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We can (and should) try to avoid many bad things at once, not just whatever might be the worst bad thing.

I love how quickly all AI pushback gets blown off as "skill issue". Even reading and taste now!

Eeeek

Which is an intentional failure of the system

I'll never understand people who think endemic disease is a win or not a problem.

Unfortunately this simple answer makes more sense than random acts of villainy.

You keep using numbers to underpin your comments. The parent's point is that it's important to have access to numbers like this. From where I'm sitting it seems like you very much agree despite your comments sounding like disagreement or deflection.

If the restaurant made only one dish and employed a skeleton crew reheating it from frozen because it was made in enormous batches then yeah they might be able to reduce the cost so far below you doing it at home that they can pay the other restaurant overhead and still come out on top. That's a lot different than running a full service restaurant though.

Yes there is.

Care to elaborate on your side or should we just leave it there?

Is that what the sat is supposed to measure, in your opinion? Do you worry that would heavily skew toward people who didn't have to work over people who didn't have as much available time to train to a particular test? Does that even matter?

Perfectly is a wild word to use here

There is no version of basic security that extends to commercial use of your likeness in their marketing.

Be reasonable.

You gave examples of creating and inventing things and employing and leading people. Those are value creation.

I don't think I fully agree with it, but OPs point wasn't about any of that and instead said capital gains (and clarified further - fungible, uninvolved capital without any other contribution). That's really different. If you want to attack that maybe use an example of passive index investors or pension funds allocating capital to a vc.

Nobody thinks the leopards will eat THEIR faces, just their neighbors'.

I think they mean the style these tend to put out is becoming noticeable in too many places and therefore the resulting frontends feel stale, ie not "fresh" or unique

Thiel is firmly in the "rules for thee but not for me" camp which means any authoritarianism he isn't in control of is even worse than a democracy. Ironically many people feel this way but most just don't have the wealth to try their hand at oppression.

I'm a professional software engineer and even I get excited about having an ai vibe out some throwaway software for me (two recent examples - a personal recipe site I never made time for and a video game skill tree build tool that isn't worth the time it would have taken to build).

As another commenter said, for a ton of people this is the first taste of the computer working for them and being able to dream something up then have it exist. This is very cool!

That in no way invalidates the concern of amateur slop going to maintainers! I think the problem here is we as society haven't caught up to this new idea of personal software vs community (architected, maintained) software. We're so early in this space we haven't even figured out the good ways to do such a split - even the totally new to software folks are bleeding edge early adopters.

There are so many more options than a 4 year administration being hostile to the people it's supposed to represent. Corruption will undermine any collective action amongst honest collaborators regardless of what color their party flag is.

Also, having a baseline of public care and then private as an option on top doesn't sound like the boogeyman this is pitching it as to me. That seems like a great way to reduce the scope of what the state needs to be in charge of.

If the take is that government cannot possibly work for the people no matter what then yeah, all policy is bad.

Only if free means pure or academic here.

Free market usefully means both sides can choose to participate in transactions which means price is how they do that. It is a useful concept but it doesn't cover everything, like what you mentioned and things like if emergency patients are shopping around hospitals or if the average consumer is capable of being well informed in such a market.

Well said. If this is the steel man then it's worse than I thought.

Democrats intentionally killing the fishing industry by giving fish free glp1s and cocaine with your tax dollars!

Yet another great benefit of open access to prediction markets! /s

If agents can just figure it out, isn't that AGI?

This is the power of a brand. Kirkland and some private label products are literally the same as the competitor products and yet are perceived differently. Even in your Pepsi vs Coke example, Pepsi routinely wins in blind taste tests but there are more "Coke people".

It will be interesting to see if the LLM companies can establish their own "brand" and how they will do that. LLM voice is a thing but not sure if it's a good thing people will use to hang their self identity on. Distillation of models and constant training also make this complicated. Claude code is winning on harness and ux right now but it seems precarious and also easy to commoditize. I think elon tried to add branding to his chatbot pretty intelligently by being iconically crude/evil/"anti woke" since it's both highly visible and less likely to be copied.

We live in fascinating times!

I like this. Thanks for sharing it.

What? You make a distinction between settlers and immigrants?

Is "invaders" on that list to?

What?

Population growth can happen with or without immigration.

Also, what? Are you describing a healthy economy?

What a bunch of misleading and gross noise.

Nobody above said people who disagree with them are irrational.

Nobody said immigration should happen faster than anyone can assimilate.

They said preventing people from applying for green cards while on an existing visa will make it much much harder to immigrate legally.

If you think immigrants need more time to assimilate so they don't change your culture but you still think immigration is good then it seems like you'd be against this change. On the other hand if you want to limit immigration to just the wealthy this sounds like exactly the matching policy.

Also, Trump winning the naturalized citizen vote doesn't mean naturalized citizens all think the same way. Even if they all did think the US was perfect and their country of origin was garbage that STILL doesn't mean they think other people from their country are bad, obviously. Being at risk from your government or thinking your government needs to change doesn't imply you think other citizens from your culture are bad.

In what ways do common accounting standards and amortizing the costs (this is tricky for ai and the current batch of gpus I hear!) change the data presented here? Does it detract from the point? Completely contradict it?

You can turn your drive-by dismissal into something really informative if you want to.

I've responded with "it's weird for me to talk to claude through you".