AI will give us more productivity and time to feed our children with. The problem is merely allocation, and AI can help with that, too
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AI Automation of Knowledge Work: Beyond Current Limitations
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And yet, so many still don't get it, or want to willfully believe AI is a con. Even if it stopped progressing today, it would be able to automate vast swathes of knowledge work. That's that's before we even get to AI progression and how it has the potential to change the https://
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Building in Public: Finding Community Through Persistent Failure
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Failing daily.
Team barely showing up.
Iterated 100+ times before building.
Borderline depressed, stuck, often overthink. Started sharing it on X .
Showed up when no one clapped.
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Found my people.
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Constructive criticism versus destructive noise in tech discourse
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Both are "direct" – but one tears down, the other builds up.
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Why the 21st Century Failed to Deliver on Its Promises
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My take: a big reason why there is no yearning for the 22nd century is because all the promises of what the 21st century was going to be like fell way short. The only *visible* difference between our lives now and the lives we lead at the end of the 20th century is the
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Think-Tank Bias and Intellectual Independence in Policy
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@TimSweeneyEpic Tim, Lazar works for a "privately funded" think-tank that "informs public policy debates". He was recruited because of alignment of his opinions and can't change his mind without losing that affiliation: it's like chatting to a bot. Real humans change their minds.
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Meaning as Evolutionary Adaptation in Super-Organisms
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Our experience of meaning is bound to our participation in a super-organism, the need for meaning is an evolutionary adaptation, analogous to multicellularity. Loss of meaning relates to a perceived absence or dissolution of the super-organism.
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Individual Factors Over Political Narratives in Career Decisions
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I resent the normative generalization of both Walsh and Johnson; the individual life situation, economic environment and skills/interests of both partners will have much more influence on career/stay-at-home decisions than the overgeneralizing claims of political narratives
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Automation threatens elderly care jobs to machines
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It is a sad future in which the elderly are no longer licked by human tongues, and the jobs of elderlickers are given to machines
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ChatGPT Becomes Daily Habit With 20 Minutes Average Usage
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ChatGPT n’est plus juste un outil ponctuel. C’est en train de devenir une habitude quotidienne pour beaucoup de personnes, presque un assistant personnel permanent. 20 minutes par jour en moyenne sur chatgpt par utilisateur. C'est beaucoup, sachant le nombre d'utilisateurs de