ChatGPT is my go to now for any question as long as it's not about current events. 99% of my questions are like "how do I ..."

AI will be able to not only mine resources, but design products for us, assemble them and deliver them to us without any labor costs. Eventually, Free AIs will provide goods and services to people at no cost. Let the billionaires brag about their money. One day it won't be worth anything. It's only value now is as a leash to control (and exploit) labor. Labor is the actual value (and cost). Once labor is shifted to automation, we will have more equitable existence for others.

The goal of tools is and has always been to reduce human effort...labor. So the end goal of tools like AI is to replace labor. This will make billionaires unhappy, because they lose control of labor, but billions of other lives will be improved drastically.

The nice thing about Lemmy is, it doesn't care if you "go back to reddit". Nobody is monetizing you here so nobody is incentivized to try and get you to stay. Not having fun using Lemmy? Go on then. Reddit is probably where you are happiest. This is a newish system that has exploded. If you can't be inconvenienced by glitches and growing pains in a FREE service, by all means, go be a product for Reddit to sell.

The funny thing is communism isn't about giving everyone stuff for free. That will come from AI.

I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.

Over 50% of its advertisers left. That means most of the brands are not interested in the kind of people left in the toxic wasteland called X.

It's not a tech-classist thing, it's a human thing. At our core, we are tribal. We take sides. Android vs. iPhone. Windows vs. Mac. Linux vs. everyone. Sports team A vs. Sports team B. Republican vs. Democrat. Musk vs. Zuck. Cats vs. Dogs. Everything. We take sides on everything.

I feel like anyone who would take that seriously is already a religious nut Republican anyway. Who is their target group?

I did some work for a couple of catholic churches in my area (which was getting them set up on the special accounting software that their diocese requires them to use). These are small jesuit churches, that are supposedly giving everything they can to help the poor in the community. But I noticed their checking accounts had over $100k sitting in it, and the savings account was even more. This is a very poor area in the rural south. According to the 2020 census data, the average person's income here is $26k a year.

I'm not a catholic, but after listening to them, it felt a LOT like I was working with the Soprano family lol. Every church in the diocese has to kick up money to the Bishop, just like Tony's crew always had to pay up to him. LOL

I don't know how much they help others in the area, financially, but I think they could probably ramp that up a little.

I like the idea of a more nuanced upvote. It's much more useful. Also I agree with you about a reputation system. No matter what you have in place, users will find a way to exploit it. I think a breakdown of the communities that contribute to a reputation score would actually be useful rather than a generic single score. I love both your ideas. I give it the HELPFUL💁 upvote.