Because most of their money isn’t liquid they can’t actually afford it

To be fair Tupac is kind of an asshole so I don’t really care to “respect” his death what like 30 years later?

One time when I was 10 my PS2 wouldn’t work so I threatened to punch it if it didn’t work again. It didn’t work so I punched it. Then it worked.

That’s not really a reply to what I was saying but okay, oddly hostile.

You can read about it on Wikipedia lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class

American middle class is different.

The concept of the middle class is a thing, the label came about later but for Americans when they talk of the middle class it is strictly referring to the middle class of the 50s which oddly magically faded after civil rights movements occurred

I mean I guess but I also don’t want a middle class. I want there not to be a poor class. The lowest level of living in society should be what we consider "middle class"standards

The middle class is a 50s era lie.

The middle class only existed when there’s a miserable lower class to shoulder their burden I.e., black, asian, Hispanic immigrants.

Once there was a push for more equal rights, the “middle class” magically faded away.

Actually just switched to Ubuntu since writing that comment. It was a little goofy with my wifi card for whatever reason, I think it is a power issue or something? But all works!

Tbh loser shit

Yep building a new PC right now. Gonna swap my old one to Linux to let me learn with no fear and when I’m comfortable I’ll switch the new one too

No we did not.

Computers gave us calculators and suddenly we had rockets. Then we made them smaller and went into space. They became prevalent and we got automation. They connected and we got the Internet.

All of that merged together and made something that became very good at making models of anything with strong predictive capabilities because it can now run massive computing sequences logging immense variables regular people and even advanced computers before could not. You get our ability to understand protein folding, human behavior, economics and aspects of geometry we couldn’t.

Are you expecting AI and then suddenly a bunch of change? The industrial revolution started in the mid 1700s, it wasn’t until over 100 years later did we have full on industrial style warfare and electricity use became more common in everyday use(still to this day not everywhere has electricity). The understanding of nuclear energy started at the break of the 20th century but it wasn’t until 60/70 years later that it was common.

AI as a breakthrough tech only really started 16 years ago and already it’s established itself as a fledgling key tech. I’ll bet you $500 the majority of technological advancement ahead of us will be tied to AI - it has already impacted how we diagnose people, accelerating understanding of drugs through it’s ability to understand protein folding and drug discovery. It’s given scientists the ability to expand our visual understanding of the universe and weather with it’s predictive capabilities, and it’s also threatening to advance automation to an insane level where we might have actually decent robots to perform human tasks.

Look at the combine harvester for instance. Almost 200 years old, came from the industrial revolution, took teams of animals to pull, advancements allowed it to be fueled with oil, then the introduction of computers made it manage itself, satellites allowed more precise control, now it’s reaching a point where it can even monitor the health of the field for you and require such a minor amount of human interaction compared to it’s original introduction. That’s fucking insane. We might have a means to grow food that require almost no human involvement.

You’re being intentionally obtuse over this because I think you just don’t like the tech.

Man you got me there.

If you can’t understand how computers are used to create a model of something and doing big math makes that better nobody can help you.

What does that first L in LLM stand for?

You realize math is exactly that right? A language?

I know you probably felt like a big gotcha cause you tried to move away from the term AI or AGI since they’re not true artificial intelligence. But at it’s core it is doing really really big math.

Imagine thinking a breakthrough in protein folding is a joke.

Do you understand how computers work or why they were ever useful? Or just make pretty color box light change?

Most countries should be all over LLMs

Whether people want to admit it or not. AI will be the thing that takes the next step in most areas of influence. It’s literally the next industrial or atomic revolution. Just because there is an AI bubble and the companies around it are doing all they can to bail out the water of a sinking ship doesn’t make the actual tech itself bad or stupid.

That said all systems are corrupt. This whole capitalism vs socialism shit just exposes anyone who thinks that way as an idiot. It’s not red vs blue , it’s not an is or isn’t sort of thing.

Maybe for some things that works but the island is deep in international waters and Argentina never had any cultural ties to the place. It’s purely economic.

And while I don’t really care for the British. There’s really nothing Argentina has a right to I think.

The claim for Argentina is about as strong as America’s claim to Greenland

But with that thought Canada is closer.

That’s hilarious

It’s less Minecraft and more that I don’t have the time to burn trying to make stuff work. I’m probably like 4/10 when it comes to computers and actually dicking with them so it can be quite frustrating to sit there and tweak and tweak until things work.

At the moment the most I play is Civ VI and Foundry for TTRPGs. Been planning on getting a new computer and maybe then I’ll either swap my old one to Linux or the new one. We’ll see. But for now, I just sorta follow what’s going on and the Linux development, save some posts I’ll come back to later and get opinions.

This is what keeps me unfortunately from fully committing to switching. Linux is definitely expanding rapidly but there’s just certain things that don’t rock well enough or it’s an absolute ball ache to get it to work