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If someone is capable of doing something, and your goal is to prevent them from doing it, the worst thing you can do is to make it necessary for them to do it.
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- "Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity..." https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/ai-productivity-paradox-ceo-s...
- “Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI…” https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
But fundamentally, large shifts like this are like steering a super tanker, the effects take time to percolate through economies as large and diversified as the US. This is the Solow paradox / productivity paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
> The term can refer to the more general disconnect between powerful computer technologies and weak productivity growth```json {"name": "Al"} {"name": "Ale"} ```
So the braces are always closed
> " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI"
The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/. I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI, although it's clear the author has concerns. But the thrust is inviting the reader to not fall into the trap of the current framing by proponents of AI, rather questioning first if the future being peddled is actually what we want. Seems a fair question to ask if you're unsure?
I got concerned that this is framed as "pretty negative post", and it impacted my read of the rest of this author's article
but yes, sure sounds like it!
> obviously to me that sending money to shady petro states all over the world is just a bad idea
Do you not see the contradiction, in the same sentence?
You can read more here and other news sources
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/spacexs-starship-grou...
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wr...
Take a look at cursor.com
You realize this is a prototype and not available for sale to the general public... right?
> Half-baked ideas for a better future.
Maybe the article is intentionally supposed to read like that?