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Everyone is less valuable than they think, especially in a tech startup

We don’t really know how harmful this stuff will be, but we’ll keep on making it more powerful (and keep on bragging about it) until we find out.

If you don’t consider the difference in kind between a human vulnerability and an automated vulnerability that derives from the essentially unlimited capacity of the latter to scal…

Exactly. Only an amateur criminal steals from the rich.

It’s a “full” capability they’re incapable of delivering. It’s really hard to see how your distinction has any meaning.

You lost me at calling AI an “advance”. I think that’s a speculative statement that has yet to earn the positive bias it entails.

How many? So many. And that’s not just my opinion; it’s my strongly held opinion

Everything that matters, including how much money you have, but more importantly when you and the people you love become sick or die accidentally is governed by chance. If you thin…

Given that the mean salary at google is probably driven by people making 7 or 8 figures, I’m going to suggest that laying off 10,000 people will not change that one bit

What is the average salary at TCI?

Yeah. Or Ma Bell

I think the fair comparison is: if you’re living someplace with any given level of economic opportunity (and the other things you mention) would you be happier if it was on the wat…

I suspect it’s because they have a near monopoly in high-quality, next-gen sequencing. They’re trying to grow the market for their machines rather than take business from a competi…

What’s your evidence for massive interest in business markets? I use a quest for gaming, but find the idea of interacting with colleagues for corporate stuff to be just hideous.

Thrill of the Fight is one of the best, as long as you’re careful to avoid repetitive stress injuries.

>To show me things that I want That’s an extraordinarily generous interpretation of Facebook’s motivation.

The real difference is in scale. Automations can be coordinated to produce self-affirming bullshit at a scale that drives real discussion out of view. You already see this on twitt…

Only management should be able to impose their will on employees and should be able to do so without competition. On the job, and during their “free-time”. More seriously, imagine …

I think your characterization of unions is a propaganda driven falsehood, and your argument ignores the fact that Most people see less and less of the fruits of their labor.

A less benevolent take is that VC money is primarily used to buy market share by selling below cost until other competitors exit and the company is left with a monopoly.

A human calling beavers destructive is ironic.

What is the state of dart for cross-platform development? I looked a few years ago and it seemed like progress was being made for web development and desktop use, if I remember cor…

I think this worked well. Instead of conversation about how Elon would use twitter to undermine democracy, civil discourse, whatever, everyone is talking about what’s a fair price …

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