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I'm more inspired by countries with affordable housing and healthcare but to each his own I guess.

Only a child would be so unfamiliar with history as to make a claim like that.

That is why they're doing it. They're looking for pretexts to reduce headcount. They don't give a s** if the positive is false or not.

One of the two major worldviews (ideologies) says the market is fully valued. One says it's severely undervalued. Nobody is capable of considering that their world view is wrong and they're living in a fantasy. The next 12 months will be fascinating and (for some) extremely satisfying.

When she took a firm stance against free will my ears perked up.

When she took a firm stance in favor of capitalism I unfollowed.

I noticed exactly the same thing with Sabine. Her spiral into crankery has been disappointing.

It's very pleasant to see someone else saying it, too. Thank you.

itt: confirmation bias

Completely agree. There was a similar report published last year, lots of fluff, seemingly tailor made to scare retail investors. FT's quality has really taken a hit in recent years. It's sad to see them publishing nonsense like this.

A more evenhanded take on the same report:

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-jobs-layoffs

first link is broken

hmm maybe that's why they didn't post it

Nonsense. As though LLMs could imagine what would be in that sweet spot of surprising-but-not-senseless and intentionally avoid it.

good thing we all got con'd into buying electric stovetops a few years ago :)

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"While" not "whereas"

The word you're looking for is "rebuttal" since this is neither proof nor refutation of anything, but merely an argument against the thesis.

How anyone could seriously doubt that the answer is 'yes' is beyond me. I mean aside from people who just don't fly much.

Little on offer but cults these days. Take your pick. You probably already did long ago and now your own cult is the only one you'll never clock as such.

I remember reading this two years ago. And one year ago, too.

yeah man, children being permanently maimed in 19th factories during 20 hour shifts, children using chat bots and subsequently (and therefore causally) getting bad grades... who can even begin to tell the difference??

You clearly are selling something, too: doubt. (Note your appeal to your own authority.)

Don't kid yourself. Skepticism is not neutrality. These days throwing shade is a growth industry. There's money to be made shorting just like there is going long. Neither is the objective, disinterested position, although skepticism always enjoys the appearance of prudence, at least to the ignorant.

Anyone who says they're not trying to sell you something lacks self-awareness about what they themselves have been sold.

This is one reason why what ServiceNow does is so important.

It can be documents and it can be people, but it's not essentially either one. It can take many forms, including being lost when none of those forms has it on offer, as every business is different. An institution with excellent documentation, mature processes, and adept hiring could retain its "memory" without a single human member remaining from the past. Oral history and other humanistic forms of memory make everyone feel warm and fuzzy, but they're not to be idealized as the only real memory simply because they were underappreciated for a some time.

The essential meaning of technological progress is the utter inadequacy of humanity. We build cars that we never figure out how to safely drive, but being to arrogant to admit defeat and reconstruct society around trams like a sensible animal would do, we wait a century for cars that can drive themselves while the bodies pile up on the freeways in the meantime.

Yes it's true, we can't make a UI. Or a personal computer, or anything else that isn't deeply opaque to its intended users. But it's so much worse than that. We humans can't do hardly anything successfully besides build technology and beat each other in an ever expanding array of ridiculous pissing contests we call society.

Evil triumphs when good people lean into their hobbies.

Human beings are a bad influence. Separating them from one another for a while is worth a try. The presence of a non-human intermediary could go a long way towards de-escalating this powder keg of a society.

Lmao you cannot be serious. Lina Khan is right about m&a but if you don't understand how absurd the current price of FIG is you should never comment on anything economics-related ever again.

Humanity are a bunch of dolts.

They really are burying the lede:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/biggest-j...

Surely just an innocent mistake...