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by Juliate 1y ago
I don't understand the reason for the bizarre I/II/III parts. The real gist is in IV/V and you can easily skip directly to it. Or something still evades me.
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Apple perhaps did it better, stronger, than other companies, in the specific consumer mobile IT field. But every single industry has been doing this, for decades. Displacing/offshoring production, in hardware as well as software, to &q
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> But what you or I think doesn't matter. 1/ It does (because, it's false to say that "a CEO must do this or that" - or that's not a chief, a CEO, just an algorithm). 2/ it's less a matter of opini
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by Juliate 1y ago
Sounds like very generated LinkedIn-ish: no substance, miraculous-PR-like, signs of lack of experience of the promoted solution's limitations in the discourse, and no call to action or discussion.
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My bet is that either there is something sustainable and sense-making outside of IT to drive economic stability and evolution (away from growth, which is a dead-end on a finite planet) or we are toast for good. The odds are even worse becau
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by Juliate 1y ago
> This is the classic dead-end startup story from beginning to end. It checks all the boxes: Oh my... I concur. I've been in the very exact same stupid play about 10 years ago. 3 cofounders, not one to understand tech, 1 hired me as
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by Juliate 1y ago
Nature is reliable in that we have rules (physics) and practices (engineering) to base our process upon. People aren't reliable, for a specific value of reliable. We expect of technology(machines, software, AI, whatever) to be: determi
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by Juliate 1y ago
The pivot of the article is this, at the end: "There are no other hypergrowth markets left in tech." That's the key. Tech is, at the moment, the only growth engine for capitalism at this time, that sustains the whole world ec
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Yes, I'm referring to what we could call the golden age of tailoring, around 1800-1970. You could say it was brief, relative to humanity history, indeed, as a transition period between cottage/home textile manufacturing as well as
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by Juliate 1y ago
Precisely.
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Adding to this. You may grow your brand in a specific subset of LinkedIn users (not the ones outside of it though), but you may also damage your brand in a specific subset of LinkedIn users. And yes, your brand is no longer your brand, it&#
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by Juliate 1y ago
> coding is universally at a premium compared to other trades It has been and it still is at this time. Just saying that it won't last. The existential threat, and perpetual adaptation to technology musicians (classical as well as c
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> only coding can get paid reasonably If you happen to work for a company that's big enough to pay reasonably. And even that is still a very temporary accident of times. There was a time with plenty (comparatively to today) of tailo
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My point is that capitalism, as a system, has to adapt to survive, either its own demise through rapid/unlimited growth (like cancer), either through its replacement by something else (public service or some other structure).
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> They are about as ethical as non-monopoly businesses. No, my point/thesis is that, whatever non-monopolies can be, a monopoly is de-facto unethical. If there is a legitimate reason that there's a monopolistic control over som
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But rapid growth is not necessarily _good_. Cancer is rapid growth.
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> If something returns value for shareholders (and monopolies do) then a CEO must do it. This is how the whole system is supposed to work. Disagree. Shareholders are not the all and everything of a company. Neither they, neither the comp
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What verifiable existing/attempting monopoly today is ethical?
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No need to call to aliens for that, this happened within human history several times... towards other humans, and towards other species (which some were considered as pest, until it was discovered they were crucial to the ecosystem balance)
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Totally agree, IF an AGI can fully replace/improve on the work of developers, it's definitely cheaper. But: 1/ cheaper isn't always affordable either. 2/ who will engineer/maintain/steer AGI once AGI takes
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by Juliate 1y ago
You don't need "companies". You need enough customers to buy/support your work so that you get a living out of it. Being a software developer is a _facet_ of your work. You (unconsciously perhaps) do many other things ar
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And where do you find the energy technology required for that to happen? Hint: it's not on the radar, but if you account for several fundamental breakthroughs in energy production, storage and transport, and all that while having posit
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by Juliate 1y ago
AI will never be able to actually express and reveal my own self to my own self or to others. That's what art _is_. Sometimes, it produces something that could be aesthetically pleasing but that's a different matter. And how it is
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by Juliate 1y ago
> Art, at this point, is essentially digital, Essentially? No. Does digital art reduce analog art in the world? Not even. There’s still more and more, courses, workshops, live performances and physical artefacts. > and digital is the
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More alternative like... Fox News which is officially (and self endorsed) an _entertainment_ channel? As opposed to... a news organisation/channel?
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Usually not a the border, no, because there it's an administrative thing, but then you are sent back to your originating country. However, if arrested within the borders, yes, it becomes a different matter where you _are_ going through
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> The sobering reality [...] is that the economics have simply stopped making sense. When did it start to make sense in the first place? That is, in the real world, outside of the startup/vesting world? What is the verifiable, growi
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1/ It does not take anything away. The use is not casual but deliberate and analytical. The concept of « rape culture » extends beyond sexual assault to other patterns of consent violation and power dynamics. 2/ it has been discus
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I agree, I'm not saying it's perfect. Far from that. But removing the framework within which artists still have the means to control their work (however unbalanced contracts can happen to be between corps and artists - it's a
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> Because every piece of generative AI looks identical, right? I mean, if the prompt had an impact, and two people using some ML-model would create different results based on what they choose to input, it sounds suspiciously like your &q

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