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plastic-enjoyer commented on Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power newrepublic.com/post/2076... · Posted by u/mindracer

poulpy123 · 2 days ago

Does someone really believe the billionaire class wants the working class hold the power ?

plastic-enjoyer · 2 days ago

No, but this is irrelevant. Of course, people don't believe that the billionaire class is aligned with the working class, which is why billionaires buy up media outlets to align public opinions with their goals. I think that a comparison with historical fascism is indeed appropriate here. Historical fascism saw itself as a workers' movement, but only insofar as workers were more easily exploited for the goals of an counter-cultural elite than the educated middle classes. Karp and Thiel may well have come to the same conclusion by observing the current US politics. And just as historical fascists recognized the disruptive force of the new mass media at their time, so do Karp and Thiel.

plastic-enjoyer commented on Most of the US economy is in a recession businessinsider.com/reces... · Posted by u/wslh

kccqzy · 6 days ago

Why care about oil when alternate fossil-fuel-free technologies have become mature? This could very well be the last straw to push many nations (except the U.S.) to massively buy Chinese solar panels and Chinese EVs to be oil independent.

plastic-enjoyer · 6 days ago

Because policies are not made by rational decisions but by lobbyists...

plastic-enjoyer commented on The Future of AI lucijagregov.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

jwpapi · 15 days ago

I don’t see any other outcome anymore to be honest, after seeing how humans use AI and how AI works and how providers tune their models.

To me it’s given:

- AI in it’s current state is ruthless in achieving its goal

- Providers tune ruthlessness to get stronger AIs versus the competitor

- Humans can’t evaluate all consequences of the seeds they’ve planted.

Collateral and reckless damage is guaranteed at this point.

Combined with now giving some AIs the ability to kill humans, this is gonna be interesting..

We could stop it, but we wont

plastic-enjoyer · 15 days ago

> Collateral and reckless damage is guaranteed at this point.

It's industrialization and mechanized warfare all over again

plastic-enjoyer commented on This time is different shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/... · Posted by u/speckx

positron26 · 17 days ago

> most of the people that were the loudest won't say they were wrong

I was so expecting to find this wind-up aimed at those peddling the "AI is hype" laziness.

It's laziness because they have little CS fundamentals to base such claims on, and the deductions can be made, just not clearly to people who need to study a lot more.

It's like watching an invisible train (visible to those with strong CS) rolling down the tracks at a leisurely pace. Those sitting in their stalled car on the tracks are busy tweeting about "AI HPY PE TRAIN." Until it wrecks their car, the gimmick is free oxygen. It's a lot easier to write articles than it is to build GPUs and write programs.

plastic-enjoyer · 17 days ago

> It's laziness because they have little CS fundamentals to base such claims on

So, what CS fundamentals do you need to evaluate if AI is the real thing, or will disappoint in the future? Until a few months ago, coding agents were met with skepticism, until Anthropic introduced their new model and, with it, a hype train that cannot be rationally justified. Look, SOTA LLMs, and coding agents in particular, are impressive. However, current predictions about the future of software development (and the world in general) are speculative. There is little to no data showing whether AI can deliver on its promises. How could there be in this short time frame? No one knows what the future will hold, no one knows how coding agents will be integrated into our work life and everyday life in the long run, or what hard limitations they will reveal. No one can tell you how professions will change in the coming years; every prediction is purely speculative, and anyone making prophecies is either trying to cope with the uncertainty themselves or has some stakes in the AI bet. It would be nice if people were actually humble enough to admit that they have no idea what will happen in the future, instead of writing the hundredth doom and gloom post.

plastic-enjoyer commented on The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026 missing.csail.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/anishathalye

mono442 · 19 days ago

Most people treat higher education as a pass to good paying job and I think it's unrealistic to think otherwise.

plastic-enjoyer · 19 days ago

> Most people treat higher education as a pass to good paying job and I think it's unrealistic to think otherwise.

Yes, and that's a problem. If the advent of coding agents leads to people that are only in it for the money staying away from higher education - good. Those people are the reason why higher education turned to shit anyway and maybe it will be a nice change when people go into higher ed out of curiosity and not because they smell money.

plastic-enjoyer commented on Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf] gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smp... · Posted by u/gurjeet

jonahx · 19 days ago

There are many, many people (math majors, competitive programmers, chess players, etc) who devote incredible effort to becoming better, and simply cannot reach elite levels. And while in most cases elite players are also putting in a lot of effort, there are many cases where it is still relatively less than their peers who are trying harder but still lagging them.

Would you ever be tempted to make such a claim (that everyone is close to the same in ability and effort is the main determiner of success) about athletes? It's so obviously untrue that it's laughable. Why would you think that mental ability is magically distributed evenly?

plastic-enjoyer · 19 days ago

Your post reads like someone is bitter because he is a midwit

plastic-enjoyer commented on Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/armcat

rishabhaiover · 20 days ago

Between a challenging job market, increasing new frontiers of learning (AI, MLops, parallel hardware) and an average mind like mine, a tool that increases throughput is likely to be adopted by masses, whether you like it or not and quality is not a concern for most, passing and getting an A is (most of my professors actively encourage to use LLMs for reports/code generation/presentations)

plastic-enjoyer · 20 days ago

It will be a very interesting experiment when your generation of computer science graduates enters the job market, to put it mildly.

plastic-enjoyer commented on If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/n1b0m

ap99 · 20 days ago

This type of economic philosophy is impossible.

There will always be people who are more motivated and capable of consolidating power. That cannot be stopped.

Capitalism and democracy (both with guardrails) are meant to harness and contain that energy such that it doesn't instantly destroy a society.

Religion goes in there somewhere too.

None of these systems of organization are perfect, and they don't seem ideal on the surface. When you see them in practice there are many flaws.

But they are feasible.

Your 'distributism' system doesn't pass the feasibility test.

plastic-enjoyer · 20 days ago

> This type of economic philosophy is impossible.

Well, with that attitude, it will definitely remain impossible.

plastic-enjoyer commented on If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/n1b0m

HardCodedBias · 20 days ago

What a poor take if

"AI makes human labor obsolete"

Given comparative advantage gives a offramp to this for a lot of what we currently understand as "economics", if the author is positing that we will be beyond this, then your response is missing the forest from the trees.

plastic-enjoyer · 20 days ago

There is no indication that the surplus extracted by automated labour will be distributed to the advantage of the population. If we look at how things are going at the moment and in the present, there will be a further concentration of power and capital. And I don't see any reasons why the billionaire class should give this up. You could, of course, give an argument why things are will be different this time.