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If such tax would introduce an asymmetry that will favour human employment, then there should be enough buying power to create some demand

I wonder what percentage of the job space truly depends on the current edge we have over machines.

I think it's reasonable to worry that way before machines are more reliable than the average human (let alone more reliable than a highly trained human) they can pose a significant disruption to the job market which will send shockwaves throughout society

That is why we need functioning states -- free markets won't save you in such a case. Though I found it is hard to explain especially to U.S. people, who put "regulation" on par with f words :)

Consequential enough that it's reasonable to plan for it.

Just train machines on the huge corpus of human needs so they can need things like no human has needed things before.

What can possibly go wrong

Perfect place for the fortress of solitude!

Not if it's on a map anymore

Yeah. Basically conquest is possible when the victim is weakened. There are many ways to become weakened. Infighting and disease are common causes of weakening.

And indeed the Nahua people had writing.

It's not about where you come from. It's about whether writing is useful or even required for some aspects of civilization to develop.

It's a matter of some debate whether they had true writing. Michael Smith, over of the most notable experts in them, leans against the true writing argument because there are sentences possible orally that can't be communicated in writing. That would make it another form of the proto-writing I mentioned.

Plus, many of the groups around them did not use the same script despite having comparable levels of technological development. The Maya, who did have true writing, were not massively more advanced technologically.

You make it sound that there are only two sides in this story.

Spain, Argentina, Kenya, Indonesia, Kuwait and countless other countries haven't bombed any civilian infrastructure either and yet they will be affected by the aggressive posture around international maritime traffic.

Are you expecting that Iran will not apply the fee to ships that sell oil Malesia or South Africa?

For the Iranian perspective it doesn't matter.

Their only defense against being bombed was using their geopolitical position to its advantage. Their own civilian infrastructure was bombed by the US-Israel axis, with the support of the Gulf states.

I fully expect Iran to apply fees on every ship going through, and they should.

Spain, Argentina, Kenya, Indonesia and countless other countries are paying for the aggressive and reckless actions of the US-Israel axis.

That's the situation of the country where I live btw. I don't blame Iran for using the weapons at their disposal for survival, I blame the rogue states that attacked Iran and forced their hand. Let's not forget that Iran could have done it at any time in the past decades, and showed restraint in doing so, even with all the sanctions and Israeli aggression.

The spec can be wrong for many reasons:

1. You can write a spec that builds something that is not what you actually wanted

2. You can write spec that is incoherent with itself or with the external world

3. You can write a spec that doesn't have sufficient mechanical sympathy with the tooling you have and so it requires you to all spec out more and more of the surrounding tech than you practically can.

All of those issues can be addressed by iterating on the spec with the help of agents. It's just an engineering practice, one that we have to become better at understanding

All three of these are real. The audit pass in Ossature is meant to catch the first two before generation starts, it reads across all specs and flags underspecified behavior, missing details, and contradictions. You resolve those, update the specs, and re-audit until the plan is clean. It's not perfect but it shifts a lot of the discovery earlier in the process.

The third point is harder. You still need to know your tooling well enough to write a spec that works with it. That part hasn't gone away.