Improving an employees life is exactly how capitalist systems work. It’s a competitive market. An employer can attract top talent with low attrition by keeping employees happy. This is very beneficial to a business.

Unhappy employee = low output and/or attrition = bad profit

Since it’s such a capitalist market this “unhappy employee” can search for an employer that would make them more “happy”. Employers will then improve happiness of employees to attract this “unhappy employee” so he’ll leave his current company.

Right now in Colorado a 25k auto loan with a $3k down payment and 60-month term at 7% would be $479/month, nearly double your "best guess".

That is such a horrible deal

You'll own nothing and you'll worship the ground your very stable entrepreneurial genius' overlords walk on, and you'll like it!

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Very well said. Meta-cognition seems to be a popular term lately.

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Very well said. I also think the implications are huge.

Since I've been working from home I've saved easily $75-$100 per week in fuel and food. (Michigan) That's money that the government needs circulating. So I can see why they want us going to the office again. The goof is that with inflation, I have still been spending that money elsewhere. Groceries this two week were $660 for my small family. That same order was $400 a year ago, and $300 before Covid. So I don't get it. What makes them think the money is just pooling up somewhere?

I’m naive? You have a vested interest in the topic.

Haha yea, haven't even thought of this. Self-improving AI.

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25K at 250 a month ? lol

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try 25k at 500 a month with a 5k deposit over 4 years and even that would be a good car deal in todays climate.

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what planet do you live on that allows you to lease 25k cars at 3k a year ?

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Here’s one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers just assessed the engineering possibilities with one particularly impressive mushroom and found that it might be able to replace plastic in a whole bunch of different use cases.

Using mushrooms instead of plastic could cut down on the mountains of waste humans create. Plastics made out of fossil fuels are actually really difficult to recycle and usually wind up cluttering landfills, landscapes, and waterways. Materials made with mushrooms, on the other hand, would be biodegradable and could be reused at the end of a product’s life to make more of the same stuff.

Naive, while employer's may find someone from another part of the country to work cheaper (WFH) based on the cost of living; offshore resources rarely have the same output/competency as local resources.

I WFH 95% (rare customer site visit) and work a 4 day week (condensed hours). Several months ago I interviewed with a competitor (they sort me out) for a very senior role and after the first interview, I told them no thanks. 3 months later they called back wanting to tell me why I wasn't successful and see if I had given second thoughts to WFH! i told them I cancelled the application and their mandate of 5 days a week and 3 days min in the office was unacceptable.

WFH is here to stay for many and 4 day weeks will be the norm in 5 years. My current employer has mentioned my output and general happiness has increased since WFH and further increased with the move to 4 days.

When a person is overwhelmed with emotions, fear, anger, their own safety and the safety of others can be at risk. I'm not saying get rid of emotions entirely. But the human brain can be so dominated by emotions at times that it screws everything else up. 100,000 years ago, it wasn't so terrible if someone flipped out. But now, with everything from guns to nukes at our disposal, it's a different story. The structure of the brain is an impediment to progress.

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So more jobs lost. More people on welfare or unemployed while the ultra rich buy another private island to fly to in their fleet of private jets.

I don’t hate technology, but I’ll be goddamned if we should be rushing headlong into “OMG, AI is a miracle that will release us from all of our obligation to work” without contemplating the reality of tens of millions of people not having any employment or means to support themselves.

And to all of those who say “ B, but… Universal, basic income!“ I ask you where are the money for that is going to come from? Taxes? From the unemployed? The corporations that are getting rid of employees so they can use AI to take the cost of salaries out of their balance sheet? You really think those corporations are going to not fight tooth and nail not have to pay a cent to support universal basic income programs? They own the politicians.

It’s amazing how eagerly we are rushing into literally a “hunger games” dystopia.

Nobody thinks they are going to be the person living under a bridge because they don’t have a job as a programmer anymore.

Think it through people, don’t be blinded by the new shiny thing.

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Good point.

Now we're talking...

It doesn’t really matter if AI can answer any question if you don’t know what to ask.