When you constantly preach on how your company is able to save money by taking away jobs, I have no fucking sympathy for you.
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Anti-Semitism is socialism for idiots. Take your nazi shit elsewhere.
Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
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#362I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…
If they divorced in few weeks, there is zero chance it was solid before ai disagreement. They were distancing themselves emotionally long before.
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the federal taxes collected. The top 25% pay 89% of taxes. Net of transfers, 60% of households receive more from government transfers than they pay in taxes. The idea that rich people don't pay taxes is just not correct. The entire system is basically rich people subsidizing everybody else through byzantine distributional systems.
There is no ability to accumulate and hold wealth without a stable society. That means broad rights, democracy and limits to inequality. Stop acting as if taxation if theft, it’s the fee that allows everything else to function.
I didn't say any of that. Taxes are fine.
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#364Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
#365I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…
I operate in at least one social circle that is heavily not-technical (local politics) and I do not see this at all.
The hatred is particularly intense on reddit. I lost a couple of accounts there to suspension, just for speaking a civil way about the positive aspects of AI.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't condone it, but I understand the anger. The billionaire class has enabled armed masked police in our streets, endless layoffs, basically don't pay taxes at any reasonable percentage, and basically have rigged politics with Citizens United. Given that, I can see how people are resorting to 18th century French tactics.
The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the federal taxes collected. The top 25% pay 89% of taxes. Net of transfers, 60% of households receive more from government transfers than they pay in taxes. The idea that rich people don't pay taxes is just not correct. The entire system is basically rich people subsidizing everybody else through byzantine distributional systems.
I'm not talking about the top 1%. I'm talking about the top 0.01%.
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#367I bet the molotov cocktail was made via instructions from ChatGPT.
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#368Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is no ability to accumulate and hold wealth without a stable society. That means broad rights, democracy and limits to inequality. Stop acting as if taxation if theft, it’s the fee that allows everything else to function.
I didn't say any of that. Taxes are fine.
And also, the idea that highly progressive taxes (enough to limit inequality) is somehow unfair.
The primary role of the state is to protect private property, why not charge by value?
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#370It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...
There is nothing scary about being genuinely OK with violence.