bayarearefugee

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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> Key to this view is our expectation that over the long run AI will create many new jobs even as it destroys existing ones. Still waiting for anyone with this viewpoint to offer a single educated guess at what any of these created jobs
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> 55+ crushing it on the asset inflation mania Not all of them, some of them have just been pushed out of the workforce unwillingly due to ageism while still financially insecure. I'm all about people being angry with the current si
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
Both are abysmal, but as a US citizen bad behavior from Chinese corporations and government is vastly more limited in how negatively it can impact my life in a practical way than bad behavior from US corporations and government.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
There is also a rather thorny chicken and egg problem. If language is required for thinking and conscious experience how did we manage to develop language in the first place.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> This is not new. Nothing under the sun is new, but we do currently live in a time with unprecedented levels of open corruption where nobody seems to feel the slightest amount of guilt for clearly immoral behavior as long as they get aw
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> but it's not. it's right there in what you quoted. the louder ads are coming from an ad provider. ad providers are the problem. Then the streaming services are failing to punish their ad providers, so they still have culpabil
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> I would recommend anyone starting in fintech to take some time to understand accounting principles and the ledger in a bit more depth than just debits vs credits Probably good advice (for everyone in fintech, not just programmers) co
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> Anyone who has worked in tech for any amount of time has signed an NDA. They are not nefarious. Non-Disclosure agreements to protect a company's legitimate business and trade secrets aren't nefarious. But I'd argue that
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> If this is the way things are now, isn't that going to crash the AI stocks? Maybe, maybe not. Tech stocks are mostly vibes-based now, reality isn't really a concern for them.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> it may underestimate the inference margins of Ant/OAI's API pricing. If true then why are neither Anthropic or OpenAI dropping their API pricing to gain market share when both are clearly doing all sorts of political and PR m
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> Should we get into a big war, we'll likely need mass production of military vehicles and having mass production of consumer vehicles is a good start. And all those military vehicles we build will be destroyed by tiny fpv drones th
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> this guy resembles Elon What an awful thing to say about a person.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> If they do sensitive work for the government, it'd make sense that they'd do those back-end references. If they do government work that requires clearances, the clearance process already covers this sort of investigation on i
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> If Europe was as willing to drill for gas as the US is, they'd probably be able to run more ACs and save thousands of lives every year. They'd also be accelerating the collapse of AMOC... after which they won't need ACs
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
For the vast majority of people who currently have a job in software... you will not have a job in software in the future whether you use AI or not. The tide is coming for almost all of us.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
I rent out tables for local ComicCons. Good money in it, but a lot of the people who rent your tables won't keep them clean.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> For those who let a professional fly, the crash rate is very low. But still much higher on the private plane side than the commercial side, even if its a hired pilot.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> calling AI "the world's money-losingest technology" is out of touch In what way is it out of touch or wrong? It is objectively correct today. It may very well not be correct 2 years from now, but his statement was about
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
One of the few benefits of being part of the underclass is that commercial planes crash far less often than private.
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> If you assume AI takes a good chunk of labor, the market is gigantic. Really really really gigantic. But without labor the entire economy also collapses into a singularity beyond which nothing really makes sense anymore, so there'
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> OpenAI likely missed the window to have a successful IPO. I wish I could believe this but lighting giant stacks of cash on fire is, unfortunately, no longer a disqualifying event for tulip buyers. I wouldn't bet they will have a
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
*currently-white-collar
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
Not all of them are minimum wage now, but even for the ones that currently aren't how do you think their wages will be impacted by the sea of currently-white-color workers retraining into their markets to escape the white-collar employ
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> Btw, its insane to think imo that a few years from now theres going to be no jobs - AI isnt going to cook food or stack bricks or any number of manual processes We're all really excited to do those mostly minimum wage jobs. Espec
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> But here we are giving them more power. Sure, but those of us who need to earn income are in a prisoner's dilemma with billions of actors and realistically we'll never coordinate that boycott. On the other hand, the OP articl
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
They have to be kind of panicking that the smear tactics keep backfiring. Didn't stop Mamdani. Won't stop Platner. At this point it is amusing to see them pissing away so many millions of dollars to stop a public opinion tide tha
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> They ultimately got what they wanted. They got what they claim they wanted for PR purposes. Like when a billionaire says they should be taxed more, or when Sam Altman says the public should get some of that AI wealth. But they never th
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
The modern FDA's big claim to fame is having the previous head of it forced out, then nearly immediately approving controversial fruit-flavored vape products at the behest of a POTUS who both owns stock in Altria/Philip Morris and
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> Also, almost everyone has been walking back their previous claims that "AI will replace ~80% of white-collar jobs." They started walking those claims back right around the time someone tried to set Sam Altman's house on
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by bayarearefugee 4mo ago
> We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued Well... yeah, sure, everyone thinks that. And the fact that it doesn't matter and won't impact demand for shares illustrates how increasingly and dangerously untethered the stock market

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