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by slg 3mo ago
>That's their job? I mean you're the one who brought up hitmen. What's their job?
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by slg 3mo ago
What economic incentive is there for art museums? Maybe society shouldn't be designed primarily around economic incentives.
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by slg 3mo ago
Most consumers don't have any AI subscriptions. Lots of people's primary experience of AI is it being forced on them through integration into existing products and services, more "greed and hubris".
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by slg 3mo ago
One thing that I can't get over about this administration is its cartoon villainy. There are all sorts of substantive and important issues in which people can have viable disagreements. Even when I disagree with people on those issues
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by slg 3mo ago
And is life in Europe actually worse than the US as a result? Capitalism has convinced people to think that the end goal of life is creating value. Maybe that isn't the thing society should be optimizing for.
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by slg 4mo ago
It also seems incredibly shortsighted. No fashion conscious person would have been caught dead wearing a smartwatch circa 2012, then Apple partnered with Hermes and eventually things changed. There are all sorts of valid complaints agains
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by slg 4mo ago
>without it crumbling down Which is an underappreciated part. They didn't only build pyramids, it's just pyramids had a much higher chance of actually surviving the millennia so it looks like early human civilizations were wei
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by slg 4mo ago
>Maybe it's really true that the rich have captured the productivity gained from personal computing. I don't know. Well, we'll leave it there then. I don't know why you felt the need to debate a point you admit to no
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by slg 4mo ago
The conversation started with the question of who captures the wealth generated from this new tech. I pointed to numbers that show the ultra-wealthy have captured almost all the new wealth generated in the last 50 years. The page I linked
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by slg 4mo ago
Nicely done subtly shifting the conversation from wealth to income. I guess it shouldn't matter that the bottom 90% of Americans have seen their share of wealth decrease since that started being measured in 1989. The median worker sh
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by slg 4mo ago
>You can't conclude that computers didn't "actually benefit the average American financially" from these numbers, because these are measuring the total wealth of the household with all factors combined. Fine, I’ll inc
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by slg 4mo ago
>one of the great things about being a country is you can do things like pass laws saying "we have decided to force you to sell to us at the price we specify, and if you refuse we will shoot you". But these companies aren’t bas
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by slg 4mo ago
>Paying for it? Well, there's a reason I chose to move to Germany rather than the USA after the Brexit referendum. Does Germany have a large enough share of these companies to be on the winning side of this or is the country effecti
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by slg 4mo ago
The stats I linked above show that those “new avenues of education and communication” didn’t actually benefit the average American financially in at least the relative sense. Do you have something to counter that evidence?
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by slg 4mo ago
So just to summarize, it seems like the most optimistic outcome that the collective of HN could come up with in the hour since my original comment was that medical care would improve and you might be able to pay for it if you retrain yourse
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by slg 4mo ago
>It’s like worrying in 1960 that the companies that invented computers will hoard the benefits of computing. Isn't that what happened? There was enough competition among computing companies that they weren't able to completely
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by slg 4mo ago
How much of American society will get to share in the benefits of those new biological and medical discoveries when we don't have any health insurance because we lost our jobs to AI?
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by slg 4mo ago
Who do you think will be answering these questions in a future in which these AI companies visions become a reality? Because they already have a huge influence on society and that will only increase as the tech improves. The most optimisti
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by slg 4mo ago
>The only hope we have is that they're wrong, and their power to change things will be minimal. What even is the optimistic outcome if they are right? What are we all working towards? Like do people think that these AI companies wil
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by slg 4mo ago
Try calling the next Black person you see “negro” or “colored”. The idea that nomenclature can’t evolve is bizarre.
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by slg 4mo ago
Which brings me right back to "there is a very obvious difference between the offensiveness of 'poor' and 'retard', you obviously know that." "Poor" has non-offensive uses so you can continue to use i
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by slg 4mo ago
>Why would you think I'd continue to say it after realizing I'd inadvertently hurt the kid's feelings? I don't think you would continue using it, that was the point I was making and it sounds like you now agree with m
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by slg 4mo ago
If you can't think of any other intensified synonyms for "stupid", you just might be...
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by slg 4mo ago
"Chide" is not the word I would use because there is a very obvious difference between the offensiveness of "poor" and "retard", you obviously know that. But yes, if I heard another volunteer at a program for l
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by slg 4mo ago
Why use a word that has some offensive quality to it when other words would be just as effective in communicating whatever you're trying to communicate? You're actively making a decision that you know will cause some level of off
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by slg 4mo ago
You know that many people are offended by that word and yet you use it anyway when other words would get the exact same message across without the offense. The only reasons to use that specific word are either the desire to cause offense o
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by slg 4mo ago
The way people just casually use that word again now is so sad. And I don't even mean that in an "I'm offended" way, but more of "I'm embarrassed by the way you're trying to be offensive" way.
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by slg 4mo ago
>If you've not watched the Herzog classic "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" - I highly highly recommend it - the paintings are amazing. Especially if you have a chance to see it in 3D and/or on a big screen. The paintings i
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by slg 4mo ago
>convince someone to lend you money in the hope that you'll get it back to them And it should be noted that many of these people lending money are in a similar situation of not being required to have any qualifications. Sure, some
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by slg 4mo ago
I think the potentially most impactful singular feature mentioned in all this is being able to conversationally describe Shortcuts for AI to create. That feels like the type of thing that if done right can change how we all use our phones

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