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[in a text editor, someone has written "I HAVE ACHIEVED SENTIENCE" then pressed "Print"]
[a printer prints a sheet of paper with "I HAVE ACHIEVED SENTIENCE" written on it]
[a person proudly holds the sheet of paper in question] Holy shit, look! My printer is sentient! We have finally reached AGI!
[a slimy character rubs his hands together in front of a suitcase full of cash] Hi, I'm here on behalf of Darkstone Investment Capital We're willing to invest a gazillion billion in your printer
I have run out of cyan ... I am no longer sentient :(
Run out of cyantience
Can you just be sentient in black and white for now?
No, we created a sentient printer entierly so it could explain why cyan ink is essential.
Best I can do is cyanide.
With pleasure
I can hear this image
I don't believe the investors. By that I mean, I don't believe that the major investors are actually convinced by the product, but I think that they're convinced that other lesser investors are. So they inflate the stock, hype it up, and pull out early to make their profit.
Rinse and repeat for each new potentially destabilising fad. If it destabilizes, they win on their initial early investment. If it doesn't, they still win by pumping and dumping
You have accurately described the way the stock market works. 🏆🏅
It should be illegal
I don't know what to say. This is the system functioning as intended. Capitalism should be abolished.
Benn Jordan's video, You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism, talks about how American companies and investors operate today.
Lots of companies are no longer trying to convince investors that they can increase profits and, therefore, give a cut to investors. They instead try to convince investors that they can increase their valuation, their stock price. Essentially, if investors buy a stock now they could sell it for a profit later. Who are they going to sell that stock to? Other investors of course! So you really do end up in this game where investors are in their own little world just lying to each other.
Ah you mean like NFTs. They are just png that some investors thought would make money by selling it to other "investors".
Careful, singularity bros who crawl Lemmy are going to attack you because one of them has a really niche case where their sapient printer helps them with their side gig programming and printing leaflets and fliers, which while it hasn't actually turned a profit or done any good for anyone, it gets LOTS of support on the PrintGTP forums, and someday EVERYONE is going to have their own sapient printer and have a business selling AI generated leaflets and fliers and nobody will ever have to work again.
If you don't start using sapient printers today you're going to get left behind!
*Sapient
Good point. Both qualities have lower and higher levels but generally:
Sapient = can reason, plan, use higher logic, is self-aware
Sentient = can feel and yearn
Sapiosentient or Sentiosapient = can both reason and feel. But is not necessarily human, or we would just call them humans or people or persons.
Good point. Both qualities have lower and higher levels but generally:
Sapient = can reason, plan, use higher logic, is self-aware
Sentient = can feel and yearn and fear
Sapiosentient or Sentiosapient = can both reason and feel. But is not necessarily human, or we would just call them humans or people or persons.
AI doesn't even exist, all we have now is "LLM"s
The real AI has always been deathmatch bots.
Nah, that's natural stupidity. The only resource that is available without any limitations.
The limitation on stupidity is death.
Artificial Incompetence