If businesses could pay women less to do the same job they would preferentially hire women and the pay gap would disappear.

Yes I think perfectly rational actors is a valid assumption to base my whole field of study on why do you ask?

That certainly seems like the idea most techbros have, turn white-collar workers into quality checkers rather than producers. The thing is I’m not sure the output of a lot of white collar jobs can be treated the same as manufacturing output.

If you replace half your labour in manufacturing a TV, the value of a TV drops and with competition between firms prices & profits tend to drop too. But you can slow down this profit loss due to competition with anti-competitive behaviour: patents, cartels etc.

If you replace your graphic designers with AI, the value of graphic design drops but what you were really trying to “produce” with your fancy branding and packaging was a sense of perceived quality (value). Now that this is lower, consumers adjust their perceptions quickly and you have to demonstrate your product quality by spending money on things AI can’t replicate yet e.g. in-person experiences, or even just video promotion (in the short term at least).

I quite like Ed’s writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.

Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.

I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I’m pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don’t click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.

Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.

Hell yeah dude

Worth checking b12 + iron if it’s a physical tiredness

Apples, not woke. But horned melon? Kumquat? The wokeness must stop

I only eat woke food because I’m a true leftist

I like Yanis, but this logo keeps setting of my :hitler-particle-detector:

…I should rewatch The Wire

I’m somewhat dubious conservatives have the forethought to actually plan a future economy like this though. Based on my local context it seems like a pretty classic case of wanting to eliminate a big line item on the govt budget and a “fuck you I’ll be fine, I can afford private schooling”. With any gains due to a low wage workforce a by-product, but maybe I’m not giving them enough credit.

This one too. Also RIP (fuck Isisrael)

I think I have a different one to you, because I did that exact thing yesterday

#Tradle #636 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://oec.world/en/tradle

It feels like having a history book of questionable accuracy rapped at you by the whitest person on earth.

Vegan horseshoe theory:

• $ = only starch and floor scrapings = vegan
• $$ = whey in everything
• $$$ = butter in everything
• $$$$ = intentional specialty ingredients = vegan

King Oreo and queen Biscoff

Time for my annual binge on classic Boiler Room sets. Sama’ Abdulhadi, BR Palestine goes good

Saying what you want from the relationship is like 50% of a relationship