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BREECHES BIBLE. An edition of the Bible printed in 1598, wherein it is said that Adam and Eve sewed figleaves together, and made themselves breeches.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BREECHES BIBLE. An edition of the Bible printed in 1598, wherein it is said that Adam and Eve sewed figleaves together, and made themselves breeches. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Original affluent society: Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well
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theory in anthropology

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From the linked article:

-"The logic surrounding the AI boom is utterly moronic. The idea is to gamble the entire Western economy by heavily investing in technology that will wipe out almost all jobs. It is a lose-lose scenario. If the bet fails, the economy crashes. If the bet succeeds, the economy crashes. And this graph shows that this is precisely what is happening."

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The image is a graph of the value of the S&P 500 (in green), an index fund of the largest 500 companies in the US, and the total number of job openings in the US (in blue). The lines historically correlate closely, but there are two obvious deviations where they break apart, which are highlighted/circled.

The Most Terrifying Graph I Have Ever Seen

The Most Terrifying Graph I Have Ever Seen The entire premise of the AI boom makes no sense. But it was never meant to. The AI boom is idiotic, needlessly complex, and wrapped up in a huge amount of …
Will Lockett (Medium)
#economy #society #ai #economics

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