omcgrann

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   by omcgrann 4mo ago

   You're right. I pasted in the wrong link from my research file. That's my bad. The correct link is this: https://graphite.io/five-percent/more-articles-are-now-creat... I don't think the dead internet th
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   by omcgrann 4mo ago

   "Economic purpose" is a very specific kind of purpose, and I do not think that it's the same as life's purpose or meaning. I think the confusion here (and I suspect it's the result of the way I wrote it as much as a
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   by omcgrann 4mo ago

   This is right, and it's more or less what I was arguing in the piece. Google built the transformer. That's not in dispute. The point is that they built it inside a research ecosystem that traces back through decades of publicly fu
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   by omcgrann 4mo ago

   Let's grant the premise. UBI, significant enough to live well on, luxury cars and dinner parties for all. Who sets the amount? Who controls the infrastructure producing the unlimited resources? What happens when you vote the wrong way,
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   by omcgrann 4mo ago

   This isn't what the piece argues. It doesn't claim people need jobs to be happy, and the word "happy" doesn't appear in it. The argument is structural: when capital depends on labor, labor has political, economic, a