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New comment by talon8635 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

talon8635 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:24:50 +0000

> Ask better questions

New comment by talon8635 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

talon8635 — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:09:59 +0000

What barns you can live in, perhaps, but not what pastures you can graze in.

New comment by talon8635 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

talon8635 — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:58:18 +0000

> Individual freedom is great but collectively they made people who can't migrate have less and less freedom

Damned if we don’t allow people in and, apparently, damned also if we do allow some in

Your strange argument would actually support this policy: stop letting these people into the USA so that they stay in their own repressive countries and are forced to reform them.

New comment by talon8635 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

talon8635 — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:21:07 +0000

It’s an overly upsetting policy, but comparing me to a slave because of my US citizenship seems… distasteful.

The are other nits to pick with the analogy, but I’ll leave it at that

New comment by talon8635 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

talon8635 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:03:06 +0000

Is even one of these unique to windows

I can’t tell if this is serious or sarcasm.

New comment by talon8635 in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

talon8635 — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:57:59 +0000

If we don’t assume the world revolves around the USA for just one minute, how might the fine people of Poland and Estonia interpret this comment?

One wonders.

It seems everything online, including the HN comments section, has become corroded by information warfare.

New comment by talon8635 in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

talon8635 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:09:44 +0000

Might as well cite a used piece of TP:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-grayzone/

New comment by talon8635 in "Payrolls to Prompts: Firm-Level Evidence on the Substitution of Labor for AI"

talon8635 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:32:22 +0000

Generative AI has the potential to transform how firms produce output. Yet, credible evidence on how AI is actually substituting for human labor remains limited. In this paper, we study firm-level substitution between contracted online labor and generative AI using payments data from a large U.S. expense management platform. We track quarterly spending from Q3 2021 to Q3 2025 on online labor marketplaces (such as Upwork and Fiverr) and leading AI model providers. To identify causal effects, we exploit the October 2022 release of ChatGPT as a common adoption shock and estimate a difference-in-differences model. We provide a novel measure of exposure based on the share of spending at online labor marketplaces prior to the shock. Firms with greater exposure to online labor adopt AI earlier and more intensively following the shock, while simultaneously reducing spending on contracted labor. By Q3 2025, firms in the highest exposure quartile increase their share of spending on AI model providers by 0.8 percentage points relative to the lowest exposure quartile, alongside significant declines in labor marketplace spending. Combining these responses yields a direct estimate of substitution: among the most exposed firms, a $1 decline in online labor spending is associated with approximately $0.03 of additional AI spending, implying order-of-magnitude cost savings from replacing outsourced tasks with AI services. These effects are heterogeneous across firms and emerge gradually over time. Taken together, our results provide the first direct, micro-level evidence that generative AI is being used as a partial substitute for human labor in production.

Payrolls to Prompts: Firm-Level Evidence on the Substitution of Labor for AI

talon8635 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00139

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101694

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse

talon8635 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:22:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/07/24/ai-and-higher-ed-impending-collapse-opinion

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New comment by talon8635 in "Payrolls to Prompts: Firm-Level Evidence on the Substitution of Labor for AI"

Payrolls to Prompts: Firm-Level Evidence on the Substitution of Labor for AI

AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse

Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?