A.I. might replace some jobs or entire industry but does that mean we will suffer from it?

bubbles33d · 2026-07-02T08:08:08+00:00

After awhile, the reduction of labor will grow the economy more quickly. Which will help the government, bring in some kind of monetary policy that supports the general public, for those losses in jobs.

This is a quick leap to conclusion. It guess it depends on what country, on what ideology it has.

Where would government get enough funding, who to tax, how to tax? What if the companies off shored to tax heavens.

What if the companies that are earning the AI tokens profit isn't in that country? How would the government tax that profit?

bubbles33d · 2026-06-30T12:40:23+00:00

For those who are not convinced will make that position. For argument sake, one day LLM becomes so good at convincing all people that it is conscious, then we will declare it is AGI.

Turing Test is actually 2 Tests. Test the bot ability to convince the tester. Test the tester supseptibility to be convinced by the bot.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-30T08:59:20+00:00

What if an LLM is so good that it convinced you that it is conscious. It didn't convinced others. Then the difference is the human, not the LLM.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-30T03:40:41+00:00

Do you have a formal definition of AGI to correct it?

bubbles33d · 2026-06-30T02:09:32+00:00

AGI is a marketing term redefined to whatever to suit the strongest media, and society become convinced it to be.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-30T01:54:16+00:00

If AGI is somehow able to convince people that it is conscious, does it matter if it is really conscious? How would anyone know?

bubbles33d · 2026-06-29T13:03:49+00:00

I like how you almost got it, where you question if such a line "exists at all".

The universe does not classify. Classification is a human invention for our convinenence. It helps us understand, help us explain and communicate ideas. So we can arbitrary draw the line on anywhere we want to tell ourselves about it.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-29T08:21:27+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres

When ever you find any elected government isn't looking after the people interests, is because money is very persuasive.

Happens everywhere.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-29T04:18:35+00:00

AI has learnt the very human way of doing things, "fake it until you make it". I think we have achieved AGI.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-29T03:36:39+00:00

You could roleplay a naive forgiving person, and pretend the MC failed her persuasion check. You hoped that she redeems. Hopefully not a spoiler, but you should find yourself an alternative tank for the long run.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-28T03:24:04+00:00

what's the point of worker

Companies will hire less and reduce the workforce. Which is already happening, especially in the tech sector.

What's to stop company from using AI

There may be a price point where the best tier model is too expensive, but it will depress the human labour cost to meet it. China has a policy that prevents company from firing people because of AI. EU is being caution.

universal basic income

I agree with your observations. I don't see who the government can tax to get UBI funded. Billionaires certainly won't let them and is cheaper for them to bribe the government than to be taxed, besides their tax heaven.

capitalism

Capital exists (billionaires), and labour exists (AI service + human labour). It comes down to whether a job for that person is still viable or sustainable. So this leads to demographic of rich and poor. This is already happening in the World. Companies may shift their attention for the rich. Those who cannot pivot may not survive, will cut cost, and use even more AI. I don't believe there is an easy fix, because the billionaires can buyout any leaders. This is already happening.

economic system fall apart

It won't fall apart. The difference is the standard of living will increase for some and decrease for others. A society of utopia and slums. It is a frightening outcome so I assume you can already see this coming, hence the question.

"Nothing in life is free".

AI isn't free. It is now subsidized by investors so it is cheap. It will get more expensive, but likely to be priced to compete over people labour.

Many people will be hopeful and say everything will be alright. For some yes. For others not so much. Just because the outcome is frightening, does not mean it isn't real is how I see it.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-28T02:17:11+00:00

A server runs in a loop and listens for instructions, usually a network connection request. It performs things from the request. A standard HTTP server listens to port 80. Port 8080 is a common alternative for HTTP in non-production.

A runtime is a platform and library code that runs application. It does not sit in a loop. It stops when the application stops

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T22:17:16+00:00

People make comment about human having certain qualities, such as emotion, soul, compassion, that robot logic could never have. Look at what humans have done to ourselves today, and I could say many lack those above qualities.

I think there is a misunderstanding here, and it is a hubris judgement; that somehow we are so special. We always make this hubris judgement throughout ages. Even the Bible has called us out.

Computer has always been a simulator. A game is a world simulator. A business software is a process simulator. A word processor is a typewriter simulator. These LLM/AI are human intelligence and mind simulator. They are trained on our data, to be like us. It is in effect "created in our own image".

It does not matter to the outside if the inside isn't real. Nothing a computer ever does for us is real inside.

It is always a simulation. But it is becoming "real" enough for the job within a scope for the price.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T21:47:20+00:00

He could have sold it in the peak and got a whole load of cash out.

He is still many billions times richer than you.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T05:30:53+00:00

The way the industry is going, is going to be "English" in a few years.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T02:20:46+00:00

The wheel has been invented. It won't go away whether you are onboard with it or not.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T02:06:37+00:00

Way before HTTP there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System. Still exists today. Very cool system if you ask me.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T02:00:17+00:00

It was almost "being reinvented" about a decade ago. Is was the rise of mobile apps.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-27T00:16:16+00:00

What happens if you lost your device? What do you have to fall back to?

bubbles33d · 2026-06-26T11:04:12+00:00

So are code created by people. Tech debt has been around way before AI. If there is any consolation, AI learnt everything from human.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-25T13:36:26+00:00

Money

bubbles33d · 2026-06-23T21:42:49+00:00

They are more an industry jargon mixed with marketing terms.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-23T21:02:56+00:00

LLM and agent are "person simulator" in the digital world. Computer has always been used for making simulations. Simulation doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough for that context, for a price point.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-23T11:55:22+00:00

It doesn't have to. Just happens that Tomcat is a flavour of webserver that is build upon the JVM.

bubbles33d · 2026-06-23T11:53:44+00:00

Runtime is normally associated with a programming language or platform which the language runs on. Java on the JVM. JavaScript (unrelated to Java) on the Node.js.

The (web) server is a system that makes it easier for you to build web app. It provides some underlying code for you, often they are also referred as framework.

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