platformer.news

An economist's case against the AI jobs-pocalypse

I think some of the conversation around AI is deeply, deeply classist …. It feels like some of that comes from being a little high on your own supply of how amazing your technology is when you hawk it. And it comes from this idea that some workers are better or more special than others, which makes your technology better or more special. That's also a way of saying the value of other workers is a lot lower — so it doesn't matter if they're displaced, it only matters if these workers are displaced.

noahpinion.blog

Yes, Europeans are poorer than Americans

The people who have the money and skills to move between the U.S. and Europe are probably disproportionately highly paid professional workers (who can earn more in the U.S.), while working-class people who would like to take advantage of Europe's urban safety and generous welfare states find it harder to move.

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Because things are changing so fast, there's a growing divide—in terms of career opportunities, financial outcomes, and how much you enjoy your work—between the people who benefit from the transformation we're living through and those who get left behind.

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Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

Who wants mass surveillance? Only the Epstein class. The robot's point was that billionaires often build powerful surveillance technologies while simultaneously going to great lengths to maintain their own privacy.