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highplainsdem

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9. Paul Kedrosky, who wrote that, is a venture capitalist and adviser to hedge funds, so of course he
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 11:40 PM
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ignores all the other problems with genAI except its being a threat to jobs, which he says is more threatening because we don't have a social safety net equivalent to other countries'. He suggests Americans would like AI more if we had health care decoupled from employment, and much better unemployment insurance, but he has no suggestions for how we get there. I doubt he's suggesting much higher levels of taxation to the hedge fund managers he advises.

And it's completely unrealistic of him to ignore everything else harmful about genAI.

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