Hacker NewsJan 17

You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass – geohot

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/17/three-minutes.html

#HackerNews #You #have #three #minutes #to #escape #the #perpetual #underclass #– #geohot

geohot #escape #underclass #tech #innovation #social #commentary

you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass

I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future.

the singularity is nearer
Klaus-Gerd GiesenJan 2

The widespread use of #ArtificialIntelligence LLMs will render a large segment of the #population illiterate and increasingly incapable of reasoning and thinking for themselvesβ€”the future social #underclass exposed to unprecedented exploitation and manipulation by the new masters of algorithms. The #enlightment era seems declining rapidly. Does anyone see the beginnings of a #luddite #resistance somewhere? Am I too #pessimistic ?

#AI

Marc GarrettNov 6

Hi everyone, please come to the Feral Class book Launch by Marc Garrett

Housmans Radical Booksellers, London @housmans πŸ™‚

19th November, 7-8.30 pm

Published by #MinorCompositions

#class #avantgarde #underclass #working-class #books #art #memoir44

TinJarOct 8
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi... #ai #labor #underclass #equality #humanrights #justice

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npmlkxztzkcjt6x4cdggyflg/post/3m2p7zw34as2v

Will A.I. Trap You in the β€œPer...
TinJarOct 8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TinJar/115339858575851446

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/will-ai-trap-you-in-the-permanent-underclass

#ai #labor #underclass #equality #humanrights #justice

Show threadToni AittoniemiSep 13, 2024

And it really doesn't matter that tankies are going to attack me for saying it. Yeah the Marxist-Leninist will claim "this is all a part of capitalism", because it fits their world view.

But for the rest of us not so much into 1800-century economic political theory, it's actually useful to draw this dividing line because of the paradigm shift building for rent introduces to building for profit.

#Capitalists as we know it, are now an #underclass Easier to talk about it like this.

#class

Democracy Matters May 24, 2024

Republicans make people poor.

Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass https://newrepublic.com/article/181939/republicans-want-permanent-economic-underclass

#NoRepublicansEverAgain #Poverty #Racism #Underclass #TaxTheRich #VoteBlue #JoeBiden2024 #BidenHarris2024

Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass

Ever heard of the β€œmudsill theory”? Well, it goes back to the slaveholding South. And it explains a lot.

The New Republic
Show threadBc Clarity Carlton-MartinJan 28, 2024
@ekuber no car=Dalit #HinduAmerica #Default #Underclass
beSpacificJun 21, 2023
#AI Is a Lot of Work. As the technology becomes #ubiquitous, a vast #tasker #underclass is emerging and not going anywhere. #AI #learns by finding #patterns in enormous quantities of #data, but first that data has to be sorted, #tagged by people, a vast #workforce mostly hidden behind machines. It’s difficult and #repetitive work. A several-second blip of footage took eight hours to annotate, for which a college graduate in #Nairobi was paid about $10. https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots?tpcc=NL_Marketing
AI Is a Lot of Work

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions to support OpenAI, Google, Meta, and every other major tech company. As AI becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging β€” and not going anywhere.

The Verge
hanyuxi Mar 28, 2023

The Report on #HumanRights Violations in the #UnitedStates in 2022 (4/6)

IV. Worsening Subsistence Crisis among #U.S. #Underclass
The nation sees widening wealth gap, worsening living conditions for low-income groups, increasing homeless people, life-threatening drug abuse, and dropping average life expectancy. U.S. underclass is facing a severe survival crisis.
https://english.news.cn/20230328/7958d26f811e45249be9b2d9a292f0cf/c.html

Full text: The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022