If employees can petition and vote on who gets to be CEO, then why not do that formally. Make it a worker collective tech company, there is still a board and shareholders. But split the nomination and confirming process between management and employees. The classic "You cut, I choose" method of finding compromise between two parties.

Note: I am not naïve enough to think it would ever happen.

I hope Elon uploads himself into I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

Multiple essays on the subject are freely available. Responsible governments are already tuned into the field, and some have their own working groups to research potential policy direction. Some examples of concrete steps that a government could take:
- start applying wage insurance to budgets today, which would mean a tax increase. But tax increases are likely already on the table because the projections for funding existing unemployment insurance point upward, not downward.
- As above, but specifically for short-term work. The state can subsidize wages when companies temporarily reduce hours, this compliments laws that prohibit mass layoffs.
- legislation that seeks to balance how companies use AI. how much they pay workers. what percentage of human versus AI is doing the work. Difficult to legislate perfectly, although doing better than nothing is within reach for most governments of the world. This is already done in countries that require workplace co-determination through a works council, and I see no reason the same process would not also apply to AI in the workplace.
- some of the churn can be mitigated by placing workers from dying industries into vocational or college programs to retrain. Part of this is you get a worker that is more valuable to your economy. But the big short-term advantage is you have someone who would have normally been unemployed and idle is now attending an education program. They are at least busy, even if they are immediately providing revenue for the government (actually they cost quite a bit short term)
- public capital ownership. total left-field Marxism here, but if the public hold part or total ownership of AI resources (equipment, networks, data centers, power, etc). Then the public receives the benefit of its growth and contribution to GDP instead of all that going into the hands of a few. How AI is used becomes a public concern and forces transparency into a currently very opaque industry.

I doubt these billionaires are smart enough to keep a persistent rabble at bay indefinitely. Cracking open a history book shows the 19th and 20th century had plenty of sabotage, arson, kidnappings, and more on the extreme end. And if you've tuned into the news at all this week, apparently a honeytrap is a viable option for getting access to billionaires and AI.

Techno-feudalism or Rentier capitalism where a few own everything, including every aspect of your life, while having zero responsibility for those lives. I think we're on the road going in that direction, but we haven't arrived (yet).

We're approaching the day when many jobs are obsolete and others only need a fraction as many human beings to do them.

There are a few things that shake out from this:
- degrowth is feasible. Lowering birthrates and population won't necessarily end economic growth
- mass unemployment. Expect countries that don't manage the transition to see 10%+ unemployment, which about where social unrest starts to skyrocket. You can only use police crowd control tactics for so long before your government collapses
- huge economic shift. See the wealth of those who own AI and robots grow. The rest of the people must rent access in order to go about their daily lives. That rent can be through employers that pay you less to offset their AI bills.

Yea Claude wouldn't help me get the monthly tier to work inside my own agent CLI app. The agent claimed that Claude CLI is proprietary and has throttling and metering features to prevent abuse. I think it is bullshit and said as much and the agent dug in and said it wouldn't do it.
So I had it add local AI support and I guess next time I have 60+GB of RAM free I can run a local agent to reverse engineer Claude. But if I had that, I wouldn't need to pay Anthropic a monthly fee anymore.

He's generally very likable and charismatic. One of my fondest career memories was during chip bring up late at night he stopped by the lab and was excited with us when the display controlled came to life and Android started loading up on the monitor.

I know multiple employees that had $1.5m or more wiped from their retirement savings since October. I definitely should have sold and accepted that I would have owed the tax man. I failed to follow: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Eating 30% on a stock that is going to be difficult to sell right now. Versus paying around taxes on anything above my cost basis, perhaps only 15% or so

They would have fired my ass if I was involved in even a tenth of what went on. (I worked there for 15 years). HR would have pointed out the employee handbook I signed and the training on EC and sexual harassment (California SB 1343) I received. I would have gotten my final paycheck, no severance, and invested RSUs would have been canceled.

Obviously ICs and management live by different rules in the corporate world. But I still find the hypocrisy annoying to watch.

Mostly just a place to hole up during the riots or civil war.

There is little concern for a nuclear threat, because the US is the most likely nation to perform a major nuclear first strike. That said, I predict that it is more likely that the US would strike itself accidentally (or through AI) before any other scenario.

correction - it was built with wave interferometry, so I don't get to count particles and have to deal with ugly math for interferometry that I don't know well enough to explain. :-/

the image is so pixelated because that's how many photons interacted with the detector

He gets to keep his $150B, or at least half of it. I'm sure he is allowed to do as he pleases now that he doesn't have a company to manage. I found him to be a "hands on" manager when I worked there, but I didn't realize he was far more hands on with some of his staff. Irritating that I had to do training sessions on export controls and sexual harassment every year when he had been violating company policy, ethics, and potentially the law all this time.

I hope he finds excess Polonium in his toilet paper.

Putin would pet Russia fall before he cries "uncle"
The only way to end the war is when Putin himself ceases to be in power, unfortunetly he still retains enough popular support to remain in power without even having to force the issue. (Which he would if he faced mass protests)

Or it's not a shortcoming at all. Since the representation difference is correctly encoded.

My main complaint is that English doesn't get letters for British versus American D and T sounds in words. Given how Brits pronounce "students", I'm not convinced we're using the same alphabet.