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Ben Cates retweeted
dumb left wing ideas on crime come from miscalculating the relative weight of the often very complex political and policy tradeoffs involved, and dumb right wing ideas on crime come from being children who think action movies are real.
Ben Cates retweeted
I've lived through 2 decades of Silicon Valley hype cycles, here's the pattern.
Things that are real (cloud computing, SaaS, biz process automation, health/biotech) fade into the background & become "quiet core" of tech economy, things that are fake (crypto, autonomous vehicles)
Ben Cates retweeted
the reason that so much of this AI shit, and the NFT shit before it, seems so fucking detached from reality or practical application is because the people driving it genuinely do not understand the first thing about any of the industries they are attempting to disrupt.
Ben Cates retweeted
In 5 years the most prominent use case for AI is going to be facilitating consumer financial scams. This informs how I voted here.
Ben Cates retweeted
The funny thing is, an actual Socratic dialogue with Jobs and Lennon would have been hilarious, since both of them tended to produce a lot of empty or poorly thought through verbiage...precisely the sort of ill-considered statements Socrates delighted in skewering.
Ben Cates retweeted
I don’t give a shit, live there then. just stop expecting me to subsidize the costs of you doing so and making other modes of living de facto illegal.
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Ben Cates retweeted
yeah because they are smart enough to process that someone else being gay or trans doesn't affect them at all whereas brushing their hair when they don't want you to is a direct imposition on their autonomy xitter.cf/theseantcollins/status…