Not necessarily. That's the old "I made Twitter in a weekend" joke.
That's not because you can technically replicate a product that your company will be successful. What makes a company successful are sales forces, internal processes and luck. Both are extremely difficult to replicate because sales forces are based on a human network you have to build, internal processes are either organic or kept secret, and luck can only be provoked by staying alive long enough, which means you need money.
The desktop PC was the same - everyone said that it was going to wipe out jobs, when the main thing it wiped out was filing cabinets.
AI commentators seem to overlook that one of the primary functions of capitalism is to keep people in busywork: what David Graber called Bullshit Jobs. So AI is going to automate most of the bullshit away but the bullshit employees will keep working, because there wasn’t much need for them in the first place.
Yeah the fact that Rolex and Hermes fanboys/girls get so suckered into it and applaud them for it is pretty bizarre. Even believing Rolex has a limited capacity for making ten grand watches out of €5 of metal parts.
I sometimes wonder whether listening to Public Enemy rap “Don’t believe the hype” at a young age wired me for life.
Immigration is a small part of the issue for sure, but in the UK it was Thatcherism and the legacy of it which did in the high trust. Plus it was a country of half full of pirates and thieves anyway.
I feel like you believe this comment to be incredibly revealing and profound but to an outsider it’s almost indistinguishable from meaningless noise, and so you’re serving to highlight the very problem of defining what you believe you have defined.
I’m arguing about what might sensibly be communicated in a short forum post without descending into nonsense, not what one might find acceptable to believe or think.
My response is that you read like you smoke a lot of marijuana and aren’t making great sense to other people. I know what you’re talking about - the various topics you are talking about - but you’re not creating any kind of argument and one sentence barely flows into the other.
Huge numbers based on the forum posts on my investment app. Literally Christmas for companies offering long leverage and CFD products. A few “survivorship bias” type people managed to put in a short at the $120 top of silver and accidentally made a killing and this weekend will be believing they are prophetic genii.
With AI they can dispense with thinking too. And with an Optimus robot they won’t even have to go to the store or leave the lay-z-boy, raw unprocessed beef fat can just be shovelled into their unthinking and illiterate mouths every waking hour by the droid.
Hah, there's a dystopian short story to be written there, where a regime says "These people who never got born would've voted for us, so we're counting their votes. We thank the voting population for the landslide victory and continued trust in us to govern them!"..
Maybe we can ask the Supreme Court and the MAGA party what the plot of the story should be..
Yeah the present has turned into a mashup of Wall-E, Idiocracy, Inifnite Jest, Back to the Future 2 with some ideas from Neal Stephenson borrowed by the tech bros who think they’re cultured.
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