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> AI won't scrub a toilet, but it will cheaply and inexhaustibly do every job that humans find meaningful today That's the part I really don't believe. I'm open to being wrong about this, the risk is probably large en
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> Your hypothesis is AFAIU is that the company will just continue to scale because there's an indefinite amount of work/ideas to be explored/done so the focus of those 9 people will just be shifted to some other topic? Yes
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You took me too literally there, that was intended as a thought experiment to explore the limits. What I was getting at was the question: If we feel intuitively that this extreme isn't realistic, what exactly do we think is missing? My
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I agree the latter part is a risk to consider, but I really think getting an AI to replace human jobs on a vast scale will take much more than just training a bit more. You need to train on a fundamentally different task, which is to be goo
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That's fair, but the question was whether AI would destroy or create jobs. You might speculate about a one-person megacorp where everything is done by AIs that a single person runs. What I'm saying is that we're very far from
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AI doesn't have needs any desires, humans do. And no matter how hyped one might be about AI, we're far away from creating an artificial human. As long as that's true, AI is a tool to make humans more effective.
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Need in itself is amoral. There's a reason people have been talking about which human desires are virtues and which are vices for millennia.
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Could you show us examples of that secret revolution? It does seem to be very secret because I've been waiting for it for fifteen years, first excitedly, then frustratedly.
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Do you think cash will still be a thing a hundred years from now? Do you think the cocaine trade, tax evasion, illegal gambling, money laundering etc. will still be a thing in a hundred years? Personally my "bull case" for crypto
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Wow, I can't decide whether it's hilarious or creepy to see "update conduct-and-norms.md" from a government body.
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I'm not, but I do know you'll be on the safe side if you go read a book that challenges you! :)
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This type of comment comes up here a lot, but maybe you should show us what exactly you mean? Because at least for physics and chemistry, those are topics where, in my experience, you need deep, sustained engagement to make any personal pro
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There's a difference in degree, it's less addictive. HN works a little differently, in that its goal is not primarily to convert attention directly into revenue. Personally, I still need to be deliberate in limiting my use, so I w
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Good riddance, do the other social networks next!
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One thing that seems to reliably cause burnout is when a person with high flying ambition finds herself in an environment in which she feels stripped of agency. It's not primarily about expending too much energy, but rather about expen
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> This sounds unreasonable. If Europe can forget about Germany messing with everyone some 80 years ago That's politics. Many Europeans are certainly still hurting from the trauma the wars caused. That includes later born generations
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This post is ultimately a scathing indictment of capitalism. Money represents power. Our society let you have much more power than most individuals will ever have. But you don't know what to do with it? Why should you have it then? Cap
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A lot of those examples are just meaningless without context and some are clearly framed in a way to make them sound ridiculous. NIH funding on addiction research seems pretty relevant given what's going on in the US? But the way they
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The happy hacker: A guide to (mostly) harmless computer hacking(archive.org)
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An important point to think about, but ultimately wrong I think. The reason that the software industry is so valuable today is not just that it's innovative, it's also that it can grow in a way that isn't strongly constrained
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Theory of the firm states that the corporation will get as large as coordination costs allow, but the other way to view that is that large corporations need to compensate for their increased coordination costs in some way. Empirically, they
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It's on the ballot a lot; Obama wanted, but was ultimately unable to, implement a broad individual mandate within the ACA; Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supported medicare for all. A number of states have implemented individual m
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I don't really get what you're saying. The US is a large place, and the fact that great highschools exist doesn't tell us anything about the distribution of highschool quality, except for that one fact.
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I'm genuinely amazed by the distribution of opinions in this thread. If y'all feel that way, why don't you vote for a "socialist" healthcare system like we have over here in communist Europe? I mean, I'm over h
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Yeah, it's going to come out in the next 10 years or so, 20 at most. The question is whether the Chinese economy will take a similar trajectory now to the Japanese one in the late eighties and through the nineties, with a period of ext
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A person who adapts their beliefs just so that they are in opposition to what some official institution is saying is not an independent thinker, but the exact opposite. It's like when I was thirteen and suddenly thought my parent'
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> You're coming at it from a "the gov said its safe, so it's safe, ... What makes you think so? I don't need a government to make up my mind on scientific topics, and neither should you. Ironically, it's the pers
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So tired of this framing. We get it, you don't like the government. So what? If you're spreading lies about medicine because you distrust authority... Well, first of all, you're dumb because you believe falsehoods. But more i
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As long as you believe that any theory of subjective experience will ultimately be physicalist, this argument doesn't really work. There is no continuity of subjective experience even within the same brain, you can be deeply unconsciou
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That table shows UK data from the 90s, aviation has made a lot of progress since. How exactly the risk of flying compares to other modes of transportation on a per-trip basis is a difficult question to answer really well, I couldn't fi

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