This. The only reason we don't have a 24 hour workweek with no loss in annual pay right now is because we allowed inequality to worsen for half a century.
And anecdotally, it seems that we're backsliding from the 40 hour workweek too. It's seems to be becoming the norm to see jobs that require long hours, weekend and holiday work.
Do you think any member of the proletariat has a 3D printer big enough to print a house just waiting for the software to run it autonomously? And presumably unmanned trucks and construction vehicles to go along with it? How many do you even think have a computer that could run a powerful LLM decently?
The only way we get a Star Trek economy is if workers band together and fight ownership-class interests tooth and nail to make it happen. Otherwise, we get an Elysium economy (Amodei's latter scenario).
Will a pitch droplet refuse to detach while being observed? Just how long can it be held suspended due to observation? Are quantum effects involved?
This. I've said it before, "hedging" wih BTC or other cryptocurrency is like installing guardrails made of tannerite.
Recently I saw the first job post in many years that asked for a bachelor's degree, nothing specific just some degree, for a job that had no need for it. That Great Recession-era shit is coming back and it'll give the graduates a leg up again.
Sure it's elitist opportunity hoarding and a handy way to bake classism into the job requirements with plausible deniability, but it's also a way to cut down the number of job applications for an HR drone to who doesn't know what the hell they're doing to sort through without having to print out a stack of resumes, shuffle and cut the deck and toss part of it into a trash bin, and that's what counts.
Maybe if we tell Microslop they can have agentic AI do the testing they'll do some. The agentic LLMs will probably mess up half the testing but it's better than nothing...I think...
Salesforce are the most prolific liars about AI's effects on productivity, it's bad enough that it will probably earn them a lawsuit from their shareholders after the AI bubble pops.
But if an alternator belt has broken, it's not getting repaired at road-side.
Depends, If the car has a longitudinal engine layout it can be very easy to change an alternator belt, which is usually a single serpentine belt that runs all the engine accessories these days. If it's a lateral engine layout and there's barely enough room between the pulleys and the side of the engine bay to slip the belt through, it can be a lot more difficult but I wouldn't say impossible as a roadside repair.
Powertrain internals are where you get closer to roadside repairs being categorically impossible due to the need for specialized tools, fluid handling equipment (and fresh fluids) and a clean work environment. I'm sure someone's going to pipe in about giving an air-cooled VW Beetle a full engine rebuild on the roadside now
AI is pretty useless so I don't have a use for it no matter how private it is.
Granting legal personhood to inanimate objects and imaginary concepts is a minefield of trouble and has already gone too far. We should remove legal personhood from corporations.
And in the end VCs work more-or-less on the same principle (which is why at some point someone was trying to do Uber for xyz).
The VC system actually appears to be worse. China's trying supercritical CO2 as a working fluid and flying wind turbines while the West is in its second round within a decade of "make a small handful of people stupendously rich chasing a plainly stupid idea that makes most people's lives worse" (Currently AI, previously blockchain nonsense). And that's aside from the undercurrents of SaaS and uber-ization among other aspects of enshittification. We can only look on at China's gambles with envy.
Oooh interesting theory, we should make sure managers everywhere hear it
Their fear isn't perfectly rational, they just look for a vehicle with lots of material to put distance between the cabin and the edges of the vehicle and ground.
I've never before this thread heard a person say that driving a large vehicle is fun. In my experience it's inoffensive at best when cruising the highway with lots of space, and a stressful annoyance when there isn't a lot of space and you have to deal with the awful visibility near the vehicle and huge turning radius. Dealership lots tend to be cramped spaces.
To me fast and agile cars are fun, and large vehicles tend to be the opposite of that.
Good points. This has been a productive discussion.
The top 0.1% get rich not off of any corporate ledger's math, but by being directly invested in the expansion of the economy, and getting a commensurate chunk of it.
You cannot fix that disparity by destroying businesses.
Sounds like a job for a wealth tax!
Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
