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Comment on We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way in ~finance
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Comment on Young adults in the US are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs in ~tech
adamlang LinkThere is a white collar (60% of workforce) job apocalypse coming. There are a few structural reasons that are slowing it but it is coming. Slow factors: Current infra is not designed with "AI" in...will take jobs?
There is a white collar (60% of workforce) job apocalypse coming. There are a few structural reasons that are slowing it but it is coming.
Slow factors:
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Current infra is not designed with "AI" in mind, it doesn't have automation "contact points" This is the biggest reason
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People are intentionally dragging their feet because they know AI could replace them.
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Everyone knows that their company HATES them now no matter how good they are and people are actively resisting help the Corps replace them.
Company Date / Period Jobs Cut (AI-Attributed) Primary Reason / Context Cited Mount Everest 8,848m Oracle June 2025 – June 2026 21,000 Regulatory filings cited internal AI deployment and operational efficiencies. Amazon January 2026 16,000 Next-gen AI robotics and automated demand-planning in logistics. Amazon (AWS/Corporate) October 2025 14,000 AI-driven automation across cloud ops, support, and back-office functions. Microsoft July 2026 9,000 Reallocating budget to fund AI infrastructure and datacenter spend. Meta April – May 2026 8,000 Flattening organization and redirecting capital toward AI investments. WPP 2025 5,000 Generative AI transformation across advertising and content workflows. Dow Chemical January 2026 4,500 Process-optimization AI reducing engineering and operations headcount. Cisco May 2026 4,000 Restructuring around AI-driven networking and security automation. Block (Square/Cash App) February 2026 4,000 AI agents and automation replacing operational and customer service roles. Intuit May 2026 3,000 Reallocating headcount resources directly into AI agent partnerships. Indeed / Glassdoor July 2025 1,300 Automated AI job-matching reducing human support requirements. Pinterest January 2026 780 Deployment of automated AI content moderation and recommendation tools. Coinbase May 2026 700 Restructuring to build an "AI-native" operational workflow. GitLab June 2026 350 Cutting roles to redirect funding toward AI compute infrastructure. -
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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
adamlang Link ParentIts not. However the world really is not ready for AI. I mean in a socioeconomic sense. That is really what is slowing adoption. Why would anyone replace themselves as an employee? Why would the...better than using the working brain I have in my head right now
Its not. However the world really is not ready for AI. I mean in a socioeconomic sense. That is really what is slowing adoption. Why would anyone replace themselves as an employee? Why would the CEO on the country club/beach/golf course want to come into the office to supervise a bunch of AI when they can delegate to other humans from their private jet?
Most of the world is not designed for LLM controlled automation. In fact its explicitly not because it was not considered a possibility and most systems are strictly designed around a human in the loop as a requirement. As time goes on companies that move away from this will gain market share and everyone will have to follow suite.
Another issue is that pay/work ratio is already terrible. What AI proposes is not that your brain can do something else. That it can do the work of 20-50 employees by your brain essentially acting as supervisor to an automated system. However this causes the obvious question. If I can run a company as a single employee, why am I working for someone else when the pay is $hit?
Additionally people are using AI incredibly ineffectively right now. It requires rather deep computer knowledge to make it useful at this time. That will change slowly.
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Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2026) in ~health.mental
adamlang Link ParentI have this theory about this. In the last 100 years as a species we basically conquered survival. The problem is that while this sounds good. It has resulted in a huge void of purpose that we...I just don't understand what the point is.
I have this theory about this. In the last 100 years as a species we basically conquered survival. The problem is that while this sounds good. It has resulted in a huge void of purpose that we have zero social frameworks for dealing with. Psychopaths use it to ravage/hoard/exploit anything that is not bolted down. The average person is finding themselves more and more at the mercy of people that for the most part would have died in battle long ago in the past leaving a handful of troublemakers rather than making them a significant influence on the direction of society. The violence is gone but their bottomless appetites have not simply gone away.
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Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk
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Comment on The Icelandic women's strike fifty years on – despite closing the gender pay gap by 90%, the nation is ‘still no paradise’ for women, say campaigners in ~life.women
adamlang Link Parentbecause this is not news it's propaganda. This doesn't mean good or bad just that it's not news. Real news doesn't have salacious editorialization in the middle of an article.because this is not news it's propaganda. This doesn't mean good or bad just that it's not news. Real news doesn't have salacious editorialization in the middle of an article.
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Comment on Unfuck Google Drive (It's Gemini garbage, of course) in ~comp
adamlang Link ParentEvery single other email provider has some sort of way to share files Beyond an attachment in an email. The only real solution to the problems with Gmail is to become a customer of another company...Every single other email provider has some sort of way to share files Beyond an attachment in an email. The only real solution to the problems with Gmail is to become a customer of another company and stop being the product of google.
