baron816

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by baron816 4mo ago
It’s an economic fallacy that a group of people would get “locked out” of the economy. If you and I are able to work, but can’t get jobs because robots do all the jobs, then we’re not just going to sit on our hands and starve. You and I can
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by baron816 4mo ago
Why is it a winner takes all situation? There’s really intense competition up and down the supply chain for AI. That competition is going to bring down costs for everything. It’s becoming cheaper and easier every day to start a company that
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by baron816 4mo ago
Isn’t this just Luma?
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by baron816 5mo ago
Don’t blame others’ consumption for high prices. We do not want a system where we say “I don’t like your consumption of X because it makes the cost of my consumption of X go up”. The solution here is for the producers of electronics to incr
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by baron816 5mo ago
The media seems hellbent on torching AI. My news feeds are nothing but stories about the evils of data centers, how useless AI is, and how much everyone hates it.
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by baron816 5mo ago
Unions often exert more power at the state and local level. In certain states, they can consistently wield a lot of power. Unions in the US tend to be much more aggressive than they are in other places, which has in part led to their declin
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by baron816 5mo ago
Who does? The unions definitely have lawmakers on their side.
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by baron816 5mo ago
Everyone laughed at Allbirds getting into the business of selling compute.
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by baron816 5mo ago
The problem seems to be that many people view government services as a jobs program. Unfortunately, you can't maximize the number of well paying jobs a program creates AND provide high quality service AND control costs.
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by baron816 6mo ago
This is what happened to me. I would guzzle orange juice. I couldn’t start a day unless I had a giant glass of it. Then I found out that it was just all sugar and not much else. I don’t think I’ve had a glass of the stuff in over a decade.
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by baron816 6mo ago
Well, there are some very important differences. 1) It’s super well known what’s going on with SpaceX. Every investor should know that there’s a lot of good stuff along with some steaming hot garbage. 2) SpaceX isn’t systemic to the economy
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by baron816 6mo ago
You don’t think open AI models will eventually be able to design and build chips and fabs and all their components?
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by baron816 6mo ago
I think you can argue that AI is going to explode and take over the economy, and it’s still a bubble. I think one possible route is that cloud capacity just becomes totally commoditized and none of the hyperscalers will be able to extract t
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by baron816 7mo ago
Looks like I’m generally unintelligent
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Ask HN: Is it too late to reconsider the name "vibe coding"?
3 points by baron816 7mo ago|1 comments
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by baron816 7mo ago
Coal also isn’t really energy dense since so much of the energy is wasted when converting to electricity
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by baron816 8mo ago
The old arguments were right. Americans live materially better lives than anyone else. People are disenchanted because of the things that can’t be outsourced (housing, education, healthcare) have become so expensive. The America First doctr
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by baron816 8mo ago
Companies don’t pass savings to consumers, competition does. Why should American voters pay more for everything so that SWEs can be paid exorbitantly? I shouldn’t need to explain to you why protectionism is bad. There’s 200 years of economi
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by baron816 8mo ago
There’s a lot you can do to directly help other countries that indirectly helps your own country. Creating a rules based system (vs a “might makes right” system) means the powerful don’t just get to take everyone shit, but it does mean ever
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by baron816 8mo ago
So, America First then?
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by baron816 8mo ago
Why are Americans entitled to those jobs? If there are people in other countries happily willing to accept 1/10 of the pay do to the same work, why is it morally wrong deny them those jobs?
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by baron816 8mo ago
Is anyone here able to offer an explanation for why our brains are able to do really complex tasks without using much energy, at least compared to AI systems?
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by baron816 8mo ago
These data are also reported by the BLS: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE . It’s been creeping up for sure, but still historically low. And I’d attest that the headline rate is still the “real” rate.
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by baron816 8mo ago
> converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots I’m very bullish on humanoid robots, but this seems absolutely batshit insane to me. These things are no where near ready for full scale production.
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by baron816 9mo ago
It’s so strange to see people accusing tech companies of using AI to concentrate power and wealth when thus far, AI has almost entirely been all consumer surplus. You have crazily high competition in the industry that allows you the consume
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by baron816 9mo ago
> Start with monopolies: tech companies are gigantic and they don’t compete, they just take over whole sectors, either on their own or in cartels. >Google and Meta control the ad market. Google and Apple control the mobile market, “Te
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by baron816 11mo ago
It’s not binary. It’s not existential. What’s at stake for Nvidia is its HUGE profit margins. 5 years from now, Nvidia could be selling 100x as many chips. But its market cap could be a fraction of what it is now if competition is so intens
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by baron816 11mo ago
My prediction is that in the not-to-distant future, we’re all going to live indefinitely in simulations that optimized for human experience. To do this, AIs will “highjack” our nervous systems and feed generated worlds to use to experience.
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by baron816 11mo ago
I remember when it was a trope that the weatherman was always wrong and that the weather was the prototypal thing that was inherently “unpredictable”.
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by baron816 11mo ago
I think sama thinks money won’t really exist within the next few years. ASI will take over and create a world of radical abundance. Any revenue OpenAI generates is just to create leverage.

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