I am going to say this for all the people thinking like this. This attitude will get you nowhere in life. It historically never has and in the future it never will.

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pibaker 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> When Nick is not at a computer, you can find him out racing sailboats and involved with various entrepreneurial ventures.

Says the man who is going to be the feudal lord in GP's scenario…

	▲	caconym_ 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The man who thinks he's going to be the feudal lord in GGP's scenario. In GGP's scenario, there isn't much room at the top. :)
	▲	guzfip 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nah thats petty nobility that will get wiped out for taking the wrong side in the first dick measuring war lmao.

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lukev 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's right -- the best way to succeed within a system is to hustle as hard as you can, and definitely don't stop to question the system itself.

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bluescrn 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Better than those who just want to burn the system down with no real plan for what comes next, and unable to comprehend the inevitable bloodshed of the 'glorious revolution' that they crave.

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pibaker 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You think you are describing the Bolsheviks, but your description is equally fitting for those who want to abolish human labor without providing people alternative ways to make a living.

And no, hand waving about "UBI" doesn't count unless they start actually doing the politics required to implement UBI.

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anigbrowl 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's a lot of bloodshed going on under the status quo. Why do you think people are 'unable to comprehend' it? Maybe they just want to reallocate it and aren't especially sympathetic to those who who have avoided it up to now.

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deaux 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you comprehend the scale of the inevitable bloodshed that maintaining the status quo is bound to lead to? You don't do so any better than those you're chastising.

	▲	guzfip 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Most of them fried their brains with stimulants long ago. Thankfully for them, they no longer have to think. An LLM does it for them. But it’s just the same idiots were rabidly cheering the latest JavaScript framework a decade ago, NFT’s and all manors or ridiculous things anyone with 2 working brain cells saw transparently though.

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keiferski 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think this is actually good advice. It's great to be a free-thinker and question things, but I do think there is some (monetary) value in just not asking too many questions, but optimizing to be the best at whatever you're doing.

Edit: to give an example, I probably would have done better in school had I spent less time questioning the education system and more time just accepting it and trying to get good grades.

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tartoran 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, succeed in the system, fuck everybody else. If the system is making the world a worse place, all the better, you can take advantage since you’re in the system. All that until you find yourself spat out by the system and get to experience what you’ve been part of with no recourse.

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keiferski 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Your interpretation of the comment in this way says more about you than anything else. Because that's not what I or the parent comment said.

	▲	defrim 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		and your conclusion on this situation says a lot about your current state of economic privilege and/or ignorance

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guzfip 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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pearlsontheroad 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The trick is to compartmentalize

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rTX5CMRXIfFG 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Historical data is never a guarantee of future performance. The downside of your attitude is that you can’t really point at the right thing to do, so then you invest your time and effort on the same things, when it could be the case that the rules of the game have changed.

I don’t see the comment as necessarily defeatist. If anything, it’s an invitation to rethink what might work instead, and whether there are things worth lobbying for/against beyond what can be solved at the individual level.

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Faaak 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can use AI because you know its good for you, but still think it won't make all people better off

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thrance 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I am going to say this for all the people thinking like this. This attitude will get you nowhere in life. It historically never has and in the future it never will.

I'm picturing a 12th century French feudal lord saying these words to some of his serfs complaining from a lack of firewood.

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pjerem 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am going to say this for all the people thinking like this : lol

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danesparza 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hmmm ... there is definitely historical precedence for the article's assertions.

There is also precedence for what happens when such a big wealth imbalance is present (spoiler: it's a revolution).

This article is methodical in its points.

Your retort reads like an easily dismissed hot take.

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disgruntledphd2 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The articles argument is fine, but it takes as an axiom that AI is better right now at much cognitive work. I haven't found that to be true in the tasks I've looked at.

It's certainly cheaper and faster, so there's potential for it to unlock more demand but I'm sceptical that current models will replace a large fraction of knowledge work.

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hluska 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Humans are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than economic systems. The negative net is easy and very popular today but positivity is just as possible. It’s all about how you read data and there’s a lot of room for interpretation. If you’ve fallen for the doom that’s on you but calling something with so much historical precedence as hope for humanity ‘an easily dismissed hot take’ doesn’t make you look very bright.

	▲	pixl97 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>And your retort (and this report) are doom and gloom. Dinosaurs are remarkably good at adapting and have adapted through far worse conditions than _______, hell, they were around 99 million years longer than humans. Species go extinct all the time, most species go though all kinds of things before then, so there is nearly zero correlation between surviving something bad in the past and surviving something else bad in the future. Modern humanity is not anti-fragile any longer like we were in the past.