AI Spam

Have you ever read an article of his in full? Literally packed with facts and numbers backing up his arguments

As an aging dev, we kind of do deserve some of this flak lol. Funny thing is, I went into SD because my first STEM degree made me as unemployable as a humanities major (a B.S. in physics is good for not much).

For instance, in 2013, there were a lot of complaints about Amazon avoiding sales taxes and engaging in predatory behavior around book pricing. How did Jeff Bezos answer this charge? “Amazon is not happening to book selling,” he said, “the future is happening to book selling.” I see a lot of similarities between that political language and the AI discourse.

This is the reason I like Matt’s blog, since I think one of the big things about AI isn’t just the technology (though I have tons of complaints there), it’s also about the politics around this tech. We just have a bunch of monopolists running around saying “you’re not ready for the future” as a way to just enforce existing power structures.

The number of people basically advocating for this in the comments is honestly depressing

What rail? We have Amtrak but it’s laughable even compared to the poorest European countries. It’s cars or nothing baby.

I’m interested in jetting out as well. Did you get a job first? Or did you do something similar to Germany’s “Opportunity Visa”?