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Comment on OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week in ~health.mental
adamlang Link ParentSam Altman the CEO is a sociopathic narcissist and a pathological liar. Since he is running the company that means there is 0% chance that they actually care about doing anything for this problem...Sam Altman the CEO is a sociopathic narcissist and a pathological liar. Since he is running the company that means there is 0% chance that they actually care about doing anything for this problem other than Optics. There may be some employees or even higher level managers that care. But openai desperately needs profits which guarantees that any meaningful change will be lip service
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Comment on MiniPC home server recommendations in ~tech
adamlang Link ParentI double the Used Intel NUC i have a 6 node cluster ive been using for 5 years 0 problems. You can find them on ebay for around $100-$200 each. (Avoid the special models, just look for the plain...I double the Used Intel NUC i have a 6 node cluster ive been using for 5 years 0 problems. You can find them on ebay for around $100-$200 each. (Avoid the special models, just look for the plain square shaped ones.) Even a 10 year old one has several times the power of a raspberry pi.
Protip: the NUCs have fine grain power control in the bios and they despite being more powerful use the same or less power than a pi if you tweak them down.
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Comment on Non-engineers AI coding and corporate compliance? in ~comp
adamlang LinkI think the answer to this question may be the most signifigant thing to happen to society in a long time. I think everyone ive met at this point has admitted to putting trade secrets and...I think the answer to this question may be the most signifigant thing to happen to society in a long time.
I think everyone ive met at this point has admitted to putting trade secrets and confidential info into chat gpt. I wonder what open ai will do with this data when the bonfire of investment money dries up ? I imagine open ai will look more like macafee in 10 years than an AI company. (Aka rent seeking from the problem they caused)
Aside from that. AI is imo really starting to drop the bottom from do nothing corporate administration. Millions of high paid people that all of us deal with on a daily basis have been offloading the burden of their job to expoited underlings. Now that those underlings have a release valve, and make no mistake they are using it broadly. What will happen when no one is at watch anymore? Well i can tell you, its called collapse. How that looks is to be seen or if anti AI laws get drafted to stop it.
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Comment on 23andMe sells its most valuable asset to biotech company Regeneron, which promises to keep your DNA private in ~finance
adamlang Link ParentI'm certain that in the lifetime of everyone posting here we will see harvested/sold genetic data used to legally deny people healthcare in some way. "Permission" will be granted through some...I'm certain that in the lifetime of everyone posting here we will see harvested/sold genetic data used to legally deny people healthcare in some way.
"Permission" will be granted through some loophole backdoor to the data. Or through 500 page acceptance agreements gotten through duress like when you are being treated at your regular doctor.
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Comment on 23andMe sells its most valuable asset to biotech company Regeneron, which promises to keep your DNA private in ~finance
adamlang Link ParentAsk them which laws in which state that they can say are for sure protecting them? What about the other 49 states where the company could easily move their operations to get around various laws?..... Oh but there are laws against that! Not a problem!
Ask them which laws in which state that they can say are for sure protecting them? What about the other 49 states where the company could easily move their operations to get around various laws? Can you provide the law in at least the current state much less cross reference all 50 states?
The answers is always "I don't know but there are laws." Bonus Reaction: "I'm not going to waste time looking them up"
Did you know? Laws can be changed in the future?
"You are just being negative"
Ok.....
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Comment on LinkedIn executive says that the bottom rung of the career ladder is breaking in ~life
adamlang LinkEverything is noise except the end result. Which is. They need less legal restrictions from exploiting foreign workers from poor areas. Its obvious how no other solution is ever discussed. Just...Everything is noise except the end result. Which is. They need less legal restrictions from exploiting foreign workers from poor areas.
Its obvious how no other solution is ever discussed. Just the sky is falling..blah...blah "Exploit foreign workers...less laws"
Your "representatives" are all cowards or owned by corporations. No one is getting saved. This is how things fall apart.
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Comment on I don’t care whether you use ChatGPT to write in ~tech
adamlang Link ParentYeah just flows in one try after a decade of regular practice.Yeah just flows in one try after a decade of regular practice.
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Comment on If you could travel back in time and bring one thing back to the modern day, what would it be? in ~talk
adamlang Link ParentThey were called dodo "dumb" because as a vistor to the island wrote. "They were tragically easy to trick and catch with your bare hands." or something close to that its been a while. So bringing...They were called dodo "dumb" because as a vistor to the island wrote. "They were tragically easy to trick and catch with your bare hands." or something close to that its been a while.
So bringing a pair should not be a challenge.
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Comment on Which unanswered questions do you want to see an answer for in your lifetime? in ~science
adamlang Link ParentThe default fermi-drake numbers are IMO extreemly generous. If you tweak them down even a little bit you get 0 other civilizations. Especially the estimated habitable planets per galaxy number....The default fermi-drake numbers are IMO extreemly generous. If you tweak them down even a little bit you get 0 other civilizations. Especially the estimated habitable planets per galaxy number. Which should be at best 1 by default since its all the evidence we have.
The drake equasion answers the question on its own. I guess they just choose default values to get people talking and it worked.https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-drake-equation/
Play around with the numbers on your own if you like.
I don't think it really addresses the isssue. Sure all that sounds nice but the model needs to start at human nature. There are more people than jobs/work to go around. Even for high achieving people. There would need to be some sort of indenture system that you need to participate X hrs X years per X to take from the system and recharge every so often.
Then of course you would run into the problem of whom would work harder for harder jobs if they have everything without doing things that require years of grueling study and experience like being a doctor for one example. Then whom is going to make higher quality stuff that people whom want more than the bare minimum aspire to? Humans run on motivation like it or not.
I assume humanity will resolve it the same way as all of recorded history. Mountains and mountains of bodies.