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by mbgerring 6mo ago
Weird, I thought AI was going to create so much economic surplus that we wouldn’t know what to do with it. What happened?
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Starting?
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- relative to last year - relative to peers in other countries - relative to my parents when they were my age - relative to how hard I’m working to find housing or a job - relative to the way braindead economists talk about the economy in t
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
The average American doesn’t have this. The average resident of Taipei would not trade their quality of life for the actually equivalent quality of life in the United States. Source: multiple Taiwanese immigrants I know personally, planning
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
Now compare what you can get for that money in both countries, and you will inevitably discover that the German is wealthier in every way that matters.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
I’m tired of people saying this. I was in Taipei recently and had to do a reality check, because obviously, the exchange rate means the food seems cheap, but I checked again against local incomes, and yes, it turns out: Taipei has abundant
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
You’re going to get downvoted for this, but you’re right. Literally any international travel to an actual first world country will ruin America for you. This country is a backwater in terms of infrastructure, culture and quality of life.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
Every time I read one of these it’s the same. No one ever even tries to look at quality of life measurements, or cost of living relative to income, or measurements of precarity (e.g. How secure is my job? How secure is my housing?). What I
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
UNIONIZE. If it’s not obvious to you now, it never will be.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
The sooner you acquire the mental model, that AI coding agents are more or less the average of Stack Overflow, the better your expectations for, and this your productivity with, these things will be.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
I’ve lived in SF for over a a decade and I have no idea what any of this is. I hope I never meet any of these people.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
The rise of the “programmable web,” internet companies offering “free” APIs on which businesses were built, and then destroyed when the company offering the API changed the terms or started charging for it. Twitter was a famous example, Fac
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
hundreds (thousands?) of companies who based their business on capabilities built around someone else's API. Companies that had important features stop working because a company's API terms and conditions changed. Were you not aro
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
I wonder how long it will take the software industry to re-learn the 2010s lesson, that basing your entire business on (and in this case, firing half of your employees and replacing them with) another company’s API is a bad business decisio
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
77 million Americans voted for Trump. That’s: - 32% of the citizen voting age population - 44% of eligible voters - 49% and some change of the people who actually voted “America as a whole” did not vote for Trump
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
> But that’s the intent of the system? Represent what most people want. Thankfully, there is a paper on this that you can read, so that we don’t need to argue about this. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
fwiw I’m in the US. I have seen a lot of things like this! I have a lot of opinions on this form factor, where it works well, and where it doesn’t.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
“Everyone does this,” and iirc recently a few people went to jail for it. So what’s happening with Altman?
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
idk, maybe Altman should stop giving interviews talking about how he’s going to get rich making everyone’s job obsolete. Just a thought! Any PR firms hiring?
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
Political violence is wielded against dissidents in the United States constantly . Another way to think of this is that a government that resorts to political violence against its own citizens is not a democracy.
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
I have worked on electoral and initiative campaigns, and traveled thousands of miles to knock on doors. I’ve donated money. I’ve called my congresspeople. I’ve gone to and spoken at public meetings. I’ve protested, been tear gassed, beaten,
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
We invented something called “democracy” to fix this, and then we allowed enough wealth to accumulate that the wealthy just bought it and nerfed it. We went through a cycle like this once before in U.S. history, and the amount of violence i
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
While I look for a new job working on clean energy hardware, I’m re-habbing a weatherproof 7kWh battery I built for a Burning Man project last year. I’m adding: - A control hub that reads data from the batteries and the solar controller - R
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
The current crop of tech billionaires openly hate democracy, gleefully proclaim that their products are going to put everyone out of a job, and invest enormous amounts of time and energy into making sure that nobody can do anything to stop
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
I’m old enough to remember that Sam Altman’s claim to fame before OpenAI, before running YC, was running a failed also-ran location-based whatever Web 2.0 scam startup thing that accomplished nothing and that no one remembers. His entire “c
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We’re talking about people making things up from whole cloth, such as asserting that Haitian immigrants steal and eat dogs from white Americans in the suburbs, among many, many such examples. San Francisco has also been a target of this kin
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This book doesn’t cover the UK specifically, but it does detail Russia’s well-publicized strategy of promoting reactionary media narratives to destabilize the United States and the EU. I feel like at some point, people will need to start ta
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My smart watch has become an invaluable digital prosthetic to help me backfill cognitive challenges that I’ve learned are related to ADHD. “It dings all the time!” Yes, exactly, having a buzzer attached to my person at all times ensures I d
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
Start doing it now, before ot becomes a problem!
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by mbgerring 6mo ago
If you’re one of the many companies working on reaching this goal, in defiance of everyone in this thread and elsewhere insisting it will never work, I’d like to work with you. I’ve worked with all of the largest solar, battery and EV compa

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