Re:Big tech products are mostly useless
by DylanDmitri on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:55PM
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While your points on the economy are valid, I disagree with your take on Duplex.
Duplex isn't about scheduling or calendars, it's about robots conversing with humans. It's proof of concept, a stepping stone on the path to general artificial intelligence.
So instead of debating solutions to local needs with neighbors, we fetishize juicing Googles stock price and enabling them to build things that mathematicians already figured out the theory and limits to years ago
This is nonsense.
It’s one thing to theorize the Higgs and build an LHC
It’s another to build chat bots with our time so we can avoid menial scheduling.
Feed people misdirection about how the economy needs this cause we’re all too dumb to figure out our own lives (translation: elites lose power if we do that) and you keep getting these stupid generational pyramid schemes: we buy in now on some vague promise of a future payout we’ll not be around to collect on
Corporate is the church now. Love it or be ostricized.