Kind of like how our highways weren’t meant for hundreds of thousands of semi trailers on them every day, but we just keep jamming more fucking trucks on the road. Humans will just overdo something until there is a catastrophic failure, sometimes they keep doing it after that.
Safety laws are written in blood. Because it’s unprofitable to prevent disasters before they happen…
But look at them over regulate and red-tape anything that could possibly maybe harm their profits by actually innovating and improving quality… Working in biotech and knowing we could fix a lot of the issues with world hunger and vaccines by using tech we already know is safe but is barred from use because established companies would not profit as much is infuriating…
when will my llms start causing bloodshed I wonder 😢
Funny, I’d rather have more trailers and leave the roads to them and make sure people have good transport like subways, rails, etc. you’re always going to have a last-mile issue you can’t solve with mass transit so that works better for me.
I’d rather all the cargo moved by rail. Trains can be automated way better than a truck and the efficiency is enormous for longhaul.
And last mile how?
And last mile how?
Progressively smaller gauge railways, until your Amazon parcel arrives via a 1-inch track on the regular 3.15pm service from the end of your street.
This is the way
You know what?
I’d love to hear a little “toot-toot!” and have a little train pull up outside my window, with my parcel on a carriage behind it.
Trebuchets.
Cake buddy!
Yeah, I would rather that too honestly, it makes a lot more sense, but I suppose my main point was they should be on a separate system than commuters, whatever that may :)
Exactly! The trucks aren’t the issue with the roads, it’s the amount of cars due to overpriced and underperforming public transport.
Tragedy of the commons.
This is, consequently, also why all these AI companies are talking about selling computers to agents now. Its obvious the math doesn’t work when an agent costs more than a person does.
… but if agents were selling agents to agents while agenting… the math works similarly to company n increasing its market cap exponentially by “investing” in another company… o which promises really hard to invest that back in company n…
Look: its totally logical and all of this makes perfect sense. 🫧
This is such a dumb reference, but I cannot believe MumboJumbo’s current "mini"game project kind of perfectly predicted this… Bots trading to bots who are trading to bots all to boost the economy while the people are either starving to death within the system they robbed from us or living in the fringes and scrapping by
Theres a certain amount of inevitability in this… If its expected every single quarter you somehow produce better numbers than your last numbers… you are incentivised to make the sand castle taller by digging around its foundation spill more on the top. This applies to not only individual companies but the market at large - its practically fractal in nature.
Most of the market by now is aware AI and its promises are bullshit. Its just about passing that hot potato nuke around until it explodes. Nobody is worried about each pass making it a bigger bomb… they’re worried about not being the guy holding it when it blows.
Venture capital?! Is that you?
The filthy rich destroy everything they touch.
Its a shame people haven’t realized how few of them there are and how much better things would be if they… just … you know. Weren’t.
Meanwhile they are building bunkers and installing more surveillance we are paying for. The mind boggles at the trajectory we are on.
Imagine it. A million robots ragebaiting, trolling, misinforming humans and other robots alike. A constant hum of PC components just out there spewing shit.
I can’t wait for the bot bubble to burst when these mega corporations end up spending more money on bots and losing revenue trying to pander to a non existent consumer base.
ID verification is a way to prevent this. I guess that partially is why corporations are pushing it.
2016 you mean?
Bollocks, respectfully, bollocks.
Internet from the very conception was built around automation and bots. What wasn’t built around bots is advertising. Quoting this article:
The internet was architected around […] entire world of digital advertising
It only causes problems for big advertisers. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. because if there is one thing advertisers hate more than adBlock is the idea that their clients will stop believing that ads are shown to real humans. Push for digital-ID is not to protect children, it is just another push to convince dumb shareholders that advertising online is still perfectly viable.
The internet wasn’t built for bots though? It was a way to connect universities to make it easier to share research and information and make it robust enough that it could function if some nodes were lost. Never have a heard automation was a foundational part of it.
Dead internet theory goes
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Is it a theory if it’s proven? I guess gravity, relativity, etc are factual even if they are theories.
Could’ve taken 2 minutes to look up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
I guess your parents are definitely siblings.
I thought this already happened in 2024 or 2025, there is report here: https://www.imperva.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/reports/2025-Bad-Bot-Report.pdf
Also, are we counting number of users, like a human vs a machine doing http calls? I believe we are right?
Because there is the other metric: traffic. Traffic the interenet was also not built for, Video streaming. Which accounts for somewhere between 65 to 80 percent of all internet traffic depending on who you ask. Which makes me wonder how much data is just moving around that humans requested once (or not at all, like auto play) plus cloud server syncing - one drive, google drive, back end data, usenet, torrents, etc.
Seems like the machines have taken over the internet that used to be our mail and chats. And usenet. Sweet usenet.
Obligatory clanker hate speech comment
first its TF2 now the whole internet
FACEBOOK largely is mostly AI for a while, they banned/ required too many of actual users to give more personal data. REDDIT is very close second to facebook. bots on yt is a little unusual, its mostly revolves around anti-woke mysgoyny, or trying to act/claim like the actual celebritiy account.
