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Capitalism was never sustainable at any point, and so never really successful (well, depending on one's measure of "success"). The reality of that unsustainability is just being increasingly accelerated.

Forget UBI and implement UBS instead. Income is an unnecessary artifact in accessing services.

It's not about the existence of work. It's about decoupling work from access to necessary resources.

> If you haven't socialized the means of production when you could strike and make it stop, there's no way you're going to do so when it doesn't need you anymore.

Way I see it, there isn't really a choice here. Once humanity gets to the point where they are literally no longer needed to produce value due to automation, the means of production will be - logically - accessible to all who survive. Those who don't have access will die. And the fewer the survivors, the less relevant the purpose of said means. The means will always "need" people to validate its continued existence.


I don't think there's anyone out there working on solving world hunger because they have loans and bills to pay. It isn't a monetarily profitable endeavor.

And eventually all this will be primarily automated, with a few humans contributing because they love to develop things in science, engineering, etc.

This really hits, solidifies and expands on thoughts I've been having for a while now. So many refuse to see or acknowledge it, but we're quickly approaching a point of reckoning which will require a major overhaul of the current dominant economic system.

The labour for wage model is rapidly becoming obsolete for the many, and a way forward that doesn't necessitate people working in order to gain access to the necessities of - modern - living needs to be paved. Otherwise it'll be grim for the vast majority when global automation of value creation gets upwards of say 85%. It's already pretty grim for an appreciable, though still relatively limited, number.


I'm on v1.28.1. Didn't even notice it hasn't been updated for a while as it works fine for me as is. And unless Android gets more things that cause breakage I don't see a need for updating.

The right questions aren't always known up front. Some of the reasoning for using AI in the first place is to refine a fuzzy idea, so a tool like this can help one to go from fuzzy to concrete, with good guardrails in place to ensure the concrete is truly solid. The in this case, the point is that the components of good user interfaces are already available, and then composed based on user prompts to their exact specifications and frozen for normal usage. Unfreeze and prompt again later to tweak further, etc.

It's not about a LLM being prone to anything, but more about the way a LLM is fine-tuned (which can be subject to the requirements of those wielding political power).

that's what i meant even though i could have been more precise

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