A robot will only replace a worker that doesn’t need to have a brain to do their work.

So… Politicians, CEOs, and immigration enforcement are next then?

Came here specifically for this. Not disappointed.

I intentionally ignore the vast majority of everything on my phone until I can get to a real computer. Phones and tablets feel like unmitigated torture and I loathe it every time I have to use one to do something

Modern Devs: “8 Gb??? That’s 2 chrome tabs!”

That’s because like NHS in this case, X-COM *lies *.

It’s depressing how much history is going to be lost. Entire movements have been launched on videos that are now private or removed for copyright violations, and now they are gone forever to future historians. Even looking for information or knowledge now… 80% of your results are YouTube videos. All of that knowledge will disappear forever, and it doesn’t even take a cataclysmic event - YouTube’s search is so actively hostile that even if you know exactly the name of the video you’re looking for, you will NOT find it unless it happens to already be algorithm aligned. YouTube is BY FAR a bigger danger to the throughline of history than ANY social media platform.

The simple solution is to just… stop using video so much. Video is riddled with problems as a long term human record, doesn’t scale, increases perpetually in requirements without actually improving quality of CONTENT, isn’t indexable or searchable, isn’t easily translated into multiple languages, not as easily shared, not as easy to back up… Text is not obsolete. It was our main method of information transmission for tens of thousands of years, and NOTHING will convince me that it should be replaced as the primary method.

Again, it’s a human problem. If humans accepted text and images again for the majority of information transfer, the problem would go away.

Yeah… the very fact this is posted as a youtube video reinforces the point of how far we are from this. The issue is, the enshitified internet is not a technology problem… it’s an education/people problem.

The internet will not be better until people are.

You don’t NEED to be fixed if you complement each other’s crazy.

I’m gonna say that still counts as “cheap assets”

The Nobel Committee:

But… those ARE the only two use cases.

Literally word for word the exact comment I came to make

They rushed. If you push it too fast it’ll blow up in your face.

Amateurs.

Yeah. Owning the thing you pay for is a premium feature.

This is incorrect. I’m a teacher and CONSTANTLY use the analog clock for multiple reasons.

1. It’s the clock of record. Doesn’t matter what YOUR particular clock says, the clock on the WALL is the time we all go on.
2. Reaching into your pocket to pull out a phone and look, no matter how much you want to pretend it’s trivial, still takes SIGNIFICANTLY more effort and time than glancing at the wall. Those seconds add up.
3. Momentum. Are you PERSONALLY going to provide the billions of dollars in funding to replace every analog clock in a public space with digital ones?

This is not like learning to write cursive - reading an analog clock is a trivial skill that should not take longer than a day for anyone to master.

Why stop there? Why not the date and year too?