ItsMonkk

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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
What do people on here say, luck favors the prepared? Had he gone on to college, the odds that he was on that forum go down, and thus he would not be the one strike when the opportunity arose. Confirmation bias is very tricky here. A quick
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
It's useful here to split up these people into different categories. Terrance Tao was a prodigy and was allowed to succeed within the school system beyond what others are given access to. Zuckerberg and Gates succeeded and didn't
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
If locally hosted AI can do many jobs, why would a person ever consult a company and pay for their services?
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
The Census breaks the homeless population into two groups - those whom live in shelters and those who do not. They completely ignore the later. For the former, shelters are not considered housing units. > "Census Bureau surveys do n
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
Surely one of us is confused, but I am not lying. Here it is on the Census website. No where does the Homeownership rate depend on people. It depends on housing units. > Housing Unit. A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of r
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
How does a person becoming homeless effect the homeownership rate? They no longer get counted. How does someone owning (and living in) multiple properties effect the homeownership rate? They count multiple times! How does someone renting ou
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
It's interesting because it should be very easy to put a test in action. Are there true capability differences between people who think in different ways? Feynman[0] goes through a particular version of such a test in his Ways of Think
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
What percentage of the labor costs are being used to paying the laborers rent? How much is it in paying the laborers food? For healthcare? For education? How expensive are all of these things in San Francisco compared to other cities? Now h
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
The trading industry is separate from the investing industry. The investing industry is positive sum - but you must hold for the long-run, or only make decisions if new information is discovered to be an investor. Vanguard and other passive
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
This is just more talking points to confuse. The architecture that economists and climate scientists both agree will move the needle on this is a revenue neutral carbon tax. A revenue neutral carbon tax taxes carbon, and then returns 100% o
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
> And when we worked from the office, it was much easier to catch them going sideways and re-direct them. I regularly work with people on my team who need to go into an office, but it's a different office than mine. RTO does not sol
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
You seem to think if your company is offering WFH that you still can't come into the office. I don't see why that has to be the case. It it work from ANYWHERE in the world, including your office, vs work ONLY in your office. Every
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Looks like a perfect opportunity for a citizen's dividend. Anything that is taken is put into a pot. After a certain time all of that is given back equal to all citizens.
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Yep. I don't really see the point in anything long range for autonomous vehicles in the near-term. We should optimize the use-case of them driving people and goods to and from train stations. For this use-case it should be entirely fin
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Eh, NIT and any sort of UBI are mathematically the same thing given you still have an income tax and can adjust the percentage. This just accomplishes that goal in a progressive way.
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Yep, this is why we need a water price and dividend system. Whenever you use water it is tracked and you pay the market price. All of that is then collected and put into a pot. It is then given back equally to everyone. Everyone is thus inc
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
It's a relatively simple argument first made by Economist Paul Samuelson a century ago. > A businessman could not build it for a profit, since he cannot claim a price from each user. This certainly is the kind of activity that gover
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
As someone who believes that patents and copyrights should be abolished, this is a great first step. If AI can do to innovation what it did to Chess where it made even centaur matches pointless, within a short time a significant amount of i
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
They don't own the IP. They are licensed the IP by OpenAI.
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
That's even worse. Breaching the contract would presumably mean they would lose access to the GPT4 IP. That would set Microsoft back months in the race. Unthinkable.
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Presumably they still have billions of dollars of pledged compute remaining from Microsoft, opening up and letting open source contributors move the project forward is the best path forward. And doing this is the first step on that path.
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Completely agree. This form of transportation needs it's own infrastructure. We need wider dedicated paths for this much higher efficient form of transportation that can carry many more people than car lanes can. Like in the Netherland
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
It would not. You have been misled. Here's backup from wikipedia, or are they also not making sense? > The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
The homeownership rate is the percentage of HOMES that are lived in by their owners, not the count of PEOPLE that own their own homes. Given a shortage of homes, the homeownership rate will not show you that there is a crisis. For example,
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
And what is your take on when Minneapolis voted to allow multi-family units[0] and rents dropped[1] relative to other cities? Shouldn't those new units have brought higher land values, and with it higher rents? [0]: https://
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
Under the existing system you are incentivized for your own land to be zoned as highly as possible while your neighbors land is restricted as possible to keep supply low. Since everyone votes against you and you vote against everyone, zonin
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
No. The way taxes work is first you work out how much taxes need to collect, then you work out how much weight everyone has afterwards and split it all up according to that weight. This plan plans to reduce the weight of property and more t
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
No. Tenants always pay for the land value. If a new train station opens up and the costs of an apartment have not changed, you better believe the landlord will raise prices given the raised demand from the new value associated from the trai
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
It might help as someone who believes they have aphantasia that the steps that I do in my head to list out the steps to go somewhere is identical to the steps I would list out to tell someone how to code something up. If you were to ask me
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by ItsMonkk 3y ago
I think the hybrid approach here might work well. Allow self-driving cars, but limit their speed to one in which they are very clearly safe, maybe something like 10 to 20 mph currently. This would cause most people most of the time to use m

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