opinions must carry *some* consequence or it’ll all devolve into primal stuff like racism
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Anonymous Accounts Incentivized by Engagement Create Social Network Risks
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Here’s a fun experiment to try if building a social network: take anon accounts and incentivize them (with cash) purely on engagement. Utopia. /s
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AI Shaping India’s Future: Government’s Vision for Impact
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Shri @AjaySoodIISc, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, shared how AI is shaping humanity’s future, at the Curtain Raiser event of #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026. From simplifying lives to enhancing efficiency and reaching every corner of society, India is turning AI… pic.twitter.com/tCKtFsw8Es
— IndiaAI (@OfficialINDIAai) 21 septembre 2025Shri @AjaySoodIISc
, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, shared how AI is shaping humanity’s future, at the Curtain Raiser event of #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026. From simplifying lives to enhancing efficiency and reaching every corner of society, India is turning AI -
Merit Over Bias: Hard Work Transcends Borders and Prejudice
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i know some people are gonna hate me for this, but: hard work doesn’t care where your parents were standing on the map when you were born. if you’re really as good as you say you are,
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China’s Gig Economy Leapfrogs Traditional Worker Rights Models
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China’s 200 million gig workers are a classic case of leapfrogging. They never had all the rights Western workers take for granted, so China jumped straight to a more efficient Internet-based economy.
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AI Economic Impact: Plow Analogy and Technological Disruption
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That's very funny. Two things to push back on: 1) Plow development absolutely reshaped the human economy and displaced work, but it happened over a long time (moldboard plows came late, etc.) as tech development was slow 2) Whether AI is a normal technology is open to debate
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AGI Economic Implications: Labor Displacement and Human Work Value
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Some new theoretical economics papers looking at the implications of AGI. These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius), if achieved, would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero.
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AI Bubble: Most People Unaware of Current AI Capabilities
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This clip showed me once again how much we live in an AI bubble here. The vast majority of people have no idea what developments are currently taking place and what AI is already capable of today. https://t.co/vHArYubsJk
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 20 septembre 2025This clip showed me once again how much we live in an AI bubble here. The vast majority of people have no idea what developments are currently taking place and what AI is already capable of today.
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End of European dominance in global technological transformation
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Turns out the end of history was just the end of Europe.
