Yeah, that seems to be the end goal, but Goldman Sachs themselves tried using AI for a task and found it cost six times as much as paying a human.

That cost isn’t going down–by any measure, AI is just getting more expensive as our only strategy for improving it seems to be “throw more compute, data, and electricity at the problem.” Even new AI chips are promising increased performance but with more power draw, and everybody developing AI models seem to be taking the stance of just maximizing performance and damn everything else. So even if AI somehow delivers on its promises and replaces every white collar job, it’s not going to save any actual money for corporations.

Granted, companies may be willing to eat that cost at least temporarily in order to suppress labor costs (read: pay us less), but it’s not a long term solution

Funny, I tweaked my Linux PC at work to look like Windows XP. It’s so cursed, I love it.

Y’know what? I’m gonna be even more of a furry now, just to spite you.

I haven’t accidentally deleted a bunch of data yet (which, considering 99% of my interaction with Linux is when I’m SSH’d into a user’s server, I am very paranoid about not doing), but I have run fsck on a volume without mounting the read/write flashcache with dirty blocks on it first.

Oops.