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sceptic123 commented on Nobody knows how the whole system works   surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/azhenley
mamp · 9 hours ago
Strange article. The problem isn’t that everyone doesn’t know how everything works, it’s that AI coding could mean there is no one who knows how a system works.
sceptic123 · 3 hours ago
I read it more as:

We already don't know how everything works, AI is steering us towards a destination where there is more of the everything.

I would also add it's also possible it will reduce the number people that are _capable_ of understanding the parts it is responsible for.

sceptic123 commented on Nobody knows how the whole system works   surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/azhenley
xorcist · 4 hours ago
> Most people have no idea how to hunt, make a fire, or grow food

That's a bizarre claim, confidently stated.

Of course I can make a fire, cook and my own food. You can, too. When it comes to hunting, skinning and the cutting of animals, that takes a bit more practice but anyone can manage something even if the result isn't pretty.

If stores ran out of food we would have devastating problems but because of specialization, just because we live in cities now you simply can't go out hunting even if you wanted to. Plus there is probably much more pressing problems to take care of, such as the lack of water and fuel.

If most people actually couldn't cook their own food, should they need, that would be a huge problem. Which makes the comparison with IT apt.

sceptic123 · 3 hours ago
I don't think they're saying _you_ can't do those things, just that most people can't which I have to agree with.

They're not saying people can't learn those things either, but that's the practice you're talking about here. The real question is, can you learn to do it before you starve or freeze to death? Or perhaps poison yourself because you ate something you shouldn't or cooked it badly.

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sceptic123 commented on The world is more equal than you think   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis
sceptic123 · 5 days ago
Given that this is about "global consumption spending" my take is that the richest people are finding new ways to hide their expenditure.

Doesn't help when the source data is not available to better understand what the claims made here are actually based on.

sceptic123 · 5 days ago
> … the main household survey used to estimate consumption in the UK has a low sample size, and there appears to be a growing problem of undercoverage of expenditure … the fact that undercoverage has grown over time means that it is not clear whether the relatively modest recorded changes in consumption inequality since 1991 are genuine, or just due to an increased inability to pick up the expenditure of high-spending households.

From: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/3/Supplement_1/i103/74...

sceptic123 commented on The world is more equal than you think   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis
simianwords · 5 days ago
its literally in the article and i quoted the part
sceptic123 · 5 days ago
You cherry picked a line and didn't include the rest:

> But the gains for middle‑ and lower‑income households were less than the gains for upper‑income households

And you're making claims that are only talking about income (where the evidence suggests that inequality is increasing) to suggest that people are better off.

Where is the evidence that "all income levels are doing better"?

sceptic123 commented on The world is more equal than you think   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis
lonespear · 5 days ago
The ratio of spending is a poor metric to measure equality. All it really shows is that the “poor” are getting milked for everything they earn and own. Energy costs, fuel, water, basics like bread and butter, insurance, even doing something nice - all at sky-high prices driven by nothing else but greed. Oh, and farewell to the middle class…
sceptic123 · 5 days ago
Seems like you need these kind of overly simplistic takes to get people to engage with this topic

No-one's interested in a detailed report: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wid.world

sceptic123 commented on The world is more equal than you think   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis
sceptic123 · 5 days ago
Given that this is about "global consumption spending" my take is that the richest people are finding new ways to hide their expenditure.

Doesn't help when the source data is not available to better understand what the claims made here are actually based on.

sceptic123 commented on The world is more equal than you think   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis
simianwords · 5 days ago
all this is misleading. the reality is that all the income levels are doing better.
sceptic123 · 5 days ago
can you provide evidence?
sceptic123 commented on From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease   onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/jbotz
fakedang · 6 days ago
And enjoy protein deficiency?

Vegetarian India literally suffers from one of the highest rates of protein deficiency and stunted growth worldwide.

sceptic123 · 6 days ago
Are you ignoring the "mostly" in mostly plants?
sceptic123 commented on How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)   blog.xoria.org/terminal-c... · Posted by u/kruuuder
mrob · 11 days ago
Which is a good reason to stick with the de-facto standard of red for bad and green for good.
sceptic123 · 11 days ago
unless you're colour blind

u/sceptic123

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