Oh yeah, I completely agree that AI is a convenient excuse to do layoffs companies were doing anyways.

Of course, the long-term goal of automation is to reduce labor, but current AI is nowhere near replacing human workers. Right now, it’s just a tool that speeds up certain tasks with, as the article notes, very mixed results. That said, we’ve seen steady increase in automation since the Industrial Revolution without mass unemployment. Instead of work disappearing, it is merely transformed. Portrait painters fade out, camera operators emerge. The jobs shift, but the need for human labor persists, just in new forms.

haha carrier drifting is fun to watch, I can definitely see how they lost a jet doing that

We’re now getting to see how US navy performs when the enemy can actually fight back.

Sure, but these companies just serve as a warning to others, and the hype is already is already dying down. This happens every time new technology appears. There is no structural shift happening with AI meaningfully replacing human labor.

The article talks about a study analyzing the impact of AI on jobs. And what they find is that AI in its current form is not capable of replacing human labor.

love to see me some oligarch infighting 🍿

The anxiety over job loss actually seems like one of the main reasons. Another big reason seems to be that people are feeling threatened by machines doing things that were thought to be inherently human, which means there’s nothing magical about human cognition.

looks like it might be legit what happened

I mean, Id did this for years with Quake engines as well, so we kind of know how this works out. The assets tend to be the really difficult part for open source community to replicate. Still cool that they’re doing it though.

Incidentally, this is where AI tools could really help open source community to make it easier to create nice looking open assets for the game engines like this.

The effectiveness of Western propaganda lies in its alignment with preexisting biases. When narratives depicting China as inherently oppressive or barbaric are disseminated, they perfectly fit with Orientalist worldviews these people hold.

you keep on guzzling your state propaganda kiddo 🤣

you can truly convince a westerner of anything

just imagine the structural stress from that

I’m still trying to imagine something the size of a carrier making hard turns

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

oh hey it’s this whole whataboutism we keep hearing about

that would be hilarious

Although, I doubt he even cares what they think. His constituents are the financial capitalists whose interests he represents.

Market manipulation is the point. Every time he makes a statement the market reacts which allows people who are in on it to make money hand over fist.