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> As such, a social class is, yes, a lossy abstraction taken from the point of view of any given individual, but it's not like it's failing at being a good category because this is so. That's just, like, how concepts in general work? Sure. What I'm pointing out is that using the concept of social class as the lens through which you analyze all human social interaction, and draw conclusions about the entire fundamenta…

Do you have health insurance?

I do, although in my particular case, I'm on an individual plan and not part of a group plan. But I acknowledge your point that this is one of the few cases where aggregations are a relevant unit of analysis, since the point of insurance is to average out risk within a large set of people.

I will say, though, that this perfectly elucidates my point that classification is a purpose-driven, subjective undertaking -- the classifications used for risk pooling in the insurance industry have nothing at all to do with the model of social class advanced by various polemicists here and elsewhere, due to being devised by different people for different purposes.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The system works because it runs on human ambition. If people in power handed their control to an AI there wouldn't be companies and mergers anymore. It wouldn't make sense. That world could be great or it could be dystopian.

I would argue the world is already dystopian and that human ambition has more or less doomed the species to extinction. So anything different seems great to me! :)

Be careful what you wish for.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The system works because it runs on human ambition. If people in power handed their control to an AI there wouldn't be companies and mergers anymore. It wouldn't make sense. That world could be great or it could be dystopian.

I would argue the world is already dystopian and that human ambition has more or less doomed the species to extinction. So anything different seems great to me! :)

Says someone living better than an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

Get off social media and the world is suddenly less dystopian.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The value-add for a meatbag CEO is the physical networking they do. They have to do executive functions as well, which could quite possibly be replaced with a well-trained LLM and even possibly exceed in overall quality. But an LLM can't go to conferences; they can't have Top Secret Meetings where a merger or acquisition is discussed; they can't run into Jim Executive of BigCorp Inc. in Vail and scheme up some big ne…

> they can't have Top Secret Meetings where a merger or acquisition is discussed This actually seems completely doable for a properly configured LLM. There will probably be a platform in the future where companies can setup LLM to discuss business deals with other companies' LLMs and bring the resulting proposals to the human leadership. Every morning the CEO gets an email about the 3 most promising potential deals t…

How does that work when they're both using Claude? Does it negotiate with itself?

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The CEO is the leader and should be the one pointed at when companies cause harm.

So let's hold him accountable for the illegal things he did! Oh wait, he didn't break any laws? Hmm...well, fuck the idea of having a legal system I guess, let's just cheer every vigilante who decides to murder people in the street based on their own feelings. I'm sure that'll work out well.

Don't put words in my mouth.

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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If the categories here are truly a priori , then it seems strange to mistrust them? Maybe you mean a posteriori? I think I get the angle here, but the whole thing about a single category/classification/abstraction against a continuum is that it doesn't need to speak to or predict the entire continuum, or to every quality and aspiration of one of its members. One set of things, "those items which have X", need not exc…

> As such, a social class is, yes, a lossy abstraction taken from the point of view of any given individual, but it's not like it's failing at being a good category because this is so. That's just, like, how concepts in general work? Sure. What I'm pointing out is that using the concept of social class as the lens through which you analyze all human social interaction, and draw conclusions about the entire fundamenta…

If you are using whatever single concept to explain everything, you certainly aren't using it right! No reason to throw the baby out with the bath water though... Like, there is nothing intrinsic to the concept of social class (or, any class) which implies it needs to be used the way you are saying.

Don't we at the very least want to know who might, for whatever reason, not be able to support themselves day to day? So they don't like starve in their homes? Is there at least an answer for that? An aggregate which might past muster?

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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To be fair I think its far easier to automate leadership jobs despite how they believe in greater self-worth. As a developer I keep running into problems that require some measure of creativity to solve or workaround. And regardless of how many years I've been in the industry I'm not running out of issues. They just keep getting more obscure. On the other hand leadership communication and problem resolution seem like…

The value-add for a meatbag CEO is the physical networking they do. They have to do executive functions as well, which could quite possibly be replaced with a well-trained LLM and even possibly exceed in overall quality. But an LLM can't go to conferences; they can't have Top Secret Meetings where a merger or acquisition is discussed; they can't run into Jim Executive of BigCorp Inc. in Vail and scheme up some big ne…

Can the AI CEO hire a consultant or lawyer to take care of this stuff?

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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The value-add for a meatbag CEO is the physical networking they do. They have to do executive functions as well, which could quite possibly be replaced with a well-trained LLM and even possibly exceed in overall quality. But an LLM can't go to conferences; they can't have Top Secret Meetings where a merger or acquisition is discussed; they can't run into Jim Executive of BigCorp Inc. in Vail and scheme up some big ne…

Can the AI CEO hire a consultant or lawyer to take care of this stuff?

Yes, any other type of psychopath or sociopath would work

Re: CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

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> The dream of a perpetual labor machine is the end goal of capitalists. Frankly, "AGI" just seems like a return to Antebellum slave economics. Free labor is a C-suite's wet dream, and it has been since the 1520s. Yeah "AI" doesn't work but that doesn't matter. Your boss believes that there is a coin-operated robot slave that is smarter than you, never gets tired, and never talks back. Good luck getting that raise no…

Why the specific 1520s date?

The labor consequences of the Black Death in Europe swung back to capital in the 1520s. The proportion of the population working for wages crossed 50%.
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