As an IT worker, Apple products are fine. Not my bag, but fine. Just different issues than PCs and Android. Apple fanboys, however, are just the worst. One of my bosses once wanted me to tear out and rebuild the entire physical network because he had a problem with Safari on one of his Macs.

A QR code handed to you by a restaurant employee would not be “unknown.” I was thinking of codes found left at a bus stop or something.

Also, QR code menus are a dick move by a restaurant, and I would just walk out, personally.

Is this what friendly teasing looks like through the lens of medium to low-functioning autism?

I find it difficult to have sympathy for people who suffer predictable consequences after scanning unknown QR codes left in public.

Fine. Until relatively recently, like before mass industrialization.

We’ve had a habitable wilderness for all of human existence until now. Dystopian society is now The only option for living in most of the planet. World has not always been this fucked.

Edit: if you’re not convinced, actuaries are predicting 2 billion climate deaths at +2C warming (we’re at 1.7C now) and 4 billion deaths at 3C, which is the absolute minimum we’re in for assuming we stopped all emissions tomorrow. Obviously that’s not happening, so it’s going to be way worse than that. Our existing billions of people also depend on a complex web of logistics systems which are currently falling apart or being dismantled. Google “complexity collapse.”

One of you can have my ration. I’m not gonna fight you for it.

I’m sure this is the moment that will give pause and encourage caution with LLMs going forward. Yes. This time people will learn.

Long life isn’t everything. World is fucked

More than money, the billionaire powers that be want to foist their worldview on everyone else.

We haven’t had LLMs that long. Are people seriously already forgetting the concept of learning skills?

That is the normal human experience, I think.