You can double an hourly rate to approximate the annual wage. $30/hr ~= $60k / year.

Because 50 paid weeks * 40 paid hours = 2000 hours -> 2k

$30 * 2k = $60k

“A car that drives places” does not imply the car is capable of thought, same argument with “A cup that holds water”.

“A robot that hacks software” equally does not imply the robot is capable of thought. IMO there is an over-correction away from personifying LLM’s because some people think/claim they are sentient. But we personify stuff all the time.

If I could make 70% as much in a different field, I would have switched by now.

I no longer enjoy my field as a profession. There is no “solving” anything anymore, it’s just prompting a bot and building tools that make it better and better at replacing me. But the reality is, without pursuing a masters in a different field, this is the most money I can make for the lowest amount of work. The field is dying and in the mean time we’re taking home standard salaries.

Personally I’m pursuing a fintech specialty since IMO specializing is our last hope to survive the AI destruction. But I don’t enjoy it.

This isn’t productive so I’m going to stop responding to your bad faith bait.

Try rereading the metaphor. Because I directly addressed who’s at fault.

Brother really had no argument.

“Erm you use the wrong there/their. The’refour your argument is invalid”-ass response

Do you think the lesson in that metaphor is that I think women should be wearing helmets…?

It’s not meant literally.

There is a huge, giant fucking massive difference between someone that would plausibly commit rape and someone who has committed rape.

The main difference is in one case, someone gets raped.

I’m a man and no, I would not feel safe arriving at a part drunk & naked & doing drugs.

Do you think you’re doing something?

I still like the “If you ride a bike and get run over, it’s the drivers fault. But you should still wear a helmet” metaphor. But I believe some people think it’s a defense of rapists, which it’s not.

The moon causes tides, but mooning does not involve tiddies

It’s hard to imagine any of them would live. I guess one near the top might survive by using the flood of elephant pieces to slow their fall. But an elephant can’t survive a ~10 foot fall. That’s about 2 elephants tall, and the bottom two or the ones I am most confident are dying in this.

“Fish don’t exist”-ass fact.

Yes they do. Something lacking a definition in one specific profession does not remove it’s definition from other fields or the colloquial definition.

Shapes don’t exist because actually they are all squares, circles, triangles, etc.

At least in the major retailers in my area - yes.

They are annoying AF and that’s coming from a pretty antisocial person.

The moon of course causes the tides, but the tides are also causing the moon to drift away from earth.

From my perspective this wasn’t a ‘luck’ situation.

A criminal assaulted a crowd of people with explosives. It’s just a coincidence that the criminal is a cop in this case. It’s not ‘unlucky’ that they were assaulted.

My go to simplification is “They built a robot that hacks software and then placed it in a box that uses software as a lock and then the robot that hacks software hacked the software lock”.

Which is both very simple and also about as accurate as you could make it in that many words. The AI’s are not ‘rogue’ it was just solving the problem it was given.

You seem to be missing the part where they threw an explosive into a crowd of people.

Self checkout in theory is better for both sides - business and consumer.

That said most self checkout as implemented is insufferable. The modern experience is waiting 5 minutes for someone to clear out your order because you accidentally clicked the version of Limes that this store doesn’t sell, despite it being an option on the POS, or to tap no / decline on the 5 different “Donate? Round up? Bag? Survey? Phone number?” prompts, or for the POS to lock up because you scanned a single can 3 times rather than 3 cans once, or for the cart to lock up so you slam your shin into it because the camera determined you were a thief.

Personally I avoid all self checkouts.