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by epups 3y ago
Bad PR, discontinued advertising from said companies and eventually being forced to pay anyway due to contractual obligations? Conversely, I don't see any upside to doing this song and dance other than cash flow issues.
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by epups 3y ago
Germany likes to blame immigration for the underachievement of its school system, but the reality is that it's an extremely outdated system that is absolutely not prepared for the modern world. While in Scandinavian countries - with si
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by epups 3y ago
The subject of seniority and progression to management pops up from time to time here in HN, and we usually see the same tired arguments. Managers are useless, it's not real work, seniority is an illusion, etc etc. There's nothing
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by epups 3y ago
The situation here is black and white. Israel is and has been on the driver's seat for the last 50 years, and for decades now has been practicing terrorism and collective punishment against civilians. They could, I don't know, not
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by epups 3y ago
Can I talk to gzip in natural language and have it produce novel output not contained within any of its source files? If not, I think your comparison is deeply flawed. LLM's are not simply compression algorithms.
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by epups 3y ago
Who is removing the option to teach anything at home?
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by epups 3y ago
Even if we accept your premise, LLMs don't have to make you 10x in order to succeed. I think even 1.05x will do, considering their price point is 20 bucks a month.
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by epups 3y ago
Assuming you mean OECD, and that for these purposes we consider money reserves as an asset, then the person doing overtime has no increase in wealth (assuming they paid the same to the caregiver), the caregiver has an increase, every compan
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by epups 3y ago
> What if Greg is an online repository, crawling the web and storing and distributing copyrighted materials verbatim? Stripping out attribution? With ads and/or a paid subscription fee? So you mean Google, right?
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by epups 3y ago
Before we continue our discussion, can you tell me what is your definition of wealth?
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by epups 3y ago
The example that started this is someone taking care of an elderly person themselves vs working overtime and paying someone to do so. Simply by working overtime for a company, this person created economic value, likely higher than of their
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by epups 3y ago
No thanks - if you are interested in an argument, please present yours in written format.
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by epups 3y ago
But the country is wealthier in the scenario where you produced and sourced more labor for money. Arguably more productive too, because you expanded the pool of labor when you worked more hours, which your employer (presumably) transformed
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by epups 3y ago
The sentence "the country is better off" is subjective. The country's GDP will go up if all prices go up, yes. But this will also mean that inflation will go up, and in adjusted terms no one will be richer. The price deflator
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by epups 3y ago
The GDP is a measure of economic activity, meaning the exchange of money for products or services. Of course there are activities, such as the ones you describe, that will not be accounted because they are done for free or in exchange for s
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by epups 3y ago
> Don't believe GDP as an indicator of real growth, they keep on adding fictitious sources to these numbers. Did you know that rent is part of GDP? And even rent that homeowners would have paid to a landlord had they owned their hom
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by epups 3y ago
Then why are a lot of countries trying to get in it? Why didn't Greece go out when it had the chance?
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by epups 3y ago
Do you know which model size can be run with a 3090?
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by epups 3y ago
I can, and I think the utility of private flights is decreased, and the per capita footprint too high.
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by epups 3y ago
Ok, but the commercial planes are taking a lot of people for reasons that impact commerce (tourism, business meetings, etc). A private flight for pleasure should obviously be banned before those use cases if we're purely thinking of gl
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by epups 3y ago
This seems unfair. These restrictions only affect a very specific group of people who may or may not contribute unfairly to global warming, while leaving people who have a crazy high footprint, like billionaires, unscathed. An apt compariso
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by epups 3y ago
But if we allow people to take off on a plane for fun, why shouldn't we allow people to collectively share a plane and get to their destination for a variety of reasons? This partial ban seems unfair otherwise
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by epups 3y ago
By what criteria? In several professional capacities, including coding, LLM's are far superior to an average human already.
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by epups 3y ago
SAP (got this answer from a German once)
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by epups 3y ago
Lots of "will", "in the future" and "later this year", but no clear demonstration that they are building anything good at all. They are just trying to get to parity to Microsoft, who is already integrating Chat
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by epups 3y ago
I think your statements are great and I would love if the world would work the way you are trying to convey. But it doesn't. I pointed out that the outcome of whether AI will replace human labor is not in the hands of individuals, or a
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by epups 3y ago
My incentive structure is to be as efficient as possible with the resources I have. All our competitors have the same mandate. If I keep 10 humans employed when I don't need them because I'm "doing the right thing", my e
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by epups 3y ago
I see your point of course, it's easy for me to think I'm right and these guys are wrong and they do probably think the same. That doesn't mean that neither of us is correct though. And you do draw the line somewhere. You wou
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by epups 3y ago
Ok, got it. I can see how my comments were inflammatory in this thread and will refrain from that in the future. On the other hand, I think a thread like this one also fits your description of ideological battle and flame war. It is very po
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