humblebeekeeper

I think there's a bit of room between where we are today and "all companies have zero capital".

Workers should exercise their power more, imo. We need more folks willing to put tools down, collectively, over stuff like:

* RTO mandates that reduce productivity AND job satisfaction

* High CEO pay outstripping worker pay

* Loss of work autonomy and space (working without an assigned desk)

* Layoffs out of the blue for successful teams

* Weakening benefits

* AI being wedged into whatever task you are working on

I don't care if it's a union, I don't care if it's a guild, I don't care if it's just a group of folks deciding to take action together, whatever. It's time we (especially us in tech) to stop acting like "got mine" and start acting like "get ours".

I think you are part way down the thread. You are assuming there's a company, that there's a CEO. These things are not axiomatic.

If you work somewhere where you have control over the outputs of the your labor, you can both get a paycheck and not be exploited.

This is a symptom of alienation, imo, not a unique problem from AI.

There's a theory that we're becoming increasingly removed from our work -- we have less control over what we get to build, we have less control over how the products we build function.

Because we don't influence what we create as much, work becomes much more about getting a pay check. We no longer work to craft, we work simply to build the things the bosses want.

Now that work is just a paycheck, we're increasingly unsettled, and increasingly in competition with one another. Material conditions are such that the bosses get most of the profits, and we get squeezed more and more. Competition gets more desperate, and we begin to see others as threatening our remaining resources, more than a community.

Now that we're increasingly isolated from one another, we end up isolating ourselves. We find ourselves less creative, less fulfilled, more alone, and looking for any semblance of community.

It's not surprising someone in this state turns to anything, even an AI, that wants to engage with the person.

Japan, however, has other cultural hangups about things like mental health and vulnerability and difference.

I think it's probably a multiple things we need situation -- a robust welfare system and social safety net AND a cultural acceptance of failing and needing that help.

> I also still get to feel smug because the environmental cost of producing a new electric car is WAY greater than the petrol I’m burning.

Citation very much needed.

Electric cars are still cars, and therefore terrible for the environment, but they do emit significantly less pollution over their lives and require a lot less oil to operate.

Do a root cause analysis. I doubt he'd be spending time in solitary for escaping from prison if he was never imprisoned.

27 years in solitary confinement for collecting his tools before probate had cleared is both unconscionable and extremely American.

Solitary confinement is torture. 27 years of torture for this man who, as far as I can tell, engaged in a victimless procedural crime.

Deeply fucked up and unsurprising story if you're familiar with incarceration in the US.

Ok, I guess I won't read content from News Media Alliance outlets. I think they are probably fine with that.

I think about Steam a lot -- piracy goes down tremendously when it's easier and better to just not pirate games.

> a pattern of behavior characterized by a disregard for others' rights and feelings, a lack of remorse, and manipulative or deceitful tendencies.

You are talking about killing a tree in a deceitful manner designed to subvert local norms, regulations, and the concerns of your neighbors. You aren't the only person your actions affect (and you know this, because you opened your post by saying you should lie about killing the tree.)

I think the word fits quite comfortably.

Sociopathic post, tbh.

> First, it just reads that way. It's the default style if you ask ChatGPT to write a couple of paragraphs that explain why lightfastness is important.

It doesn't read that way to me, and I've read lots of ChatGPT text. We've come to opposite conclusions, I'm curious what qualities you are identifying/keying off of?

As someone who is heavily tattooed, I'd LOVE to see this analysis for tattoo inks.

Fun fact: UV light makes tattoo particles smaller, which makes them easier for your lymphatic system to carry them to your lymph nodes. The particles are easy to transport into the lymph nodes, but difficult for your body to remove from your lymph nodes, meaning that for heavily tattooed people like myself, surgeries can be a potentially very colorful endeavor! (Or, if you have primarily black tattoos, it can be a spooky endeavor, I suppose.)

Why do you think it's AI? It reads to me like someone who has a special interest and a data driven mindset.

I've seen plenty of people "rate every X" in youtube videos or blogs before, this one is just more data oriented than most.