D Trains off season plan.

[Seattle or Bust]

AI is fun for the fact that you can pretty much search anything and get a decent answer...

But the general theme of human replacement doesn't sit well with me.

First, it removes human connection. Humans have always relied on communication with other tribes, family, what have you... to compromise, brainstorm, innovate, coexist... These days you don't get to interact with a person checking out your groceries. You call a bank and AI is doing everything in its power to not connect you to a person to talk to. We "Google" things now rather than relying on our community to teach us... To me, the loss in relying on others removes an evolutionary condition that got us here and replaces it with something that is nowhere near human. As AI advances, this is only going to get worse.

Second, there are a lot of jobs on that will be automized the further AI advances. I find myself asking, why bring children into a world where opportunity is dwindling? What jobs will be available for people in 50 years? What are people on the lower end of the totem pole going to do with the dwindling opportunity? While AI will create some jobs, I think it will replace a hell of a lot more. In a world with a growing affordability crisis... what will people do if the basic jobs are gone? Just seems like a world of AI will only increase the wealth gap.

What we're seeing is the very, very tip of the iceberg in terms of automation... I'm not sure how good of a thing that is for a civilization that relies on hard work to find purpose.

[Donn Beach]

I like it. Give up what we have to to get Lopez. We have to get more right handed no matter what. Maybe go with Suzuki. My guess is that Jerry will sit there with his thumb up his ass and watch things develop rather than do what the contenders do and "take what you have and make what you want".

Suzuki would be great but not sure why people keep ignoring what Stanton said about sign FAs in their 30s just last week. It isn't happening so why suggest it?

Because they do sign FAs in their 30s, albeit to short-term contracts for platooning purposes and it blows up in their faces every single time. At some point you have to take a shot with a top player. I know it's very highly unlikely but I'm gonna still die on this hill, come get me Darren YAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Brewers don't

[D-train]

One of my followers sent me this. The ones I lined our are either not good are absolutely absurd in terms of their teams even considering trading for them. Tyrone Taylor looks good as a 4th OF and the relievers I circled look very good. Dubon is already a part of my plan but I would be ok with Ortiz as a back up plan. Seems he is available.

[D-train]

This White Tyrone guy who I had NEVER heard of really could be a great fit.

1.7 WAR in 241 PAs. (4.2 WAR/600)

RH bat with .891 OPS vs. Lefties but also decent vs. RHPs at .734

Good defense as well

Not young at almost 33 but for a one year deal, who cares. Made $3.8M this past season so Refsnyder money should get it done.

[HawkandMariner88]

This White Tyrone guy who I had NEVER heard of really could be a great fit.

1.7 WAR in 241 PAs. (4.2 WAR/600)

RH bat with .891 OPS vs. Lefties but also decent vs. RHPs at .734

Good defense as well

Not young at almost 33 but for a one year deal, who cares. Made $3.8M this past season so Refsnyder money should get it done.

Give me Taylor, Dubon, Ortiz & Bender & I'm good.

[D-train]

This White Tyrone guy who I had NEVER heard of really could be a great fit.

1.7 WAR in 241 PAs. (4.2 WAR/600)

RH bat with .891 OPS vs. Lefties but also decent vs. RHPs at .734

Good defense as well

Not young at almost 33 but for a one year deal, who cares. Made $3.8M this past season so Refsnyder money should get it done.

Give me Taylor, Dubon, Ortiz & Bender & I'm good.

Ortiz and Dubon are probably redundant. Need a BU 1B and some power off the bench. I would go with Toglia over Ortiz.

[Pharmabro]

Its a good idea that will never happen like 97% of the moves in our plans.

Over 99%. Leadoff from The Times Forum is still the only one ever to call a specific trade even before it was talked about (Carlos Silva for Milton Bradley).

Leadoff went to ST with us about 10-12 years ago. Jim Freeman referred to him and Terry walking from the parking lot to the ballpark as two Giant Tortises. lol I also met him at the Scottish festival in Enumclaw one year.

Shortly thereafter he backed his car into Terry's and refused to pay for the damage. Prob a few hundred dollars. He then vanished from the Forum forever. I reached out to him after that to see what was up and he said he wasn't a baseball fan any more.

I also remember Jim. I was another SPI—-> ST—->Mariner talk refugee. I think I started at SPI in the 90’s FFS

[Michael K.]

Over 99%. Leadoff from The Times Forum is still the only one ever to call a specific trade even before it was talked about (Carlos Silva for Milton Bradley).

Leadoff went to ST with us about 10-12 years ago. Jim Freeman referred to him and Terry walking from the parking lot to the ballpark as two Giant Tortises. lol I also met him at the Scottish festival in Enumclaw one year.

Shortly thereafter he backed his car into Terry's and refused to pay for the damage. Prob a few hundred dollars. He then vanished from the Forum forever. I reached out to him after that to see what was up and he said he wasn't a baseball fan any more.

I also remember Jim. I was another SPI—-> ST—->Mariner talk refugee. I think I started at SPI in the 90’s FFS

I used to post from time to time on the PI site. I'm trying to remember when. I THINK that I only switched over to the Times when the PI went bye bye. I had a subscription to the PI, so switched to the Times. The PI shut down in 2009. I don't think I was at the PI in the 90s tho.

[Bil522]

Sure but it can never commit physical violence unless it some how takes over a robot???

Since everything is run by computers, they could in theory cause havoc that would indirectly harm humans. Crash the power grid. Melt down reactors. Cause supply chains to grind to a halt. Drain or freeze all of our assets.

They don’t need Schwarzenegger terminators to kill humans. They just need to collapse our economy and paralyze our power grids to throw us back the Stone Age. Literally.

I’m not saying I think this will happen - only that it’s what could happen if shit gets dystopian.

Like Donn says, they have a tendency to escape, communicate, take measures to ensure their survival, and even show evidence of altruism where one bot uses its tokens to ensure others survive to complete a task.

Yikes. I should have thought of that. thanks BM...

On the season opener of Law and Order, an AI, that could think intelligently, and they were trying to get it to learn compassion, sent $20k in bitcoin to a guy down on his luck....all he had to do was kill the programmer who was trying to limit the AI. They found the guy who did it due to video cameras, and he told the cops that he didn't know who hired him. They ultimately found out that it was the AI and charged the creator with murder 2. It was a good episode