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Boo. I am in favour of UBI but I would like to disavow this line of reasoning. "You must be wrong because people like you have been wrong in the past" is just ad hominem with extra steps.

Minimum wage is intended to guarantee workers have a livable income. If everyone already has a livable income, why would we need minimum wage?

Then yes I agree with you. We're not there yet.

If we have a social safety net, Universal Basic Income, then we can finally eliminate the need for a minimum wage.

It may require intense passion and a manic episode to do something like that with one coder or a small team, which is hard to arrange bureaucratically.

semantics. Nobody agrees on the definition of AI. It's not a meaningful ststement to say no "real" AI exists. Be more specific about what exactly is missing instead.

The current AI bubble started around february of last year when every C-level of every major company entered into a mass hysteria about being left behind if they didn't integrate LLMs into their service. This is different from the zeitgeist that came before it.

This article is severely misleading. AI is a buzzword -- but mostly for chatbots. Bots. You can prove this easily: observe that chatbots such as ChatGPT type much faster than a human possibly could.

Much of the training and validation of AI requires outsourcing. Companies which just mindlessly slap an LLM into their product somewhere aren't usually outsourcing.

Don't be misled. When your CEO brings up integrating AI into your product, s/he isn't secretly talking about outsourcing.

Let's all start using AOL and MSN messenger

In my dialect, that's 56% children.

I don't know how I got that so backward when I wrote that. Thanks for correcting me.

This. On average it's the same number of deaths, but there's also the 80% chance to avoid the guilt of killing anyone. The guilt of killing 5 people is presumably not 5 times worse than the guilt of killing 1 person.