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@BrainDrainApoc
Atheist, Pro-Free Speech, Pro-Democracy, Pro-Union, Anti-Facism Goal: Surviving the apocalypse. Likes: Quiet reading time, good movies, self-defense.
Sumali Ağustos 2022
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@Overlap_Tech This guy doesn’t have one clue about anything going on in the world besides coding.
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Dario Amodei: AI Productivity Gains Are Just the Beginning of Disruption
"We are seeing right now that AI is making people more productive, but that's the usual hump. You automate 90% of the job. People are 10 times more productive in the other 10%. But eventually it gets close to 100%. The sequel to that is, well then you have to find something else for them to do." — #darioamodei
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski Let ‘em leave. And yeah politicians should be fiscally responsible, but, “we are gonna be fiscally responsible from now on as your government”isn’t up for a vote anywhere and the wealth tax is something that’s getting on the ballot. So…
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@BrainDrainApoc @mark_slapinski Soooo…
You’re saying that the Government should tax the wealthy because the Government can’t be fiscally responsible with the number one nation in the world?
What happens when the wealthy pull up roots and move to a country that doesn’t have a wealth tax..?
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Every country needs a wealth tax.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire tax, we could fully cover free community college in America.
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@saylordocs AI is drug and some people are so wasted off it they can't see straight.
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MICHAEL SAYLOR:
“THE ROBOTS ARE GOING TO WORK HARD.
THE CARS WILL DRIVE THEMSELVES.
AND IT’S ALL GOING TO HAPPEN FOR 10 BUCKS.”
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@pcstru I also think they are positioning for possible gov bailout
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So if I get this correctly:
- AI companies are destroying everybody's job
- The same AI companies will generate immense wealth
- At the same time, they will consume all of that wealth and still fall short
Sounds like the description of a supernova
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
ANTHROPIC CEO: WITHOUT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN REVENUE, AI COMPANIES COULD FACE EXISTENTIAL RISK
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@johnennis All I can say is please let us bail these AI jerks out if they do fail. I don't want to hear that China can't win the AI race crap. Literally everything for sale in America was made in China. We already gave them all our industry.
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Does Dario wake up every morning and ask himself, “what can I say today that will most hurt the industry?”
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
ANTHROPIC CEO: WITHOUT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN REVENUE, AI COMPANIES COULD FACE EXISTENTIAL RISK
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski Like I said, I'm in favor of thr wealth tax because it would cut down on inflation.
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And his stocks could crumble tomorrow and he’d have nothing to show for it.
There’s plenty of people in the world that have vast accumulated wealth that shadows Musk.
Why are you going to curtail Musk’s growth while wealthy elites from other parts of the world don’t have to deal with such taxes? 🐤
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@duderanch18237 @FinanceLancelot No kidding. Yeah that's what passes for affordable housing where I live also. I've seen them as bad as $200k for 200 square feet.
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This is absolutely insane 🇨🇦...
The Canadian government is using taxpayer money to buy vacant properties so housing prices don't collapse...
The worst housing bubble in the world is about to get worse.
Financelot@FinanceLancelot
Hedge funds are buying 40–50% of Canadian government debt with short-term loans. 🇨🇦 Bank of Canada warned a sudden fall in lending liquidity could trigger a bond spiral, spiking interest rates & government borrowing costs. This is what a global sovereign debt crisis looks like.
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@DaveShapi Question for anybody who cares to answer: Is not being coding literate in the age of AI analogous to not being able to read at the invention of the printing press?
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All you people scrambling to develop AI skills realize that the shelf life for those skills will be measured in months, right? Best case scenario is a couple years.
Rushing to get into AI right now would be like rushing to get into auto manufacturing in 1983. Or coal before that.
Entry level hiring is already dropping like a stone, which means unless you already have valuable experience, you're not climbing that ladder.
If you want a long term strategy, get out of tech. Healthcare is adding 10x the numbers of the tech sector, and will take much, much longer to automate due to the highly variable nature of healthcare and the fact that it has statutory protection.
In other words, if you remember the late 90s and early 2000s when everyone was screaming "get into tech, we have talent shortage!" that's what healthcare is doing now.
All the people token-maxxing and making money with it are already successful founders, exited founders, or have a ton of experience in the industry.
I'm not saying that "no one is gonna make anymore" I'm just saying that for the median human, going for RN or PA (registered nurse or physicians assistant) is a far more viable path.
