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heathrow83829 3 hours ago [-]
We've seen this before. google ceo also met with boos about AI at a commencement.
It's simple: AI threatens jobs/careers and paychecks. And, we've built an entire society that requires you to have a paycheck just to live. So, of course people are going to boo AI.
They're so used to all of their sycophants around them clapping like seals at everything they say, they can't even begin to understand why other people wouldn't like what they're pushing
We can't be rid of them soon enough
jollyllama 3 hours ago [-]
He would have been dumbstruck if there hadn't been two or three similar headlines in the last two weeks. He knew this would happen and he had his canned snarky retort ready.
ryandrake 3 hours ago [-]
The smug grins on all their faces is what gets me. They are absolutely giddy at the opportunity to enrich themselves at everyone else’s expense, and they are so insular and protected from us that they feel no danger outwardly admitting it.
onetokeoverthe 2 hours ago [-]
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irishcoffee 3 hours ago [-]
If you want the other perspective (I don't agree with what I'm about to say) just:
s/execs/kids
happytoexplain 3 hours ago [-]
We know the other perspective.
bluefirebrand 2 hours ago [-]
Anyone who seriously would take the side of a corporate exec sneering at high school students is someone seriously not worth giving even a tiny bit of attention to
The sooner that scum like that can be recognized and shunned from society, the better
atomicnumber3 3 hours ago [-]
Somehow one of the most fascinating aspects of LLMs is that they were able to basically both reveal corporate capitalism as primarily being about virtualized feudalism, and also casually ruin the entire world, just by their ability to generate decently grammatically correct English.
Why is it that all of these bigheaded corpo type people react to "anti-AI" sentiments with this strongman crap?
Are they surprised that people, especially young people who are going to head into the world to try to make their way, are NOT supportive of the idea they'll just be eternal slaves, or even unemployed nuisances, to feudal lords?
The whole fucking point of this system is for it to support people. "They" need to remember that or they're going to be reminded of it. Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon.
pixel_popping 2 hours ago [-]
Do you have any other concrete idea than Capitalism? (Not rage-bait, genuinely interested) and how it would work in practice.
breakpointalpha 2 hours ago [-]
Still Capitalism, but the Nordic Model.
High taxes on the wealthy, high social spending for all, lower business regulations, lower wealth inequality, and high labor market flexibility.
Honestly there are so many levers we could pull off within Capitalism to both meaningfully improve the lives of people while keeping together all the things that are genuinely good about it (such as the central thesis of rewarding risk and innovation).
- better safety nets paid through higher taxes and closing down loopholes (such as buybacks)
- stronger regulatory enforcement to reduce the power of monopolies / monopsonies
- stricter rules around tax-payer investments / subsidies into companies (sure SpaceX gets to have billions to shore up our competitiveness but there must be a mechanism for the tax payer to have board representation)
etc. etc.
The list goes on. Honestly it doesn't take a lot (besides political will and escaping the capture of Citizens United) to move the needle so that the median income or bottom 10th percentile lifestyle meaningfully improves while we no longer have wealth horded to the level of having centibillionaires.
It does require a government that operates with much less corruption than we have, so it is more idealistic than not, but very easy to imagine.
zzzeek 3 hours ago [-]
> Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon.
Well your other options are Marxism or Star Trek replicators. I'd choose the latter.
gopher_space 2 hours ago [-]
Would you vote for my "Social Democracy with Capitalism in a Sandbox" platform?
zzzeek 1 hours ago [-]
totally, let's go Norway!
the_real_cher 2 hours ago [-]
It's so insane how we've built society so that you desperately need a job to handle ALL aspects of your life, yet companies are trying to get rid of labor as much as possible.
AI is an amazing tool but people hate it because it's a threat to how our ridiculous society is structured.
It's simple: AI threatens jobs/careers and paychecks. And, we've built an entire society that requires you to have a paycheck just to live. So, of course people are going to boo AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs
They're so used to all of their sycophants around them clapping like seals at everything they say, they can't even begin to understand why other people wouldn't like what they're pushing
We can't be rid of them soon enough
s/execs/kids
The sooner that scum like that can be recognized and shunned from society, the better
Why is it that all of these bigheaded corpo type people react to "anti-AI" sentiments with this strongman crap?
Are they surprised that people, especially young people who are going to head into the world to try to make their way, are NOT supportive of the idea they'll just be eternal slaves, or even unemployed nuisances, to feudal lords?
The whole fucking point of this system is for it to support people. "They" need to remember that or they're going to be reminded of it. Capitalism was cool as an evolutionary step but it's pretty fucking clear we're going to need another innovation here sometime soon.
High taxes on the wealthy, high social spending for all, lower business regulations, lower wealth inequality, and high labor market flexibility.
https://maseconomics.com/nordic-model-economics-high-taxes-g...
- better safety nets paid through higher taxes and closing down loopholes (such as buybacks)
- stronger regulatory enforcement to reduce the power of monopolies / monopsonies
- stricter rules around tax-payer investments / subsidies into companies (sure SpaceX gets to have billions to shore up our competitiveness but there must be a mechanism for the tax payer to have board representation)
etc. etc.
The list goes on. Honestly it doesn't take a lot (besides political will and escaping the capture of Citizens United) to move the needle so that the median income or bottom 10th percentile lifestyle meaningfully improves while we no longer have wealth horded to the level of having centibillionaires.
It does require a government that operates with much less corruption than we have, so it is more idealistic than not, but very easy to imagine.
Well your other options are Marxism or Star Trek replicators. I'd choose the latter.