Uned

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Political Economy

Oh, fucking clown. Real product compensation is not a good measure of inflation or compensation as the average worker experiences it. This is just an over-educated attempt to sneak something in that most people won’t know what it means to make himself look clever while dunking on his enemies. Well I’m smarter than he is by far and here’s why it’s bunk.

RPC is based on the Producer Price Index, which is a measure of the price of what firms sell. The worker & family actually experiences inflation as the Consumer Price Index (or at least far closer to), which is rent, food, healthcare and all those essentials of living. So, check this out: if the price of making things rises faster than the CPI, real product compensation will make the worker look much better off even if their actual cost of living isn’t improving much at all.

In other words, as usual this econ is attempting to con you. After all, it’s right in the name of the profession. It’s what most of them are paid to do.

There’s about five other things wrong with this RPC way of measure this but I just don’t have time to write about them all. A clownish asinine dipshit is all this dude is. Should’ve gotten a real education somewhere, but probably doesn’t have the brain to handle it.

Liter8

Chill Evil, Prediction

This is already occurring. Neal Stephenson was right. I predict we’ll revert to roughly the historical norm with about 10-20% of the population literate to any degree. The rest will only be capable of watching and sending video and can recognize the occasional word.

What would stop that outcome? Nothing that I can see.

Grim

Chill Political Economy

I suspect the majority of the reaction against AI is akin to when factory workers were first substantially replaced by machines followed not long after by most of the remaining jobs being shipped off to Mexico and China. It feels the same. It’s just the first time knowledge workers and “creatives” have been hit in a really large way.

And they’re not reacting well. I understand, though. I just wish they’d had more sympathy when their “inferiors1” had their livelihoods eviscerated years ago.

They cared little and did nothing. Now the reaper is coming for them too.

  1. As they see them.

In Out

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Rant

To those who say AI isn’t a substantive advance (or even more absurdly, a “plagiarism machine”) you’re wrong. No, it’s not a tech Jesus and it’s not the end of the humans on earth as the AI cultists imagine, but it’s at least the equivalent of gene sequencing + editing or other tech like that.

Most of you have a GIGO problem with AI — garbage in, garbage out. And here’s the thing: you’re the garbage in that equation.

Vimp

Chill Amusing, Annoying

People who claim they cannot see any difference between 1080p and 4K screens — I just don’t believe them. It’s so insanely obvious I think they are just saying that so they don’t have to spend more money on a better monitor.

Unless you have, like, 20/100 vision the difference is like looking at a pebble and boulder and claiming they are exactly the same.

Surely people cannot be that vision-impaired and still read without glasses?

Good Victory

Chill Regular-ass Post

Yep. Here’s my land acknowledgment: We took your land. You weren’t powerful enough to keep it. What’s done is done. Deal with it.

That’s really all you need to say.

L &S

Chill Clowns, Lying Liars

Indeed. Obama started this. That doesn’t make it right (or wrong). But it was a precedent. Pretending like this began with Trump is false and makes (as is typical lately) the liberal side look deranged. After all, they cheered like mad when their lord and savior Obama did exactly the same thing.

Chill Links

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water.

The past was not that cute.

ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B.

US job cuts surged 183% in October to a record 153K. Is this the end of America's ‘no hire, no fire’ landscape?

Children with better musical skills may benefit from a prolonged window of brain plasticity.

Growing Fear of Nature: Study Reveals Causes of Rising Biophobia.

For small businesses hit by soaring costs, layoffs are painful and personal.

Leibniz’s Monads Are Weird Quarks.

America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism.

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and get ready for war with Russia.