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There's no reason they can't build their own models from the first principles. They have the hardware, energy, and enough CS scientists.

I have a pile of washed clothes that moves from the bed to the chair for a good week before it finally goes into the closet.

Remember when people used to play Pokemon Go?

Not OP, but I was an early employee at a startup that pivoted into this market. The short answer is that you need to do what large-scale enterprise customers want you to do (because that's where the money is). To do that, you need a predictable pipeline that delivers X applications for Y money. One way to achieve that is to get into managing traffic from the big job boards. What we did in the early days was figure out how we can optimize client's sourcing budget to get the most applicants.

We tried "Tinder for jobs" or some bs like that and just couldn't build business around that. Because in the end of the day, you'll end up building a platform that has to compete with Indeed and other established players.

I don’t think I care about that all that much as long as the code does what I need.

you aren't more productive than before or producing unmaintainable shit.

That's a very strong statement with virtually zero argumentation.

I feel like I've been doing less and less programming as I've become more senior. And that's been a good thing for me, I wouldn't want to go back to doing all the code myself. The perfect amount of hands-on programming is probably zero for me at this point.

philosophically to me, art is inherently human

The other side of it is that most humans can't produce art. I can't draw, rhyme, dance, act, etc.

I realize art is completely subjective, so some person may find meaning in AI generated art. But this garbage ain’t that.

These two statements are very conflicting. I'm sure you can find someone who thinks that The Centre Pompidou is full of genius pieces. I didn't enjoy it that much. So, it's exactly the same with AI.

It's a grey goo of the average of every concept picked up from the concept of the song.

All right, but that's what an average entertainment product looks like. All these new TV shows have exactly the same look and feel about them. The same actors playing the same roles over and over again.

People keep comparing AI to some kind of once in a lifetime genius instead of an average person in the field.

what sorts of new economic models will be needed to help everyone thrive in a post-scarcity world

What sort of new economic models did we come up with to help everyone thrive in a post-X world? Like, food production is really a solved technical problem. We can feed anyone on the planet if we wanted to. Another example: we could put everyone who's homeless into some sort of a house. Have we done that yet?

Most everyone would love to see more work on stopping child sexual abuse.

By the parents. Install parental controls that only allow to message you and closest relatives. Problem solved.

My work involves experiments on mammals, so I don't mind.

The diploma doesn't say it was earned through Coursera. And it's probably still cheaper than doing the program in-person.

But layoffs create a market where people have both experience and good degrees.

It's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.

Nah, I’m talking 2016. I have no idea about commercial internet outside Berlin. But my residential connection in suburbs of Aachen in 2015 was copper.

There was a very real barrier to building tech companies. We couldn't listen to Spotify at work during the time people seriously called Berlin the "SV of Europe" (our office was in the neighborhood called "SV Backyard"). Why? We didn't have enough bandwidth, and the wait time for fiber was measured in years.

We would build our own alternatives.

Right, and we haven’t because we just don’t wanna? The gap between US/China and the EU in AI is becoming wider by the day.

Russia has like 3-4 large tech companies (Sber, Yandex, VK, and maybe Ozon). And they completely rely on foreign hardware. I don’t even want to imagine how could Russia start building frontier AI in these circumstances.

machine is already doing 95% of the work!

See, I want 100% of the work to be done.

Several of your claims are unsubstantiated. Sure, species co-evolve together, environment shapes evolution.

But why do you think evolution doesn’t explain existence of humans? What’s missing?

Also, as someone else has replied to you, we’re way past “natural” existence of humans. The vast majority of 8+ billions wouldn’t have survived in the past.

You've got to be really on the margin of society to not be able to set it up when every grandma and her dog use smartphones. There're about 1000 different ways to improve the lives of such people without making everyone use their government ID when scrolling Instagram.

Malta and Cyprus offer much better quality of life and also significantly less taxes .

To each their own, I guess. I can't imagine living on those islands.

Well, you can wait for greenery to be planted and grow around houses. It'll take 10-20 years. Or you can wait for your landlord to install the shutters (will never happen). Alternatively, you can get a portable inefficient AC and save yourself from 40 degree heat in a rooftop apartment. The mental toll of sweating 24/7 for months is just too big to theorize about the best way to combat global warming.

Some do, others decline to answer.

Estonia makes it very easy.

The optimal solution is just to leave Germany

Just go to one of them Baltic states. They actually have a functioning electronic ids and other necessary infrastructure.

There’s no reason to live in Germany if you’re working with international clients.

Tax homes that aren’t your primary residence to the point where it’s not a good investment.

the market for AI is 2.5 larger than all the food sold on this planet.

It just shows how much the automation has impacted agriculture and the food industry. Sure, there're rural farms that apply 200 yo technology. But e.g. the grain production and farming are incredibly efficient at scale. So, it's not that costly for as a humanity to feed 8 billion people (at a varying level, of course).

Could other public transit serve the same purpose?

Population density plays a big part. People think of Europe as a public transportation paradise, but a car makes your life easier outside Berlin, Paris, and other major cities. I live on the edge of Copenhagen and public transportation sucks the further you go from the downtown since the major city turn into a giant suburb really fast. Yes, people bike, but many do drive a car.