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by intended 4mo ago
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t have one comment talk about consumption being the root of all ill, then another comment stating that reducing consumption is regressive.
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by intended 4mo ago
I suspect they will always “be poor”. The rich will move away, and the people left behind will be the ones who don’t have the capacity to make any other choice.
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by intended 4mo ago
When you are informed, you hold to account the person responsible. The entire issue of incentives to consume being a reason to blame consumers, is obviated when there are entire industries that have spent significant amounts of money and ca
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by intended 4mo ago
I highly recommend the research done by Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Yochai Benkler. In a nutshell, you have an issue where part of the information economy/market is captured. To the point that agenda can get set by theories or podca
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by intended 4mo ago
If that is the case, then its no skin off of anyone’s back to state it. As long as I have paid attention to American politics, it’s always had a major undercurrent of “all government bad”, with a subtext of “this thing I know about is an ex
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by intended 4mo ago
Understanding what is going on with AI productivity is … frustrating to say the least. The best I can say is that genAI is a self reported a 20% efficiency boost, and for a very (very) small group of people, it’s maybe a 2-3x boost. (And if
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by intended 4mo ago
Eh, I expect open Ai to follow suit. I suspect this is surprising to folk because they aren’t the ones busy figuring out how to use LLMs for illegal acts. In general, HN users focus on making stuff, and not the safety side of things, or the
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by intended 4mo ago
Sort of ? Either way, we do not want a repeat of that. Plus too big to fail as a US malaise, that then toppled the rest of the economy. The EU is taking steps to prevent that, so this is laudable.
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by intended 4mo ago
Absolutely not. LLMs are, for all intents and purposes, the equivalent of outsourced workers. Google created a summary, not just sharing search results. Google is responsible for the output it created and then published. If they had only su
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by intended 4mo ago
Just because someone got away with it means everyone should get away with it ?
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by intended 4mo ago
Uh, yeah of course ? Let someone else sacrifice the safety of their populace. Heck - self driving is the fastest way to authoritarian government in practice. I’m surprised more people on HN haven’t cottoned on to that fact. A self driving s
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by intended 4mo ago
If the clearing rate is equal to the cost of an engineer at a tech firm in SF, the education budget for a small town in Alaska wouldn't afford it. Your formulation isn't wrong, however it covers only one scenario. What happens whe
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by intended 4mo ago
Far too much money in tech traces its roots to ad tech. You are asking all the later gen engineers at major tech firms to blow their salaries up. There used to be an ethos to do the right thing, however the people who came to tech later are
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by intended 4mo ago
Social media was weaponized from the days of PHP forums. I remember Palantir shilling sock puppet management technology at a time where most people didn’t even know what a moderator was. AFAIK, Russia’s Internet Research Agency was the firs
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by intended 4mo ago
This was always going to be the case, no genie situation at all. Information sharing networks with humans in it can only track so many things, or spend limited time on consumption. The more stuff on the network, the harder it is for things
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by intended 4mo ago
Unfortunately, pointing this out is not fun. In general, everyone assumes that there is little actual difference between CNN and any Murdoch enterprise. The difficulty in disabusing this position in a few short sentences, is one of the reas
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by intended 4mo ago
What? We interfere with terror cells and criminal communication whenever we can. What is this absolute line in the sand you are drawing.
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by intended 4mo ago
>We need to establish measures of accountability for data holders This is true, and it needs to change. The incentives are warped right now, as a decent chunk of global GDP traces itself back to ad tech.
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by intended 4mo ago
I saw only one submission to a paper, would you be willing to share links to the other references you mention?
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by intended 4mo ago
Nope. The surest disincentive is knowing you will be caught, not the penalty. If you can get away with it, then what value the penalty?
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by intended 5mo ago
Hey Bloom’s 2 sigma problem. So far, (nearly) all conversations about education on HN I’ve seen, have had a naturally point at which Bloom’s 2s should be introduced. Humanity is now preparing students with a 20 year time horizon, while tech
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by intended 5mo ago
Eh, I didn’t write a lengthy comment with footnotes, Tech as in big tech. Enthralls as in we are stuck to our phones, typically running iOS, Android, consuming media, or using services with HQs in America.
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by intended 5mo ago
Which would matter if you were even arguing markets correctly and the others were arguing marxist points.
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by intended 5mo ago
This is valid, and I would add that these academic hunger games are a result of College Degrees being needed to get what remains of well paying jobs. Maybe we can use AI to create new exams that grade people on professional capability, and
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by intended 5mo ago
It’s creating a daemon and machine spirit filled world of Warhammer 40k. We already scarcely understand how the world works, but LLM use actively degrades cognitive ability that way it is used by a majority of people (The bringing a forklif
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by intended 5mo ago
K-shaped economy, Asset bubble, and AI spending. The retail / average consumer in America is seeing a very different world than the rich and ultra rich.
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by intended 5mo ago
The user in question, begins with assumptions on how wealth and markets work that do not match anything I know of in economics. At one point they say that in a market economy there is no theft. At another point they say that wealth concentr
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by intended 5mo ago
Yet theft occurs. Coercion occurs. The market is held up by the enforcement of rules, and the US has spent several decades loosening the rules and defanging its watchdogs.
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by intended 5mo ago
Then you are using terms in a manner that is effective for semantic victory, but not the spirit of actual discussion the other users are engaging in.
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by intended 5mo ago
> How does creating wealth hurt others? There is a sleight of hand in your words there. You focus on wealth creation, when the issue is wealth concentration.

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