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r/overemployed disagrees. there is real wealth in productivity gains. Could capital owners try to capture it all? I'm sure. But it's not a natural result of the technology, it's ju…

Good faith counter point >>” to scale your wealth with other people's labor” Or you can scale your labor with openly available AI?

I’m sorry this wasn’t obvious in my comment but I meant AI engineers not software engineers (and not the AI capital owners either) Either way, I empathize with your anxiety but pos…

>> If it's boring technology, why be excited about it? Surely, on Hackernews, we know we can get excited about technology that maybe boring to most of the public. And in this case,…

"AI cannot do your job Your boss bought AI to do your job You're fired" This is true only in the headlines and the loud CEO pronouncements that we for some reason take at face valu…

>>"optimistic and enthusiastic about the new messiah" I mean that's you agreeing with Elon Musk, I disagree, I think AI is just normal technology [1], there's a lot of us. Like tec…

Also the headline is about tech workers but the article is about Knowledge workers. I know a class of tech workers absolutely fired up about the new Industrial Revolution, they're …

> if I hired a professional artist to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle, I think AI folks have done a terrible job of communicating this, but replacing a professional si…

what's fable at, does anyone know?

>If we all woke up tomorrow and thought 'we need 10 million new homes The cost (no profit) of 1 Million homes where people want to live (where your community is), would be roughly …

Yes to all of this, and want to double stress the Housing theory of everything [1]. Most of the "scarcity" people feel today in the North American context is driven by housing. And…

Just a note those "vacancies" include dilapidated buildings and housing that is between leases (literally all the housing on craigslist is included in that number). Vacancies in mo…

“We have enough excess in society” How are you measuring this? Hopefully something better than stock prices.

Great, now let's (gradually) get rid of all surface parking lots and build hyper-optimized multi-floor parking setups not made for human driving. A sort of Ocado Grocery Warehouse …

"It's just that the ecosystem became too fragmented" Ecosystems are either too fragmented or too monopolistic. Complain, complain, complain. Speaking of monopolistic, just google i…

"Your feed is often just a reflection of what you're feeling" No it is not. The feed is optimized for what will increase the intensity of feelings, and bad feelings are more easily…

"This is actually how the world works" The level to which our algorithmic feeds have made us so confidently wrong about things is so deeply problematic. Tech's original sin keeps b…

"I get a GPL version of Microsoft Office." Is this not..Libre?

"The char isn’t a copyrighted work." An Eames chair is, we just have a really high bar for what is copyrightable in the physical world, and it seems pointlessly discriminatory.

Real question, if an LLM shouldn't be able to remix someone's written work, why should a robot be able to build a chair that kinda looks like a chair a carpenter built that one tim…

who gets to define what's real creative expression and what's not?

"so that it gets “traffic”, another form of goo that gets “funneled” and “converted” into money." How is this any different from a small business hot dog stand, setting up outside …

Is this a real debate? AI has a well-defined technical definition. It’s right there in the Wikipedia [1] . Yes it’s quite a broad umbrella of systems and algorithms but it’s all AI…