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Post by 9rx »

gchamonlive wrote: post #253
9rx wrote: post #127

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> and provide everyone with everything they would ever need It doesn't need to provide for everyone. Imagine a single Jeff Bezos type who conquers the world with the magical AI with no need for anyone else to do anything for him. With no need for someone else to do something for him, there is no need for him to sell to anyone else. This is where the "they forget people also need money to buy their goods" falls apart.…

You just forget that the transaction part of consuming is just a portion of it. AI could provide bezos with everything material he'd need, just not the power and status. That's where your argument falls apart. We are social beings, and for those in power they won't be satisfied with the illusion of power. Consumption is the driving force that maintains power in capitalism. You could replace the system, but never the…

> That's where your argument falls apart.

Are you aimlessly reading comments in strict isolation?

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Post by pmarreck »

Software/management/fractional-CTO job seeker here. AI interview dodger here.

Considering that "people dynamics" are such a major factor in productivity, to not even expend the human effort to meet you even over video in order to assess that is not only really dystopian but is counterproductive.

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Post by mystraline »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #283
simianparrot wrote: post #241

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That's something only people of privilege in countries that never experienced what the sickle and hammer does to its people.

Having recently come off a micro-binge of the rise of USSR and it's history, the common theme in keeping a state communist through change of leadership is "The system works great, they just didn't know how to run it properly." Then they also proceeded to just continue the devastation. The fundamental problem of communism is that everyone needs to play along, but the rewards for not playing along grow as more people d…

Chinese socialism is interesting and I think works quite well.

Absolutely new stuff is basically unrestricted. Go build, have fun, make money.

Intermediate stuff is partially state controlled, including cost, profits, pollution, and more.

Essentials are effectively state owned, cost controlled, and 'very stable'.

Also, the USSR was the first time it was tried. It succeeded some ways, but failed in others.

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by ARob109 »

diego_moita wrote: post #191

I see a business opportunity: create an AI interviewee for AI interviewers. :)

Ugh, already have to deal with filtering out interviewees who are obviously using AI to answer questions. It's annoying when you ask someone how they go about troubleshooting a misbehaving SPI peripheral. Instead of their personal routine, they give a bulleted and summarized AI response. It's obvious, first they fumble the answer to buy time, while looking away from the camera, then they read off the bullet points.

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Post by kergonath »

geraldwhen wrote: post #312
kergonath wrote: post #238

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> Please give me an example of what happens. It’s easy to forget after 80 years of stable western democracies, but brutal equilibrium shifts do happen. There was a revolution every ~20 years in Europe between 1789 and 1917. And even during the 20th century, the history of much of the world is full of coups, revolts, and uprisings. See all the revolutions in ex-soviet republics, the Arab spring, etc. So you can pick a…

Modern police and military gear is so advanced that revolution is unrealistic.

It does not help when part of the military sides with the revolution. Which happened to some extent in just about all of them. It’s never just normal people against the army. Soldiers also have families suffering just like the others. They also see what happens to them when they leave the military and become part of the underclass again. There is a spectrum between not following orders efficiently to just ignoring orders and then open mutiny.

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Post by mystraline »

67535272 wrote: post #216
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #173

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The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.

100 million deaths, for the record.

Notice it was the capitalist ccountries that kept a running death count for socialist counties.

Pray tell, how many people in capitalist countries died due to capitalism?

None of them! It was always the individuals' responsibility! /sarcasm

(Aside: we know just from the lack of access and $84k for Solvaldi alone is causing 5 million dead per year, and rising. And that's just a single hepatitis drug. And that's not even touching diabetes.)

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by gchamonlive »

9rx wrote: post #371
gchamonlive wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just forget that the transaction part of consuming is just a portion of it. AI could provide bezos with everything material he'd need, just not the power and status. That's where your argument falls apart. We are social beings, and for those in power they won't be satisfied with the illusion of power. Consumption is the driving force that maintains power in capitalism. You could replace the system, but never the…

> That's where your argument falls apart. Are you aimlessly reading comments in strict isolation?

No

Re: Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers

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Post by rkomorn »

pmarreck wrote: post #372

Software/management/fractional-CTO job seeker here. AI interview dodger here. Considering that "people dynamics" are such a major factor in productivity, to not even expend the human effort to meet you even over video in order to assess that is not only really dystopian but is counterproductive.

The idea that a potential employer wants me to sit there and talk to an AI bot is so entirely off putting I'd likely never talk to anyone from the company again.

It's so entirely "anti human", I couldn't possibly see eye to eye with management there.

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Post by dragonwriter »

imglorp wrote: post #363
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #173

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The sickle and hammer looking real interesting now.

We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system that seems to have been an unstable configuration. It was neither hammer and sickle nor single megacorporation: it was balanced on a hill between both. The combination of (1) checks and balances, (2) separation of money, religion, corporation, and government, and (3) regulation in moderation worked pretty well for around 200 years. Monopolies and labor abus…

> We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system

The idea that it was "very successful" basically comes from ignoring things like the Civil War, and the idea that it was "carefully designed" comes from building a fiction around the output and ignoring the process that actually produced it (in no small part aided by people viewing the after-the-drafting sales campaign of the Federalist Papers as if it reflected a real coherent rationale that went into building the system rather than a marketing campaign developed for a particular audience for an existing product.)

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