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[–] nfultz@awful.systems 12 points 5 days ago (9 children)

https://www.profgalloway.com/ice-age/ Good post until I hit the below:

Instead of militarizing immigration enforcement, we should be investing against the real challenge: AI. The World Economic Forum says 9 million jobs globally may be displaced in the next five years. Anthropic’s CEO warns AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Imagine the population of Greece storming the shores of America and taking jobs (even jobs Americans actually want), as they’re willing to work 24/7 for free. You’ve already met them. Their names are GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Having a hard time imagining 300 but AI myself, Scott. Could we like, not shoehorn AI into every other discussion?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Iirc Galloway was a pro cryptocurrency guy. So this tracks

E: imagine if the 3d printer people had the hype machine behind them like this. 'China better watch out, soon all manufacturing of products will be done by people at home'. Meanwhile China: [Laughs in 大跃进].

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think that 3D printing never picked up, because it's one of those things that empower the people, i.e. to repair stuff or build their own things, so the number of opportunities to grift seems to be smaller (although I'm probably underestimating it).

Most of the recently hyped technologies had goals that were exact opposites of empowering the masses.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

I think that is it tbh. There was no big centralized profit, so no need to hype it up.

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