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China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The cars that replaced horses were several iterations in, early "automobile" devices included steam powered carriages that moved slower than walking.

A technology may start with limited usage while still having lots of potential.

Technologies are always useless until they're not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It seems you're firmly entrenched and going out of your way to see a contradiction. I'll let you be.

Consider that there's no widespread double-think happening and it could just be in your own head at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.

https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096

Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.

AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967

Going to hit 40% of jobs in 5 years the next

Is it magic beans and snake oil, eg. a scam or is it a legit threat, you can't have both

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I didn't think your point was as shallow as "different people can have different opinions"

I fail to see how this invalidates that someone can hold both the position that current AI is a waste of electricity and pumping out garbage while pointing out the potential social and economic disruption of future iterations of the technology.

If your point was simply that some people hold one position, others hold the other, and others still hold both. Then.... thanks? I think we can also call this a waste of electricity.