You seem to think I don’t hate AI techbros with a passion. I very much do. I’m just utilizing the tool that came out of this in the few ways in which it is actually useful, all while still getting a headache every time some manager at work talks about how AI will code everything in a few years because they believe the bullshit coming out of the mouths of the likes of altman and musk.

Funnily enough palm oil is, in isolation, one of the more environmentally friendly oils (based on land and water use). This is probably in direct relation with it being cheap. Switching to other oils is still better because the deforestation of rain forest being so much worse overall, but the real solution as is so often the case has to be lower plant oil use in general.

Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it’s even completely right in its solution, but that’s more 50/50) is greater than 2. It’s a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn’t because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn’t change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn’t be news for anyone here.

There’s an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you’re displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

It really isn’t but sure. If you’re dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it’s dogshit for that purpose too, but that’s a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

Research in the sense of researching a problem you’re having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

Research in an academic sense yea they’re horrible.

This isn’t really anything special about germany btw, the very concept of retirement depends upon this - even when it’s entirely private retirement funds. The difference with those is mainly that instead of everyone not getting shit, a lot of people just don’t get to retire at all so the ones that were able to save up money can. Which is almost what we have now anyway, except all retirees at least get some small amount. Money in your account is only worth something as long as someone else is willing to work for that money, and that will always depend on the size of the workforce. It’s not a germany problem, it’s not even a capitalism problem (just the inequality created by it is).

Later retirement age is the one thing I’m not vehemently against, in part because it seems inevitable, in part also because medical science advancing makes it more feasible (and also increases the time people have after retirement).