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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

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  • AI. So many managerial types have been brainwashed into thinking AI is necessary, when it is definitely not. AI used in spell checkers, just presents your habitual mistakes as being correct and search engines 'infected' with AI become no longer fit for purpose. On an online supermarket search engine, I was looking for something eatable, searched for it with its name and got a selection of wristwatches as the result. On another occasion I was searching for the antihistamine Loratidine, with the word 'Loratidine' (which is what it was called on the supermarket's own listing) and got 'nothing matches your search'!

  • in reply to Martin

    Hi Martin.

    From my perspective the real issues with AI are the very big and existential ones. Im not referring to the sci fi nightmare scenarios of it going rogue and physically destroying humanity, but the very real financial risks to all of us. Here is just one, property insurance:

    AI makes calculating risk vastly more accurate and super quick. Insurance companies are not obliged to insure people and companies, so with this very accurate assessment of risk they will only insure where the risk is low enough to make sufficient profit overall. Consequently certain risks become uninsurable, flood risk being one very notable example. In some parts of the USA it isn’t possible to insure properties in large areas due to this, therefore no bank or financial organisation will give loans on these properties, so their resale value plummets. Then these areas decay, society there ceases to function and you have just a swathe of the very poor, structural decay, then anarchy. 

    This assessment of risk has already happened to some areas of flood prone parts of the UK, hence the government’s Flood-Re initiative, but which has either ended or is due to. In a capitalist society this is all inevitable, its alternative of common ownership always ends up in a dictatorial system where the financial in-balance between rich and poor (in terms of finances and power) is even great than under capitalism. It has been tried in the 20C in both Russia and China with just this result, and in many societies over millennia (Including, provocatively, the in the early Christian church as described in Acts of the Apostles, whose “all equal” ideals lasted a very short time).

    Alice

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  • in reply to Martin

    Hi Martin.

    From my perspective the real issues with AI are the very big and existential ones. Im not referring to the sci fi nightmare scenarios of it going rogue and physically destroying humanity, but the very real financial risks to all of us. Here is just one, property insurance:

    AI makes calculating risk vastly more accurate and super quick. Insurance companies are not obliged to insure people and companies, so with this very accurate assessment of risk they will only insure where the risk is low enough to make sufficient profit overall. Consequently certain risks become uninsurable, flood risk being one very notable example. In some parts of the USA it isn’t possible to insure properties in large areas due to this, therefore no bank or financial organisation will give loans on these properties, so their resale value plummets. Then these areas decay, society there ceases to function and you have just a swathe of the very poor, structural decay, then anarchy. 

    This assessment of risk has already happened to some areas of flood prone parts of the UK, hence the government’s Flood-Re initiative, but which has either ended or is due to. In a capitalist society this is all inevitable, its alternative of common ownership always ends up in a dictatorial system where the financial in-balance between rich and poor (in terms of finances and power) is even great than under capitalism. It has been tried in the 20C in both Russia and China with just this result, and in many societies over millennia (Including, provocatively, the in the early Christian church as described in Acts of the Apostles, whose “all equal” ideals lasted a very short time).

    Alice

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