honestly it’s pretty interesting to see the narratives around automation of programming play out in an industry with such little class-consciousness. But it does feel like it’s really highlighting contradictions and tensions between management and engineers in a way that’s forcing some reckoning. Combined with current economy + trumpism, might be creating some amount of attitude change

Isn’t it good for the US if oil price rises, being a net exporter of oil? (I’m a dumbass so probably wrong)

Death to america

Yeah the AI2027 thing kicked off a lot. Plus some of the newer models like veo3 being good enough to be destroy trust in video

yeah, it fucking sucks

Yea

Woke mind virus claimed the most loyal slop soldier

Yes amazing! Thank you

Anyone got a link to that super hard TikTok edit of the PLA from back in the day, with dudes shooting off horseback, testing nukes etc

I’ve been enjoying recipes from Hermann. He’s got a youtube series making traditionally vegan recipes.

Also: masoor/red lentil dal

Reading OpenAI Economic Blueprint because I hate myself.

AI good, China bad, please give money. Truly powerful stuff

Loomio could be worth checking. They are a co-op that make software that other co-ops use, a lot of links to other tech co-ops from their page.

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