Hard to take seriously from a guy who has Facebook, Google, and Twitter on his CV.
That is exactly why I’d take it seriously.
You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
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#12When there is nothing to lose but your chains … as the saying goes
That works both ways. Human chains are all that justifies your existence, having abandoned being a hunter gatherer.
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#13> Have you considered not participating? If you participate, we all lose. We will either all be in the underclass together or not.
This has been suggested a bunch of times in the comments of HN as well as on other social media, but what exactly would that look like?
As this seems like the ultimate prisoner dilemma and the winning solution there is always be first to make a deal, even if we accept the premise of AI turning us all into an underclass (a prediction often made with revolutionary technology I might add).
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#14it's ok, the billionaires will be in the underclass too, maybe a month later
capitalism is artificial intelligence. we dont control capitalism, capitalism controls us and through us builds its next vessel
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#15This post seems to be haphazardly proposing that big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable. And by working for them, you are enabling this. It offers no constructive alternative and the author (yes, I know who he is) seems to have no issue with Google hosting their email. It's hard to take this too seriously (even if there is some legitimate worry here)
It posits that the tools at their disposal will be far more powerful and wide reaching than just Gmail or even modern social networks.
The good ol' AGI and then ASI singularity everyone likes to talk about. To be fair, it is possible.
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#16This post seems to be haphazardly proposing that big tech will inevitably make everyone's lives miserable. And by working for them, you are enabling this. It offers no constructive alternative and the author (yes, I know who he is) seems to have no issue with Google hosting their email. It's hard to take this too seriously (even if there is some legitimate worry here)
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#17Hard to take seriously from a guy who has Facebook, Google, and Twitter on his CV.
I noticed an interesting pattern. People who “made it” usually by working high paying jobs for the neofeudal lords, suddenly gain moral compass and tell the rest of us to not work for said neofeudal lords, because “money is not important”, and apparently you can buy a place to live or food to feed your family simply by having principles.
It’s remarkably easy to tell others not to do what you did.
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#19The premise is economically incoherent because labor is not a single task category that technology can delete. It is the input that continuously reconstitutes itself around whatever remains scarce, valuable and socially demanded as productivity rises.
This is the lump of labor fallacy- the belief that there’s a fixed amount of economically valuable work that technology and capital can eliminate through automation or capital accumulation instead of transforming it.
Middle class status anxiety manifesting as a rhetoric about neofeudalism.
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#20This is a real threat that is not discussed enough. If labor could be completely automated, then the value and political power of workers tends to zero.
or as a former Google executive likes to call them, "the eaters"