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We were talking about big tech, not global politics.
There's a clear connection between tech (social media, loneliness epidemic, etc) and political decline.
No there isn't.
You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably not a popular opinion but this is why capitalism works. We all work to compete for what is best for US and our Family, not what someone tells us to work on because they think they know whats better, they don't.
Read this one: http://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/23/pieces... >Capitalism is so rigged it isn’t fun anymore.
"Capitalism is so rigged it isn’t fun anymore. I wish you short sighted fucks in the PMC could actually do something about it. "
You have a link that is not garbage writing? IMO this isn't worth reading.
Re: You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably not a popular opinion but this is why capitalism works. We all work to compete for what is best for US and our Family, not what someone tells us to work on because they think they know whats better, they don't.
Read this one: http://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/23/pieces... >Capitalism is so rigged it isn’t fun anymore.
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Re: You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
#244An economics counter argument: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-... Also, my p(doom) is 1.0-epsilon under the status quo without AGI/ASI, due to old age and disease. Under some assumptions, self-interest says that I may as well roll the dice.
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#247The article makes it sound like this is inevitable, and the only choice you have is A: participate and have a chance to not be part of a perpetual underclass B: for moral reasons, don't participate, be part of the underclass I kinda would have hoped for C: to stop this from happening Otherwise it's the worst sales-pitch ever
Vote with your money and support open source software and hardware.
Re: You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
#248I get the feeling behind the anti-AI sentiment, I just disagree with the conclusions. There’s a lot of fear around what will happen with AI, not so much of extinction but rather of two things: fear of losing income, and arguably more importantly, fear of losing identity. People often are invested in what they do to the point that it’s who they are. That being replaced or eliminated might be a bigger psychological thr…
To me it is less the fear of losing identity and income.
These can be figured out if the system allows for it.
But if the system will not allow for it, for example if we loose our Democratic system along the line, all bets are off.
Re: You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
The answer is obvious: abandon civilisation, join the Amish. Big Tech cannot ruin your life if you simply don't participate in the capitalistic market. I mean sure, it's difficult to live completely off-grid, but in modern world, it's a long way before you starve to death. What I'm saying is, I have a cozy bullshit job that gives me the perspective of someday not being in the working class anymore. But if that wasn't…
> Big Tech cannot ruin your life if you simply don't participate in the capitalistic market. I mean sure, it's difficult to live completely off-grid, but in modern world, it's a long way before you starve to death. You still have to pay taxes, and doing this means giving up on a lot of your existing human connection, joining a community in no small part comprised of crackpots, tanking your quality of life, and losing…
> tanking your quality of life
"Bro I can't wait to go back to being an UberEats delivery driver without any insurance living below minimum wage working all day every single day just to afford to rent half a room and small instant ramen"
the fuck are you talking about.
Re: You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass
#250Maybe the real maker economy will be the future underclass building makeshift infrastructure to support a subsistence lifestyle in small post capital communities off the grid once big capital no longer feels the need to maintain a consumer economy at any scale. I don't know what the future holds, but owning a few acres in rural nowhere and knowing how to build stuff gives me a sense of security. Someone needs to find…
why would capital allow you to do that