If businesses could pay women less to do the same job they would preferentially hire women and the pay gap would disappear.
Yes I think perfectly rational actors is a valid assumption to base my whole field of study on why do you ask?
I’m a 
But yea I saw people posting about it and that was the easiest reference to find on my phone
IRGC report that Haniyeh killed by short range missile. Maybe a shoulder launched missile? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/3/haniyeh-killed-by-short-range-projectile-fired-from-outside-home-irgc
That certainly seems like the idea most techbros have, turn white-collar workers into quality checkers rather than producers. The thing is I’m not sure the output of a lot of white collar jobs can be treated the same as manufacturing output.
If you replace half your labour in manufacturing a TV, the value of a TV drops and with competition between firms prices & profits tend to drop too. But you can slow down this profit loss due to competition with anti-competitive behaviour: patents, cartels etc.
If you replace your graphic designers with AI, the value of graphic design drops but what you were really trying to “produce” with your fancy branding and packaging was a sense of perceived quality (value). Now that this is lower, consumers adjust their perceptions quickly and you have to demonstrate your product quality by spending money on things AI can’t replicate yet e.g. in-person experiences, or even just video promotion (in the short term at least).
I quite like Ed’s writing for a cathartic rant against the stupidity of AI.
Has anyone got any reading recommendations on the LLM insanity from a marxist perspective though? Assuming AI can replace labour in some industries, it immediately comes up against the LTV, with the value of the output immediately going to almost zero. Companies therefore have to maintain monopolistic false scarcity, which of course tech companies are already trying to do, but it seems to have wider implications for the economy - technofeudalism I guess.
Sorry to hear that 
So far in my tech bubble I haven’t seen lay-offs explicitly due to AI, but there’s been increasing usage of it to produce more content. So it’s reducing the demand for contract writers and producers.
Tech does seem cooked at the moment, but I assume that’s mostly due to no more free money.
I really wish Graeber was still here, I need the Bullshit Jobs vs AI synthesis.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content-copyright-vox-media-the-atlantic
Expect [Article produced using AI] tags on your
“Why bombing children is sometimes acceptable” very soon 
Shit sucks. I’ve been sick for like 3 weeks
I ended up renting a byd a few weeks ago, felt luxury as hell, for I assume much less than western brands. although I’m not a car guy.
Wtf is this dumb AI image everyone is sharing for all eyes on rafah. Is there not something better to indicate you’re against genocide than the most trash image of all time
I read the NY times when it’s reposted to a niche communist website and we dunk on it for not being woke enough 💅
I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I’m pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don’t click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.
Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.
Hell yeah dude
Does boeing have a really-bad-pneumoniatm gun? Or so many whistleblowers that it’s statistically likely that some will catch pneumonia?
Caught up with an old friend who I was really close with but who I haven’t seen much in recent years.
They’ve got full reactionary brainworms 
Now I’m bouncing between: “I need to fix them” and “I don’t want to see them again.”
Israel can have little a genocide as a treat
Channel 14 reporting that US called off an immediate strike: Hebrew Link
No idea what that really means
Glad to see NZs most important city, Timaru, well represented.
100% this. I feel like I haven’t discovered any new artist since what.cd went down