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AI Is Too Big to Fail
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I'm honored that you would attribute my words to Jan :)
Honestly you don't have to believe me, I'm trying to make some things clear to drive change but if you don't want to take a critical look at the world around you and try to push for things to get better, that's your call.
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#23The table of contents on the right blocks a good chunk of text. Safari on MacOS Sequoia
Thanks for the note, I'll look into how I can make it flow better with the document.
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#24IMO, the backdrop to all of this is global warming. We're seeing so many warning signs and growth stagnating that governments need something, ANYTHING, to prop up their debt fueled economies and keep the music playing. In the face of impending GDP/population contraction due to global warming and the upcoming breadbasket collapses, GenAI isn't going to do shit for us. All of the money and effort being spent on it is money that could be spent on figuring out how to give our kids a glimmer of hope.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
When did the HackerNews comment section turn into this? Low quality, aggressive, fervently anti-establishment.
Anti-establishment is sort of a requirement for doing a start-up. Aggressiveness is a requirement for doing a start-up in times of constrained capitalism Low quality is driven the by the availability of capital for dumb ideas. So... a while now?
These startups backed by venture funds are anti-establishment? Are you joking?
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#26> Think of it like WWII, only only instead of planting victory gardens to beat the Nazis, we're building AI apps and finding ways to create the economic value needed to cover the reckless bets being made by the elites. LOL fuck this, the stock market deserves to burn to the ground.
While there are a lot of problems with the current market dynamics, burning it to the ground would cause a ridiculous amount of suffering. We need to spin up a new alternative then wind down the market gently.
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#27I really feel like a leaf being blown over reading this stuff while planning on getting a Mortgage. Well, at least I have a rented roof over my head and eat every day. A lot of people can't afford that right now.
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#28This talk of arms race with China is very, very dangerous. We need to start having a more important conversation if people really believe this because, otherwise, why shouldn't China just kinetically strike US infrastructure and vice versa?
If AI is an executioner's blow to your opponent by enabling you to dominate them in terms of hacking, economy, government, politics, etc. kinetic strikes are more than justified. You could destroy most of the US's ability to create AI for decades with Pearl Harbor-esque first strikes.
Do people think countries are just going to roll over and die?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only problem is that the stock market is tied to a bunch of retirement/pension and other accounts. Yes stock market should burn to the ground but also I think pensioners and retirees shouldn’t be put out, just the finance bros and private equity folks which money is just a plaything.
Pensioners and retirees willingly dumping money into index funds without oversight are the dumb money that enables all of this. So yes, they deserve a haircut.
Pensioners don’t have a choice where their stuff goes. A teacher or something simply doesn’t deserve that kind of hardship.
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#30> Think of it like WWII, only only instead of planting victory gardens to beat the Nazis, we're building AI apps and finding ways to create the economic value needed to cover the reckless bets being made by the elites. LOL fuck this, the stock market deserves to burn to the ground.
When did the HackerNews comment section turn into this? Low quality, aggressive, fervently anti-establishment.
I have noticed that it coincides with the re-election of a certain political candidate (He who must not be named).
The facade of "critical and rational thinker" has all but completely fallen away and this place has revealed itself for the true ideological echo chamber that it is.