Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution

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Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution

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Post by piloto_ciego » Fri, May 15, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

MSFT_Edging wrote: post #235

piloto_ciego wrote: post #234

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Respectfully, agree to disagree. If you had to spend time and effort to learn something, and now you can do something that "meets economic requirements" in a 30 second prompt, the moat to your income is gone. Companies and consumers don't give a damn about how much hard work went into an art piece typically. Sorry to say.

What you're describing is devaluing a skill and inventing the moat post mortem. Your view on the world makes me sad. You and a few million like yourself will never be satisfied. You will strip anything that is good in life to sell back a shallow clone to people, never understanding the medium in the first place. Go read a book, talk to god, see a play, or something.

My view of the world makes you sad? What precisely is "my view of the world?" How precisely do I see the world, go on, tell me. I'm waiting for your enlightened take on my psyche.

You have no idea about me, no idea of my life, no idea of my interests. I'd bet money I read more than you, I don't talk to god (don't really believe in him) but I'd bet I've gone on more pilgrimages than you, and I have seen a play within the last couple months, but "I can't be satisfied?"

Screw your pretentious, self-important, cloying, bullshit-soaked idea that you're special. You're not special. Your skills aren't special - neither are mine. Grow up and stop clinging to a nostalgia that wasn't so great anyway.

Re: Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution

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Post by RugnirViking » Mon, May 18, 2026, 10:13 AM UTC

pixel_popping wrote: post #165

piva00 wrote: post #150

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RSA is not UBI, UBI literally means Universal Basic Income, it's not for no income/low income people, it's universal. You are conflating the concept of UBI with social welfare, they are different things and it's a bit annoying to see the erosion of the UBI concept into social welfare, I've noticed an uptick of this the past year or so, no idea where it's originating from...

Agreed I butchered it, but what is the concrete difference right now for someone that has no job (so where UBI is relevant) with social welfare and "UBI" if in the end, that person gets a monthly income that is somehow guaranteed?

they don't have to spend that life jumping through hoops, visiting particular offices at particular times to talk to people who don't want to be there, documenting medical histories, job searches, going through embarassing questioning, repeated monthly or more, all to potentially be denied the money they need for rent and what meagre food they can afford though some unexpected bureaucracy failure, imagined or real.

UBI being given to everyone (and therefore requiring little more than a confirmed identity) IS the feature.

As for whether its feasible and what it would do to society in terms of people's job motivation, I don't know. But the idea is to reduce the degrading experience of welfare as it currently exists, as well as reducing the surprisingly high expense of the government offices dedicated to checking and enforcing the byzantine laws surrounding the current system.

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