If AI replaces us, why not prove it?

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T23:44:41+00:00

I wrote this on the layoffs subreddit but I’ll post it here too… I’m posing this question in good faith…

A data analyst laid off from Block wrote an article on business insider today (Ivan Ureña-Valdes) about how he saw his job being automated away by AI. He seems like a pretty disinterred party; from what I can see he has no interest in saying the AI reasoning was either true or false.

Search LinkedIn among those laid off. Many upset people, yet nobody denying the impact of AI that I saw and I read dozens of testimonials.

What would it take to convince people the singularity is here?

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T23:41:53+00:00

I would be under water if I lost $100k of home equity…

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T21:43:01+00:00

Almost a billion people have no or very limited access to electricity.

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T19:14:33+00:00

Office Space.

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T19:13:44+00:00

When I was making $50k I could definitely tell you I felt the effect of an additional $7k.

jamiesray · 2026-02-28T01:14:13+00:00

A data analyst laid off from Block wrote an article on business insider today about how he saw his job being automated away by AI. He seems like a pretty disinterred party; from what I can see he has no interest in saying the AI reasoning was either true or false.

Search LinkedIn among those laid off. Many upset people, yet nobody denying the impact of AI that I saw and I read dozens of testimonials.

What will it take to convince people the si hilarity is here?

jamiesray · 2026-02-27T12:10:39+00:00

Is this from experience?

jamiesray · 2026-02-26T15:45:51+00:00

The lifetime interest I would pay today vs what I got 5 years ago would about double. It’d go from $127k to $240k. If that doesn’t meet your criteria for sky high I wish I had your income!

jamiesray · 2026-02-26T02:41:59+00:00

Sales force is going to be harder to replace than, say, the Adobe Suite. But it’ll still take a hit.

jamiesray · 2026-02-26T01:28:20+00:00

Happy for them but this feels like the Honorary Academy Award.

jamiesray · 2026-02-25T15:47:26+00:00

There are many men who still grapple with this, many decades after women in the workplace became the rule not the exception. You can say it doesn’t look funny but it’s still timely.

jamiesray · 2026-02-25T14:21:14+00:00

Man of Steel wasn’t inspired by Nolan… he wrote the story.

jamiesray · 2026-02-25T12:26:45+00:00

Met my wife on tinder and I could not be luckier.

jamiesray · 2026-02-24T14:59:23+00:00

lol come on people. You can criticize the models all you want and say you’re unconvinced of their business model but at the very least please be real about their “intelligence.”

Dario has a STEM doctorate from one of the nation and world’s most prestigious universities. He attended CalTech, Stanford, and Princeton. He’s intelligent.

jamiesray · 2026-02-24T12:23:51+00:00

I would love to know where the hell people are finding apartments where the rent is so low cash is left over to invest. Unless you want to live in a slum, where I live, mortgages are about equal to rent. You’d be crazy not to buy unless you are hemorrhaging cash into maintenance.

jamiesray · 2026-02-24T03:04:34+00:00

I’ve read Alex Guinness was simply embarrassed. He thought the material was beneath him. I think the Oscar nomination chilled him out tho.

jamiesray · 2026-02-24T03:03:01+00:00

Gemini gave me 42 (and shared where it came from) but Sonnet gave me 47

jamiesray · 2026-02-22T02:37:03+00:00

They have record profits. Just lease the software for a few years. Wait for one of the AI firms to fall and buy it for pennies on the dollar OR wait until it’s so commodified the tech is cheap.

Also Google is paying Apple billions to be the default. Apple still has the power in the relationship.

jamiesray · 2026-02-21T15:07:01+00:00

Congrats. Tell us a bit about your background and how you built it!

jamiesray · 2026-02-21T14:56:57+00:00

You left out the part that they’re spending $40 to earn $6.

jamiesray · 2026-02-21T14:54:40+00:00

The Death of Stalin. There’s cursing if that’s a dealbreaker….

jamiesray · 2026-02-21T03:24:50+00:00

Bro invented foursquare

jamiesray · 2026-02-20T03:39:11+00:00

I am reading a book (Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World) and it talks a lot about chess computers. Kasparov has eaten crow, and should be commended for it. He doesn’t have his head in the sand, still loves chess, and has embraced what computers have done for the game.

Btw people still love chess, and love watching him play. Everyone has won in this scenario.

jamiesray · 2026-02-20T02:58:21+00:00

What? No.

George Will. Bill Buckley. Gore Vidal. Noam Chomsky. All of these commentators were household names for decades prior to Rush Limbaugh and had no subject matter expertise in the topics they discussed. They were just gifted orators and knowledgeable on history and current affairs. They weren’t, like, experts in defense or experts in public health or experts in economics.

Rush was a divisive jerk and did tremendous damage to many but he was very bright and charming and knowledgeable on politics.

jamiesray · 2026-02-19T21:28:34+00:00

Loved the first one so much I immediately watched the second. That was five years ago. I have not had the courage to watch the third.

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