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At which point something akin to the French revolution better break out..
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I did read the history books. All of that eventually ended in the Fifth Republic. You're taking too short a view of history.
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Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
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>The media says it's a war because AI companies are paying them to say it's a war [0] When AGI comes the threat won't be from which primate turned it on, but from how well AGI is aligned with humanity. And when the AGI comes, they won't unleash it to defeat US enemies, they'll first unleash it to make more US workers redundant and boost their stock valuation.
At which point something akin to the French revolution better break out..
There’s no king to depose so that’s not going to work
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
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There’s no king to depose so that’s not going to work
There's a tech aristocracy though.
No doubt but it’s too diffuse to coherently depose.
I’d love to hear how you’re going to do the Bolshevik style 1917 to 1918 consolidation, or maybe the 1950 Chinese ROC explusion by the KMT
Where’s this revolutionary group that doesn’t exist that’s going to somehow form to depose … who? Is Travis Kalanick on that list, how about Woz? No we like Woz…so he’s clearly out, despite the fact that he has been visiting the White House for decades, and been leading the promotion of corporate tech since the 80s
Lilliputian dictators like yourself always seem to have a really great idea in their head, but absolutely no experience or competence or capability to know how to actually do a revolution. Always ready to create a list of who’s good and who’s band.
Oh and by the way I’ve been saying on this forum for over a decade tech workers need to unionize
100% of this forum responds in the narcissistic manner; “why would I ever unionize I’m so great I can always be a psychopath like the rest of the psychopaths and make my bank and leave”
The call is coming from inside the house
if you think that there’s not a line of people who are ready to fuck over all of their coworkers on behalf of a bigger bank, so they could be the intermediary between investors and a company they will absolutely jump at it in a heartbeat
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
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> but how much of that GDP is filtering down to the regular people? An absolutely insane amount. It's ridiculous just how wealthy and the quality of life the average American has compared to the world. > Are Americans, on average happier and have better life outcomes than other developed nations? Yeah for the most part they are in the same ballpark.
> An absolutely insane amount. It's ridiculous just how wealthy and the quality of life the average American has compared to the world. I've been there last year. This is absolutely not true compared to Europe, including post-soviet states. Might have been true a few decades back maybe. Of course, we can argue that the US citizens have it made compared to someone in Kenya (do they?) but that's not the spirit of the q…
Depends where in Europe. Lots of Europeans suffer so other Europeans can prosper. Add to the fact that Europe still benefits from imperialism and that Europe is facing an existential crisis, I would take be the average American long-term.
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
#626Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a tech aristocracy though.
No doubt but it’s too diffuse to coherently depose. I’d love to hear how you’re going to do the Bolshevik style 1917 to 1918 consolidation, or maybe the 1950 Chinese ROC explusion by the KMT Where’s this revolutionary group that doesn’t exist that’s going to somehow form to depose … who? Is Travis Kalanick on that list, how about Woz? No we like Woz…so he’s clearly out, despite the fact that he has been visiting the…
I don't think we should differentiate between Kalanick and Woz. It's a simple class binary.
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
#627The US is not winning anything. This is not a fucking war. The only thing that this “AI race” is winning is a speedrun to the destruction of any meaning humans had as well as the massive build of data center and absurd amount of water consumptions to cool them off.
If only people would stop thinking in terms of who is winning, jeez.
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#628Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but how much of that GDP is filtering down to the regular people? An absolutely insane amount. It's ridiculous just how wealthy and the quality of life the average American has compared to the world. > Are Americans, on average happier and have better life outcomes than other developed nations? Yeah for the most part they are in the same ballpark.
> An absolutely insane amount. It's ridiculous just how wealthy and the quality of life the average American has compared to the world. I've been there last year. This is absolutely not true compared to Europe, including post-soviet states. Might have been true a few decades back maybe. Of course, we can argue that the US citizens have it made compared to someone in Kenya (do they?) but that's not the spirit of the q…
I mean it is pretty clear if you look at the data around purchasing power of the median earner (~$44K/yr in US) the US is significantly higher than most EU countries.
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
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China going for Taiwan would be the worst geopolitical move of the century, potentially worse than Germany's decision to invade the soviet union. They talk about reunification because it's good propaganda and both sides want it to a degree, but doing it forcefully just isn't something China would realistically do unless they really don't like their path of becoming an international trade and manufacturing hub
> but doing it forcefully just isn't something China would realistically do unless they really don't like their path of becoming an international trade and manufacturing hub Sounds rational, but this decision is in a small number of hands. And those hands can change quickly. I also thought the US would never threaten to annex territory of a NATO member.
Chinas power structure is misunderstood. Theres a small number of hands, yes, but they don't change quickly and actually understand how to play geopolitics
Re: The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
#630Earlier quoted context omitted.
No doubt but it’s too diffuse to coherently depose. I’d love to hear how you’re going to do the Bolshevik style 1917 to 1918 consolidation, or maybe the 1950 Chinese ROC explusion by the KMT Where’s this revolutionary group that doesn’t exist that’s going to somehow form to depose … who? Is Travis Kalanick on that list, how about Woz? No we like Woz…so he’s clearly out, despite the fact that he has been visiting the…
I don't think we should differentiate between Kalanick and Woz. It's a simple class binary.
I’d love to see this “really simple class binary function”