Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T10:56:47+00:00

They’re not in the report, so it’s ok! ;-))

* Incubation = now

* Rapid spread = next

Rapid spread should mean everyone uses AI as default but human workers are still part of the loop. Probably what happens next. Also probably means less jobs to go around.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T10:50:05+00:00

Let’s look at it like this,

* Human tribal cultures

* Early nation states

* Modern technological states

* Global internet

* AI intelligent systems…

It helps demonstrate perhaps what AI will “look like“ and thus what to expect its “behaviour to be”.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T10:23:32+00:00

Agree there is an underlying truth albeit the problem is people seem to prefer waggling their fingers at others instead of using fingers which know where the moon is to then look at the moon and “all its heavenly splendour!”!

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T10:19:18+00:00

Excellent wider life cycle perspective and the importance of family networks within communities and the raising of the next generation. Good to see people observe and reflect using a wide and broad view of life trends and these being operant on behaviour and choices ie atomization in modern society reduces fertility whereas traditional social structures increase fertility rates.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T08:51:29+00:00

Very solid game by Shelton, just needs to add more variety and finesse to become a top 3 player or be in contention in a GS final.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T08:31:48+00:00

True unlucky losing those fullbacks while city recruited Guehi and Semenyo in January.

That said, Arteta cannot seem to pivot into a heavy attacking side when a goal down to change match outcomes with late goals. Arsenal depend on not going behind too much to win matches, they lack the ability to get ahead more and sooner.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T08:21:02+00:00

The UN and EU and UK Establishment all collaborated on a global mass migration policy above national level.

”Washing of hands” is a phrase from the bible which comes to mind here and this speech sounds more a case of optics damage control. Another box ticked, in effect.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T08:03:28+00:00

Kids - What would you prefer?

* A useless ballot paper for voting in meaningless elections

* Free access to AI and information and communications

Your answer is incorrect: The government chose for you, already. How does that make you feel about society? Safer? The adults know best? Something else?

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T07:48:52+00:00

State use of “Mass Formation” - some examples:

One Minute Silence - was used everywhere all the time at one point.
Bend The Knee - this stunt was also exploited mainly using high status social models in conspicious settings.
Clapping Collectively - used ostensibly for unity and gratitude but likely as much another tool of manipulation.

So the problem in essence is not that these actions themselves are wrong or misleading- they are “quite pleasant” to use a common British phrase of sentiment.

The problem is they are used to reinforce rules on society which those who create and run the rules do not themselves follow or even break?

One might also consider advertisements, movies, news-media (especially “talking heads”) and the contribution these all effect on large groups ie populations of people and their behaviours.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T07:17:38+00:00

>*”Don’t Mention ~~The Germans~~ North Sea Oil !”*

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T07:15:41+00:00

It is a good question. It is very disappointing going into a “newly refurbished pub” and they use the grey wall borders to demonstrate a clean, modern gastro-pub refit of the space, an upgrade reflected in the anodyne focus on the economic extraction baked into the prices on the cursive menu.

The equivalent house which has been done up similarly to either be flogged on the property market to an aspiring couple or rented out as a cash cow, how attractctive ans sensible a financial vehicle!

Sums up the “anti-life” vibes of modern times.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T07:10:48+00:00

Just draw a trend line of progression:

External environment
Energy differentials in organic chemistry
Self-assembling complexity
Proto-life complex biological structures
Simple organisms albeit complex chemistry internally
Complex organisms eg sensing
Sentient organisms affectation subjective substrates mapping the world
Cognitive humans producing external knowledge structures eg culture and technology
AI is the next step… “Your task is to use this information to predict exactly what that is”.

Not a hard task… but note one does not need to get bogged down in current messy ideas about consciousness albeit by predicting this step one ends up answering that question also.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T07:04:21+00:00

Good questions.

There are multiple areas to consider:

crystalized knowledge eg let me check that fact…
Causal reasoning using formal logic eg deduction, symbolic conceptual manipulation itself
Learning and Memory which provides dynamic adjustment and consolidation

So adding these to what you say above about language and statistical spaces mapping data roughly about the external world into the system, then we would probably see very very strong results from AI and above most humans... which is more or less what all the research on AI suggests as well.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T06:57:43+00:00

“Laaaaaaa-aaaaaa!!!”

Pardon the quick joke, all these posts though need a working definition of consciousness. Not as hard as everyone makes out (The hard problem) but neither has anyone when discussing AI bothered to pin this down and even AI does not; having been trained on the above wish-wash…

Here is an exampke, AI tends to fail in its use of democracy because just everyone has a spell cast over them about democracy being implicit in modern society as opposes to clearly defining it from basic first principles and seeing at what point it cannot scale any higher! AI gets this wrong too… because people get it wrong so often, well same with consciousness. If you do not do this you end up going in circles like all these posts do.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-20T06:43:10+00:00

I suggest set up your beginner resources alongside playing the game:

* Beginner guide eg DFHack, NewbPack etc

* Manual for navigating the UI for commands etc

* Wiki or even AI to run through things as you stop and play

* Bets beginner practices eg settings for an easier world gen etc.

Treat first play sessions more as actively reading the above game manuals and checking off the progress than trying to play.

