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by keybored 1mo ago
This is my fault for not highlighting the crux of the issue.[1] That was only sarcastically pointed at in my “Step one.” paragraph. Okay, so I guess “blame” is too contentious. It is of course technically true that we can all bike more, or
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Most people are reasonable. Most people will not screw you over if you just give them an inch. Living in society would be hell if this was not the case.[1] Living day-to-day is just fine in my experience. Because most people are not asshole
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There is this obvious disconnect. Productivity will go up, they promise, but you might be out of a way to support yourself. So that revolutionary productivity is going somewhere. Just not to knowledge workers. And not to farmers or carpen
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This I solemnly swear. To take my paycheck with gratitude, even if my employer makes three times as much based on my output. To take whatever technological disruption that graces my path as an immaterial and impersonal force. To politely an
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The boss says we should do it this way. The boss hasn’t got a clue about how to do it. But he knows what he wants, more or less. And we can fill in the details. And we don’t make a stink about him not knowing exactly how things work. That d
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> Is your carbon footprint below what is sustainable? What a waste of time this is. Carbon footprint? Zero-emission homes? The climate is global and the balance sheet is spread across all of us. Someone with a disability might have much
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by keybored 1mo ago
This consumer/suburbia-level checklist of individual eco merit is more of a scapegoating ritual than something that makes a difference. This is not a job for solar panel rebates. It’s more of a job for things like Extinction Rebellion;
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> Reading Claude output is starting to cause actual psychological harm. As a side note, I think we are about too dismissive of computers and the Internet as “not real life”, that stuff written in text boxes by humans are just sticks and
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by keybored 1mo ago
Future solutions nothwithstanding, the metaphor does not make sense according to the reality of many people as of today. Many live in locales where the Grid has made the grid capacity into the consumers’ problem via time-of-use pricing and
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by keybored 1mo ago
Okay sure it’s not a “time machine” in that sense. He wouldn’t go back forty years or whatever. And he’s still saying the same thing that I was alluding to.
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> Do people think learning new tech is somehow wasted effort? No. But funnily enough that is a promise by some of the AI cretins and their boosters. Oh yeah best case scenario you learn how to build LLMs for us. We’ll employ you. And the
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by keybored 1mo ago
YC Combinator guy says that with a time machine he would learn to build the currently trillions-valued or whatever technology. Okay.
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by keybored 2mo ago
Points one and two are irrelevant to my comment, but that’s fine. I don’t expect any thoughts to be spent on whether not to deploy that stump speech. What doesn’t make sense in points 3 and 4 are that the AI takeover is lead and powered by
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by keybored 2mo ago
Nothing. Employers suffering from AI metric mania does not mean that AI is here to stay forever and it will just escalate. Necessarily. <insert obligatory AI about possible future capabilities, as demanded by the AI Overton Window> &g
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That’s why I don’t entertain their fatalism. We’re all rats on a sinking ship powerless to do anything outside of our existing schedules. Indistinguishable outcome for the majority of people compared to the AI euphorics.
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by keybored 2mo ago
Why one would care? Look at your comment from two days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363319 > I hope we'll figure out some equitable society before that, but I'm not going to bet on it, so I'
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by keybored 2mo ago
Pro AI: It’s inevitable and I love it Anti AI: It’s inevitable and I hate it Oh no. They’re converging. But I guess that just proves the point doesn’t it.
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by keybored 2mo ago
I am against murdering animals. But I eat animals.
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I see a lot of top comments here about how smart people will be disappointed by the world. They see everything broken about it because they are so smart. I don’t really buy it. There is a sizeable minority here with high enough wealth and i
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by keybored 2mo ago
> You’re being paid for your expertise and insights. For purposes of training the AI (enablement firm)?
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Roads were not paved because people had bought cars and now were complaining that they only had cobblestone roads—crowded with meatbags—and dirt to drive them on. Look at the US. A “car-centric” culture. What, but how? Because making huge r
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by keybored 2mo ago
I haven’t read OP, but there are enough people in our culture with a monomanaic tendency who only need an obsession to go overboard all unsupervised. So they might start running a little, of course slow to start because they physically can’
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by keybored 2mo ago
AI Inevitability with a left-liberal lexicon. > An honest appraisal of the situation, however, should suggest the opposite response: It’s the employees of the labs, rich in equity and embedded in the most dynamic labor market there ever
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by keybored 2mo ago
Democracies can be arranged in some majoritarian, concensus-based, or any other way that a group of peers can use to decide on something collectively. “Ha ha wolves and sheep voting for what’s for dinner.” Find another quip.
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I imagine that money can buy elections in some districts in the world like this: - Have money - Use money to saturate the political attention, making most people eventually wonder are any other candidates even running? - Attack ads for co
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headphones block nature take off and take in the stream living room and screens
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Everyone reaches the hedonistic plateau, and fast at that. Except for people who sound like they just read a book from some neoliberal think smithy. They will have a euphoric fainting spell over the wonders of the convenience store. Think a
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by keybored 2mo ago
Is choosing your favorite hegemon going to be based on WWII Hollywood stories?
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by keybored 2mo ago
I’m impressed. I had to scroll down ten top level comments in order to find a contentless but-China-regime comment. Good work HN.
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by keybored 2mo ago
No, you don’t understand: people say they might dislike asbestos and want to not live in an environment with it, but how could they possibly have that stance if they were not able to recognize asbestos by sight, smell, or touch...

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