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by RigelKentaurus 17 days ago
I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits.

As for your points, global wealth is not a fixed pie, so it's not "impossible to have more than 470 trillionaires". Re:"1 person billion dollar company or 5-10 employee in the Fortune 500 is laughable" - it is difficult but not impossible. Currently, the company ranked at the bottom of the Fortune 500 (No. 500) is Vulcan Materials, with a revenue of ~$8 billion. I can imagine a company combining domain expertise with amazing AI/engineers to achieve superlative product-market fit and hit this revenue number.
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tapete1 16 days ago
> I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits.

The point is that this article is extremely badly written; an over-influated piece of text that could easily be ΒΌ as long. We assume that it is written by AI merely because AI tends to produce not-worth-reading texts like this.

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trollbridge 16 days ago
That particular company employees 12,000 people, and it's very, very hard to imagine them being replaced wholesale by AI, although maybe someone will figure out self-driving loaders, self-driving trains, self-operating scales, and so forth.
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