aprilthird2021

Let's add it to the list of predictions then. Wonder what people were predicting 2 years ago

We pay a lot. Software dev salaries have outpaced inflation for decades in the US. CS is consistently the highest paying major in US universities.

You can't train people for years and pay to do so. No company can afford to do that esp at these salaries.

If you ever interview for a tech company you learn quickly how many people applying for these jobs aren't qualified. It's sad but it's true

The Western world puts up with it because they don't care. The only thing they care about is money and power. Both of which Saudi can help them with

What governments? The US? Come on that's their bestest pal. Trump literally defended the current dictator of Saudi after he bonesawed that journalist and said the guy deserved it

They are allies with the world bully whom no one can oppose. Nothing will change there as a result

It's also just a coincidence that his kids, who have no background in technology and no knowledge of programming or cryptography have a crypto coin company that sells, nothing of value, with, basically 0 advertising, and makes billions of dollars, mostly from deals with Gulf Arab dictators, who then get favorable deals with their dad ...

But OpenAI and Ant can be in more than just the commodity part of the business. They can both make frontier models and sticky products on top of those that have network or other effects that make competition tough.

Not really though? You have an AI equally as good as your attackers so it's kinda nice on your end too

It's an exciting time to be in security...or offense

Watch them advertise that Muse will soon be able to do phone backups for you to justify this permission usage

I use unreleased models at work every day. When they work they work great. But almost every day I run into a case where they make a mistake. Also, the humans prompting them may be themselves wrong or understand the problem wrongly or not include important context. That's not a solvable problem either really.

This is very untrue. Academic mathematicians do more than just proofs. They teach, they conduct research, etc. There are almost no privately employed mathematicians who spend their time doing proofs. And academia has a substantially lower pay grade than things someone good at math can do, like quant or big tech. Academic mathematics and these specific kind of proofs have never held tons of value in our society economically. They have always been more culturally and academically relevant as a symbol of our frontier knowledge, than they have been financially lucrative. I doubt many math departments would even consider paying for the kind of token spend that might have gone into the proofs for some of those "big name" problems

It's relevant because it's proof that we are selecting skilled foreign immigrants. That is the only way they would have the highest median income in the US.

You saw some drivers, retail workers, etc. who are Indian and you assume it's massive and huge amounts of such people when in reality they are a small fraction of the Indian immigrants in the US (as stats prove). They can be the brothers or other family members of such people as our immigration system let's skilled immigrants bring over certain family members as an incentive to attract them. But however they have arrived here, they are a small fraction of the total immigrant inflow to this country, which is highly skilled and highly compensated.

If you can accept statistics, you'll see your perception is wrong. If you can't then who can help you see reality? The sky can be purple if you want to live that way then

I've been feeling some of the things this article puts some data behind. Thanks for sharing

But the median income is higher than any other ethnic group. Like I said, who you see is a small crazy tiny fraction of who is actually making the economy productive. Every time you say "I seen it with my own eyes" it's further proof you don't understand the economy or how society works. Most stats we have show people what they don't see: ultimately immigrants to this country are economically productive and we choose skilled immigrants with high median wages who make a brighter future for any next generation.

Bc humans can be responsible for approving / denying decisions in the end. Bchumans have the context a brand new prompt might miss. Bc the most intelligent and brightest and smartest AI ever built will do the wrong thing if given the wrong prompt. It can't presume to know things it was never told or has no way to know

Do you think unskilled foreigners have become the wealthiest group in the US bc Ubering and gas stations pay a ton of money? Or are your anecdotes just not representative of the country as a whole. Most of the economy and skilled labor is done by people you never meet or interact with

Ultimately AI spend has been one of the largest infusions of funding into the small academic mathematics community in years. Just raw token spend alone probably dwarves whatever research budget increases have gone to that field in the past 5 years. That should tell you something about the economic value of that line of work

AI isn't going to destroy labor if anything it makes an avg laborer more productive

You think successful tech companies are destroying America?

> Don't tell me we aren't importing unskilled foreigners when almost every Uber and delivery driver I've had for the last 15 years has been an Indian.

Indian people are the richest ethnic group in the US.

Maybe your anecdotes and perceptions aren't the sum total of reality

Mandated or not, degrowth of businesses would be disastrous for the people of any country. Your children won't have much of a future in your homeland if there are no economic opportunities for them when they are adults. They might even leave the homeland for good finding those opportunities elsewhere and becoming immigrants themselves. A tale as old as time for nearly every country whose economy hits the toilet the way you think the government should force it to

They have much more than Singapore tbh

> And the economy is far more interested in importing millions of unskilled adult migrants from developing countries who are immediately eligible for debt, rent, mortgages, and low-paying jobs to prop up the GDP, rather than a crying baby that will leech on public services for 18 years beforehand.

This is such a wrong idea about immigration and the economy and how it grows that it's almost more funny than sad.

No Western government is growing its economy through sectors primarily staffed with low wage workers. The US, for example has seen much of its growth in the tech sector. And as it's had huge numbers of immigrants to meet the demand caused by tech growth, real wages in that sector have risen for nearly a decade. And they outpace wage growth in many other sectors over that time.

But regardless of that, when an economic sector grows it's able to convert human productivity into returns beyond the pay of those humans. And often that growth allows the return rate over productivity to increase over time, making it more attractive for a business to hire more and raise wages. In such a market, when a population doesn't grow, there needs to be workers from either outside the country or imported in. You can't just have mandated degrowth of growing businesses. That's worse than communism

Wrong, a relationship that will last over time has to presume those values and boundaries will change. What is non-negotiable for a 20 year old is almost always not the same for the same person at 30 and then 40 and on and on.

Sure there may be some things that don't change (religious preference, etc.) but they are fewer than most people think. And like OP said, compatibility is often not a checklist or algorithm to maximize

Seoul government also has a similar app/program and potentially a similar algorithm

Not really. He could have very easily been hiding out anywhere, even DC. But I'd also add that Kaczynski was actively committing crimes while unable to be found. Bin Laden had not only not left his compound for years, he also wasn't really doing anything all that time either.

It's clearly tongue in cheek to address the misconception that this is what engineers do

Yes it was located there. But it's not like they can raid every house in the city. So much of our nations power is located in DC which has a huge amount of criminal activity and ghettos right next to it. None of this is proof of conspiracy and the US (who found Bin Laden in that compound and needed to do fake vaccine drives to do so) never found any proof of a conspiracy either and they did an investigation into this

Mathematician was never really a "profession" like the others. It doesn't pay well and is largely confined to academia. If you're really good and want to get paid, you don't do the kinds of problems AI have been taking a crack at. You go to a quant firm or some tech company where this kinda math actually matters once in a blue moon