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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by MichaelZuo »

amelius wrote: post #85
MichaelZuo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t that the point of having a government with laws and regulation… to allow the majority to bully specific undesirable minority groups into submission? For some things it’s even a worldwide consensus, e.g. any groups with a desire to acquire large amounts of plutonium (who don’t belong to a preapproved list). There’s even a strong consistent push to make it ever more inescapable, comprehensive, resistant to any po…

No, you've got that backwards. In a functioning democracy respecting the rule of law, the government with its laws and regulation are the school teachers who are putting the bullies into detention.

Based on what argument?

Just writing your opinion down doesn’t seem relevant to real life government organization.

I don’t see how there could be “school teachers” above the majority of congressman or regulatory decision makers. The very existence of pork filled bills thousands of pages long and byzantine regulations suggest that couldn’t possibly be true.

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by amelius »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #101
amelius wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you've got that backwards. In a functioning democracy respecting the rule of law, the government with its laws and regulation are the school teachers who are putting the bullies into detention.

Based on what argument? Just writing your opinion down doesn’t seem relevant to real life government organization. I don’t see how there could be “school teachers” above the majority of congressman or regulatory decision makers. The very existence of pork filled bills thousands of pages long and byzantine regulations suggest that couldn’t possibly be true.

If your government is corrupt then it doesn't make sense to say that the concept of having a government is dead and that corporations are the solution.

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by walterbell »

aspenmayer wrote: post #31
walterbell wrote: post #3

https://medium.com/@villispeaks/the-blitzhire-acquisition-e3... > Blitzhires are another form of an acquisition.. not everybody may be thrilled of the outcome.. employees left behind may feel betrayed and unappreciated.. investors may feel founders may have broken a social contract. But, for a Blitzhire to work, usually everybody needs to work together and align. The driver behind these deals is speed. Maybe concerns…

Workers of the world unite?

Neo-monks at cognitive gyms.

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by aspenmayer »

amelius wrote: post #85
MichaelZuo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t that the point of having a government with laws and regulation… to allow the majority to bully specific undesirable minority groups into submission? For some things it’s even a worldwide consensus, e.g. any groups with a desire to acquire large amounts of plutonium (who don’t belong to a preapproved list). There’s even a strong consistent push to make it ever more inescapable, comprehensive, resistant to any po…

No, you've got that backwards. In a functioning democracy respecting the rule of law, the government with its laws and regulation are the school teachers who are putting the bullies into detention.

Frequently, the bullies are on the student council, and because they get more face time with the administration and are seen as part of the establishment by the same, admins are reluctant to do more than a slap of the hand, but appearances must be kept up with.

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by voxic11 »

mlsu wrote: post #24

The full bodied palate of this AI market mirrors the sharp nose of 2023 AI doomerism. The argument goes: if AI is going to destroy humanity, even if that is a 0.001% chance, we should all totally re-wire society to prevent that from happening, because the _potential_ risk is so huge. Same goes with these AI companies. What they are shooting for, is to replace white collar workers completely. Every single white collar…

He is releasing a book https://www.amazon.com/Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies-Superhuma...

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by [deleted] »

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #70
blitzar wrote: post #62

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The 10x from 400 billion to 4 trillion in a decade didnt come from 2% inflation. It didnt come from nowhwere, or from Silicon Valleys exceptionalism - It came from changing the value of money, labour and resources. It came from everyday people, deficits and borrowing from the next 10 generations of children.

Exploitation. Or cost externalization. The public discourse is weirdly unable to adress burning problems that had been formulated almost 150 years ago. Much like the climate change topic originating in the 1970s.

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Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

blitzar wrote: post #42
bix6 wrote: post #11

“The AI capital influx means that mega-projects no longer seem outlandishly expensive. This is good for the world!” Is it? This whole piece just reads of mega funds and giga corps throwing ridiculous cash for pay to win. Nothing new there. We can’t train more people? I didn’t know Universities were suddenly producing waaaay less talent and that intelligence fell off a cliff. Things have gone parabolic! It’s giga mega…

There is something immoral about a company saying "we are going to spend $100bn this year on building a LLM" The icing on the cake is when all their competitors say "so will we".

The numbers are insane to me, relative to other "real" industries. E.g., making some inferences from a recent Economist article, the entire world's nuclear industry "only" generates something like $30bn/year revenue (https://archive.is/WYfIG).

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by Nasrudith »

aziaziazi wrote: post #91
satyrun wrote: post #76

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Why people here brandish Communism when someone critics Capitalism? It’s like we’re still in the coldwar. Those two views have many sub-categories and there’s others in-between and on the sides. Just a few in the last decades: - socio-democratic countries are the norm in Europe, namely Norway, Denmark and Sweden. - Ordoliberalism: Germany, Switzerland - cooperative economics: Japan, Spain - market socialism: China, h…

Ideologies have associated talking points. If you start spouting 'blood and soil' rhetoric don't be surprised or offended when people start to call you a Nazi.

In this case communism's obsession with talking about Capitalism as a proper noun as distributed process as if it was a monolithic discrete object with clear intentions and something which can be 'abolished' with no idea as to what the particulars would entail.

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by MichaelZuo »

amelius wrote: post #102
MichaelZuo wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on what argument? Just writing your opinion down doesn’t seem relevant to real life government organization. I don’t see how there could be “school teachers” above the majority of congressman or regulatory decision makers. The very existence of pork filled bills thousands of pages long and byzantine regulations suggest that couldn’t possibly be true.

If your government is corrupt then it doesn't make sense to say that the concept of having a government is dead and that corporations are the solution.

How does this relate to the prior comment?

Re: Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars

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Post by vjvjvjvjghv »

Must be nice to be able to ride such a wave and take your share. The money investors are throwing around these days is just insane. I remember it was considered a lot of money when Webvan got 400 million as investment during the .COM bubble. These days this seems nothing.
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