bluefirebrand

This is true. I loved my time doing Compsci in university and I feel I was probably more suited to doing that for career, but software jobs were plentiful and I still don't know where I would find a computer science job aside from a university

They're literally describing how it's not actually a block just a minor inconvenience

A block would be a bit harder to circumvent

Claude's taking my job as an internet peanut gallery now too?

I mean.. yeah, I know this is hacker news and there are some very wealthy people here, but I suspect the majority of users here could not possibly retire tomorrow if they wanted to

Or maybe I'm an outlier for being solidly working class, idk

> There is no useful point to "accountable" other than "make it stop happening".

Of course there is. It's to make the responsible parties pay reparations as well.

No, you have to pay a subscription for a car :)

Will this even matter though? As long as these computers are on the same network, AI tools will find a way to get from one to the other if any of them are compromised

People are going to miss it if it means they start missing paycheques and get barred out of the job market. :/

This is always a good example

People cannot deny that cars have made our physical bodies atrophy. Not all of us, maybe, but many people are way worse off physically than they would have been without cars

There's an analogy in there but I can't think of it. Maybe I'll ask Claude if it can explain it

I agree strongly with you but the ship has sailed, it's much too late to stop:/

I'd like to see the companies (and individuals inside them) held accountable for this though.

You don't have to believe in souls and gods to think humans have qualities that cannot be encoded in silicon

> Technology is this one-way ratcheting mechanism which will crush everything dignified within its trajectory. I'm attached to the idea that only the way out of this is up and out. That the solution is to escape into something(?) hyperreal that confounds the assumptions of our unescapable problem

This is a bizarre thought for me to entertain. I understand the idea of "up and out" but I don't think the next rung to escape technology can be built with technology then. That would not be "out", it would be trapped more than ever before

Or just short term gains versus long term pains (or vice versa, depending on how you view it)

I feel like in my life all I ever see is people mortgaging the future for today though. Hey how about that record storm in California?

> In many respects, many of us already have superabundance, in that our basic physical needs are taken care of.

They might be right now, but for most of us they aren't next month. Or next year. Or for the years after retirement

"We convince ourselves it's not enough" completely misses the fact that for most of us it isn't, past the very short term!

I worked at a company for a while trying to make a battery control device that predicts the peak daily demand and discharges the battery to offset it.

It's kind of crazy how much money you can save by shrinking your peak demand during the time of day it's most expensive.