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I'm guessing there's a sizable portion of the HN crowd that are millenials. Millenials who have paid the costs of the Boomer/GenX generations absolute destruction of the "American Dream" for their own benefit. They climbed the ladder and pulled it up behind them leaving millenials holding the bag.

That same set of millenials are now visiting that treatment upon Gen Z. We are building AI that will eviscerate the remaining middle class, raise electricity rates to a level where many people will not be able to power their homes, and poisoning the air and water so that portions of the world will become unliveable.

Gen Z is justified in being upset with millenials. We used to be the victims, but we've become the abusers.


Documenting all publicly accessible stained glass as possible. App is built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Nothing fancy!

https://www.stainedglassatlas.com/


I mean…FAFO? He’s an egomaniac pushing a technology that is objectively negative for anyone not already a billionaire. I have no issue with more Molotov cocktails being chucked at his house, or OpenAI offices, or data centers around the world.

Sam Altman being removed from the equation would make the world an objectively better place.


But...who will rake the forests to prevent the fires?

Stained Glass Atlas (https://stainedglassatlas.com/) - working on mapping/documenting as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Anyone who knows of great stained glass in their local area is welcome to come add to the data set!


Read the history of just about any political revolution in history. Eventually, those oligarchs at the top find their heads in the guillotine.


The irony of someone using AI trained on stolen copyrighted art to generate "art" and then wanting to copyright said "art" is hilarious.


Yeah, but does it have CarPlay yet? It's a complete deal breaker despite Rivian being essentially the only company who offers a BEV pickup truck of a reasonable size.


I don't think it is accurate for the opposite reason. If my wife and I made what the "living wage" was for two working adults, we'd be living with her parents. It is laughably low for the cost of living in this area.


It's a simple cost/benefit analysis that (rightly) causes the massive AI backlash. For the average Joe, non-tech worker, the cons of AI are:

* Higher electricty bills.

* 5-6x cost of RAM, GPUs, and other computer components

* Data centers popping up in their backyards

* An internet inundated with slop

* Slop beginning to infiltrate the video game industry and other creative industries

* AI being used to justify gutting entry level jobs for a generation already screwed by larger, long horizon economic forces

* Grok enabling the creation of revenge porn and CSAM with seemingly no repercussions

* Massive IP theft on a scale previously unheard of

* Etc.

The pros of AI are:

* It can summarize text and transcribe audio decently well.

* It can make funny pictures of cats wearing top hats.

* ???


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