Not only would it be, given all the apocalyptic worries, by far the funniest outcome, but it also seems quite plausible to me that the net effect is that labour share goes up. All that really needs is that competitive pressures intensify.

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he meant billionaire, not neurodivergent. he must have run that thru a chatbot for his answer, and it typically screwed up/he typically didn't check

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Indonesian data are back after a break in July (i.e. they forgot to include the 'fuel' column in their PDF last month), and BEV sales are doing well this year, 23% so far and 30% in August alone.

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As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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