You have to demonstrate AI efficiency before you can cut staff. If you have good metrics, and I am skeptical that most places do, then you can measure productivity and make the decision to cut staff when it is clear that AI is paying off.

Unfortunately we're at a stage in the hype bubble where companies that are not aggressive with their AI related claims will fair poorly. Companies that don't embrace AI, regardless of the outcomes, are seen as behind the times and doomed to failure. And it's the sort of scenario that creates bubbles that collapse catastrophically.

Take a close look at Democrats in our media today. They aren't competent enough to organize and communicate the message you are claiming.

The far-left Democrats are living rent free in your head. Sometimes I love to see the torment. But today it's just tedious.

We'd have the money for free WiFi if we could reduce the number of jets we drop into the ocean.

WW1 lead to WW2 lead to the Cold War lead to numerous conflicts for oil. The US mobilized and other than a few brief pauses, never really stopped fighting over seas.

You can use something like Copilot to fill out interfaces, refactor large projects, or generate a mocking class. But if you don't know the project, then the AI assistant won't be much help. Copilot doesn't really work that well if you ask it broad questions, it will give you vague answers. But if you know precisely what you want, it can bang out the necessary boilerplate to get it going.

So rather than AI replacing your college degree and years of experience, it supplements it. So kids, don't think that you can just coast through college because AI will do your thinking for you. That's not how this works at all, and you'll hit a brick wall one day if you slack off on your education and career.

We are post-truth. You can commit a very public conspiracy, and then deny it in the face of all evidence. We live in a world where a President can be on video saying something then claim he never did, and some 30 to 40 percent of people accept his version of the events.

Labor is the unsung hero of any successful economy.

They will leave.

We're approaching a period where people disengage from an Internet full of AI slop. People are going to stop going to major sites as often, they'll stop browsing through store listings, and ultimately marketing, the major source of profit for internet companies, will retract.

You can always run an older version of Linux on it. It's not like the new versions have features we need on the low-end hardware. Once the ability to optionally strip away features for embedded minimalist kernels was added we were pretty much good to go for another few decades on the i486 ports. That IPv6 and USB 3.0 made the cut is just gravy.

I wonder what the state of FUZIX is for i486. I see 8086 support on github. It might be a fun project to bring up 286+ 16-bit segmented protected mode or 386+ 32-bit pmode.

Reduce. THEN Reuse. THEN Recycle. In that order.

A waste-to-energy incinerator works in some situations where landfills aren't practical, but only in regions where air quality problems aren't likely.
Capturing carbon by burying your plastic in a landfill is a reasonable compromise. Best is not to pump the oil out of the ground at all.

On the flip side of incineration is open burning of plastic, which is one of the biggest causes of air pollution in the world, and that needs to stop. But nations that need a proper incinerator don't have the money to build one. And their landfills are too large, sprawling, and are poorly managed.

As long as we continue to consume oil, we will have cheap carbon for making plastic. Recycling plastic is just not worth the cost, ans the resulting product is generally worse than virgin plastic. Not just worse material properties, but recycled plastic tends to degrade into microplastics more easily. Best to just bury it or burn it.

This reminds me a bit of Asimov's Solarians:

By the book 'Foundation and Earth', the Solarians ended up being super weird. Geniuses that keep only robots for company and often kill anyone that enters their land.

Oops one of the drives failed. Let me just slap a new one in and rebuild the RAID. Wait, the estimated rebuild time is greater than the MTBF for the drive ....

But really, I'm thrilled to see large capacity drives. I might replace my 3x14TB drives soon, although the SMART data is still reporting that they are healthy. I'd like to do a 4 drive RAID 10. I'm too cheap to get a box big enough to try out RAID 6, and I really don't need it. For us playing at home, 4 drive NAS appliances are relatively affordable to buy or DIY.

I'm part of the liberal elite, well more accurately the petite bourgeoisie. So I already own a fraction of the robots and AI through my investment portfolio. I'm probably on the side of the wealth gap that isn't quickly rocketing to the bottom.

But center-right voters who work for a living and vote Republican? Those guys are really going to suffer under the new world order. When they start replacing truck drivers, construction electricians, welders, and pretty much all the trades. It will be slow at first, a few here and there, with the argument that people will still be needed to control the robots, then to oversee them. But then we'll just link all the cameras up to a single monitoring center like we've already done with automated farm equipment.

I'm not sure why we're building a cyberpunk dystopia. Those novels were a warning, not an instruction manual.

The whole "AI" sentry gun industry is a huge liability. But perhaps the billionaires will find the Trump administration and DOJ willing to shield them from the liability. I mean if you can force people on a plane to a foreign prison without any pesky judge looking over your shoulder, then anything should be possible.

Capitalism is a system supported by government institutions, such as the ability to form private companies and sell shares or bonds. You can have this type of system in parallel with another, even if only a portion of your population participates in the production or consumption side. This is known as mixed economy.

If anyone is making money, you can tax them. Ultimately the government's revenues are going to be limited by the economic output of the nation. If your GDP is crashing, then you will not likely be able to increase taxes to make up for it. The result in that scenarios is austerity. Where UBI recipients get some reduced amount of income based on what can actually be raised.

This scenario is unlikely if your economy is healthy, regardless of what economic system(s) you implement. If your nation produces something, even if it was done by robots, then you have wealth. It's the decision on how to fairly distribute that wealth where capitalism and communism butt heads.

Obviously the property owning class of a plutocracy would want some kind of meritocracy. Of course with the property owning class making the rules on what meritocracy means.

A purely democratic and egalitarian view would be that everyone gets what they need. Which I believe will be necessary as we approach a society with 100% automation. As not everyone will be necessary need to work in order for the nation's economy to be in surplus.

But the distribution of that surplus among people is currently controlled by some unfair factors, like wealth. But also some usually, but not always, fair factors like did the person do any work. Of course if someone is disabled, they shouldn't necessarily be required to directly contribute a nation's economy. But there are ways to contribute indirectly, like part time community volunteer or to the arts. The basic philosophy is for there to be a place for every person to be the best person they can be.