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by keybored 9mo ago
There’s been a new category of writings the last year. The AI Inevitability Soothsaying.[1] There’s talk of war in the state of Nationstan. There are two camps: those who think going to war is good and just, and those who think it is not pr
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by keybored 9mo ago
Always such glowing recommendations of human kind from techies. People devolve like that when they have no purpose or opportunities. Which I’m sure would happen with the real goal of UBI: barely subsistence support in order to grow a larger
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by keybored 9mo ago
> I don't know how you can write down those numbers and come to the conclusion they sound reasonable at all. Half this board is in the most hyped echo chamber I’ve ever seen.
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by keybored 9mo ago
> If AI makes workers more productive, labor will have higher value than it has today. Workers being more productive does not necessarily translate to workers getting more leverage or a larger piece of the pie.
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> Exactly. He's notable because he was so unusual. Now I have been taken to communicate that Genghis Khan with his KPI of human ears was an example of positive social mobility. This is peak move fast across the steppe and break thin
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by keybored 9mo ago
I don’t know. For some reason when I think of social mobillity I think of Genghis Khan.
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People fought back. Who is fighting back now? Capitalists have openly gloated in public about wanting to replace at least one profession. That was months or years ago. What are people doing in response? Discussing incentive structures? SC c
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by keybored 9mo ago
The bloodless pragmatists aided and abetted them. Those who have no apparent values. Only short-term, terminally idiotic obsession with building things, creating value, creating business value, or whatever the pragmatist posturing of the da
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by keybored 9mo ago
Technocracy is fascinating because the ideology is either an intentional obfuscation about what politics is at its core, or an ideology for well-educated and absolutely politically illiterate people. “Don’t make this political.” See, right
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A computer guy on a policy wonk reading diet makes for boring reading. Policy wonks are often systemizers who think of society as a machine. That’s why they take the intuitive concept—scarcely even needs explaining—of informal everyday ritu
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by keybored 9mo ago
Yeah, and using two bytes for a single line termination (or separation or whatever)? Why make things more complicated and take more space at the same time?
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Notice something curious. The correlation with discussions around regulating businesses, freedom, and social media attention. There is a strong correlation between someone making money and someone arguing that people being able to make mone
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by keybored 9mo ago
Us Westerners could cut down on the starch, add more salad and greens and pretty easily meet this requirement I think. I don’t know if we need as much animal foodstuff as we consume but just doing that should be enough.
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"Tragedy of the commons" is suffering from people overusing it.
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by keybored 9mo ago
> I keep gravitating to the term, "prompt adherence", because it feels like it describes the root meta-problem I have: I can set up a system, but I can't seem to get myself to follow it for more than a few days - including
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by keybored 9mo ago
What’s the plasticity of thinking of yourself as a machine.
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by keybored 9mo ago
Lots of words to say that “now” communicating in regular human language is important. What soft-skill buzzword will be the next one as the capital owners take more of the supposed productivity profits?
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by keybored 9mo ago
> Except if you spend quality time with coding agents you realize that's not actually true. Agent engineering seems to be (from the outside!) converging on quality lived experience. Compared to Stone Age manual coding it’s less abou
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by keybored 9mo ago
Of course we are the baddies. That’s the narrative every time people need to defend terrible behavior lead by sociopaths: but that’s just human nature. Very practical fallback.
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HN commenters will be technooptimistic misanthrops. Status quo ante bellum.
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I see we are going with the definition of democracy where it is one in the headlines and stops being one if you go into the text or interrogate it.
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Perfect drivel.
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> It's a system of power in which capital can (and almost always does) overrule everything else. ... Democracy is just the way how capital rules. That’s a contradiction.
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This was the logic the West used throughout the life of the Soviet Union but for [Cc]ommunism.
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Well they are a stripper specifically on OF. “OF stripper”? The way we talk about all people who make videos, photos, images, and so on is already perfectly uniform: content creator.
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I sometimes imagine that HN was a professional collective. Maybe working with the supply chain of foodstuffs. Carciogenic foodstuff would be legal. Environmental harzards getting into foodstuff would be legal. But there would be a highly id
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by keybored 9mo ago
You would posit based on what? Defunct rats-pressing-pleasure-button studies? Many people have had "heroin" in the form of morphine in the hospital. They don’t turn into morphine-seekers. Addiction and pleasure seeking is more com
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Dearest leadership not unblocking execution. What's that got to do with what we’re complaining about? Did Claude cure cancer (this is hyperbole) in one hour or not?
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Unfortunately we do neglect more and more of our own innate talents. Imagine sitting there just thinking, without even a reMarkable to keep notes? Do people even trust their memory beyond their immediate working memory?
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by keybored 9mo ago
> My "actual job" isn't to write code, but to solve problems. Air quotes and more and more general words. The perfect mercenari’s tools. The buck stops somewhere for most of us. We have jobs, we are compelled to do them. B

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