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Rumple22Stilk··on The last time my family was replaced by technology
It's funny though, llms are quite terrible at most things really.

They can build things, but it's all terrible really. Their "ideas" are terrible.

Rumple22Stilk··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
It's very funny you try to make that argument when your requirement was literally just MIGRANTS, because MIGRANTS = PENSIONS. Which is hilariously a subset of my own requirement, more specific. Absolutely absurd.

No. What I said is just a fact. There's no assumption, the requirement is a fact. You need money to pay for goods and services for the people no longer working.

There's no assumption there? What's the assumption, that goods and services need to be paid for?

So stop bringing up migrants for no reason at all. The actual issue is money, and there are many ways to obtain money.

The nonsense about troops is of course ridiculous. Just a fantastical statement divorced from reality. Who is this enemy Europe is facing that will require a ww1 style meat grinder of 10s of millions of troops, which of course took place when the european population was half the size.

Rumple22Stilk··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
Yes, they are an absurd set of assumptions.

I told you what the requirement was. Money. You have simply arbitrarily decided instead it's just people for no reason at all. As though magically people will spawn resources from their finger tips. According to you the richest countries in the world must be the most populous.

Obviously this is idiotic to even a cursory examination.

The next assumption you've made is that birth rate is completely random, a roll of the dice, an unchangeable fact of the universe. The reality is of course it's a result of policy and economics. This can be solved extremely easily.

Rumple22Stilk··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
This is because of globalisation. It's cheaper to use their labour. The alternative is the EU using its military might to oppress other nations.
Rumple22Stilk··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
This is an absurd set of assumptions that have forced you into a nonsensical position.

No, you don't need to accept migrants. You need money. You can get money in many many ways.

The best way for this to happen for the general prosperity of citizens is for the state to enrich themselves from the work of others, non citizens, and give that money to citizens. This is what Norway has done through its sovereign wealth fund.

Rumple22Stilk··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
This is not remotely racist. It's simply a fact, and the result of a lack of nationalist ideology.

Turns out if it's more economically efficient to simply import skilled workers, or outsource, then that's what will happen. Breeding and educating your own citizens in a first world country is very expensive. So you don't do it.

The only reason not to do this is national preference. Economically it makes sense, on a national level it makes sense, individually it's genocide.

Rumple22Stilk··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
Google can also answer it better than most if explicitly asked.

An explicit query returns a specific answer, but means nothing about whether it can use that knowledge to create better software.

Rumple22Stilk··on Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
Yes? Why would you deserve free money?
Rumple22Stilk··on It's getting harder to focus every day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output_(economics)
Rumple22Stilk··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
It's not an interesting point at it. It's obviously idiotic.

You do have a choice, you can change things. Getting angry, especially in large numbers, is a prerequisite to change. Because getting angry is the prerequisite for violence.

His statement is "ignore getting fucked in the ass and take it". How exactly is that interesting?

Rumple22Stilk··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
There is no tech created like this. This is a literal thinking machine. And it replaces other thinking machines. You.
Rumple22Stilk··on It's getting harder to focus every day
There is only one way to measure a persons value. their economic output.

If you want to measure something else then measure something else.

Rumple22Stilk··on It's getting harder to focus every day
>less intelligent people aren't worth less than more intelligent people

Yes, they obviously are? Just an absurd thing to state.

Rumple22Stilk··on Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
Innovation is not correct.

Extracting maximum profit is correct.

Rumple22Stilk··on I’m joining OpenAI
Please for the love of god, try to extrapolate.
Rumple22Stilk··on I’m joining OpenAI
Why do you keep saying "in their view"?

There is only reality. Reality is it's a form of intelligence, one that will relentlessly improve. The base form of problem solving is identical to humans, statistical inference, the only thing left is raw intelligence/capability.

You don't get to have a world where it's smarter and doesn't kill us all, that's not reality. Outcompeted is extinction.

There's no "view" to be had.

On the way to killing us all there sure will be a lot of cool tech. That's not a view, that's a fact too. And then we will all die.

Rumple22Stilk··on I’m joining OpenAI
Try to use your powers of extrapolation, please.
Rumple22Stilk··on I’m joining OpenAI
No. It's literally just basic extrapolation. It could not be more simple.
Rumple22Stilk··on Vouch
The alternative is far far worse.
Rumple22Stilk··on Vouch
That's the whole point. There are many new adopters and few competent ones.
Rumple22Stilk··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Yes it does. You don't have an accurate understanding of the lives of people on earth now, which is largely constant pain and suffering.
Rumple22Stilk··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
Yes. I read the expanse.

The problem is you don't understand how terrible life on earth is currently for the majority of people, you are coddled.

Rumple22Stilk··on The recurring dream of replacing developers
Machine learning is nothing like integer programming. It is an emulation of biological learning, it is designed explicitly to tackle the same problems human minds excel at. It is an organism in direct competition with human beings. Nothing can be more dangerous than downplaying this.
Rumple22Stilk··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
The earth of the expanse is 1000 times better than any time in history.
Rumple22Stilk··on Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
Your argument is built on a flawed premise that ignores the foundational role government and society play in enabling wealth creation in the first place. The counterfactual is simple: without government, without the legal and social structures upheld by a functioning society, there would be no stable mechanism for accumulating wealth at all.

Wealth does not exist in a vacuum. It is not some inherent trait of individuals that manifests independently of the structures around them. The wealthiest people succeed not just because of their individual effort but because they operate within a framework that provides enforceable contracts, property rights, regulated markets, financial systems, infrastructure, security, and a workforce educated by public institutions. Strip all that away, and they are no better off than anyone else in a lawless wasteland where power is dictated purely by brute force.

If wealth were purely a function of individual effort, we’d see people amassing fortunes in failed states or ungoverned regions where there is no government interference—but we don’t. In fact, in those places, the absence of government results in instability, extreme poverty, and the inability to conduct large-scale business. Conversely, the wealthiest individuals overwhelmingly exist in places with strong institutions and legal protections—because those things are prerequisites for wealth accumulation.

Your contradiction is actually the real contradiction. You claim that people become rich despite the government but then ignore the fact that wealth is unequally distributed precisely because the government does not intervene enough to prevent market capture by a small elite. A government that enables wealth creation is not the same as one that ensures it is fairly distributed. It is perfectly consistent to acknowledge that wealth requires government structures while also recognizing that unchecked capitalism leads to oligarchy.

So no, this isn't simplistic nonsense. The simplistic nonsense is pretending that wealth creation happens in a vacuum when, in reality, it is entirely contingent on the existence of an organized society with functional institutions.