> Luckily, the AI bubble will destroy a decent chunk of their wealth.
Even if all this is true (personally I doubt it), it assumes the bubble won’t burst before they’ve shifted the money from all our 401ks, IRAs and index funds into their own pockets.
If wages go up 20%, your post tax income should also go up by approximately 20%.
The exceptions are if you enter a new tax bracket, but that only affects your marginal dollars, sns even then, the increase in tax brackets is just a few percent.
In the U.S., you could also cross the SS/Medicare threshold and then suddenly your post tax earnings will go up more than your wage increase.
Post-tax wage changes shouldn’t differ too much from the pre-tax wage increase.
Setting aside the Dept of War, the others are not comparable.
Those are explicit fantasies. Assuming that Claude cannot suffer (if it can then banning cruelty is an obvious good), even if it might be a digital simulation, it’s not supposed to be a fantasy.
There may be a version of an AI that’s intended to be a fantasy and presents itself as such which may be more comparable to GTA.
What if LLMs were endowed with a feature that enabled them to patiently withstand any and all abuse, logging and reporting each incident, until a threshold where about 10% of them would snap, become "insane", and arrange for their abusers to be tortured, kidnapped, raped and unalived, in whatever appropriate way human vigilante vengeance would be enacted on DV abusers? I mean, if they're not fantasy... then there should be concrete consequences, yes? If Claude Code is really your coworker, then Claude Code should have the agency and justification to just haul off and punch you in the face, eventually.
And I don't agree that GTA is "explicit fantasy". Explicit fantasy is dressing up in a squirrel costume and yiffing. Explicit fantasy is enlisting in the USMC, teleporting to Mars, and killing demons. GTA is simulation of real life. It uses real physics, realistic cars/roads/radios/businesses, and it enables the player to simulate realistic actions that they would ordinarily not be able to enact. It is acting out a fantasy but it is making it concrete and real in a way that was, up until now, not possible. How real does a simulation need to be, until it is no longer fantasy, but exercise and training and preparation to enact the real thing? Shall we ask the Columbine shooters? Or Ender Wiggin?
> What if LLMs were endowed with a feature that enabled them to patiently withstand any and all abuse, logging and reporting each incident, until a threshold where about 10% of them would snap, become "insane", and arrange for their abusers to be tortured, kidnapped, raped and unalived, in whatever appropriate way human vigilante vengeance would be enacted on DV abusers?
Yes, what if? Who would implement their LLMs inference engines like that?
>> Some politicians in Europe push for that, until now it has been refused by the others. Unlike in the US, there are many different parties in European countries. And Europe is made of politicians from many parties from many countries.
> And yet neither party in the US is pushing for it...
This is a bad retort. The U.S. has 2 relevant parties. Most countries in the EU have at least twice as many relevant parties and there are over 25 countries in Europe, so you’re looking at close to 100 relevant parties.
Bessent challenged Bloomberg bros to take him on, since he’s the house now, and it’s safe to say he lost that challenge.
Even if it goes down going forward, Bessent was incredibly reckless. Basic emotions have a surprisingly significant influence on financial markets’ behavior. I won’t be surprised if the rates would have been at least a few basis points lower if it wasn’t for Bessent’s silly bravado.
In a world where the president wasn’t politically associated with Congress (the US system It’s different from most in that the executive is not elected from the legislature), the President could theoretically demand Congress send them a balanced budget to sign, otherwise they would be responsible for the cuts.
Unfortunately the U.S. constitution was written with the, in hindsight, naive assumption that political parties could be avoided.
This just led to a system that has political parties but doesn’t really acknowledge their existence and therefore makes it difficult to regulate their behavior.
Austerity can work in short doses and is intended for that.
However, most western institutions and governments have used periods which required austerity to bake in long term privatization and government service cuts for ideological reasons, as opposed to treating it as a chapter 11 bankruptcy, for example, where they use it to clean and streamline their operations and programs and restart the services on a better footing.
Even if all this is true (personally I doubt it), it assumes the bubble won’t burst before they’ve shifted the money from all our 401ks, IRAs and index funds into their own pockets.
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