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·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
I agree that corporate taxes are not working at this time for one specific country. But the claim of "corporate taxes don't work" is much more broad and not something I've seen specific evidence for. My understanding was that historically corporate taxes have been extremely effective, even if those taxes aren't paid the profits of a company are instead redirected as other investments.
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·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
> Corporate taxes don't work

What does this mean?
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·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Have you never met a pro ICE person from USA?
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·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Well I would implore you to read your own source. And maybe start hanging around groups that read more
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·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Source for this statistically?
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·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
> non-wealthy

> landlord

If you think these two things are compatible you need to talk to more people outside of your bubble.
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·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
And what happened to the J6 crew?
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·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
"the industry" is not some monolith, and treating it as such is no productive. There are all types of software and many ways in which it is created. If the companies that are "AI enabled" are so much better we should see some big changes soon. But I'm still waiting for products I use from "AI enabled" companies to start churning out features at unprecedented speed.
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·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
> You Cannot Quite Opt Out

I am so over this. I cannot take anyone seriously that claims inevitability of their ideas, and how you must adopt them without "being left behind". If these tools are so good and so capable the result should be able to speak for themselves rather than this FOMO inducing, emotional language.
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·vor 26 Tagen·discuss
> I legitimately think this will be the biggest sociopolitical issue over the next few years. The frustration of seeing your hard work getting one-shotted.

Man, what a narrow world view.
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·letzten Monat·discuss
Now imagine the USA did that to the city you live in...
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·letzten Monat·discuss
I'm not saying this is wrong, that makes a lot of sense. But on the other hand why have I never heard of other, much more dense countries facing this problem? I just never hear of Japan, China, Germany, Taiwan, etc seeing overcrowded trains and raise their hands saying "there can't possibly be a solution!"
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·letzten Monat·discuss
Can you explain how adding frequency to the train network will not work to compensate higher ridership?
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·letzten Monat·discuss
Couldn't they just have background agents "figure it out"
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·letzten Monat·discuss
I reckon we agree more than we disagree, but there is a dichotomy of expansive and contractive technologies. Much of the computer industry has given more agency, choice, and knowledge to people.
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·letzten Monat·discuss
> what processes do you have set up to backstop automated decisionmaking?

The companies releasing these models actively encourage the act of automated decision making by them. The entire value proposition is the automation of decisions and knowledge work. It's rare to find a use case for them that isn't offboarding your thinking and therefore agency
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·letzten Monat·discuss
See: when they banned guns because of the black panthers.
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·letzten Monat·discuss
Correct. They will never not have a social bias. Which leads to the question of, who controls these tools, and what biases are they okay/not okay with specifically training for. Currently they can be seen more as a reflection of broader culture (and even that has problems) but as we're already seeing with Grok they can be tuned at a whim to display any specific ideologies.
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·letzten Monat·discuss
> You might be able to be maximally productive some times of the year, but usually you were waiting on Mother Nature to do her thing.

I don't know what that means. When did we have to stop waiting for crops to grow? The only thing that changed for the production side was requiring less humans as machines could do the work of many laborers.
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·letzten Monat·discuss
Yeah, that's one specialized piece of automation in a long line of automation throughout history. I'm not sure why taking humans off of the assembly line is a larger deal than taking humans out of agriculture, textile production, or printing?