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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Agreed.

    I’m living in Thailand right now and the AI menus are everywhere which are disliked by many but not “leave business” levels of dislike, it’s just tacky but more importantly it’s functional as design is expensive and people don’t necessarily have the english and design skills available to express their business. In ideal world we’d want all venues to be personally crafted art expressions but until we reach post resource scarcity we need to recognize that function > form, especially for people who don’t have resource security.

    To me this sentiment feels like punching down: “oh you don’t have the privilege of hand crafting your business - fuck you!” which frankly is a disgusting rich people privilege. Free markets will sort it out at commercial scale but leave small businesses out of this shit.




  • Nothing short of the death of capitalism will do

    Ok, let me know how that goes. While you whine online and have no impact on reality we will embrace “AI” and drain billionaire funds for distillation, open weights and building free software.

    You genuinely don’t see the effective differences of thse two strategies? Actually doing something vs having your finger crossed some magical boogeyman called “capitalism” will collapse?



  • What’s the point of this argument though? Sure it’s real for every profession and every tool but what’s the agentic choice we ought to pursue here? Whine against AI or actually lead society with policy? As “ban llm” is not a valid policy that would ever work so the only viable path is regulation and growing of culture where AI is used for good, no?

    Embrace AI, work towards open weight/free software and protect worker rights. Society wins at the bleeding edge not at conservstism.