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by nradov 6mo ago
Even if your claim was true (and I don't really believe it) we're still talking about a tiny fraction of the overall tech labor market. The impact is insignificant.
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by nradov 6mo ago
There's nothing immoral here. Shareholders aren't morally obligated to provide extra jobs for people who aren't adding value.
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by nradov 6mo ago
They're not doing anything illegal.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Are China's numbers accurate? They've clearly had huge growth over the past few decades but the economic statistics are heavily manipulated at all levels and the raw data is kept secret. Top-down external estimates generally put r
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by nradov 6mo ago
Have past BLS predictions proved accurate?
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by nradov 6mo ago
In principle it's possible to have a company with no employees and all work done by vendors / contractors. But in practice this usually turns out to be less optimized than having at least some regular employees due to transaction
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by nradov 6mo ago
What is "shareholder greed"? They're not running a charity.
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by nradov 6mo ago
That was never a major factor in employment statistics. Only a handful of the most profitable tech companies ever had the financial resources to even attempt that strategy, and only for a small fraction of their employees.
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by nradov 6mo ago
The overall US economy is less impacted by higher oil prices than ever before. As a net oil exporter now in a way it's actually a positive, although the effects vary by sector.
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by nradov 6mo ago
A lot of valuable content is only available through LinkedIn. So what? You can create a Facebook account for free so that part isn't a problem. There's no consumer harm.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Tell me you've never done any farming without telling me you've never done any farming. There is certainly risk in the business due to market fluctuations, weather, natural disasters, disease, and pests. But the final product is h
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by nradov 6mo ago
Prayers are for weather. Pretty much all farmed plant, animal, and fungus species have been selectively bred or genetically modified. Farmers know what's going to grow.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Nah. If that was an actual disadvantage then the USA wouldn't already be the world leader in most technology sectors. Capital is only one of several constraints.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Dangerous localized flooding has also occurred for other reasons unrelated to weather, like broken dams or embankments.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Nope. There is really no case law to support such a legal theory.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Which immigrants? A significant fraction of native Finnish citizens speak Swedish as their primary language. It used to be the same country.
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by nradov 6mo ago
It is notoriously difficult to gather accurate quantitative data on illegal or unethical activities. And the weightings in the index are rather arbitrary.
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by nradov 6mo ago
If instructors are testing implementation details on paper exams then they're really missing the point of CS education. Completely lazy and incompetent, should be terminated.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Broad and deep capital markets are a real competitive moat for the USA. No other country or economic bloc can quickly deploy huge amounts of capital to new opportunities nearly as fast. China can work around that to an extent with a command
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by nradov 6mo ago
Right, that's what I'm saying. The LLM can identify and prioritize possible cases of academic fraud (or serious incompetence) for human review. As the cost of tokens drops it will become practical to go back and do AI reviews of e
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by nradov 6mo ago
Fairness or lack thereof is not the point. Programming language syntax is trade school stuff. And I don't mean that as a slight against trade schools, but it's a different type of training.
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by nradov 6mo ago
You don't need programming languages to implement computer science. Pseudo code suffices for exams.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Incremental reductions in compute costs don't depend entirely on Moore's Law.
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by nradov 6mo ago
The frontier LLMs are getting pretty good at checking this sort of thing. You could prompt them to not only verify the references are real but that they actually state what the article claims. Some human review will still be needed but I&#x
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by nradov 6mo ago
Since forever?
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by nradov 6mo ago
OK so the frontier models will be capable of doing even more, but the simple stuff they can do today will get much cheaper.
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by nradov 6mo ago
You may be right. But that will mean the university becomes increasingly irrelevant and disconnected from the reality that students experience after they graduate.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Regardless of VC subsidies, the cost of compute always trends down over time. Whether you like it or not, LLMs will be a pervasive part of everyone's life forever (or at least until a better replacement comes along).
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by nradov 6mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Surely you don't think that the details of a particular programming language's syntax are an appropriate criteria for grading an exam? That seems crazy.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Anyone who thinks that a Computer Science degree is supposed to prepare them for a job as a Software Engineer has completely missed the point. It's like getting a Physics degree for a job as a Mechanical Engineer. There is some overlap

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