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This view is now consensus, which is highly comforting as consensus is always wrong.
by clay_the_ripper 8mo ago
This view is now consensus, which is highly comforting as consensus is always wrong.
- sgdfg2 8mo agoConsensus lacks the nuance and subtle stuff. Its super annoying to read as someone who cares about that.
- vaxman 8mo ago1. Yes, replacing millions of employees with autocomplete running on nuclear powered vector processing units is totally ridiculous on its face, 2. but Perception is Reality in business 3. and FOMO is real. Hence, the AI money machine https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ppla7o/oc_mapping_the_flow_of_revenue_and_investment/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ppla7o/oc... Even though many of these players are not publicly traded, they're clearly manipulating the public equity markets with their funky receivables and equity swaps, inadvertently creating what has become the largest "company" in the history of the World and setting us all up for a Greater Depression. https://d0k5l7l4820swi.archive.is/3GCs7/463302388f7f218ff37465158e7c10cdec7a0afc.png https://d0k5l7l4820swi.archive.is/3GCs7/463302388f7f218ff374... Like the USSR before it, China is a force to be reckoned with and certainly we need to increase national productivity and workforce participation in order to keep up with our debt, but this is not how we countered Sputnik as the memories of the 1930s and two World Wars were still top of mind. Look your children in the eyes and ask if the risk that's being put upon us is worth ...them. https://youtu.be/lNXTKVxOmfk https://youtu.be/lNXTKVxOmfk
- wavemode 8mo agoConsensus can be faulty yet still affect the system. If a large number of investors are expecting companies to replace workers with AI, then that's exactly what many CEOs are going to (try to) do. Since the CEO's boss is the shareholders.