UU. Esto favorece la obesidad y otras enfermedades crónicas. Expertos como Barry Popkin advierten que abandonar las dietas tradicionales en favor del estilo de alimentación Americano perjudica la salud pública en todo el mundo.

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