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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:14:22 +0000

This is good stuff. At the end of the day, we all have finite time. How we choose to spend that time is a personal matter.

Some say we're losing our humanity: that can be seen as good or bad, depending on whether or not you think you are more useful than someone else.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:21:21 +0000

You are right. I'm not saying I like the way things are trending. But I also think setting up our children means making sure they're prepared for the future. I don't think AI will ever replace the importance of education.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:32:54 +0000

If you consider things like Mythos (I know it was partly hype), and cyber security using AI to find old vulnerabilities in open source tools, and others using that information to actively disrupt the economy (this is already happening)....

And governments pushing quantum computing, presumably to be first to crack Internet security: it's easier to imagine some of those future threats.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:00:37 +0000

This is a topic about predicting and preparing for the future.

If you want to be snarky: this is hackernews, not reddit. Bring some logic into the discussion and stop fishing for points.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:47:37 +0000

I agree with most of your points except the last one.

Probably easier to ask a question than argue a point: How eager are you to use Government services?

Businesses are only well-run if they make profit: hiring the cheapest labor to produce something people will actually spend money on. And the more frictionless that process, the more our economy advances it. AI fits in there very well.

I also want to point out: startups are usually happy to be bought up by the bigger guys.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:41:10 +0000

I doubt it. There is so little care for monopoly or copyright because AI is a race, as much as it is a tool. And nobody wants to restrict the race. Policy may pass that limits the use of AI for the general public, but the 'whatever it takes' race to 'superintelligence' goes on.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:34:23 +0000

I think it's more of a prestige discussion. Who leads, who follows, between countries. Not whose super intelligence is better. Who got their first, and how are they using it?

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:31:01 +0000

As always, influence for the future

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:10:31 +0000

That is always going to be a personal race. You can get in the currents of education, but your success will always depend on your own paddling.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:02:57 +0000

The irony of the dotcom crash is that a lot of 'dark fiber' service started rolling out decades later. Fiber that was laid during the dotcom era.

There are lots of datacenters going up in similar fashion. I don't know if they'd have the same utility decades later (very unlikely), but it's interesting.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:56:17 +0000

And it's a pretty big game

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:51:25 +0000

We're you around for the space race?

It's a world prestige thing, and also a competitive edge, for better or worse.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:42:05 +0000

Do you think AI will go away and suddenly businesses will start hiring people back?

Or that a competitive startup won't lean on AI to get ahead?

Doesn't matter how much stock prices move up and down...AI is here to stay and no amount of booing changes our desires to compete.

The world doesn't hold hands with anyone, there is no global consensus, no policy.

I recall all the bemoaning when IT jobs started going overseas... businesses always go with the cheapest labor.

The world is dog eat dog, and those that prepare for the future are better equipped to deal.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:39:54 +0000

A lot of businesses depend on the Internet.

AI will be the same in the future. Not sure what to say about the ups and downs of stock price, or hype cycles.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:54:33 +0000

The problem with public policy is that it allows other countries to get ahead of you. 'AI' isn't just a tool, it's also a race.

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itsalwaysgood — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:45:36 +0000

The economy

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itsalwaysgood — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:52:09 +0000

It is more Value.

Who decides value? I'm sure you can figure that out.

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itsalwaysgood — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:50:53 +0000

So what? So you must now produce more. Expectations have changed. If you are paid the same money, and work has become easier: balance is lost.

Someone will compete and take your place. Now you're expected to produce more, or step aside for someone who will.

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itsalwaysgood — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:30:45 +0000

Evil wins when the Good do nothing.

How hard should we 'try', how much time should a person spend working, learning, versus living?

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itsalwaysgood — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:22:15 +0000

That's the danger behind economy and society: we all must be useful in some way. We all have to find 'value' in some way. We take on 'roles' so we can contribute.

Roles are necessary because we simply don't have time to be experts in everything.

AI changes the way we contribute.