I would add to the other explanation only that they both represent the progressive wing of the nation’s politics for their time, and are analogous to each other in that regard. Bernie is beloved and renowned for his civil rights activism and his incorruptible concern for regular folks and trying to make things better for people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders#Political_positions
Bernie “walks the walk” as they say, and has for his entire career.
I didn’t know about that thank you!
I think at this point in his career, the Senate is probably best for him. We need powerful progressive senators to pass progressive legislation.
I’ve seen this sentiment expressed before and I agree, it’s a reasonable view. I’d still enthusiastically vote for him tomorrow if he could be on the ballot instead of Biden. I am not a strident hater of Biden, but I agree with most of the (non-maga) criticisms against him to one degree or another. No doubt I’m picking him over Trump, but I wish we had better choices.
Which is something important I want to highlight – Clinton scorned Bernie, while Biden welcomed him. Biden was friendly to him in the Senate, and that set them up for a successful cooperative future.
Yep, I don’t keep a spreadsheet of these sorts of things or anything, but I remember claims during the 2020 runup that he would at least take advice from progressives under advisement, and I get the feeling that he’s lived up to that much, at least.
Fair points! But Bernie’s are not… (Unfortunately I think he’s legit too old now anyway, and I would bet he would agree.) Not saying I wouldn’t vote for him, but I think age alone would stop many. (insert Biden/Trump swipe here)
It’s in the realm of “What’s their angle here?” when considering the current court. We need to make sure no one tells them they accidentally let the nation become just a tiny bit safer for some people.
Fair point, this ol’ nation needs a new set of spark plugs and a valve job, at a minimum. :)
Edit: DAMMIT how am I a moderator again @[email protected]? Removing myself again now.
It’s sad that I have to be amazed that they ruled as they did on such an obvious restriction, but I’m grateful they did.
I guess even a broken clock IS right twice a day.
That’s why you need strong safety nets to help people transition to new industries or at least to give them a dignified retirement out of the workforce. That’s neither here nor there, if it’s not AI it’ll be the next thing.
I agree with most of what you wrote in this paragraph, but we have no such strong safety nets. I don’t think the fact that it has happened previously is justification for creating those circumstances again now (or in the future) without concern for how it impacts people. We’re supposed to be getting better as time goes by. (not that we are by many other metrics I can see on a daily basis, but as you say that’s another conversation)
Genies don’t get put back in bottles, you just learn to regulate and manage the world they leave behind when they come out. And, if you catch it soon enough, maybe you get to it in time to ask for one wish that isn’t just some rich guy’s wet dream.
I also agree with this.
But, I find there is plenty of justification to push back and try to slow the proliferation of AI in certain areas while our laws and morality try to catch up.
Yes, he might have looked like this. But, probably not.
Going out on a limb, but I feel very certain he did NOT look like Michael Jackson.
The caveat is that she herself points out that nobody knows whether the jobs created will outnumber the jobs destroyed, or perhaps just be even and result in higher quality jobs. She points out there is no rigorous research on this, and she’s not wrong. There’s mostly either panic or giddy, greedy excitement.
Even if we take as settled the concept that more jobs will exist in aggregate, I’m doubtful that there’s a likely path for most of the first wave (at least) of people whose jobs are destroyed into one of those jobs “created” by AI. I have nothing to back this up but my gut, however in this case I feel pretty good about that assertion. My point is that their personal tragedy at losing their job is in most cases not going to be alleviated by the new jobs created by this advancement.
We have no proof that you will not need a human or that AI will get better and fill that blank. Technology doesn’t scale linearly.
I’ve seen recent AI porn images and I saw what Deepdream was doing a few years ago. I don’t see a reason to think we can’t expect it to get better based on that. 🙂 I also acknowledge that these may be apples and oranges even more than I suspect they are.
As someone who works in IT (though as I’m sure you can tell I have no expertise whatsoever in machine learning), I still tend to strongly agree with this statement from @[email protected] :
On the other hand, the tech industry’s overriding presumption that disruption by tech is a natural good and that they’re correctly placed as the actuators of that “good” really needs a lot more mainstream push back.
2007 was YOTLD for me. Yours, dear Windows-using reader, is 2024, if you want it to be.
But in the case of email monkeys in corporations and shitty designers and marketeers, maybe she’s got a point along the same lines as “bullshit jobs” logic.
I get your overall point and don’t disagree.
The thing is about that specific bit - no job is a bullshit job when it’s what you rely on to pay your bills. Even if you don’t like the job, even if you aren’t the best at it, if it’s keeping a roof over your head, having it arbitrarily erased by some technology that didn’t exist 10 years ago is a pretty shitty thing. And even if that’s somehow an inescapable reality of progress (and I think there is a lot of discussion that could be had about that concept) it’s still shitty for her to portray that as no big deal. I don’t think context makes the comment much less shitty than the headline implies.
In addition to the fact that as has been pointed out repeatedly, AI learned how to do what it does from the output of the jobs it will now destroy, and without compensation of any kind to the people who created that output.
OK, today I’m a mod again somehow. In the modlog I can see the timestamp from when I removed myself. I do not see an entry where I was re-modded, for whatever reason. @[email protected] I’m removing myself again now. If you happen to know how I keep being added as a mod, please make that thing stop. :)
Unfortunate corporate name.
My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!
Dude, some person made that meme, and that person chose to use asterisks. It’s no more complicated than that.
What’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word
Apparently our ability to figure out a word from context is pretty much higher than yours though.
I think this should be posted as a comment to every article about this.
That’s how security clearance works bro
I get that, but it doesn’t change this statement.
This sheep has never seen anyone provide any kind of evidence for such claims.
Trust me bro isn’t evidence. It doesn’t mean you are wrong, it means you are a random person claiming to have inside knowledge but providing nothing but your word.
That’s how evidence works bro.
You see that this is trust me bro, no matter how correct you may be, right?
So many awful possibilities…
https://www.demilked.com/cartoon-character-skeletons-luis-rogerio-faria-rosa/