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Tag: class warfare

  • IS IT O.K. TO BE A LUDDITE?

    Thomas Pynchon · NYTimes

    One was the concentration of capital that each machine represented, and the other was the ability of each machine to put a certain number of humans out of work – to be ”worth” that many human souls.
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    It was open-eyed class war.
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    If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy.

    Written in 1984 👆 heh

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  • ‘pain point’ : the maximum amount you are willing to pay

    ‘pain point’ : the maximum amount you are willing to pay

    Noah Giansiracusa · Harvard Law Today

    Retailers are looking for what’s called the “pain point.” That’s the maximum amount that you as an individual customer are willing to pay for a specific product
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    [an app’s] knowledge of your phone battery’s life to determine how desperate you might be for a ride home, and therefore charge you more for it
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    now imagine … they look at me and they know every video I’ve watched on YouTube, everything I’ve searched in Google, and everything I have liked on Facebook, every conversation I’ve had with an AI chatbot. Does that feel like a fair situation?

    Does that feel like a fair situation?

    The wage slaves of the Gilded Age had it easy