I am aware that the West’s best time was essentially at the expense of the rest of the world - but where can one find opportunity and prosperity of those times today? Was this a great anomaly of history? Is it time to hedge your bets on living out the Chinese dream?
Is it time for the West to accept that what our parents experienced will never exist again?
Will the world overall need to accept that the western living standard of that time will never be reached again? (It’s too unsustainable - for the planet, and because superprofits won’t flow as they once did)
What has actually happened that’s caused it to collapse?
So a good example is we had to refactor some models to use pyspark, and our data scientists were able to speed up the process probably 3x by using Claude. Like it won’t take you start to finish, this process that is being sold is a definitive lie, but it will dramatically increase productivity when properly applied. And as people figure out how to improve the results through proper context application, the use cases will grow. That shit destroys jobs. Because now a data scientist can do 3x as much.
The things can’t think, but they are basically intellectual mech suits, and the societal implications are profound. A lot of folks on hexbear I think dismiss the tech prematurely without really understanding what it is or how it works