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economics is a social science. it studies humans. and yes "consumer" is by definition a person (or collective of people), with free will, feelings, needs, ideas and so on.
unless you are willing to say that models have gained those things and are now equivalent to us? then that is even more of a fantasy, because we should stop hurting them asap instead of talking about economy.
Latest versions of Kimi, Qwen, GLM aren't open, you need to pay them for commercial stuff and comply with PRC laws
Is there actually a competitive proper actually open model?
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-loneliness-epidemic-among...
Telling people to touch grass doesn't magically invert trends.
They will do the minimum necessary to keep people from revolting. The minimum will be less and less as time goes by and surveillance/elimination get better/cheaper.
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-ho...
A stranger is a friend you haven't made yet. Asking strangers is one good way to make friends.
The other premise was UBI. It's the article. how much better discussions would be if people read it?
> non-transactional reasons. Not just to get answers
0) i don't know about you but I like asking people about things because I just like hanging out with people, up to a point. how long this will remain true for humanity as a whole is the question, we can't know
1) if you listen to evolutionary biologists then everything we do is transactional for reproductive purposes, it depends on how deep you dig;)
In that case you will end up healthier after a Mcdonalds, too.
You said
> Can’t be any worse than the contents of the food they’re ordering
I think addition of some E coli or whatnot from screen prints makes a McD meal much worse but sure YMMV.
It says: work goes away (no colleagues), studying goes away (no classmates), showing off to potential mates by doing cool stuff goes away (because why bother, anything you make people can just say "it was AI/robots" and they can prompt it), asking knowledgeable friends how to do X goes away because you just ask LLMs. All things true regardless of whether you're online
And you just trigger on that IRC word like only neckbeards in server dungenons ever used it.
If I had a penny for every advert that depicted it. And that's long time before LLMs arrive;)
You can basically ignore it as noise