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American left, as AI is going to hugely undermine their power
Can you explain this line of reasoning to me. My own intuition tells me that as AI automates away jobs, the center will be more open to government programs that create jobs, provide a social safety net, and allow people to retrain.
Why is it you think the right gains power?
It seems like maybe this person missed why slavery is bad. Which is that it takes away the freedom of a human being. The fact that it takes away work from you is not the problem
Yes, but it's important that people who care about not being tracked have options, even if it's not most people.
This doesn’t really make a difference in the argument. You can sub 80 with 90 and the point remains the same. There is some age where you stop caring about trying to be cured, and just care about the quality of life in the immediate future
Do you have friends or people in your life that are also not geniuses? Do you think about them this way? Why or why not?
Those ancient wonders were enabled by slave labor
This is not true of the Pyramids
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...
pyramids
The pyramids were not built by slaves, and while we can waffle around about "all labor is exploitative to some extent", it doesn't take exploitation-maxxing to drive great achievements. Most great modern achievements are driven by a desire for self-actualization or recognition, not survival.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...
I don’t think there was anything negative about their comment
It’s not there yet but we’re clearly heading towards a world where the answer is “no, you have no choice”. AI is weaved into business processes. If Ai leaves a comment on your pr, you must resolve it before merging, you’re expected to “get things done” at a particular pace consistent with using ai, regardless of whether what you did is any good.
Other comments have already mentioned that true labor force participation is higher in all of those countries than the US. But also, they all have better lives than the US. They live longer, access better education, healthcare.
I'm fine with erring on the side of overbearing, as long as it's not blatant cronyism
On some level
The appropriate level would be regulation though? Like I just don't get how we can argue that arbitrarily throttling companies is ok.
Ok, are there enough doctors? seems really weird that you left out the other jobs I mentioned
Ok, the 2 CEOs want investors to believe their technology is all-powerful. Is that assessment worth anything?
Nobody has mentioned AGI in this thread until this comment. And either way, there's no evidence that AGI as you're defining it is going to be solved anytime soon. Sam Altman and Dario may claim it will to pump their incoming IPOs, but outside of la la land, OpenAI and Anthropic aren't making any big robotics plays, which leaves a huge chunk of the "G" in AGI completely unattended to.
but this is also clearly a increased barrier.
If there's a simple piece of software that can be installed, it's not meaningfully increasing the barrier. Also, there are negative consequences to introducing "rules that you're expected to break" like this. It makes the law unserious.
This was absolutely happening with tractors too. Not in a board room or whatever, but people were definitely getting laid off because of tractors.
"by definition"
Who's definition are we talking about here
AI is not cutting my hair anytime soon. AI is not making my meals anytime soon. It's not organizing events, or doing anything in the real world. It's not doing my open heart surgery. Robots are still doing this in 2026
https://www.news.com.au/sport/carnage-at-start-of-robot-mara...
We might have to get off the computer, and we might have to rethink how we organize the world economically, but there is still work to be done everywhere.
There's nothing about Taalas that is specific to an LLM
At this point I think it's similar to reporting a particularly effective social engineering practice. It's not particularly surprising that it works or that it exists, but it's still noteworthy.
FYI the processing for FaceID on iPhones is entirely offline. I think the Samsung androids have offline face id as well.
i'm not sure what this has to do with anything i just said
which is that labor that falls “beneath the fold” of this class line is not able to negotiate aggressively due to the inelastic costs of food, shelter, and basic necessities.
Not to mention the U.S. encourages organization of the capitalist class while breaking up (often by force) organization of the working class, so any attempt at the working class gaining leverage in this negotiation is artificially limited.
I don't understand. Just because one person can't own 100 million doesn't mean an investment firm can't make a 100 million dollar investment and make returns on it. Those are 2 different things. The firm is managing the money of multiple people.
I'm totally out of the loop here, where's the evidence that this works in practice?
It's perfectly possible to act on unclear directions. The correct course of action is asking clarifying questions.
what's the missing piece exactly? In every other situation where a company wants to launch an iphone app to hoover your data, Apple gives a clear message telling you what types of data you're giving access to. Why is this situation different?
Yep, shouldn't require Siri at all
At least in my work, this is sort of like asking "If you don't enjoy CI/CD or the cloud, why not do without it?" It's becoming integrated into every process at this point.