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Post pandemic, I only go if it's a movie worth seeing in IMAX or Dolby. And movies like those are like once a year.

Honestly I've seen little to none of that. I don't go that often, but at least like 4x/year

Dine in theaters. It's expensive but that isn't an issue any time I've gone the past few years

As long as they stay offa mah lawn!

Just bought a house after years of hunting. I'm /absolutely/ building a home theater in the basement to enjoy my home media server from once I can afford it in...17 years or so, assuming society hasn't collapsed by then.

3. Libraries

I haven't been to my local IMAX theater in nearly a decade because the sound system went to absolute shit and they still haven't updated it.

Even before I went down the audio rabbit hole I felt it was a huge upgrade just having a cheap pair of bookshelf speakers and decent looking TV. Now with OLED becoming ubiquitous it's too easy to make an amazing setup that doesn't break the bank. Theaters need to do some drastic changes to bring back their value, but honestly it might just be better leaving them in the history books.

I was shocked to learn that most projectors are only 2k.

I think I've been in this boat without necessarily realising. Last film i saw at the cinema was the hobbit. I had no idea they'd decided to split the story from that short children's book up into multiple films, so I was very confused and disappointed by the end.

It's worth noting that the most intelligent and well educated people will be the most impacted. And the only ones who profit will be the ones running the companies profiting off AI.

Even the workers for those companies will be replaced. Some may maintain hardware, but robotics isn't far behind the needs we will see. A Boston dynamics robot can do a faster and cheaper job replacing hard drives than a person can.

with Republicans in the states forcing things like they are (the latest being 10 years of not making any Ai legislation in the shitty new big Trump bill), we’re all pretty fucked.

To be honest the answer is obvious, straight forward and impossible. Society just needs to reject entirely any company that embraces shitty "AI".

I mean it's not as though "AI" is in any way intelligence, it's just utilising large data sets to make it look that way, think about it, you meet a person at a party who is entirely oblivious to social norms, incapable of understanding tone, not able to improvise and adapt to conversation, but is really good at stating and restating and respinning facts that they picked up in previous conversations, is that the smartest one in the room?

In every one of my interactions with AI it has reminded me of talking to my ex's autistic son, he was astounding with the things he could remember and repeat (and would do so with absolute conviction) but would crash out when given too many explicitly contradictory tidbits of information.

So assume that any company that replaces workers with it is happy to embrace slop and ask yourself if that is a company worth your business?

Unfortunately the world is far too influenced by America and has spent too long buying into the narratives that have been used to strip Americans of all the characteristics that they like to believe define them.

So the general public is dumb, reactionary, intolerant and beligerent in far too many places around the world.

The tiniest trace of class solidarity and any company that opted to embrace the shit slop as anything other than a tool to enhance the existing workforce would be shunned and reduced to irrelevancy and the world could move on.

For what it's worth I fully 100% believe that AI is attainable, but when we get there we will see LLMs as equivalent to alchemy and shake our heads about the amount of resources we spent trying to turn virtual lead into digital gold. I also wonder if our descendants will curse our wholesale destruction of the planet following these modern day charlatans down the path of environmental collapse just to explore a dead end that was never going to yield a positive result.