[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

100% this. I feel like I haven’t discovered any new artist since what.cd went down

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

If businesses could pay women less to do the same job they would preferentially hire women and the pay gap would disappear.

Yes I think perfectly rational actors is a valid assumption to base my whole field of study on why do you ask?

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Imane Khelif won gold, the most satisfying Olympic win.

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m a LIB

But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 50 points 3 months ago

IRGC report that Haniyeh killed by short range missile. Maybe a shoulder launched missile? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/3/haniyeh-killed-by-short-range-projectile-fired-from-outside-home-irgc

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

That certainly seems like the idea most techbros have, turn white-collar workers into quality checkers rather than producers. The thing is I'm not sure the output of a lot of white collar jobs can be treated the same as manufacturing output.

If you replace half your labour in manufacturing a TV, the value of a TV drops and with competition between firms prices & profits tend to drop too. But you can slow down this profit loss due to competition with anti-competitive behaviour: patents, cartels etc.

If you replace your graphic designers with AI, the value of graphic design drops but what you were really trying to "produce" with your fancy branding and packaging was a sense of perceived quality (value). Now that this is lower, consumers adjust their perceptions quickly and you have to demonstrate your product quality by spending money on things AI can't replicate yet e.g. in-person experiences, or even just video promotion (in the short term at least).

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I quite like Ed's writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.

Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.

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elmofire

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

I ended up renting a byd a few weeks ago, felt luxury as hell, for I assume much less than western brands. although I’m not a car guy.

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

I read the NY times when it's reposted to a niche communist website and we dunk on it for not being woke enough 💅

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I'm pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don't click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.

Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah dude

[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Worth checking b12 + iron if it's a physical tiredness

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The Al Jazeera doc on Oct 7 that was being promoted last week. Similar analysis to that done by Electronic Intifada, Greyzone etc, but good to see mainstream reporting.

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