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[Matt]

That too.

[Alex_24]

As I recall, the IHSH-237 and 238 were fast sellers; western and work versions released on the same day and were sold out within an hour.

[mclaincausey]

I wonder what would happen if inventory and sales details were fed into ChatGPT and it was asked some questions about the most popular and lucrative releases…

[Giles]

@mclaincausey said in Ask Giles and/or Alex Anything:

I wonder what would happen if inventory and sales details were fed into ChatGPT

[goosehd]

@Giles brilliant

[goosehd]

@mclaincausey Personally I feel like all of AI can fucking go to hell...when 40% of the worlds population could possibly loose their jobs to this technology, then you have to question what the intended purpose is and who is pushing for it.

I know that they keep saying that people will adapt and more job opportunities will open up, but I feel like some of us older individuals won't be retrainable or ease into another career. I certainly don't want to start over again...

[Matt]

If the world made all its technological decisions based on how old people will navigate them wed be in a lot of trouble. Now get off my lawn or I’ll sic my robot mower on you.

[goosehd]

I get it...but I don't want to.

[mclaincausey]

@goosehd I don’t disagree but it has its uses. A lot of the problem is people unfamiliar with prompt engineering misuse GenAI and get bad results and then assume the tech is shit.

As far as I’m concerned, forum aside, we were better off before many of the computer and network oriented tech advances since the 90s.

GenAI is harvesting prompts and content to replace lots of jobs IMO.

Now get of MY lawn.

[Tago Mago]

@Matt

If @goosehd is dad you're well on your way to grandpa

[goosehd]

I'm just hoping that I have 12-15 years left before AI replaces me and my livelihood...I spent approximately a week earlier this year shoring up our finances and preparing for retirement. If the Canadian dollar was stronger and inflation wasn't running rampantly, then retirement would be much sooner...

Brings up a point for all of you younger guys...start working on your retirement and investment plans looking for gaps in that planning. We found a pretty big one where our rainy day fund was sitting around not doing much. There are a lot of short term investments for money like that

[goosehd]

@Tago-Mago just wait, one day you'll wake up and find everything hurts for no reason, you can't remember what you did the night before (and you don't have an excuse), and a know-it-all youngster is grating on your final nerve.

Proud member of the curmudgeon club

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd whenever that happens I know you and @Matt will be there with sage advice

[seawolf]

@goosehd said in Ask Giles and/or Alex Anything:

Proud member of the curmudgeon club

Not only are you the Curmudgeon Club president, you're also a client!

[JunkPants]

Will you be stocking these?

Would love to try a pair. (Big fan of SBG and XHSbb).

[AdamJ]

@JunkPants Yes. They should be here next week. Live date TBC

[Karol]

@AdamJ those are the SST SBG?

[JunkPants]

@AdamJ Great! Thank you for the quick reply.
Already looking forward to giving these a go then. Any approximate timeframe? (Not that it would matter a whole lot )

EDIT: NEXT WEEK! That's awesome.

[scooter]

@goosehd said in Ask Giles and/or Alex Anything:

@Tago-Mago just wait, one day you'll wake up and find everything hurts for no reason, you can't remember what you did the night before (and you don't have an excuse), and a know-it-all youngster is grating on your final nerve.

What's with the whining ? You're a Gen-Xer, for Christ sake. Fuckin' act like it ! You're giving the rest of us a bad name...

[goosehd]

@scooter Thank you for the reminder...I sometimes forget