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by sp527 3y ago
You're right. I should have said: "we're in the final stages of any semblance of socioeconomic mobility within a free market system". > “Late-stage capitalism” wishcasting may be the most annoying current form of secu
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by sp527 3y ago
Well yeah that's why I'm still toiling away in the digital salt mines
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by sp527 3y ago
You jest but I’ve lately been wondering if the current optimal strategy is to wait out the seemingly 10ish or fewer years to human-supplanting AI living on a tropical island and partying it up, since all the possible outcomes post singulari
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by sp527 3y ago
You sound like you're deeply entrenched in bicyclist activism or something, but I'll try to elaborate on my view any way: Keeping bicyclists off the road hurts no one. There are cars, public transit, Uber/Lyft, sidewalks+cros
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by sp527 3y ago
> like in Culvert City CA where they removed cycling lanes That's likely unrelated to anti-car sentiment and more so because bicyclists are (on average) complete assholes on the road, since there is no accountability for their behav
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by sp527 3y ago
> 'Some with sociopathy may not realize that what they’re doing is wrong while others may simply not care. And sometimes, Dr. Coulter says, it can be both. “There’s just a total lack of empathy or recognizing that what they’ve done
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by sp527 3y ago
For real. As just one example, retirement homes routinely increase rates in tandem with increases to social security. Yet people here somehow think basic income will work out just fine. It's laughably naive.
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by sp527 3y ago
Plenty of other identity groups have suffered heavy discrimination across US history (Irish, Italians, Japanese, Jews, to name a few). They don't seem to require a policy like affirmative action to ensure they obtain a fair proportion
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by sp527 3y ago
> or a revolution that ends capitalism Which is why companies like Anduril are flooring the accelerator on autonomous defense tech. I've wondered lately if Anduril is a product of Thiel once again playing 4D chess. It's not har
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by sp527 3y ago
AI is turning into a kind of Rorschach test for people's deepest misgivings about how the world works. Ted Chiang's New Yorker piece was executed similarly, though that at least had the benefit of being focused on the big picture
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by sp527 3y ago
Prediction: generative AI is going to obviate the status signaling value of social media and quickly render it a pointless exercise, with attendant attrition. People are severely underestimating the impending psychological impact of social
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by sp527 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on what you did to recover?
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Ask HN: Can stress resilience be chemically modulated?
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by sp527 4y ago
That sounds like a really unfortunate way to go through life. Maybe you should reflect on possible alternatives?
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by sp527 4y ago
Late reply here but I wanted to point out that you still don’t get it. True empathy in the tech community would be e.g. having the courage to say that building HLAI of the kind we’re now approaching is guaranteed to cause tremendous amoun
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by sp527 4y ago
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies” - Sam Altman But sure, let’s just let this guy who sounds like a madman keep going. What could possibly go wrong?
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by sp527 4y ago
You’re an absolute fool if you trust anyone at OpenAI either. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.” - Sam Altman
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by sp527 4y ago
Productivity gains by and large do not translate into real wage gains and an improved quality of life for laborers. We have more than a century's worth of data suggesting they usually do the opposite. Yet somehow this fairytale that pr
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by sp527 4y ago
> You also definitely need to think again if you think those jobs are low paying. Plenty of people make quite a healthy living doing them. Will they still make a healthy living when there's an influx of laborers fleeing more automat
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by sp527 4y ago
What do you think happens when AI compresses the economy and leaves us almost exclusively with manual labor jobs, most of which are already low-paying? And you may not be aware of this having never done such a job, but physical labor is oft
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by sp527 4y ago
Well that's not a counterargument, but you're also missing the point completely, which is that you have to have a very low capacity for empathy in order to push ahead towards AGI when you know society is not prepared for this and
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by sp527 4y ago
Almost everyone here will be fine in a world in which only certain non-renewable scarce resources have any value, combined with impending massive currency deflation. Even a rank and file tier 2/3 engineer will manage to live a princely
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by sp527 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. We should be getting those trains manufactured elsewhere. And, in fact, geopolitical tension is prompting American companies to shift their manufacturing base out of China.
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by sp527 4y ago
A perfectly reasonable argument would be that China doesn't allow American companies to freely compete in their country and we should therefore maintain duly reciprocal treatment.
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by sp527 4y ago
> And really, the real number is probably closer to $140k/year, since who would work to just break even on childcare and not see your kids? Career progression paths tend to yield highly backloaded payoff.
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by sp527 4y ago
"Let them eat AI models on their devices"
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by sp527 4y ago
It's kind of hilarious you chose automating McDonald's as your benchmark, seeing as a proof of concept literally just went live. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-automated-restaurant-...
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by sp527 4y ago
All of this seems like it's adding up to a promising monetization vector for the Internet Archive.
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by sp527 4y ago
> “while disinflation is happening, we’re still seeing modest inflation” The inflation we're still seeing is severe, not modest.
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by sp527 4y ago
Good.

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