how many layoffs are they anticipating AI will create and how is that acceptable?
answer if you can, cocksmoker.
smarmy condescension is not an argument.
Not sure why I'm bothering with a crazy person, but maybe someone else out there will get this.
The question of ‘how many layoffs are acceptable’ completely ignores the real stakes: we have to stay the absolute king of AI, period, no matter how many jobs get torched or how much society cries about it short-term. I'm not saying financial ruin will happen at all, but let's pretend AI will cause a lot of pain.
We either adapt fast, retrain, switch careers, invent new shit, or we accept a lower standard of living and watch our dominance slip away. If the sky-is-falling crowd is right and mass layoffs hit, that’s still a thousand times better than waking up one day forced to learn Mandarin because we lost the race.
Any adult not lost in delusion knows the AI cat’s out of the bag. We either lead in building it and unleashing it or we get left in the dust. The only proven way to stay ahead of China is to let the free market do its thing: rewarding innovation, speed, and risk-taking. It's called the American way.
China can’t beat us unless we handcuff ourselves with their playbook, top-down government control, zero real incentives, bureaucrats picking winners and strong government regulations. Command economies always choke and die in long races. History’s full of their corpses.
So yeah, we charge hard and adapt like grown-ups, or we fall behind and pay a price that makes a few pink slips look like a rounding error. There's no room for alarmist and paranoid crack addicts. Lead or bleed. That's reality, we don't get to bend it to our scared and ignorant will. We must boldly go where no man has gone before. (where have I heard that?)
Now, I'll be called an evil AI pig and a globalist swine or some variation. It's what dipshit calls an argument.