Canaconda

Fuck. Im in a hot area but not zone 10-12 hot.

Any billionaire that wants to donate money to a cause won’t be giving it to an individual. Only an organization that can give them a tax receipt.

Does this mean that some of the more unhinged users might actually be chat bots? Or are they just scraping our comments reddit style?

Gemeni channeling it’s inner Marvin

As it should.

You have an identity that can be abused to get stuff like credit and loans

I have grandparents. Don’t want them getting scammed.

And hello isn’t enough but a 10 word sentence is plenty.

Actually I think the few seconds might be caused by people taking calls on their ear buds.

I use a shitty android and JBLs so maybe airpods don’t have that slight delay when they connect.

You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?

Yup. AI spam calls generally hang up within 3 seconds if they don’t hear a voice on the other end. It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

I don’t answer calls from random numbers anyways so it’s largely irrelevant unless I’m expecting calls for some reason.

At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.

Yea I won’t even speak until I hear someone on the other end. Even then I disguise my voice until I’m certain it’s a legit caller.

Honestly I’m too worried about my voice/image being AI spoofed to bother answering any calls I’m not expecting.

While I know I’m not rich enough to be a target I lack the cybersecurity skills to chew what I might bite off if I made it personal by trolling them.

Totally. But that’s not what I’m saying. Just to recap.

Buddy said AI/automation/clankas/gonks save money so if we want humans to provide us services we need to be willing to pay more. I posited that money being a barrier to human interaction is probably not a good endgame.

When I had my first ever surgery, I got wheeled into an operating room full of strangers operating who all introduce themselves and participated in making me feel safe and calm. If it weren’t for them, I’d have 100% freaked the fuck out.

Now I’m okay with robot surgeons and dentist doing what they’re programmed to do… but I don’t fucking trust them. I would only accept that kind of treatment if there a human in control of that situation.

That’s where my mind goes when I imagine a world where human provided service is paywalled.

The prices you’re paying for your purchases are lower across the board because they don’t have to pay for as many cashiers.

In theory yes. But that’s not going to be universal for every product. Not every product can become a “loss leader”. So to a degree it depends on the individual shopper.

I should warn you, those stores are probably more expensive to shop at.

While that’s true, you have to admit that stores with zero checkout automation also likely lack the buying power to purchase in bulk like the large retailers who can afford checkout automation.

My philosophy with grocery shopping is I want it to be done asap. IMO self-checkout isn’t inherently faster than cashiers. It’s arrangement of single queues leading to multiple registers that speeds up the lines.

Additionally, I prefer to bag my own groceries so that I know the fragile items won’t be damaged getting them home.

I would fully agree. But it could still get worse.

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