Microsoft plans to use LLMs and custom tools to rewrite the code of its operating systems and applications in Rust.
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Microsoft to Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust by 2030 - Thurrott.com
Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
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I’m influenced by two factors here: Jevons Paradox and the equalization of the rate of profit. The former suggests that reducing costs increases utilization; the latter suggests that profit rates will eventually direct investment toward value creation, as firms seek to capitalize on effectively lower wages by capturing more labour.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •@jnl those are theories, are they backed up by employment data?
One fear is that entire chunks of the populace are deemed unproductive and that's when you get ward, genocides, the creation of ghettos, the perpetual poverty of Appalachia and the global South, etc.
Consider the individual specific worker, not just The Economy
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Yes, capitalism advances the forces of production, but also leads to immiseration, crisis, war, etc, not AI as such. What capitalism will not do is eliminate labour, which is it;s source of profit.
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Exactly. The magnitude of labour is always increasing, because that’s required for profit to grow. But advances in the forces of production deskill work and drive wages down. In the weaving example, there may be fewer skilled weavers, but the overall workforce involved in textile production is far larger.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •The AI bubble is designed to withhold funding from a utterly necessary switch to renewable energy, like solar & wind.
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cnn.com/2025/12/22/climate/tru…
There's several reasons why the fossil fuel industry is flogging AI so relentlessly.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Election interference. State surveillance. Wage suppression. Anti-unionism. Expansion of fossil fueled energy hogs like data centers.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •Computer RAM is generally useful outside of crypto and Generative AI.
But GPUs …
- burn out quickly
- are outdated quickly
- are not really useful for most other kinds of computer processing
So, assuming that the bubble bursts, most of this "capitol" that they're "investing" in will be … pretty much worthless.
That's why "capitol intensive business model" is misleading for Generative AI. True, but misleading.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •We actually already have the solution to the problem.
What we need is currency, to get the good and services we need and want, right?
Except they're too busy concentrating that currency by using exploitation and finance capitalism. And we can't fight it because our governments are complicit.
This, I believe, is the actual (and intended) proper use for cryptocurency.
We need to issue locally valid, locally owned cryptocurrencies, to allow local commerce outside of the reach of parasites.
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in reply to Dmytri • • •I was actually expecting such an answer.
The issue with cryptocurrencies is that bitcoin was never meant to be used as is, it was a PoC, and not ready for production. People have not thought it out, and used it immediately, first for fun, and then as a finance vehicle.
Now, we have an entire "industry" betting on cryptocurrencies as if it was wall street on crack and meth, and it is literally burning our planet for internet points... 😭
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in reply to 7heo • • •But if we go back to the roots, and see it for what it actually is: a decentralized ledger, that can be made both compliant and private, as is the case with zcash, it can literally free us from our actual struggle against late stage capitalism.
For this, of course, we need to free ourselves of the "cryto bad" dogma, and check why it failed in its current form, and how it can be used for good.
As for "AI", let's talk about it once it actually exists, yes?
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in reply to 7heo • • •@7heo I've written quite a bit about bitcoin, including here:
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The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value
Bitcoin Article7heo
in reply to Dmytri • • •So I'm gonna need a little bit to read your text properly. I skimmed through half, and while interesting, a lot of background knowledge is required for properly understanding it, and I do not possess all of that knowledge yet.
I certainly will have comments, remarks, and possibly criticisms about your text, but I'm really looking forward to understanding it properly and discussing it with you, would you be so inclined.
For now, tho, merry belated winter solstice! 🥳
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in reply to Dmytri • • •The demographic future and labour
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