456 karma · joined December 13, 2024
Seems like this policy is a long time coming? Why do we need workers?
This is geopolitics 101; your fantasy version is decades out of date.
It's simply been subsumed by a model of technology that actively hurts people, i.e. a16z type projects.
That's why we're sick of it. We know that it involves pain and extraction from us of our social circles, sanity, productivity, resources, etc.
Compare surveys on AI optimism (tech proxy) for countries where antisocial billionaires are black bagged and sent to an underground prison in Xinjiang and you'll understand where the tech optimism went.
This is so stupid. China itself uses the "dominate and corral" model for their industries, and had severe tariffs to grow their various industrial bases, such as automotive.
Terrible use-case.
The fact that we remain competitive and superior in many aspects isn't because we can instantly sift through tons of data, it's because we learn and correlate and have superior heuristics.
In my own use, I find that AI is really good at finding bugs that are ultimately trivial but require searching through a convoluted series of inter-related files. This takes time for a human.