Elder care is the largest growing subset of healthcare, btw.
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski Which is why he doesn’t pay any taxes. Which is the formula most of these CEOs use. The side effect is maximum inflation because it isn’t real money. It’s all based on overvalued stock.
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Correct!
He’s actually losing money, if we’re talking physical currency.
Elon, himself, isn’t worth a Trillion dollars.
Elon is essentially penniless.
His worth is completely tied up in his assets.
He spends money faster than he can make it, but STILL ended up a trillionaire through his assets.
Unless Elon sells his assets?
He’s piss-poor broke.
He lives off credit 🐤
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The worst incidents of my life are from having to pay tax on all my money.
Please feel sorry for me, because empathy for rich people not wanting to pay tax isn’t the bad lefty suicidal kind.
Gad Saad@GadSaad
In a sane world, governments exist to improve the lives of people (at a minimum). The worst incidents of my life all stem from the provincial and federal governments repeatedly punishing me financially for being successful in ways that make you feel trapped in a Kafkaesque prison of despair. I realize that many Canadians benefit from the system, and hence will exhibit zero empathy but in a just world, this reality should not be tolerated. It can't be that a government owns 65%+ of all of your worth once all taxes are added up. Send me good vibes. Going through a very difficult time.
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As many people point out, this argument falls short because if most of us are unemployed, who’s buying the shit that people are selling to create wealth?
VraserX e/acc@VraserX
The real AI shock won’t be “robots take jobs.” It’ll be when companies realize one weirdly capable person with agents can replace an entire department. Do we share the productivity explosion, or do we let 12 people own the whole machine?
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski My original point was his businesses didn’t make any money but he did. This app sucks money, it doesn’t make money. Tesla made $19B, before admin costs, but that got eaten by X, Space X, etc. So he nets $0 in a year, but somehow makes $600B? It’s fake money.
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Its earnings under his name.
Whether it be passive, or run by an underling, it’s STILL his money.
His businesses.
His properties.
His money.
You’re using his platform right now.
Even if you don’t have a checkmark, you’re still using the app.
You’re still driving business to the app.
You’re still contributing to the app by being interactive with paying people like us.
A trillion dollars will be a billion dollars in 30 years.
I remember when one million used to be a lot 🐤
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@BrainDrainApoc @mark_slapinski Why?
It’s THEIR money.
What claim do you or I have over it?
I don’t want you reaching into MY pockets to take money you didn’t earn.
Why should Elon?
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There will never be a “post labor” economy. Sorry if that upsets people.
VraserX e/acc@VraserX
The dumbest timeline is AI and humanoid robots making post labor abundance possible, then boomer politicians turning it into a Cold War spreadsheet. We could get freedom. Instead we’ll get export bans, military AI, panic regulation, and old leaders explaining why everyone still needs a job. The future is being negotiated by people who still print emails.
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski Also Gates. They all get paid from hedge funds, meme-stock, etc. Slap that tax on. It’s Monopoly money anyway.
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@BrainDrainApoc @mark_slapinski If it was Bill Gates, you’d be swooning over his financial brilliance.. 🐤
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@wmdhappymeal @MichiganDems The “evidence” shows he recommended a scientist. Not exactly a conspiracy. Not really seeing a “circular loop.” Also: By definition a loop would be also described as circular, so: “circular loop”? Doesn’t make sense.
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@BrainDrainApoc @MichiganDems How can fauci claim he didn’t work with intelligence community when he was referring his buddies to the intelligence community? He created a circular loop which would support his claims of denial. He lied and got caught. Evidence is right in front of you lol
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Michigan Democrats have proposed a ban on “price optimization" for auto and home insurance companies. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to use your data to charge you a higher rate. michiganadvance.com/briefs/bill-to…
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@mark_slapinski Yeah slap that tax on and let's get rid of some of this inflation. We actually need to just put all that money in pile and burn it to be real.
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@TheBandBirdX @mark_slapinski Musk's worth went from $400B in 2025 to $1T in 2026. in between the net gross of all his companies combined was about $0. That's not strength weakness or anything else, it's a magic stock market trick. Anything is possible with the magic money printer.
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@mark_slapinski Every country needs citizens to work to accumulate taxes.
There’s nothing stopping you from having Musk’s wealth except your own limitations.
Only the weak depend on the strong to survive and the strong don’t need the weak 🐤
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