Ian
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Ian
@hypergameme
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General Motors (@GM ) has installed about 50 collaborative robots at its Factory Zero plant in Michigan, while more than 1,000 workers have been laid off or placed on leave, raising concerns over job losses tied to automation. The robots, called “cobots,” work alongside humans on the assembly line, helping with tasks like attaching car body panels. GM says they are meant to improve efficiency, safety, and working conditions not fully replace workers. The move comes as GM restructures its operations, including earlier layoffs in its IT and engineering teams, and adjusts production due to weaker demand for electric vehicles. Labour union United Auto Workers (UAW) has criticized the decision, saying automation is cutting jobs and reducing opportunities for workers. GM says the changes are part of staying competitive, but there is still no clear timeline for when affected employees may return. #GeneralMotors #GM #Detroit #Robots #Automation #Cobots


Xi has finally brought the real estate market/bubble below the point at which he was made the heir apparent to Hu Jintao, in October 2007. Now another decade might be needed to solve the provincial debt. All in all, I expect it'll go down in history as a decent crash landing.

Naval Ravikant said that if the AI labs are right about where this is going, there will be exactly two jobs left in the world. Anthropic employee, and sex worker for Anthropic employees. He said the people who would know the most, the researchers inside the frontier labs, are quietly telling him there will be nothing left for humans to do. Read between the lines of what they say, and it comes out the same way every time. Your tools stop mattering. Within a year the AI builds its own. You are not even the customer anymore, because the AI is talking to other AIs. Then it starts solving material science. Physics. Health. The things humans spent centuries stuck on. So Naval made a joke about breadlines. Level three now. Trying to get his smart friends hired at Anthropic so they can pull him up to level two. The joke works because everyone in the room felt the floor under it. The scariest predictions in AI never arrive as predictions. They show up as a joke nobody in the room actually laughs at.



He may be old, but he still loves to dig a hole on the beach


It’s official. Nobody really wants to work for a living anymore. I’m convinced covid destroyed the brains and ambition of 80% of our society.

@hypergameme @rob_mcrobberson they’re monsters!







