Simon321

I argue it's very much in the interest of human beings. It has been since we first picked up a rock and used it has a hammer. It's the ultimate tool and has the potential to bring unseen prosperity.

Because it's badly defined and so it's unanswerable because what it means changes depending on who you ask.

To people recommending trades, there's nothing wrong with trades, but you can get more out of college than only a job. You can actually learn things that you wouldn't have learned otherwise. The environment also naturally stimulates and values learning, gathering knowledge and understanding. You can learn how to become a better person and think more critically.

Seeing how many misinformation is going around and the people swallowing it, this seems more important than ever before.

reeks of short-termism

A parameter in a neural network is more comparable to a synapse of which the brain has 100 trillion. And yes, we will get there too one day.

Great article. Nice insights on techne & metis.

This is false, computer performance has been doubling nearly every year. See for example https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/

What is the return like for Ycombinator?

As a person that also has ADHD, it's more than that. Being around people and working and talking with them directly stimulates me and keeps me focused.

Why is the conclusion always to regulate <technology> and not to regulate workplace surveillance for example?

A lot of people here define ADD differently, they say it's this or it's that. But the truth is ADD will manifest differently for each person. The core characteristic is being chronically understimulated. People with ADD have difficulty focussing on things that aren't very stimulating for them. They will still be able to focus, sometimes very intensely (hyperfocus) on things that do stimulate them. Sometimes there is hyperactivity (an attempt to stimulate themselves) involved, but not always.

It's very real and stimulant medication, although it's not perfect, helps a lot of people.

We can still vote, so they still need us. With the time freed up by AI we can become more informed voters.

Computer power is still growing exponentially without a doubt: https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/

Software efficiency seems to be exponential in many places as well: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/software-progress-...

That doesn't mean ALL technology progress is exponential, people like Altman or Kurzweil don't make that claim either. But as more things become more digitised they will benefit from Moore's law more and more and progress might become exponential there also due to their dependence on computing power.

INTJ is 2.1% of the population

https://personalitymax.com/personality-types/population-gend...

They will use eye tracking and foveated rendering to reduce the hardware requirements.

retired would be my guess if i see these huge salaries

Making goods and services cheaper is 'negative economic impact'? I'd argue the opposite. Greater productivity has been humanities goal ever since they first started sharpening rocks and sticks. I'd argue that it is desirable. Yes, as you point out, greater productivity has disadvantages at first also. See for example the mechanisation of agriculture, people lose their jobs. But as you point out yourself, the blow can easily be softened with better social safety nets.

How typically cynical of human beings, a wondrous technology comes a long that can free mankind of tedious work and massively improve our lives, maybe even eliminate scarcity eventually and all people can think about is how it could be bad for us.

His friend is only paying 30% also:

  Gross | Gross New | Net Delta  | Total taxation
  2000   €2600         €155         31.00%
  3000   €3600         €262         38.00%
  4000   €4600         €253         42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall.

I did some calculations because it seemed strange to me.

  Gross | Gross New | Net Delta  | Total taxation
  2000   €2600         €155         31.00%
  3000   €3600         €262         38.00%
  4000   €4600         €253         42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall. Yes, taxes are high in Belgium but to add some nuance, you get a lot in return. (Free healthcare, free university education, pensions, social services, no capital gains tax)

Confirmed this is correct with an online calculator. Strange, you'd expect it to go up with a lower wage and not down!

EDIT: Ah, i figured it out:

  Gross | Gross New | Net Delta  | Total taxation
  2000   €2600         €155         31.00%
  3000   €3600         €262         38.00%
  4000   €4600         €253         42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall. Yes, taxes are high in Belgium but to add some nuance, you get a lot in return. (Free healthcare, free university education, pensions, social services, no capital gains tax)

A gross to net calculation of a gross salary of 4000€ to 4600€ adds 250€ net in Belgium btw. 100€ is an exaggeration.

And then Amazon bought it and turned it into their lumberyard engine. The rumor is it is one of the reason their game crucible bombed.

it doesn't scale down to zero and the startup time is too long

a few seconds apparently: https://thenewstack.io/comparison-aws-fargate-vs-google-clou...

This would be a 'local hidden variable' theory. According to wikipedia these have largely been ruled out:

Most advocates of the hidden-variables idea believe that experiments have ruled out local hidden variables

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Bell_inequali...

a lot of this is fear mongering

This would only be true if you allow your money to rot and don't do anything with it for 60 years. Inflation would eat into that a lot more in that scenario. Average inflation is roughly 3%.

As others pointed out, equity returns are 5-6% so if you do something with your money this won't be the case and you'll actually increase your wealth a lot.

Assuming 5% return, this is an 18x return over 60 years.

Exactly, the reason for this is that it is an RTX and it has a lot of tensor cores and ray tracing cores which you won't measure by looking at the amount of FLOPS.

If you work in security, this resonates so much. No one really cares about security except to check a box or pay lip service to it. That's why so called security products ship without logging and clients don't want to make the smallest effort to enable you to improve their security. It's why companies that sell security products invest more in marketing than the product. The industry is full of conmen and marketeers. Information security can be great though if you find someone that really cares.