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by jameslk 4mo ago
The common thread here is that it is China. Before the 2010s and earlier, the US wasn't so concerned about China, but ever since then, China has been a big US concern for it being a technology and military rival e.g. the Investigative
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> If every company uses the same AI tools to optimise the same metrics, the optimisation itself becomes commodity. Everyone has the same chatbot, the same personalisation engine, the same churn predictor. The floor rises for everyone sim
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> Rationalizing the policy is a serious error, I think. It's a political move by a group that has more power in conditions of nationalism, economic and otherwise. I think both are true and feed on each other to gain populist momentu
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Well that's kinda my point. If we could all afford yachts tomorrow because AI robot factories made it a commodity like Swiss watches of yore[0], we'd all be buying yachts. And instead of bickering about not being able to afford ya
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> You are correct that there are additional steps here, but wealth is growing increasingly concentrated, and the burden of proof is on the person claiming that trend won't continue. Whoa there internet friend! I don't think I s
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by jameslk 4mo ago
We can’t magically skip steps. It’s like South Park’s underwear gnomes. We’re missing steps in between and hand waving them away
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by jameslk 4mo ago
I’m talking about how many people lived in the past OP said they would be content with 40% less income for less work. That's fine, but I think it misses the point. On a large enough time scale, progress is so great that most wouldn&#x2
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by jameslk 4mo ago
This discussion thread is so full of slippery slope fallacies and plot holes it’s so hard to take seriously. I think it’s safe to say nobody knows for sure how AI will exactly change the economy in the long term. Humans are complex and ofte
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> They will corner finite resources and land. They need a lot of money to do that. Where do they get it all from? Not the jobless masses I presume? Investors don’t usually like to invest in companies that aren’t going to eventually earn
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by jameslk 4mo ago
That’s quite a lot of slippery slope hand waving to get there. I’d wager those obstacles will pose a larger challenge than most people in this article’s thread seem to think
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> But you can do away with all that messiness of all that exchange and just have AI micromanage the economy. AI should be able to figure out how much to produce, how to limit waste, who should get what, etc. in a very fair and efficient
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> Not true at all. If I could work two days a week for 40% of my current income I would take the opportunity in a heartbeat Most people wouldn’t be content to live in one room huts with thatched roofs and no hospitals or antibiotics. The
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> The reason why the masses should consume is to motivate them to work. The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Everyone wants more > But if you imagine a sci-fi world where machines can build and do ev
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> Very few will accumulate all of the wealth of world. Where do these few acquire all their wealth? What happens when these remaining few need to compete?
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> That doesn't happen between democracies and hasn't for generations, except for one democracy recently. Neoliberalism and globalization is what guaranteed this. That is, Pax Americana. The US thought it was a great idea to bec
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by jameslk 4mo ago
I think this sounds very cool! It sounds similar to Agent Vault (github.com/Infisical/agent-vault) but with an added feature of having security policies for denial/human-in-the-loop of traffic based on the contents of request
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Eric, thank you for taking time to answer questions! I read The Lean Startup early in my career and it shaped a lot of it. I’m keen to read your new book As I read through your comments, one question popped into my head: what’s your thoug
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Title is too long to include both so the submitter probably cut it off (I tried submitting it myself)
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The Wild West(lynalden.com)
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FDA allows popular sunscreen ingredient long used in Europe and Asia(nbcnews.com)
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> A spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., said in a statement that it is “completely false” that Israel spies on the U.S. “Israel does not gather intelligence on American entities, let alone US government officials,”
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4.1 magnitude earthquake in Las Vegas(earthquake.usgs.gov)
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by jameslk 4mo ago
It's a good idea to bet on this. There's a lot of business and domain knowledge trapped in random places and mostly aggregated in employees heads. Not very accessible to AI agents currently. That said, this is the ultimate moat. O
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Ah sweet, AI-made horrors beyond my comprehension
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AI Budget Is Growing. Your Returns Aren't(bain.com)
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Picaridin is the better choice as well. DEET is gross stuff that ruins many materials used for outdoor clothes and gear
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> Hopefully there will be workable alternatives by then. I think Columbia’s OutDry Extreme tech is essentially the same thing with the membrane on the outside, which they claim is toughened to withstand abrasion, so maybe holds up better
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by jameslk 4mo ago
Because they would all be using the same AI model (in reality a fixed set of them, but let’s say it’s just one for the sake of argument). That isn’t differentiation [0] It’s like if every company hired the same guy named Karl. If everyone i
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by jameslk 4mo ago
> OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Microsoft: the combined investment in large-scale AI infrastructure now runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars, with projections into the trillions over the next decade. These number
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by jameslk 5mo ago
> So can I just take Friday off? From here on out, I’ll work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then take Friday off. Yeah, if you switch to working as an independent contractor, you can work any amount of time you want. If you ru

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