No but what if those 2 hand out bread and circuses, use the super-intelligence they can afford (using super intelligence smarter than anyone alive) to keep the masses controlled, and are protected by all of the…
You are packing so many assumptions into here about how the world works that are just wrong, I have no way to really respond. Your strongest point is “will people stand for a world with no jobs, where only a percentage…
Does no one own the companies?
We’ve had them for like 3 years. It feels a lot like saying “internet won’t do much” in 1996
Why would no one have underlying resources if there were very few jobs? There are many millions of people in the USA who don’t work but own things. Some don’t work and own a lot of things
Why would no jobs mean no money?
The fear isn’t about now, it’s about trajectory. Everyone’s existential dread would evaporate if this is where it stops. The dread is: where does this stop? Right now, with ai I can fly. But when does ai no longer need…
You’re right, I shouldn’t expect laws and enforcement. Let me also hire a personal army while I’m at. What a load of bullshit victim blaming.
“You either deal with it or move” do you think installing flock cameras isn’t an attempt to deal with it? If you go to council meetings and demand action, installing a bunch of flock cameras and increasing surveillance…
I still am opposed to anything capable of mass surveillance because of how easily it is abused. But living in Seattle, my car has been broken into 4 times this summer alone (with nothing taken, because we leave nothing…
That’s great! You’re an outlier in the US still. Any tips for how you planned your landscape to work this way? I’m slowly trying to convert mine but have already gotten burned by not matching plants to the right soil or…
Do humans without lawns consume that much water? Have you worked on something where this problem came up in some unexpected way? Yes pipes need to be updated if a lot of tall complexes are built, but is total water that…
Why do they even need to do that? It could be all open and you still can’t compete. The models could be all completely open weight forever and you still can’t compete with capital. How are you going to pay for the…
I'm feeling the same way, and when I brought it up to some friends in tech it turned out in our group of 8 I was the least depressed. The wife of another friend of mine confided in me that AI replacing his work in such…
If you’re talking about a world democracy like the USA, the consumption gap between rich and poor effectively doesn’t matter from a climate change perspective. You could vanish the top 75% of Americans and still we’d…
In my family, about 5 out of 100 people believe climate change is even real. So ya, I think the average at this point is "I'm ambivalent, climate change may not even be real. But mostly I don't care"
If you live in a western democracy your politicians are held very accountable to the opinion and will of the people who vote. They are not kings or inherited aristocracy, they do what the people want (roughly) or get…
If I had to guess at anything it would be bribery, market manipulation, and crypto related business. The others I just don’t see even making it through, there is way too much room for interpretation of powers. “Pulling…
My point isn’t “president should be above law”. My point is that, if Trump and admin go to prison on charges that are not so strong that it sways a large portion of the public and republicans, we’re fucked. Regardless…
You have to be insane to think it is that black and white.
There is absolutely nothing that will end American democracy faster than jailing Trump. The moment it becomes clear that the cost of losing is personal jail time for you and your family, ever politician in the game has…
In 2020 they could code to decent feature specs and handle simple features end to end. They could maintain the dashboard as features shipped and fix specific valuable but straightforward bugs. At least, the ones hired…
Every single time I see an article like this come out on hacker news I have the same reaction “sure, this year”. There is still room for juniors… in fall of 2026. Will there be in fall of 2030? If your thesis rests on…
I'm curious why you think an ethics course would actually change minds. In my experience in undergrad, we had a CS ethics course, and it went in in-one-ear-and-out-the-other for 99% of students, probably myself…
You can search for more reports, because they do vary based on methodology. But the median hospital in the US makes between -1% (yes, negative, they lose money, because a huge percentage are non profits) and 4%…
No but what if those 2 hand out bread and circuses, use the super-intelligence they can afford (using super intelligence smarter than anyone alive) to keep the masses controlled, and are protected by all of the…
You are packing so many assumptions into here about how the world works that are just wrong, I have no way to really respond. Your strongest point is “will people stand for a world with no jobs, where only a percentage…
Does no one own the companies?
We’ve had them for like 3 years. It feels a lot like saying “internet won’t do much” in 1996
Why would no one have underlying resources if there were very few jobs? There are many millions of people in the USA who don’t work but own things. Some don’t work and own a lot of things
Why would no jobs mean no money?
The fear isn’t about now, it’s about trajectory. Everyone’s existential dread would evaporate if this is where it stops. The dread is: where does this stop? Right now, with ai I can fly. But when does ai no longer need…
You’re right, I shouldn’t expect laws and enforcement. Let me also hire a personal army while I’m at. What a load of bullshit victim blaming.
“You either deal with it or move” do you think installing flock cameras isn’t an attempt to deal with it? If you go to council meetings and demand action, installing a bunch of flock cameras and increasing surveillance…
I still am opposed to anything capable of mass surveillance because of how easily it is abused. But living in Seattle, my car has been broken into 4 times this summer alone (with nothing taken, because we leave nothing…
That’s great! You’re an outlier in the US still. Any tips for how you planned your landscape to work this way? I’m slowly trying to convert mine but have already gotten burned by not matching plants to the right soil or…
Do humans without lawns consume that much water? Have you worked on something where this problem came up in some unexpected way? Yes pipes need to be updated if a lot of tall complexes are built, but is total water that…
Why do they even need to do that? It could be all open and you still can’t compete. The models could be all completely open weight forever and you still can’t compete with capital. How are you going to pay for the…
I'm feeling the same way, and when I brought it up to some friends in tech it turned out in our group of 8 I was the least depressed. The wife of another friend of mine confided in me that AI replacing his work in such…
If you’re talking about a world democracy like the USA, the consumption gap between rich and poor effectively doesn’t matter from a climate change perspective. You could vanish the top 75% of Americans and still we’d…
In my family, about 5 out of 100 people believe climate change is even real. So ya, I think the average at this point is "I'm ambivalent, climate change may not even be real. But mostly I don't care"
If you live in a western democracy your politicians are held very accountable to the opinion and will of the people who vote. They are not kings or inherited aristocracy, they do what the people want (roughly) or get…
If I had to guess at anything it would be bribery, market manipulation, and crypto related business. The others I just don’t see even making it through, there is way too much room for interpretation of powers. “Pulling…
My point isn’t “president should be above law”. My point is that, if Trump and admin go to prison on charges that are not so strong that it sways a large portion of the public and republicans, we’re fucked. Regardless…
You have to be insane to think it is that black and white.
There is absolutely nothing that will end American democracy faster than jailing Trump. The moment it becomes clear that the cost of losing is personal jail time for you and your family, ever politician in the game has…
In 2020 they could code to decent feature specs and handle simple features end to end. They could maintain the dashboard as features shipped and fix specific valuable but straightforward bugs. At least, the ones hired…
Every single time I see an article like this come out on hacker news I have the same reaction “sure, this year”. There is still room for juniors… in fall of 2026. Will there be in fall of 2030? If your thesis rests on…
I'm curious why you think an ethics course would actually change minds. In my experience in undergrad, we had a CS ethics course, and it went in in-one-ear-and-out-the-other for 99% of students, probably myself…
You can search for more reports, because they do vary based on methodology. But the median hospital in the US makes between -1% (yes, negative, they lose money, because a huge percentage are non profits) and 4%…