Canaconda

You have an identity that can be abused to get stuff like credit and loans

I have grandparents. Don’t want them getting scammed.

And hello isn’t enough but a 10 word sentence is plenty.

Actually I think the few seconds might be caused by people taking calls on their ear buds.

I use a shitty android and JBLs so maybe airpods don’t have that slight delay when they connect.

You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?

Yup. AI spam calls generally hang up within 3 seconds if they don’t hear a voice on the other end. It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

I don’t answer calls from random numbers anyways so it’s largely irrelevant unless I’m expecting calls for some reason.

At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.

Yea I won’t even speak until I hear someone on the other end. Even then I disguise my voice until I’m certain it’s a legit caller.

Honestly I’m too worried about my voice/image being AI spoofed to bother answering any calls I’m not expecting.

While I know I’m not rich enough to be a target I lack the cybersecurity skills to chew what I might bite off if I made it personal by trolling them.

Totally. But that’s not what I’m saying. Just to recap.

Buddy said AI/automation/clankas/gonks save money so if we want humans to provide us services we need to be willing to pay more. I posited that money being a barrier to human interaction is probably not a good endgame.

When I had my first ever surgery, I got wheeled into an operating room full of strangers operating who all introduce themselves and participated in making me feel safe and calm. If it weren’t for them, I’d have 100% freaked the fuck out.

Now I’m okay with robot surgeons and dentist doing what they’re programmed to do… but I don’t fucking trust them. I would only accept that kind of treatment if there a human in control of that situation.

That’s where my mind goes when I imagine a world where human provided service is paywalled.

The prices you’re paying for your purchases are lower across the board because they don’t have to pay for as many cashiers.

In theory yes. But that’s not going to be universal for every product. Not every product can become a “loss leader”. So to a degree it depends on the individual shopper.

I should warn you, those stores are probably more expensive to shop at.

While that’s true, you have to admit that stores with zero checkout automation also likely lack the buying power to purchase in bulk like the large retailers who can afford checkout automation.

My philosophy with grocery shopping is I want it to be done asap. IMO self-checkout isn’t inherently faster than cashiers. It’s arrangement of single queues leading to multiple registers that speeds up the lines.

Additionally, I prefer to bag my own groceries so that I know the fragile items won’t be damaged getting them home.

I would fully agree. But it could still get worse.

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because its significantly cheaper to the consumer of the product/service."

This. The only example where I pick a robot over a human is self checkout… and that’s cuz it’s faster due to there only be 1 queue for several checkouts. Not because it saves me money.

Got to costco and I’ll readily take a cashier line because it’s generally faster than the self checkout unless you only have a few items.

what do you really save when you personally save for example $.30 on a transaction when the AI spends five dollars in energy?

Exactly. The economy right now is a big ball and cup game so that the rich can convince workers to keep funding their kleptocracy.

We pay taxes for public services and utilities that generate private profits while the rich get to benefit off the infrastructure that we funded. The cups, the balls, and the god damn table were all built and paid for by the working class.

business point of view, how much more for the product/service would you be willing to pay for a human operator

Inversely; How comfortable would you be in a society where you couldn’t access another human if you couldn’t afford one? Because that’s where prioritizing profit over people is going to lead us.

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tools to delete or garble their entite post history

I had a 6 year account when the API scandal hit. Paid a small fee to deny reddit whatever 2 cents my comments are worth.

So what does your employment contract say?

Insect populations dropped by 41% globally since 2015.

No mosquitos will be the least of our problems when every species above in the food chain ends up on the endangered list.

This. Surround yourself with good people and your life will be better in general.

Events in general because you all have at least 1 thing in common you can talk about (the event).

Also you need a reason to be there other than meeting women or tldr you’ll give off ick vibes. It’s like the desperate salesman who drives away customers.

Someone who’s genuinely there to have fun will be much more attractive in general.