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2046: The planetary AI brags it spends more natural resources on machines than it spends on humans. 2126: AI brags that it's reached 100% efficiency in Earth utilization after it's eliminated all organic life.

Other AIs are laughing at this flex as their Dyson sphere projects are already set into motion.

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The argument that AI guys are making about the coming mass unemployment goes like this: those companies that are spending on AI rather than humans may have a huge competitive advantage that allows them to take marketshare from human run companies and thus there's less and less demand for human labor.

But, how many businesses/sectors of the economy actually need to compete for marketshare? we assume it's nearly all of them. if that were the case, we'd see AI taking over much quicker.

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Why would you brag about something that dystopian while also ensuring people know that you don't know how your product looks from the inside?

Because some people are evil and only want money and power that comes from owning a billion dollar business

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The argument that AI guys are making about the coming mass unemployment goes like this: those companies that are spending on AI rather than humans may have a huge competitive advantage that allows them to take marketshare from human run companies and thus there's less and less demand for human labor. But, how many businesses/sectors of the economy actually need to compete for marketshare? we assume it's nearly all of…

Without human labor, there’s no human economics. Without human economics, there is no market. So jokes on them.

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The argument that AI guys are making about the coming mass unemployment goes like this: those companies that are spending on AI rather than humans may have a huge competitive advantage that allows them to take marketshare from human run companies and thus there's less and less demand for human labor. But, how many businesses/sectors of the economy actually need to compete for marketshare? we assume it's nearly all of…

I am very skeptical of the argument that companies are competing with each other on market share. There is arguably a lot more competition between AI companies than in most of the sectors of our economy.

Re: Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees

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Reminds me of the Railway CEO bragging that they're spending $300,000 / month on Claude [0], yet their service is getting worse and they're clearly vibe-coding to the point that their SOC2/HIPAA compliance is coming into question. For example they had an issue last month where a breaking change was pushed by a single engineer without any oversight [1].

How many humans could you pay for $300,000 a month and not have quality & reliability degrade like this?

0: https://xcancel.com/JustJake/status/2030063630709096483#m

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581721

Re: Startups brag they spend more money on AI than human employees

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i particularly like the idea that "a GTM team" is an organic component of running a business which can be impersonated by a grip of agents, as opposed to a convention that developed as a result of needing to pay a bunch of humans too much money to strategically choose to fuck over customers or sellers in the course of handling each unpredictable product adoption development, lest a poor poor pitiful technostructure be ripped apart by making too little, or too much, money. why don't all these tokenmaxxing people focus on making something BETTER

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Never outsource your core competency. That reliance on third-party AI is a huge risk, just saying.

The allure is too great. First we outsource manufacturing to China and now we outsource knowledge work to AI. Where does this end?
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