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Because the answer to the latter is yes, yes it can. There is an above 60% chance that it can.

As I see it the fulcrum of this debate is: Can AI agents that automate white collar workflows ever be profitable?

If no: 2008 repeats but maybe even worse (very bad)
If yes: mass job displacement (10x)

The debate is not: Will AI agents be capable of automating most white collar coding jobs

Also I see a lot of folks here who just have no understanding of just how much vibe-coding is now integrated into our workflows in tech. Yes there is an outside chance that agents can automate things end-to-end, eliminating a lot of entry level jobs.

I am in tech, I have seen extraordinarily short sighted business decisions be made for a tiny % bump in profit over ONE QUARTER. Will tech execs conduct mass layoffs for fractional % profits in service of participating in the hype cycle? Why wouldn't they?

I see these threads and just don't understand how both can't be true. 1. AI financials are dangerously over-exposed and they need this to work AND 2. precisely because of #1, tech executives force Gen AI on workers to justify firing them, even if in the long run systems start failing.

LLM companies make the academic dishonesty equivalent of heroin, and we do not have academic honesty equivalents of methadone yet

From an ML person - if the people who fight clankers come after us, we will have deserved it. And more power to them.

We incorrectly assume that God as an emergent phenomena to explain the unexplainable, while necessary, is a thing of the past. That all modern religions are simply power structures that use the otherwise innocuous emergence of God as political tools. That God cannot emerge again. We are wrong.

everyone of these articles are basically "I used chatgpt and realized the sum total of human knowledge is more than what my feeble mind can comprehend". and then instead of attributing it to human ingenuity they go "yeah this is god, that's what this is"

Every journalist that writes a pro-AI articles behaves like they're talking to God. You don't need chatgpt mate, you need self-respect.

me everyday at all times

hot take: Left-wing purity tests are a fed psyop. It's a total win-win. create internal factionalism and simultaneously generate bad optics/vibes for onlookers.

And I still won't cause it's paywalled

you know what you were right, I wouldn't have read it without the chot hype

G O U R M E T K I T C H E N

"How brave! Journalism joins the war on power, on the side of power."

you are attacking me personally.

what's your most spectacular planet find?

Hot take: Harming others through negligence and greed is a worse form evil than harming others out of malice and hatred.

and you can tell how massive a grift it is because a true believer would never name themselves after their future God

there's always a dril tweet

London, UK
Paris, Atlantic Ocean
Rome, France
Rom, Spain
Barcelona, Morocco
P R A G U E
Istanbul, Austria
Vienna, Italy
Antalya, Turkey
Milan, Libya

that's it that's the post

Grokked and Efficiency-pilled

Economists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.

Average Slavoj Zizek interview xperience (first 20 mins):
prompt - happy birthday
response - first of all no, secondly I want to be a GILF, objectification is good, lessons from p*rn about male chauvinism, identifying with the female, totalized subjectification, consumption under capitalism....

"punching back will make me blind. I need some healing" he says as the bear continues to maul him to death.

the closer they are to the ground, the more of a spine they have.

I say this while recognizing that this is possibly the most helpful this visualization could be. I could not thing of a better way.