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0 pointskranke1552y ago0 comments

Yet this terrible economic system you describe determines whether these people can afford food, rent and their children's education.

Yeah it must be a meme.

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dahhowl2y ago

Surely, there exists no other economic system where a percentage of the world's population is allowed access to food, rent and education for their children.

And there certainly doesn't exist any where the entirety of the world population can be given access to these things.

kranke155OP2y ago

You're talking about hypotheticals, I'm talking about reality.

Saying "these silly people are obsessed with their economic system, which is pointless!" makes no sense if those same people live or die by that system.

misnome2y ago

They aren’t CS graduates so they can’t really be human or have thought processes. Literally stealing their work to pad a VC linesheet must honestly be the most altruistic of options.

ben_w2y ago

Your snark would be slightly harder hitting if not for the fact that freshly minted CS grads demonstrate approximately the same skill as LLMs when it comes to turning feature requests into code.

The "G" in "AGI" is "general", as in "can do all things" — Ask not for whose job Bell Labs tolls, it tolls for them all.

(And now I'm reminded of someone, ages ago now, who was boasting about how good he was at matching all the `new`s and `delete`s in his C++ code, or possibly even `malloc`s and `free`s, being completely oblivious to the existence of STL smart pointers…)

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