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> Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship.
What the richest and most powerful people want, happens to be "be even richer and even more powerful".
Banal, sad, and universal.
This is a terrific mental model. It can be very helpful to assist perfectionists in pushing past their initial attempts, because getting the flywheel going is hard.
Thanks for sharing!
However, the "number go up" crowd doesn't give a fuck about the secretaries -- so they will chant "AI! AI! AI!" to juice the stock and make out like bandits, while they still can.
Maybe it'll be a collar you wear around your neck.
You can "sub-vocalise" and talk to it.
Jony Ive can make sure it's styled and made out of shell cordovan leather or somesuch -- the fanbois are gonna go wild for it.
Soon, everywhere you look, people will look like they're into BDSM.
(and guess who will "Dominate" you?)
I thought more like you in the past -- I was near-certain he'd toss the whole lot of J6 rioters under the bus.
When he didn't, I've recalibrated to: if it "owns the libs", he'll pardon them (or something actionably similar).
(not supporting anything about the current strategy... just pointing out that the "line in the sand" doesn't imply that any individuals would actually get in trouble)
You sound like a mature person. Thank you for sharing that perspective!
"Technology acts as an amplifier of human intentions"
...so, if someone is just doing a sloppy job, AI-assisted vibe coding will enable them to do it faster.
This makes it easy to hijack the "ooh look! shiny/sexy technology" part of their brain, to work on Palantir-type stuff, whereas anyone with a more liberal, broad education would go "wtf! I don't want to help build that!"
(what if Harvard loses half of its faculty next, because some visa category is declared "illegal" by the administration?)
Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
"Is the scientific paper a fraud?"
I found a PDF online here: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/alon/sites/mcb.alon/files/use...
What if the goalpost is shifted backwards, to the 90% mark (instead of demanding that AI get to 100%)?
* Big corps could redefine "good enough" as "what the SotA AI can do" and call it good.
* They could then layoff even more employees, since the AI would be, by definition, Good Enough.
(This isn't too far-fetched, IMO, seeing how we're seeing calls for copyright violation to be classified as legal-when-we-do-it)
My variation was:
"Leadership can stay irrational longer than you can stay employed"
When I use AI, I keep it on a short leash.
Meanwhile, folks like this ("I bought a rocket company") are essentially using it to decide where to plough their stratospheric wealth, so they can grow it even further.
Perhaps they'll lose a cufflink in the eventual crash, but they're so rich, I don't think they'll lose their shirt. Meanwhile, the tech job market is f**ed either way.
Beware, your comment is likely to age incredibly poorly.
Also, I wouldn't want to work in the same team as you, if that's how you communicate.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-cheng-991849b6
It feels like giving LinkedIn a dose of its own medicine.
Edit: here's a typical post of Ken's: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ken-cheng-991849b6_i-launched...
Seriously though, this kind of tech-assisted work output improvement has happened many times in the past, and by now we should all have been working 4-hour weeks, but we all know how it has actually worked out.