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Re:Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking by smallmancontrov on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:17AM (#47089974)
They invented a dumb fix and complained that it wasn't good. Or, since we're being artistic in this thread: pulled a straw man out of their ass and complained that it smelled foul.

I did the same with cancer/mortality to demonstrate the same trick in a setting where its flaws were more obvious. It's true that I said the quiet part out loud in a way that the post I was mocking did not, but the quiet part is especially important to debunk so I make no apology for doing so.

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Re:Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking by qgin on Friday February 20, 2026 @12:07PM (#47090700)
It's not really a strawman.

Total net worth of all US billionaires is about $8 trillion.

2025 budget for the US federal government is about $7 trillion.

So if you seize the entire net worth of US billionaires, you get a one time funding of the US federal government for about 14 months.

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