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> Since it's a democracy, if it was an issue people cared about, they would have voted in someone in local/state/national level who would oppose surveillance, no? The US is a repre…

> But a bit weird how a core American "surveillance = big no no" belief was thrown out in a few years. I can't speak for China since I'm not as familiar with that culture, but as f…

That's wild. If Anthropic is willing to risk ruining the trust of their userbase for the sake of protecting their moat, it makes me wonder how strong of a moat they have to begin w…

That overall drop in share of income since 2000 is related to the "giant sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about in 1992: "It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour…

The submitted title is a bit sensationalist given the article’s conclusion: > Is this decline a distinct change from the recent behavior of the labor share in the U.S.? Along the t…

The great aging of working populations: China: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Populati... Japan: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Japan_po..…

I'm highly anticipating the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything On a more serious note, I found this interesting from TFA: > The biggest question, th…

Most big companies attract rule followers. They err on the side of avoiding taking risks like this, which is why they work there (and why there’s so many in this thread talking abo…

I honestly can't think of a reason why you bothered say it, given that the quote from TFA addresses it

That's the point of why they're doing it. From TFA: "Private equity investors are turning to AI-generated replicas of software to assess whether acquisition targets have a competit…

In the article, they explain the goal of vibe coding prototypes is not to rebuild software, but to test the defensibility of businesses based on their software so they can decide w…

From TFA: “We are leveraging vibecoding to show what a software company can and can’t do, to understand where it fits in the value chain and to understand whether it is the actual …

The common thread here is that it is China. Before the 2010s and earlier, the US wasn't so concerned about China, but ever since then, China has been a big US concern for it being …

> If every company uses the same AI tools to optimise the same metrics, the optimisation itself becomes commodity. Everyone has the same chatbot, the same personalisation engine, t…

> Rationalizing the policy is a serious error, I think. It's a political move by a group that has more power in conditions of nationalism, economic and otherwise. I think both are …

Well that's kinda my point. If we could all afford yachts tomorrow because AI robot factories made it a commodity like Swiss watches of yore[0], we'd all be buying yachts. And inst…

> You are correct that there are additional steps here, but wealth is growing increasingly concentrated, and the burden of proof is on the person claiming that trend won't continue…

We can’t magically skip steps. It’s like South Park’s underwear gnomes. We’re missing steps in between and hand waving them away

I’m talking about how many people lived in the past OP said they would be content with 40% less income for less work. That's fine, but I think it misses the point. On a large enoug…

This discussion thread is so full of slippery slope fallacies and plot holes it’s so hard to take seriously. I think it’s safe to say nobody knows for sure how AI will exactly chan…

> They will corner finite resources and land. They need a lot of money to do that. Where do they get it all from? Not the jobless masses I presume? Investors don’t usually like to …

That’s quite a lot of slippery slope hand waving to get there. I’d wager those obstacles will pose a larger challenge than most people in this article’s thread seem to think