I was just told today that ai usage is a factor in hiring and promotion. They didn’t say the AI usage had to be smart.
My boss, to his credit, reportedly said something like “well, if someone is already good at python they might not need as much AI to do a task than someone who isn’t”. I don’t think management cared.
People are stupid emotional creatures. They don’t calmly evaluate if the thing is useful or practical. They see the in-group doing it and don’t want to be left out.
This was probably an advantage in pre-history. Our brains haven’t kept up with our changing environment.
I see this sometimes from a distance, even with children. The boys are wild and loose, the girls on a tight leash.
Unfortunately, trying to address that with the sledgehammer of The State is not easy to do safely.
I have a somewhat vivid memory of sprinting through NY Penn Station around midnight to get the last train home, back before I lived in the city. Was a deciding factor in me moving. Had to leave my friend’s Halloween party at like 10 to get the last train.
But public transport won’t make a handful of people rich, so that’s a non starter for many.
And you might have to reckon with living in a society, with other kinds of people. You’d really ask someone to ride a bus with a {slur of your choice} just sitting there, like they’re entitled to peace and dignity?
In other words, conservatives are fuck heads who make the world worse for stupid reasons.
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A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of
The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype
After the American Civil War, in several areas of the South, formerly enslaved individuals grew watermelon on their own land as a cash crop to sell. Thus, for African Americans, watermelons were a symbol of liberation and self-reliance. However, for many in the majority white culture, watermelons embodied and threatened a loss of dominance. Southern White resentment against African Americans led to a politically potent cultural caricature, using the watermelon to disparage African Americans as childish and unclean, among other negative attributes
Fragile white people getting mad at their fellow poors instead of the rich assholes keeping them all in the dirt.
Some people are just… not okay. Something in them in broken. Perhaps it could be fixed, but we live in the bad place.
I don’t think it’s going to stop until like armed people show up at the scraper’s homes. But I doubt the state would send the police for something like this, because there’s not enough money at stake.
However, counterprotesters became outraged at the way Minneapolis police seemed to escort Lang’s caravan out of the area. Videos and photos show MPD officers forming a barricade around Lang’s group, pushing away counterprotesters attempting to get Lang out of the car. Protesters at the scene claimed the MPD prioritized Lang’s safety over theirs.
The police are class traitors, fools, and monsters. Fuck em.
Any forward progress is going to have to deal with the police goons that are happy to do violence for the rich.
Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.
I feel like it’s been that way for as long as the US has been a country. Maybe longer. There’s almost always different rules for rich people. People pay lip service to ideals like freedom and fairness, but then there’s the reality.
Climate criminal. Sentence him to a decade of litter removal, and bar him from holding office or working in any advisory or leadership roles.
If it’s like before, eventually it’ll be just a vague “things were bad” like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren’t great at learning big picture things.
Well that’s consistent, if you accept their belief as true. Who cares about the mortal body when it’s a blink of an eye before eternal heaven?
Unfortunately, they are almost certainly mistaken. This is probably all they get.
Most people just aren’t that bright. And many people are struggling to get food and shelter.
Many people do have time and money and decided they didn’t care, though. Gotta go play video games, I guess.
Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.
Competitive markets are hated by private business owners
This is jamming up my heuristics. I don’t trust anything coming out of Florida , and certainly not when a trump ally is involved. But also fuck Altman.
That’s a difference between left and right. Conservatives value in-group loyalty more than truth or consistency. They fall in line. Feels good in their brain.
This is an effective strategy, at least unless whatever objective reality they’re rejecting catches up with them.
Resignation is not enough. Imprisonment for social murder.