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by Herring 11mo ago
It's not that I don't like it. It's more that I think you're being lied to. Inequality has been going up in the US for a very long time, which means a lot of people are not being rewarded as much as they should. But they
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by Herring 11mo ago
Ok so that's 1 guy 100 years ago. How many golden parachutes and layoffs have there been since then? Cmon people put 2+2 together, it's not that hard.
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by Herring 11mo ago
I might sympathize, but reality doesn't care. At the end of the day it doesn't matter why they voted for something. They did and it's here.
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by Herring 11mo ago
There's never been any such contract. You guys must not have studied the Great Depression at school. Or more to the point, productivity has consistently outpaced pay for most of the US workforce since the mid-1970s. That's ~50 yea
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by Herring 11mo ago
What social contract? Companies have always been for shareholders. Do you people have some kind of contract with Tesla that I don't know about? This entire discussion sounds crazy to me. If you want socialism, vote for socialism. If yo
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by Herring 11mo ago
We're still in the early days. It's gonna get a lot worse, if the LLM scaling laws are to be believed. https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...
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by Herring 11mo ago
Idk man, I'm pretty sure there's more going on than that. Look at this study for example https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-024-10000-8 Normal people would become more liberal. Or look at h
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by Herring 11mo ago
> this is a deliberate choice to make labor less powerful... To be fair, though, I don't trust modern labor either if they can't figure out how to NOT vote for a rapist pedophile real-estate billionaire. Twice. Including a pa
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by Herring 11mo ago
That’s on you. You get to decide what “best” means when picking among the K, so you only get bs if you want bs. I occasionally get people telling me AI is unreliable, and I tell them the same thing: the tech is nearly infinitely flexible (c
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by Herring 11mo ago
Don't kid yourself, all those steps have AI heavily involved in them. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. If I set up RAG correctly, then tell the AI to generate K samples, then spend time to pick out the best one, that's
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by Herring 11mo ago
I couldn't care less tbh. I just want to know whether they're correct or not. We need something like unit testing and integration testing, but for ideas. For the record I actually like the AI writing style. It's a huge improv
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by Herring 11mo ago
We just went through a ton of layoffs, while those companies are making record profits.
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by Herring 11mo ago
Yep you just rediscovered alienation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
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by Herring 11mo ago
I think that’s a bit unfair. I’d say shipping a product that solves a problem is the baseline entry fee into the market, just table stakes. Profitability is determined by the machine built around the product, like the efficiency of capital
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by Herring 11mo ago
> Big companies know that treating engineers as fungible and moving them around destroys their ability to develop long-term expertise in a single codebase. That’s a deliberate tradeoff. They’re giving up some amount of expertise and sof
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by Herring 11mo ago
> Everybody should be as unhappy as me I'm not from the US and I think that attitude is fucked up. You'll get your wish -- the US has been steadily dropping on the lists of "World's Happiest Countries"[1]. But
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by Herring 11mo ago
Nope, Epoch.ai thinks we have enough to scale till 2030 at least. https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030 ^ /_\ ***
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by Herring 11mo ago
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com... He’s wrong we still scaling, boys.
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by Herring 11mo ago
What I'm hearing is "teachers just outside Seattle are doing great, but inside Seattle and the rest of America, they're really not." That's the local cost of living set by the tech sector.
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by Herring 11mo ago
You need a different analysis. Maybe more like this https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/te... Or this: > While U.S. teachers make 58% of their counterparts’ salaries, Finnish teacher
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by Herring 11mo ago
I posted elsewhere you can't just compare across the globe like that. You have to think about cost of living and especially opportunity cost. In the US, teacher pay lags behind similarly educated professionals, which means they get st
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by Herring 11mo ago
I almost agree, but too many people will take that to mean “we need to do more with less”. It’s a feature of capitalism. Teachers are stretched thin in most places, that’s always the main problem. Are WA teachers compensated about the same
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by Herring 11mo ago
That's half true. You have to think about cost of living, you can't just compare across the globe like that. And especially opportunity cost. In the US, teacher pay lags behind similarly educated professionals. But you're rig
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by Herring 11mo ago
> We went in for liposuction .. That's so generous it's past inaccurate. If they genuinely wanted a liposuction they wouldn't have hired their local pedophile rapist grifter to do it.
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by Herring 11mo ago
"Thus, a caste system makes a captive of everyone within it."
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by Herring 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage Modern society benefits a lot from specialization. It's like the dumbest kid in France is still better at French than you.
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by Herring 11mo ago
In theory yeah, but in practice 54% will also vote against funding education. Catch-22.
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by Herring 11mo ago
I think the point is we’re getting there. These models are growing up real fast. Remember 54% of US adults read at or below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
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Text is very information-dense. I'd much rather skim a transcript in a few seconds than watch a video. There's a reason keyboards haven't changed much since the 1860s when typewriters were invented. We keep coming up with oth
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by Herring 11mo ago
Or just look at your car. Heated seats are sexy in the short term, but boring old reliability and predictability win out long term.

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