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by h2zizzle 1y ago
If the US were to engage in long-term thinking, we might come to dangerous conclusions like, "Having a permanent racial underclass of perpetually-exploited and dissatisfied residents is a bad thing, and maybe we should train/pay t
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
Or, a sly way of calling the AI bubble.
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To be fair, this is just a further constriction of the current cohort of people allowed to live their lives with relatively little friction. Current disqualifiers include being poor, being a felon, and having an accent. May also include bei
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Cut to 2030: all copies of a semi-AI-generated book described by critics as "13 Reasons Why meets The Giver" suddenly disintegrate. Yay, proactive censorship?
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Kobe.
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No way. Google's, "Don't catalog or organize anything, just throw it into a bucket and our Search™ will find it for you," ethos has been catastrophic for the web. I don't want it anywhere my personal files (any more
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
America wasn't devastated by WWII. Our pre-war car infrastructure wasn't destroyed, and post-war prosperity meant that it was more economical than it might have been, in the short term, to put every American family into a car. Cou
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
Steve Jobs. That's the in media res start to this reply. Let me go back to the beginning: our major societal vices seem to replicate in ways that we feel are benign, but that may feed the mindsets that allow major Bad Things to happen.
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Unfortunately, America exported our car-privileging planning and policies, so those places that accepted our "expertise" buffed car travel as much as possible - traffic catches up, of course, but that's when the nerfs to publ
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Recent extreme frustration with Google products in mind, I'm tempted to read the crux of this post as, "Google engineers/designers are incompetent." It might be unfair, but on a day when Google Search, Youtube History Se
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To be fair, he might have been rather preoccupied at that time.
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The Librareome project was about simply scanning books, not training AI with them. And it was a matter of trying to stop corporations from literally destroying the physical books in the process. I don't know that this is applicable.
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>Currently, the US is coasting, relying on talent from outside the country for the cream of the top, so they can afford nonsense beliefs, given also that most middle-class jobs are not all that related to knowledge, and are more status-j
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
I'm gonna add another perspective. I was placed, and excelled, in moderately advanced math courses from 3rd grade on. Mostly 'A's through 11th grade precalc (taken because of the one major hiccup, placing only in the second m
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
Any mention of lost archaeology these days reminds me of the LiDAR surveys being down in Mexico and South America that are finding not just lost cities, but entire lost metropolitan areas (with suburbs, trade routes in between, etc.). It ma
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Part-time jobs shouldn't come with benefits. Neither should full-time jobs. As you said, "Health insurance being tied to employment is [one of the] biggest problems in this country." People should be getting paid money for th
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
Yeah. Much of that money is going to physically building data centers, in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. "Look, I just need a few billion, to build a server farm, to build the machine god, who will tell us how to solve the
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The problem isn't part-time hours, which are ideal and actually more in-line with workers' actual labor time. The problem is that companies refuse (and workers refuse to make them) pay high-enough wages.
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This is why an economic crash is not necessarily a bad thing in the long run. It shatters calcified assumptions about what labor is valuable and presents an opportunity to redefine them. We keep putting the next one off, and the people work
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I find myself having trouble remembering the spelling of certain words, now that autocomplete is almost ubiquitous. It sometimes takes writing them out and looking at the result ("Is it 'beleive'? No, definitely 'believe
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Passage and implementation dates count. The Tiktok ban in America was also first floated (and died) well before October 2023. It was revived and passed after pro-Palestinian videos blew up on the platform.
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To be fair, film photography has itself always been, "Monkey with a trust fund on a typewriter." Even with those that are actually technically adept, the skill/luck balance is far less venerable than with actual artists like
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
I imagine that their revenue isn't as much a concern as their debt. A lot of companies in this position have decent revenue for a smaller company, and would be fine if they could cut costs (but they can't, because they have massiv
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Also not so sure that it's a billion-dollar game. It's certainly made a ton of money, and has generated multiples worth of that in fan content, but that's partly because Fox has been so liberal with policing trademarks/c
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This has always been the explanation, but I've always wondered if it wasn't so much battling SEO as balancing the appearance of battling SEO while not killing some factor related to their revenue.
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I'm a single, gay man. During two of my last major existential crises, for about two weeks following, I noticed a marked turn of my thoughts and feelings towards having (biological) children. Stuff like, "If I'd had a kid at
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I've heard MIT was similar. But their graduates have never had quite the prestige and easy in to influential circles as the boys (eventually girls, too) down the street.
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It comes down to the notion that America is a classless society being farcical. There has always been an elite that jealously guards their power and influence. Entrance into it - or the ersatz version that is the bourgeoisie - has always (a
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by h2zizzle 1y ago
>Reduced demand in tech due to constraints of capital That's it, really. All the "hiring" money is being spent on building data centers, at least in the US tech field. Better hope AGI is really around the corner, or that&#
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A Band of Speculators Seized Deeds of Black-Owned Brooklyn Brownstones (2023)(thecity.nyc)
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