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New comment by monknomo in "The Dead Economy Theory"

monknomo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:18:40 +0000

I think this mentions that AI Island also has robots than can produce most goods

New comment by monknomo in "Your ePub Is fine"

monknomo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:07:24 +0000

this seems like a huge gap in the market

New comment by monknomo in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

monknomo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:07:04 +0000

I think funding deranged startups is a type of consumption, and it does get money back into the economy the same way funding a remodel does. Maybe the reasoning to do so is different, and maybe the deranged startups add more capital than a bathroom remodel, but then again, bathroom remodels probably tank less often than startups, and worst case you can always read a magazine in your new bathroom. hard to do that in a dead startup

New comment by monknomo in "They’re made out of weights"

monknomo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:19 +0000

who's choosing this lucky 1%? Who's choosing what this 5 years of "hard and good" work looks like? Is 5 years of work a person really enough? Are you aware that farming is predominantly done by machine, and that's why we're down to so few people working in it?

Sure, the idea of a life of leisure and choice sounds great, sign me up. But I think resources are not distributed evenly, the folks with the most power distribute resources have little inclination to distribute them evenly, and even if we did distribute resources as evenly as possible we would still have scarcity, as with your city and beach examples. We will still need people to deal with toilets, to deal with food and so on.

If we've invented the magical cybersyn dream, and we can have central planning done for us, so everything is efficiently allocated and automated, how can you be so sure your personal allocation will be leisure and not ditch digging or bum wiping? I will bet a jelly donut that what you have described will not come to pass in my (or your) lifetime.

New comment by monknomo in "They’re made out of weights"

monknomo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:21:50 +0000

right, these knowledge work and coding jobs are, by my lights, about the best possible job. From my perspective we've invented a machine that does the fun parts while leaving me the less fun parts (review, various hard-to-claude janitorial tasks, etc).

I might like woodworking as a hobby (for example), but I sure as heck don't want to be a carpenter or to depend on my ability to hand craft enough widgets people like to survive

New comment by monknomo in "The dead economy theory"

monknomo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:52:19 +0000

not to mention some number will switch to blue collar (or try to) and pretty much everything will tumble down.

Have to start making our own steel in the backyard and killing sparrows

New comment by monknomo in "The dead economy theory"

monknomo — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:50:47 +0000

If AI only blows away programming, sure you are probably right. If AI blows away white collar labor, which is at least half of jobs, then yeah something would give way.

New comment by monknomo in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

monknomo — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:23:03 +0000

hardly, onlyfans is going to have loads of competitions from ai waifus

New comment by monknomo in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

monknomo — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:22:10 +0000

Commencements are about the students, and celebrating their hard work and achievements over several years.

A common thread in these commencements with booing is that the speaker is not centering the student. They're centering AI, and talking about AI's potential, which is, at best, orthogonal to the student's potential, and possibly actively detrimental. Small wonder

New comment by monknomo in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

monknomo — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:47:49 +0000

45% of folks sitting on their hands are going to have the free time to talk, and this group of people are skilled at organization. Are you planning on throwing your hands up and passively accepting whatever comes your way?

New comment by monknomo in "United Wizards of the Coast"

monknomo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:45:41 +0000

To me, this comment is a bucket of contradictions.

Why do you hate them, when you recognize that they are general the result of abuse? I'll cop to unions not always being great; the rules can be counterproductive, or sometimes limiting, but they are up to the union members, so at the end of the day there is some kind of reason for them.

And the second paragraph - barring ESOP or employee-owned co-ops a union is pretty much the only game in town other than crossing your fingers and hoping the company owners, or board, or stock market are capable of pulling their head out of their ass. this can be a big lift.

New comment by monknomo in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

monknomo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:25:26 +0000

I don't see how this follows

New comment by monknomo in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

monknomo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:22:53 +0000

not to be offensive, but the idea of an asocial labrador is hilarious

New comment by monknomo in "Less human AI agents, please"

monknomo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:51:24 +0000

I have the unformed idea that providing a structured interface for the human user overtop the chat interface for the ai, so that the human is not chatting back and forth, could be effective? At least for things that have a structure

New comment by monknomo in "Five men control AI. Who should control them?"

monknomo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:59:34 +0000

Are you comparing the ai ceos to helots? I am confused

New comment by monknomo in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

monknomo — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:58 +0000

The optimistic spin is, I think, software developer as a career dies, just like sysadmin. But just like dev-ops, a new to-be-named role (or set of roles) will arise

New comment by monknomo in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

monknomo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:32 +0000

do you need taste if you can massively parallel a/b test your way to something that is tasteful? say like you take your datacenter of geniuses and have a a rubin-loop supervising testing different directions. shouldn't that be close enough?

New comment by monknomo in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

monknomo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:22:00 +0000

I think they also suddenly had to deal with a bunch of people being mean to them, and telling them they were wrong, which drove them a little mad.

Sort of an oppositional defiant thing, filtered through immense wealth and power

New comment by monknomo in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:34:44 +0000

china benefits from America eroding its global power is what the thesis is, I believe.

Iran being a quagmire that erode's America's global power.

How to Make AI Serve the Public

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:55:41 +0000

Article URL: https://oneproject.org/how-to-make-ai-serve-the-public/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577541

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