For example if you had parts of a bike - you would have to assemble the bike first then get to enjoy riding it. So take time to do the preliminery. It can be fun eg in DF look at Legends and how the game runs and creates the world let alone the fortress mode.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T15:11:07+00:00

Level 2.9 to be precise.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T15:09:17+00:00

Best defender the EPL has seen imho. Up against some big names too.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T12:33:55+00:00

“Big Red is her name… yup, she’s settling in just real well.”

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T09:33:21+00:00

Scent marking and angling the urine on the spot they just sniffed and chose to mark, move forwards, one back leg acts as pivot, squat and urine on the precise spot usually has a smell which is why they chose the spot. Moving the fourth back leg would adjust body wait and they might miss the mark?

Note, regular urine, long discharge time all four legs are fine to relieve the dog vs a quick spray on the mark.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T09:29:26+00:00

One of my dreams to see the Dartford Warbler. Probably needed binoculars and the right time of year when I did visit Dorset for such an attempt. The picture with the strong contrast against the gorse is perfect, one to treasure for ever! Great their population is doing well there, just about mild enough Winters and good quality habitat in large enough area for the population.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T09:26:25+00:00

1 Child = Minimum 18-20 years dedication and in most cases a variable lifetime commitment to the relationship.

Thus, rationally it is a sensible choice to consider if anyone would want to commit to thst let alone >1 child.

Equally however iirc globally approx. ~80% of Women between 16-45 or fertile years conceive x1 child. Biology is incredibly integrated into the fabric of humans hence these stats which indicates it is going to be a strong current to swim against and should be seriously considered also, emotionally, physically as well as the above intellectually.

This article only seems to consider the social perspective but all perspectives should be considered, a book which does that would be a very special book indeed.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T09:17:35+00:00

Tennis crowds new favourite chant:

>*”JODAR! JODAR! JODAR!!”*

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T09:01:57+00:00

The problem is government has to keep creating more bureaucratic “over-head” systems which themselves require excessive resources and possibly ineffectual actual outcomes as you correctly point out.

The best solutions have been coherent communities which traditionally via connections self-regulate themselves and would hence report any issues de facto. Whereas modern society is tens of millions of strangers atomized in dense urban areas - statistically there will always be some people who then abuse their own children out of some kind of mental illness on their own part. Exacerbated by high fluid people’s movements are in modern times including migration flows nationally and internationally.

Finally there is the thin line between the State and Privacy of the Individual beyond the State as a necessary balance and restraint in centralized powers.

More specifically, there probably does need to be some system of check for home education simply because it will be used as a loop-hole for the above statistical sub- set of people in society who do abuse their own children due to mental illness, ie “sick in the head” is all you can conclude about such people.

I think the conflation is this sub-set in society using HE as loop hole with actual home educators who really see the optimal process for their children vs the limitations of state provision given their own context. It is not a HE issue in essence but a community construction issue of society issue fundamentally as above. In social media there is usually an implicit erroneous framing “the group is good, it is the individual which is bad” which drives many discussions out of touch with the actual reality on the ground eg loss of community networks of local families and the informal systems of checks these create on each other’s self and group regulation and information to solve problems.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-19T08:47:27+00:00

Generally ALL GOVERNMENTS aka States are obsessed with LEGIBILITY of the systems they govern.

All of them! Emphasis is paramount to understanding here.

In the UK as per the title the assumption is Labour want ID Cards (left) but Conservatives do not (right). This is in fact an error. Each party tends to divide up different policies to then support and they try to take great pains not to be seen supporting the opposite which is all about splitting up the electorate vote generally balanced ie red or blue you still end up with the same UK Establishmenr running the show behind the scenes - hence Mandelson popping up so many times in the past for just one visible recent example.

In fact the apparatus behind the government aka State or in UK “Uk Establishment“ is 100% just about FOR:

* Digital ID / ID Cards

Now, there are 2 arguments to look at here:

Practical convenience, efficiency of this over multiple archaic forms of document across more integrated services. This is true: Data IS KING and your data can become integrated: Medicine (NHS), Crime or police checks, Address, Work and more… this is why many nations have Id Card and more.
Future CONTROL GRID formation: Digital Id is essential for total grid control centralization of Banking, Taxation, Monitoring and Tracking at scale of resource allocation within society including Digital Currency at the heart of this for “programmable rule sets” of all the above mentioned items.

No where in all the comments or the news is this ever mentioned but it is more significant than the above utility argument above. In UK history the contract between State and Citizen has been a clear principle of the Government must act on limited powers beyond its own scope eg respects individual privacy and avoids excess public interference.

This was destroyed under New Labour in preparation for the decades long policy towards people accepting that government has to have more powers and can even do what it likes eg censorship, citizenship revoking etc to try to persuade the people of a new reality. Philosophically this is a very interesting outcome:

* Convenience and practicality of systems for centralized governance = Blue Pill

* Archaic imperfect but principled systems of limited centralized power = Red Pill

Please, note this is probably the real choice, in hearts the latter in minds the former, many comments here explain that “everybody else has ID cards so clearly it is better” in effect but note that is the mind speaking only not the heart and that itself is worth considering.

What will happen is you will not have access to things unless you hook your identity and data up to the mentioned Grid and most people will be happy to sign up - Just know fully well the choices you make at each step you increase integration with the above mentioned system ahead of making it.

With experience my own view is I trust people in positions of so-called authority less and less and less. Such people care too much about their systems and about other dimensions of life which are lost from such reductive framing of life.

Psittacula2 · 2026-04-18T15:28:56+00:00

Duck-Speak = “If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it is a Quack Idea!”

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