I think it's less doubling down, and more that a thousand died and many more thousands left, then people probably moved back for jobs as they reopened, and could be a lot of people who weren't there before.

Just googled and there really is a sharp population drop from like 500k to 250k after Katrina... I mean, wtf can you do if your job and home is destroyed? You have to leave whether you like it or not.

And then if jobs exist somewhere, people will move back if rent is cheap and jobs exist. Sometimes you don't consider these things permanent until you're still there 10 years later.

So many in the Bible belt don't believe in climate change. It's half their fault, half billionaire's fault and modern propaganda. If you don't believe in it and think it's some liberal lie, then yeah, why wouldn't you say fuck it and move back to hurricane alley? And if you do believe in it, well, does it matter if you still need a job and apartment and this is where you found it?

You can't fault people for surviving IMO. Most people just get stuck surviving where they have a job and place to sleep.

New Orleans isn't home but it's one of my favorite cities in the US. So much good food, fun culture, really nice people... It's a lot to give up, even if you have to.

Thank you and yikes, instead of boosting funding into their lifeline, they resort to cut corners improve efficiency by sorting calls with AI. Seems a tad unethical, to do this in a field where every second counts and the consequences mean life or death... But hey, i guess more taxes for the rich is socialism and you can't have that, slippery slope towards communism. /s

I don't believe they are suggesting such. The concept of AI as a helpful tool for people trying to complete a task is still valid. Most good work includes repetitive, tedious tasks and AI can potentially automate some of that away.

I believe the problem is that, first and foremost, we're attempting to throw all of the world's knowledge into a black box and power it with all of the worlds resources while praying that it will result in genuine General Superintelligence. Its reckless, destructive, wasteful, and naive.

Second, most of those in power see it as a replacement for those workers and as an avenue for cost reduction. Middle management that is deluded into believing that they are the reason everything gets done. Narcissistic executives who think their "genius" is the key to their company's success. If those pesky workers beneath them would just sacrifice literally everything for their bosses and literally obey their boss's every command, including commands like "just do it faster" everything would be perfect... they believe. The false promises of AI replacing labor gets them rock fucking hard.

There is though. High profile events cause high volumes of 911 calls. If AI can be used correctly, perhaps even with Geo data, callers likely calling about the same event 400 others are calling about at the same time can get an informational "we know, thank you. But press 1 to talk to a human if still needed". This allows the humans to help Grandpa having a heart attack across town instead of speed answering dozens of calls about the same fender Bender on the interstate during rush hour.

Just my opinion. Thanks for listening.