Honestly, with adequate governance, companies would be required to submit reports on how much labor they’re doing using AI, and pay those wages to either their employees or to a sort of “Universal Income” fund to prop up families in poverty. It should be called the AI tax.

The problem is that, with the current state of affairs, asking for regulation from anyone is impossible, and also even if the law were enacted, getting the money from the companies to people who need it instead of the ultra-rich is a major hurdle.

But at the very least, I don’t think we should allow companies to simply cut down on human labor without also contributing economically to the employees they cut off.

I don’t think anyone is dying to fill in Excel spreadsheets or to write corporate emails. No one is complaining about AI doing those jobs, but about people who lost their livelihoods because of it.

Yo lo aprendí por un profesor que daba clases de programación en la universidad. Alguna vez salió el tema y fue muy enfático “en mi clase, el que no le diga virgulilla que mejor ni participe”. Supongo que era un fastidio muy personal para él.

Hace un buen rato he estado dedicándome a los libros de historia. Me terminé “A History of the Byzantine State and Society” de Warren Treadgold que, desafortunadamente no tiene traducción al español pese a ser toda una obra maestra. Y ahora quería leer algo sobre historia del Islam. Encontré “The Venture of Islam” de Marshall Hodgson, que capaz me lo leo, pero me gustaría algo en español. Si alguien tiene buenas recomendaciones del tema, estaría muy agradecido.

Isn’t it better to have specific stations where you can leave them and pick them back up?

I’ve seen that model in Bogota, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, and people still absolutely use them all the time and they don’t make as much of a mess. It’s pretty good.