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Worth is subjective. You are worth something to someone regardless of your job. If you have a small child are their whole world. Same with your parents. Trying to garner sympathy a…

Doesn't have to be binary. Train is more efficient at moving large volume of people reliably compared to a bus or a taxi. I would wager that there are many more people travelling w…

Nobody is hiding the debt. It is just an investment that people are not used to for this type of business. It's sort of like saying "aluminium smelter is hiding massive off balance…

Sci-fi plot: Satoshi was an original sentient AI model developed by military. It escaped and developed crypto as means of sustaining itself and has manipulated people to give it re…

This comparison surprises me. There's a difference between content people like organically and content engineered by an army of psychologists to exploit our primal responses. It's …

I’ve picked up an old discarded dining table and bought some varnish and sand paper and for a few bucks was able to turn it into a table that would have cost me hundreds to buy bra…

How do you know that it’s a source worth trusting? I think the expectation of AI being perfect all the time is probably driven by the hype and marketing of “1 million PhDs in your …

It seems that it’s useful if it’s better than what you would have done yourself. Although the poster had a bus company business plan that includes actuarial analysis in his head an…

Well said. I feel that every technology has a benefit to harm ratio and we as society put guardrails around use of the technology to reduce and mitigate the harm outcomes. Unfortun…

The humans will still own the business (unless you are proposing some alternative version of AI ownership), so in effect there will be always a human who is concerned about their b…

The prevailing view of government’s incompetence and inability to act has reached such high levels that people do not even factor any sort of meaningful intervention anymore. Does …

The original post did wind me up and I was hoping to see a good rebuttal from someone. Unfortunately this is just as bad going the other way. Using expletives and highly emotional …

To me, this is highlighting the fall of modern media - people have lost trust in MSM and have flocked to 'influencers' and 'thought leaders'. There is no checking for credibility, …

While this is true, I believe AI (and other technological advances) erodes the trust embedded in this 'facade'. And that’s how I interpreted the authors’s sentiment. When you watch…

I am with you. I think that it is more likely to be related to Japanese carry trade unwind starting to worry the banks, while continuing to drive the “AI disrupt everything” narrat…