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by baron816 1y ago
Have you ever worked in a manufacturing job? Surveys have shown that people are much happier, on average, with their service jobs than they were in the past when manufacturing was more prevalent. That's because factory work involves do
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by baron816 1y ago
A key feature of “late stage capitalism” is that people move up the value chain, stop doing menial labor, and find better, more fulfilling jobs that don’t involve putting boxes in other boxes.
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Because Apple has a whole lot of money, but no meaningful bets in the AI race.
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It’s crazy to me that Apple hasn’t acquired them. Apple is looking for a way to get into AI, and I think this space is much more natural fit than some foundation model lab. The big hurdles to getting these into people’s homes is manufacturi
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by baron816 1y ago
> Engineers, he explains, are driven to build while lawyers are driven to argue, and obstruct. This is kind of the criticism that’s provided in Abundance. American Progressives intentionally made it extremely difficult to build anything
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by baron816 1y ago
It drives me insane that the VC industry threw so much money towards delivery in so many ways (restaurant delivery, meal kits, ghost kitchens, etc), when that’s the part that matters the least. If I were to do a startup, it would be a food
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by baron816 1y ago
Umm…hate to break it to you, but https://youtu.be/NeJ6wq2szVs?si=RFwtccO9_QH1CJzY
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by baron816 1y ago
Robotaxis are good, but everyone owning a driverless car is bad. Imagine you get to your destination, there’s no parking (or no free parking), so you tell your car to just circle the block while you’re inside. You spend an hour there at t
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Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper(economist.com)
5 points by baron816 1y ago|2 comments
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Correct. We’re not reversing things anytime soon, and the longer things stay like this, the more damage will be done.
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by baron816 1y ago
Indeed. We’re not fixing it anytime soon.
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The good news is that these economic problems are entirely the result of bad policies and can be reversed. If we were to also raise broad based taxes, it would allow the Fed to cut interest rates, stoking long term investment, loosen up the
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by baron816 1y ago
Reporting agencies will get the headline figures a few minutes early under embargo. They have very strict rules on handling that information. If there’s any issues with releases, they’re not going to be resolved by putting them on a blockch
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by baron816 1y ago
WTF are you talking about? All this data is freely available on government websites such as https://www.bls.gov/ and in easily downloaded formats. Putting it on the blockchain is pointless.
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by baron816 1y ago
In a sane political system, we would’ve raised taxes (across the board). That would’ve slowed down consumption and allowed the Fed to lower interest rates, which would’ve raised investment. It also would’ve reduced the deficit, which would
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by baron816 1y ago
I was on Market Street yesterday on my bike next to a Waymo. A bunch of cars were blocking the intersection when we had the green. The light turned red and the cars blocking the intersection were able to move. I decided to stay, but the Way
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by baron816 1y ago
See https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-caused-the-baby-boom-wh...
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by baron816 1y ago
The mid-century Baby Boom occurred after a surge in affordable home keeping technologies (vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators, etc). I think a rebound in fertility will have to come from technology. Specifically, robots to help
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Ask HN: Can anyone here confidently say they've been replaced by AI?
8 points by baron816 1y ago|4 comments
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by baron816 1y ago
> We need to build and maintain vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do that, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma > This initial phase acknowledges the need to safeguard existing assets and ensures an uni
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by baron816 1y ago
Employee to CEO pay ratio is such a meaningless and distracting measure. Imagine there is a hedge fund that has only a handful of very highly paid employees. Compare that to a very large multi-national corporation that employs hundreds of t
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by baron816 1y ago
I hope at some point, ride hailing companies will start offering something like a bus service. The trick will be normalizing prescheduling trips. Like, if I schedule a vehicle to pick me up at 8:15am to drive me to the office Tuesday, Wedne
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by baron816 1y ago
The supply of housing is more elastic than you think. Some people have spare bedrooms, or second homes in LA. They may have previously chosen to leave them vacant, but for many people the higher rates they can get on Airbnb can entice them
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by baron816 1y ago
I’m optimistic about humanoid robotics, but I’m curious about the reliability issue. Biological limbs and hands are quite miraculous when you consider that they are able to constantly interact with the world, which entails some natural wear
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by baron816 1y ago
One thing Waymo did really well was roll out their service extremely slowly. They knew they needed to build a whole lot of trust to get people to accept them. Can Tesla do the same thing? Can they accumulate a track record of being nearly p
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by baron816 1y ago
Statistics like CPI really aren’t meant to be used to track inflation over many decades. It’s really only meaningful over a handful of years, and only when we’re talking about the economy as a whole (not to use it to say any individual or g
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by baron816 1y ago
This is inevitable with any boom/bust cycle. Employment in tech just can’t possibly grow exponentially forever.
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by baron816 1y ago
If WSJ publishes an article about your job offer, don’t believe it’s a common occurrence.
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by baron816 2y ago
I’m serious. The Matrix is a movie made for entertainment. If the plot of The Matrix were “people live in The Matrix and everyone is fine with that and nothing interesting happens”, then it would’ve been an awful movie. Again, you’re not ex
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by baron816 2y ago
My vision for an ASI future involves humans living in simulations that are optimized for human experience. That doesn’t mean we are just live in a paradise and are happy all the time. We’d experience dread and loss and fear, but it would ul

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