@bloodflowersburning (I know that's not how NZ works, and I feel sad about it)

@bloodflowersburning When you help someone with their groceries/stairs/anything or call an ambulance when someone's hurt the most important thing shouldn't be "How am I compensated". David Graeber called this (deliberately provocative) "baseline communism" it's why when 2 people working in a repair shop go "pass me the wrench," ..""ok" instead of entering into a wrench contract

@bloodflowersburning I'd never! The market knows best.

@bloodflowersburning I like the idea of applicant pushback. for something like $40 NZD /mth you can have all the "job application agents" via Claude. Totally agree about the snake.eating its tail . We should be building community resilience instead of data centers IMO.

@bloodflowersburning Yes. In my experience it does make things worse by inventing and obsessing over bad solutions (keeps returning to the same shitty solution to a programming problem) What keeps me up at night is algorithmic cruelty when it's used in stuff like job applications or negotiating social services., "Computer Says No"

@bloodflowersburning Ask GPT to write code for you. Same problem,. forgets or invents context, addresses a different problem, gets fixated on minutiae when the problem is structural. And if you even hint at what you think the Delphi 2.0
will fart out you get "CONGRATULATIONS YOUR A GENIUS"