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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I didn’t get that they’re struggling to find work from the article. Did I miss something? They're just struggling to buy "a home in San Francisco" and "travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifesty
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> the USA still has a military base there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base:"Sin... taking power in 1959, the Cuban government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I studied onsite at 2 universities and have 0 contacts/friends from there. IIRC, it's harder than high school to make friends at a university. It's bigger and more anonymous, and outside of student housing there's l
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> the USA soft power stopped working so they resorted to offshore warfare to force the non compliant governments into lock step When has US soft power ever worked with Cuba?
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> This article is kind of playful, but I think there’s a serious point here that’s not discussed enough. We’re being asked to usher in huge productivity gains by introducing AI to our workflows, but we’re not asking how does it help us?
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I’m just wondering how those people don’t understand they are strongly signaling their job can be fully done by an LLM. Lots of people aren't very thoughtful or wise, including some supposedly very intelligent people. For further
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> Why don't they pay much in taxes? hyperscalers are pretty profitable. I wouldn't be surprised if those profits are re-imagined as costs paid to some entity in a tax-haven. Also there's different kinds of taxes. IIRC, loc
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> It did not work though. Bell and Standard Oil are notable examples. What else? That's pretty unfair. IIRC, Standard Oil was on of the companies that was the impetus for antitrust law (and broken up by it), and AT&T was broke
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> How will that work - for example Y Combinator classes. They cannot be acquired? For the record: national economic policy shouldn't revolve around Y Combinator classes and similar startups. I'm totally fine if it turns out a s
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> Well yeah they're presenting an irrational argument to benefit the few. The only few that should benefit are the owners. If a few workers try to benefit, they're greedy bastards who would be pounded down.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I don't think it's necessarily correct to think of sleep in terms of "it is necessary for animals or they will die". It might be more useful to think of it as "it was so useful that animals who slept outcompete
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> The function of sleep in animals is largely obscure. Also, there's different kinds/stages of sleep, which probably perform different functions. For instance, REM may do something like the GP describes, consolidating memories
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by palmotea 5mo ago
It's industry best practice. All the market-leading companies are doing it. Do you think you know better than them? If there's anything I've learned as a software engineer, it's that agreeing with and defending the ideas
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> So far where I work its the Instant Pot, at least for the non-devs. We rolled out Claude & Cowork to the masses after a brief pilot. It was about a solid month and a half of heavy usage and then suddenly usage fell off a cliff. Onc
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> you still may need to work with them on issues where you find agreement. There are many progressives that can't even manage that.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I think this is spot-on. AI frankly isn't good enough to replace people en mass. It doesn't actually need to be good enough for people to make decisions like it is good enough. My SO left her previous job because a McKinsey s
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> It's hard to separate impact of workers being replaced by AI from an impact of a recession (or stagnation). Doubly so since both phenomena interact: recessions are the time when employers will push hard for disruptive automation.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> Deep knowledge and patience will always be rewarded. No. Have you every worked at a business? Sometimes they are, often they aren't especially if decisions are being made by people who don't know you .
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> The primary reason for the strong border is allowing farms and construction companies to find cheap labor which can't complain about mistreatment. That doesn't make any sense. If you want "cheap labor [that] can't c
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I don’t think it’s only that. I personally hate AI not because of CEOs and co, but because the tech is intrinsically born out of theft, and is still, to this day, evolving thanks to theft. And that’s even before the ecological consider
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> But how would that make the "I won't read this because it feels like AI" comments more interesting to read? > No one is forcing you to read this stuff, no one is forcing others to read this stuff as well. When I come
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> If you have specific complaints about the text and content, bring those up instead, and we could discuss those or even correct the linked page itself, as it seems to be a wiki. But general complaints that could be copy-pasted for any s
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> No one should drive any kind of vehicle because they cause accidents. Come on, stop with the desperate false equivalencies.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> xAI’s turbines produce meaningful local/regional pollution (especially NOx in a vulnerable area) but represent a rounding error nationally and globally. If you shoot someone in the face, it will produce a meaningful increase in lo
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> Along comes a new technology that lets you just say what you want and it will go and find the answer or do what needs doing for you without any of that crap. Of course users are going to prefer it to the crap we dump on them via the we
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> One of the funny parts about all of this, is that janitors are likely less threatened by GenAI than information workers are. But that's cold comfort, because janitors are already paid shit wages. The insecurity about AI isn&#x27
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by palmotea 5mo ago
This seems pretty damning: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/michael-jacksons-biopi... : > Over the years, Jackson and the estate have paid out millions to settle various claims, with some lawsuits still pen
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> No conflicts and uprisings? Are you sure? History would suggest people don't go down without a fight. Uprising will soon be a thing of the past. We have cheap kill-drones now, and soon they'll be AI powered.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> Or do you further envision a mass genocide of the poor to go along with this? When their savings are exhausted, the problem will have a way of "taking care of itself." No gas chambers, no guns, just capitalism.
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by palmotea 5mo ago
> I know you're "just asking questions", but we all get the message you are sending here. You seem to be mind-reading and assuming everyone who doesn't already understand things the way you do is acting in bad faith.

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