Your post is a lot less fun than a global conspiracy between governments and companies to keep fat cats rich and workers poor or some such cliche’d nonsense. I’d also add that it’s harder for traditional managers to measure the performance of their people unless they’re in something like sales or piecework where there are objective and visible metrics. And all the talk and hype around quiet quitting (which may not exist or have changed) doesn’t help.

Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Friday it was releasing a new large language model based on artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at the research community, becoming the latest company to join the AI race.

The battle to dominate the AI technology space, which until recently existed in the background, kicked off late last year with the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT and prompted tech heavyweights from Alphabet Inc to China's Baidu Inc, to create their own offerings.

Meta's LLaMA, short for Large Language Model Meta AI, will be available under non-commercial license to researchers and entities affiliated with government, civil society, and academia, 

That’s not automation.

That’s like saying a cleaning service is automation: if people are physically doing the work, it’s not automated.

Tesla would open up deposits on said car, promise delivery a year from then, and then five years later still have not delivered a single car.

I can’t even get my deposit back in the cyber truck and it’s been years

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It’s ridiculous to require people to go back into the office when work from home has insane advantages. First there will be less pollution, car accidents, and other conflicts due to people being at home. Since we are dealing with climate change - seems like work from home is a win for the environment. If that means real estate moguls lose, then they need to change what they do with their properties - renovate them and turn them into apartments with retail down below. It’s happening here in California already - shops below and housing above and conveniently located within walking distance of mass transit. Less cars, less pollution. I hate these mega corporations that have no creativity and just stay status quo.

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>Greg Spanjers, program manager for rocket cargo at AFRL, said the military envisions a future when it could be cheaper to send cargo via rocket than by transport aircraft. In a national security or humanitarian crisis, a launch vehicle would fly from Cape Canaveral, for example, and either land on an austere field to deliver cargo or airdrop it.
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>For the rocket cargo program to be viable, Spanjers said, DoD expects to use launch providers that fly frequently so they can offer competitive pricing. “To make this a success, we need a very high launch rate, and we need to have systems that reenter and that can bring a high down mass,” he added.

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>If rocket cargo moves forward and the technology matures, the Space Force would take the lead in managing the program and procuring services, he said. “We’re already starting to actively plan for a program standup in the 2026 timeframe.”

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>Horne said the military is “going to need that infrastructure on orbit, not just for cargo, storage and movement, but for a lot of other applications. We’re gonna need gas tanks in the future. We may even have places where we are manufacturing things,” he added. “We’re going to find military-unique ways to use that from a national security perspective.”

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Yes, I know about Cyberpunk 2077's cyberpsychosis, but it is purely fictional and related to a world that could emerge far away in the future. The premise of the new major mental illness in "Piaget's Last Fear" is extremely plausible right now, in the world we're currently living in.

Horizon for bitten west has something where you go through withdrawals if your AR implants are removed so yah, I could see conditions relating to tech being a thing.

As a constant cheerleader for electrification I will celebrate it

How is this a conterpoint? It proves my point. Either you have been educated in how to read a map and road signs and therefore could navigate without GPS navigation, or you would be screwed without your phone or car.

If you ever have to borrow someone else's car or rent a car that doesn't have nav, and your phone's battery runs out of energy...then you're reliant on your previous education. It doesnt take an apocalypse.

I will not purchase an EV when the most expensive part on an EV is 5x the cost of the most expensive part on a gasoline vehicle. And those batteries are not designed for cold weather or winter.

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This year I believe you'll see a compact Tesla for 250$ a month with 0$ down that will change the car market.

thats how you get night robots.

My boss's company is doing a multimillion-dollar renovation of our building while our work force is remote. Meanwhile, a raise wasn't in the budget during last year's record inflation.

Lol that's what I did. My job wanted to start office work. I got s new job

Lots of money is in commercial rentals.

Another fictional work with a new mental illness is the videogame Cyberpunk 2077 & related media (the anime, Edgerunners does a good job touching on it also), the illness is called cyberpsychosis. Summary here: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberpsychosis

I think the idea that new mental illnesses could come into existence makes sense, and I also think cyberpunk does a good job of justifying it - of course no one could get cyberpsychosis before implants existed, so it being a new condition makes sense.

I'm at work so gotta hop off for now but I might expand my post later, or maybe not if I get busy. I will say this is definitely a cool topic to think about, thanks for bringing it up OP!

I think it also has to do with regional Pay. During the pandemic I heard one of the VPs talking about how it was hard to hire because they had to compete with wages from Seattle firms. They suddenly had ho pay a premium for software devs because s ton were leaving to work remote for out of town companies

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