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And do you think that makes the world a better place?

I agree that corporate taxes are not working at this time for one specific country. But the claim of "corporate taxes don't work" is much more broad and not something I've seen specific evidence for. My understanding was that historically corporate taxes have been extremely effective, even if those taxes aren't paid the profits of a company are instead redirected as other investments.

Corporate taxes don't work

What does this mean?

Have you never met a pro ICE person from USA?

Well I would implore you to read your own source. And maybe start hanging around groups that read more

Source for this statistically?

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landlord

If you think these two things are compatible you need to talk to more people outside of your bubble.

And what happened to the J6 crew?

"the industry" is not some monolith, and treating it as such is no productive. There are all types of software and many ways in which it is created. If the companies that are "AI enabled" are so much better we should see some big changes soon. But I'm still waiting for products I use from "AI enabled" companies to start churning out features at unprecedented speed.

You Cannot Quite Opt Out

I am so over this. I cannot take anyone seriously that claims inevitability of their ideas, and how you must adopt them without "being left behind". If these tools are so good and so capable the result should be able to speak for themselves rather than this FOMO inducing, emotional language.

I legitimately think this will be the biggest sociopolitical issue over the next few years. The frustration of seeing your hard work getting one-shotted.

Man, what a narrow world view.

Now imagine the USA did that to the city you live in...

I'm not saying this is wrong, that makes a lot of sense. But on the other hand why have I never heard of other, much more dense countries facing this problem? I just never hear of Japan, China, Germany, Taiwan, etc seeing overcrowded trains and raise their hands saying "there can't possibly be a solution!"

Can you explain how adding frequency to the train network will not work to compensate higher ridership?

Couldn't they just have background agents "figure it out"

I reckon we agree more than we disagree, but there is a dichotomy of expansive and contractive technologies. Much of the computer industry has given more agency, choice, and knowledge to people.

what processes do you have set up to backstop automated decisionmaking?

The companies releasing these models actively encourage the act of automated decision making by them. The entire value proposition is the automation of decisions and knowledge work. It's rare to find a use case for them that isn't offboarding your thinking and therefore agency

See: when they banned guns because of the black panthers.

Correct. They will never not have a social bias. Which leads to the question of, who controls these tools, and what biases are they okay/not okay with specifically training for. Currently they can be seen more as a reflection of broader culture (and even that has problems) but as we're already seeing with Grok they can be tuned at a whim to display any specific ideologies.

You might be able to be maximally productive some times of the year, but usually you were waiting on Mother Nature to do her thing.

I don't know what that means. When did we have to stop waiting for crops to grow? The only thing that changed for the production side was requiring less humans as machines could do the work of many laborers.

Yeah, that's one specialized piece of automation in a long line of automation throughout history. I'm not sure why taking humans off of the assembly line is a larger deal than taking humans out of agriculture, textile production, or printing?

~50 years ago is when automation started to become more than a curiosity in industry

Where did you get that idea from?

Except with the advent of LLMs, scams can run at an unprecedented rate.

US: Threatens own democracy, invades other nations, threatens sovereignty of long standing allies.

EU: Slowly makes laws with consideration of how much power the largest companies have over consumers.

Surely you can tell the difference between these two things.

Can you think of a good way to encode intent into a system?

In this race to the bottom, how is quality compared between vendors by consumers? What are the market forces that will cause thousands of virtual vet vendors that give incorrect information, to beat out the vendors that provide quality work?

Can you explain the differences between using AI "properly" and "improperly" for learning?

What makes you think that LLM vet companies wouldn't bend to the same forces of "over charging"

is the same nowadays

When did that change?