Sounds a lot like how the colonists fought much of the revolutionary war here in America where I am from.

But that aside, how "honorably" would you fight back if your homeland were occupied and turned into an apartheid state and you were treated as a second-class citizen effectively living in an open air prison while armed settlers came in and claimed many of your neighbor's homes, possibly killing them in the process?

The main practical problem for him now career-wise is that he's seen as leftist (a label which already kinda only makes sense in the context of how far the rightward shift in the US has been until relatively recently) so he'll probably be held accountable for this.

If you are sufficiently right-coded like Lex Fridman you can get away with this sort of thing forever.

See also: Media response to Biden gaffes vs Trump, or the outcome for Al Franken vs... virtually any modern Republican Senator.

People are not optimistic about the future, and why should they be?

The previously "looming" climate crisis that we did little to nothing to slow down is here, now, and the real-world negative effects of it are getting worse faster than the predictions that a lot of people used to label as alarmist.

Economic inequality is teetering nearly all of the world's economies on the brink of runaway major crises.

I'm stuck here in this ridiculous society we're running off a cliff, but I don't have to doom anyone else to this fate by having kids.

That and also the fact that (in spite of their usefulness) LLMs still so often do incredibly dumb shit without thinking of the consequences that the idea of having them drive in public is absurd.

Recently was using claude code/opus 5 to diagnose an intermittent wi-fi connection problem and one of the first things it did was to bring the adapter down. The wi-fi adapter was the only way the system was communicating with the outside world so claude effectively disconnected its own brain as step 1 in figuring out what was going wrong. Things did not progress well from there. Easy enough to clean up its mess in this case, but luckily it wasn't driving a heavy killing machine at the time.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

Not sure it benefits the hiring company when they are artificially reducing the pool of applicants to only people who don't already have jobs.

Not that there's shame in not having a job, especially in today's market (shit happens, I'm sure lots of very qualified people are currently looking), but there are solid statistical reasons why social proof of already being employed is seen as a positive.

> depends; California and New York yes, Texas no

lol. lmao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

After all the decades of work we've put into orchestrating our own demise through climate change, here comes AI to steal another human job.

True.

By way of comparison it is much more damaging on your body to get your neck broken by a fake doctor than it is to be a fake doctor who breaks people's necks for a living.

...is the same asteroid currently hitting all forms of knowledge work and even more theoretical pursuits (math research, etc).

Different sets of people are just noticing/reacting to the impact at different speeds, but we are all standing in it.

And for the rest of your career* you'll be running on a treadmill trying to stay ahead of them!

(* probably like two years if you're one of the lucky ones)

A lot of medical care involves inelastic demand because your options are 1) pay this or 2) suffer and/or die.

"The market" does not function correctly with inelastic demand curves.

Yet another reason to socialize healthcare.

Any individual running a local LLM that hacked a company would absolutely be held responsible for the LLM's actions, and corporations are, as Mitt Romney likes to say, people.

When you are worth as much money as Larry Ellison is, it is nearly impossible to not believe that you've become a Master of the Universe for whom the usual rules do not apply because of your ability to bend reality to your whims.

Unfortunately that amount of money also tends to be close to self-perpetuating so they rarely feel the full brunt of comeuppance that otherwise should come from such hubris when they are wrong.

The internet and railroads were highly beneficial, still crashed the economy.