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TW😶NKS
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. White text on black
AI Design Logic
Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.
Guy: Get me a cheese pizza
Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.
Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.
Guy: Wow, look what I made!
Rich people think this way for everything
That’s one of the core injustices of capitalism.
Rich person says “Build a thing”
Workers design, research, and build the thing.
Rich person keeps the profits.
Reminds me of when I heard someone talk about a recent experience when they “built houses”. I thought that sounded unlikely, as I could not picture this person wearing a toolbelt and hardhat and actually swinging a hammer. I asked for clarification, and they explained how they managed a construction company or something, and that in English, saying “I build houses” covers the management side as well, not just the people actually doing the building.
It’s not that hard to say they’re a manager, they just wanted to feel included
As someone who has actually physically built houses (i.e. nailing walls together, putting up the siding, hanging and mudding sheetrock, installing doors and windows etc.) this mindset pisses me off more than anything. “Management” does stuff like buying already-built houses, trucking them to our site and placing them on foundations, discovering the houses were built in the 1960s with 2x3s instead of 2x4s and thus needed to be torn down to the floors because they’re no longer up to code, necessitating us rebuilding the houses entirely from the floors up, and then discovering the houses were placed two feet too close to the property line so we have to literally chop two feet off of them and rebuild the walls.
True fucking story. And I forgot to mention that the floors were 3/4 rotten so we had to rebuild most of them, too.
How about building houses the right way like in the EU: Out of cellular concrete
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“The Life and Times of Thomas Edison”
…or swallows the loss.
The laid off workers also suffer the loss, typically.
Furthermore, I don’t think “he gambled” compellingly makes this system fair or good.
Or benefits when they got employed. Point is, that you aren’t rising much with just working. You earn your wage whether the owner did right or wrong decision. Unlike them you don’t have to bear the risk of losing your savings
The owner also gets a wage and benefits while the process is running.
And much of the time, they’re spending VC money. Minimal personal risk.
And even so, that doesn’t justify the owner keeping almost all of the proceeds. I don’t care if they put their life savings into it. Labor built it.
Wage paid out of your own money to youself isn’t a benefit.
VC funding.
Also why are you so invested in defending capitalists?
VC funding isn’t free money. Usually you have to have alredy prospering business for anyone to even talk with you. Companies like WeWork or more recently AI companies are extremely rare exception.
Why not?
That’s why they don’t see any problem with replacing workers with AI. They think AI will do X better than humans do just like machines could build X better than humans could at the beginning of the industrial revolution.
But the cost benefit analysis often proves to be quite the opposite in the long-term, despite deceptive short-term gains. But a short-term gains seem to be all that businesses seem to care about.
They like AI because it doesn’t provide feedback about their ideas being less than perfect.
You’re absolutely right!
And here’s the thing
You’re not crazy!
You can just tell AI to provide feedback and not be a kiss ass… Hell most of the good models well"good" models do provide feedback by default. The whole AI is a kiss ass thing is almost entirely a byproduct of free cheap low-end models or outdated ones.
So this particular criticism hasn’t really been valid for a hot second anymore. Honestly, 99% of everything everyone thinks AI is in this entire thread is either flat out wrong at this point as things have already changed. Or they’re conflating the business problems with the actual tool.
Mean hell Claude will straight up. Tell you you’re dumb. You’ll do so professionally and in corpo speak and it’s awful. But it will tell you you’re dumb.
It will also totally throw shade at you while taking the blame for your f****** which is pretty funny.
Mean to be fair, most people who hate AI aren’t going to go spend a bunch of money to actually learn what good models do and how good models actually operate. They’re just going to look at the s*** on their phone that’s free. That sucks and go it all sucks.
Mean to be fair. Those models do suck. The company’s running them suck. Those companies did a bunch of illegal s*** and are ruining the environment and that sucks.
There’s a lot to hate about AI.
But the actual tool in and of itself isn’t actually that bad and it doesn’t need to be bad. The open models trained on data that’s actually freely given in license appropriately while not as good as those big giant multi-trillion dollar ones.
Aren’t ruining the environment, aren’t displacing people out of a job, aren’t full of stolen information, and can still genuinely be useful for small tasks.
A tool is a tool and it’s only as bad or good as we make it.
AI sucks bcz it hallucinates (a fundamental flaw of all LLMs), increase electricity costs, water usage, and their overall environmental footprint. Pick your favorite bcz there’s a lot of reasons to hate AI other than, the “free models aren’t good”.
on a slight tangent: that’s why I tend to prefer Claude (when I have to use AI), because it does actually provide push-back and doesn’t get all kiss-ass with me like ChatGPT
It’s how our finance systems evolved to be, no one got time to wait for long term gains anymore. It’s all about playing the hot potato.
And because of that, unfortnately, a lot of regular people also think the entire point of technology and wealth is to never have to do anything substantive.