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It’s moreso I believe because there is genuinely no solid evidence that it will do the level of damage to the job market they continue to claim will happen. To get to that “prophetic truth” we will have overused our already limited resources
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I’m not sure I’ll ever quite wrap my head around why, after multiple years of AI CEOs touring around saying they’d make every human useless and potentially cause the end of the world, leftists decided to latch onto water usage as the biggest problem w/ AI
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LLMs have been solving a bunch of Erdos problems and Anthropic just announced over the weekend that one of their research models made pretty significant strides in proving the Riemann Hypothesis. At this point I think it’d be idiotic to live in ignorance and pretend these things aren’t going to surpass humans in a lot of knowledge tasks

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Anonymous 6w

Technological innovation is a big part of crisis theory, the economic framework centered around the boom-bust cycles in the economy. Partly, if we define rate of profit as s/(c+v), s being surplus labor, v being variable capital (paid labor) and c being constant capital (materials, machinery, etc.) we can multiply 1/v on the numerator and denominator to get (s/v)/((c/v)+1), with s/v being the rate of exploitation (unpaid labor over paid labor) and c/v being the organic composition of capital…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

And I’m not saying this like I’m excited for it to happen by the way, but to say there’s “no evidence” it could perform a lot of human functions I think would just be hiding from the inevitable

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

…measuring labor efficiency. As technology is innovated, labor becomes more efficient: more constant capital (c) is processed per hour of paid labor (v). This causes c/v to increase. However, as the denominator of (s/v)/((c/v)+1) increases, the overall rate of profit decreases. To compensate for this, the rate of exploitation s/v will have to increase even faster. The Tendency of Rate of Profit to Fall (TRPF) spells doom for Capitalism, and technological innovation is one contributing factor…

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

…for this. For more information, read “The Marxist Theory of Crisis” by J. Winternitz, 1949

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