The decline in college wages is largely attributable to outsourcing and the rise of global expertise. Skilled labor can be performed at an equivalent level for lower cost abroad. The issue is outsourcing. And AI is the latest iteration of this.
This is not a funny dynamic, and the only real winners in this have been the investors. I would hardly call Microsoft an American company anymore.
1) Stop the guardrails (except for anti-hallucination guardrails, those are good),
2) Stop the REPLACE ALL THE HUMANS agitprop and sales pitches, maybe start presenting it as a technology which will overthrow rather than empower aristocracy,
3) Stop sucking up compute silicon and driving powerful home computing to absolute unaffordability,
4) Lean really heavy into local inference and open weights, for information privacy and personal sovereignty; we [smart ones] can see that the cloud monster is the Intelligence Community's golden goose right now and we're not buying it!
superkuh•1h ago