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UNCatTech said:
I liked Stewart's show on apple.

He's for a weekly podcast now.
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Just following up on this discussion from a while ago, I think this article about the recent Talarico interview indirectly makes the point of how Colbert will not have any trouble still reaching a big audience once he leaves CBS:

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Stephen Colbert Just Gave Brendan Carr a Free Lesson in the Streisand Effect

CBS and the FCC are once again trying to control the Late Show host. So far, it's backfiring spectacularly.
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I do think it has to be said that he will have to start over, to some extent, with new social media channels once he leaves the Late Show. But I don't think it will be that hard to build a new following on those channels, especially with the help of the algorithms (sigh). I know I'm one who mostly watches Colbert on Youtube already (Oliver too), even though I can also watch their shows on CBS and HBO, respectively.
 
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The decoupling of jobs data and economic production may continue to accelerate as AI replaces a lot of us white collar stiffs across the information economy, which could in turn further accelerate the concentration of wealth among a small fraction of Americans. The bottom 50% of Americans has already seen their combined wealth shrink from 3.5% of total American wealth to 2.5% now. The bottom 75-99% should prepare to see their relative share of the pie shrink as well.

We seem to be heading towards a dystopian bifurcated economy where Americans are either employed to provide healthcare (and related services) and daycare/eldercare services to other Americans and most of the rest of Americans will service the tiny owner class and their data centers and robots and the energy needed to fuel them.
 
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Good time to focus on arts, crafts, gourmet and natural foods and the things where rich people can convince themselves the human touch makes it special. Tour guides, trainers, sommeliers, masseuses and masseurs and the others who dance attention around the rich and famous should do well.
 
nycfan said:
The decoupling of jobs data and economic production may continue to accelerate as AI replaces a lot of us white collar stiffs across the information economy, which could in turn further accelerate the concentration of wealth among a small fraction of Americans. The bottom 50% of Americans has already seen their combined wealth shrink from 3.5% to total American wealth to 2.5% now. The bottom 75-99% should prepare to see their relative share of the pie shrink as well.

We seem to be heading towards a dystopian bifurcated economy where Americans are either employed to provide healthcare (and related services) and daycare/eldercare services to other Americans and most of the rest of Americans will service the tiny owner class and their data centers and robots and the energy needed to fuel them.
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Your pithy distillation of current trends seems to be forming a consensus view even among many with a vested interest in the future of AI. The counterargument is that the grossly disruptive technology will generate a burst of innovation so as to generate an abundance of new classes of jobs and entrepreneurialism that will counter the inevitable loss of traditional employment.

Didn’t they sell NAFTA, etc on this exact same premise?
 
sunnyheel said:
Your pithy distillation of current trends seems to be forming a consensus view even among many with a vested interest in the future of AI. The counterargument is that the grossly disruptive technology will generate a burst of innovation so as to generate an abundance of new classes of jobs and entrepreneurialism that will counter the inevitable loss of traditional employment.

Didn’t they sell NAFTA, etc on this exact same premise?
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They did. And in American history new tech has both been the destroyer of worlds for some and the generator of new and greater opportunities for others.

But AI seems to be making people obsolete, not the work they perform. The machines do the work instead and just need people to feed their gaping maws with energy resources to keep them well cooled, fully powered and operational 24/7/365.
 
nycfan said:
We seem to be heading towards a dystopian bifurcated economy where Americans are either employed to provide healthcare (and related services) and daycare/eldercare services to other Americans and most of the rest of Americans will service the tiny owner class and their data centers and robots and the energy needed to fuel them.
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So, the American South circa 1850. Don't get the Pubs TOO excited.
 
finesse said:
Good time to focus on arts, crafts, gourmet and natural foods and the things where rich people can convince themselves the human touch makes it special. Tour guides, trainers, sommeliers, masseuses and masseurs and the others who dance attention around the rich and famous should do
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nycfan said:
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Can't be true Führer has told us that we are making trillions now from trade and the national debt will be paid off, the deficit will go away, income taxes will go away and other countries are begging to buy our goods.
 
finesse said:
Good time to focus on arts, crafts, gourmet and natural foods and the things where rich people can convince themselves the human touch makes it special. Tour guides, trainers, sommeliers, masseuses and masseurs and the others who dance attention around the rich and famous should do well.
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True and economy for the rich. We are more and more just pawns in their world.
 
nycfan said:
They did. And in American history new tech has both been the destroyer of worlds for some and the generator of new and greater opportunities for others.

But AI seems to be making people obsolete, not the work they perform. The machines do the work instead and just need people to feed their gaping maws with energy resources to keep them well cooled, fully powered and operational 24/7/365.
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I just finished listening to "The Cosmos" today on audio book. His last chapter was spot.
 
nycfan said:
They did. And in American history new tech has both been the destroyer of worlds for some and the generator of new and greater opportunities for others.

But AI seems to be making people obsolete, not the work they perform. The machines do the work instead and just need people to feed their gaping maws with energy resources to keep them well cooled, fully powered and operational 24/7/365.
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Ned Ludd and friends said hi.
 
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