Found this comment on a post about how China is “doing capitalism better then the west, socialism is achieved through capitalism, etc”.

I was expecting some weird takes in the thread, but this was beyond parody.

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    I think that law was primarily to prevent companies from laying off workers from positions that LLMs can’t actually do very well. There is a lot of that happening in the west.

    • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      I think they did it for some other jobs too from what I was hearing when I was there last. China has a big workforce of “people standing around” as my friend called it, opening doors and doing a lot of stuff that could definitely be automated. They were telling me those jobs are currently protected from being automated but I’m now wondering if that was a city or province decision or a national one.