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>AI does the stuff better than us in every category

Current AI is never going to do better than us in every category, it can only do better in us in categories where it's possible to generate an infinite amount of verifiable synthetic data (math and programming). AI is still just as bad at sales, marketing, writing and anything involving human subjective appeal as it was a year ago. And it's fundamentally handicapped in being unable to acquire new domain knowledge that doesn't fit in a few hundred thousand tokens of context.

>But what do people do to produce things when intellectual labour is automated?

They do what AI can't do, entrepreneurialism, because AI doesn't have property rights. Like back to the 1800s when most Americans were self-employed, not working for large corporations, because corporate cog-in-the-machine work can be done better by AI. With AI it's far easier to run your own business than at any time in history.

>But the gains have BY AND LARGE gone to the wealthiest individuals and countries.

This is simply false, the average Chinese or Indian is incredibly better off now than they were 100 or 500 years ago. In fact for the past decade many of the wealthiest countries (many Western European countries, and Japan) have seen barely any growth in living standards at all, GDP-per-capita growth has been concentrated in developing countries.

Even in China companies are already doing this: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/china-ai-ta...

>Even ignoring learning outcomes, answer sharing was a good excuse for the nerds to talk to the not-nerds.

You mean to plagiarize their work. Now finally the nerds also have the option to have somebody else do their work for them.

>If private enterprise was really this efficient, and government was really that inefficient, we should have seen ample evidence for that by now

There's a wealth of clear evidence for this in the economic data in Eastern vs Western Europe, East Germany vs West Germany when Eastern Europe was under Soviet rule. The countries under Soviet rule were significantly poorer and to this day most still haven't caught up with their Western European counterparts.

>single final exam selects for lucky people. Did you learn the right thing? Are you healthy and well rested on the day?

If it's a well-designed course it should be clear what the content of the exam will be. If not, it's the professor's fault. And barring rare emergencies being rested on the day is also generally a matter of preparation, not luck.

>I've seen how long an average PR review actually takes

This was a problem well before AI, but it doesn't get talked about enough because so many developers are hooked on the power trip they get from making people waste time on crap that has no relevance to the user.

https://bitchat.free/ is one, if you can convince any of your friends to use it.

>You don't think spending the days with your family, hunting/growing food to feed that family would be fulfilling?

You think it'd be fulfilling when your children had around a 25% chance to die before the age of five?

The article is about the Swedish Government, hopefully it wouldn't be out of reach for them.

>pretty much nobody is using cryptocurrencies

Step out into the wider world and that isn't remotely true.

> If someone labors to write a novel, they're no less justified to get economic benefit from it than someone who labored to build an apartment building.

They absolutely are, because an apartment building is a _rival_ good, as are all physical goods, meaning that you and somebody else cannot both own and use it at the same time. Intellectual property is a non-rival good, meaning if somebody else copies your song or story, you still have that song/story! It's a very different moral claim; the apartment is "I built it, so nobody should be able to take it away from me without paying", while the IP is "I built it, so nobody else should be able to copy it without paying".

If it's that easy to make a game that people like then why didn't you do it?

Math is not just a "field", it's a body of beautiful knowledge. It's never been easier than before to start learning it, if one wants to appreciate it for its own sake and not as a means to get famous or boost one's own ego.

At this rate the frontier labs will be Anthropic and DeepSeek, with OpenAI struggling to keep up.

AI is coming for jobs involving programming and math (which tend to pay higher) because it's possible to generate infinite training data for those fields via using a compiler/theorem prover to check correctness. They're not coming for high-paying jobs like investment banking and architecture because you can't generate infinite synthetic training data for those.

The people who downvoted you would rather everyone was poor than that someone else had more than them. There's a whole chunk of social and political science that exists solely to try to frame and justify envy as a virtue.

This ironically sounds like AI-written marketing prose.

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Here's a study backing it up: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial... (the lead author is from Tel Aviv University so hardly some antisemitic crackpot).

>Isn't it extraordinary that these models still can't write well?

It's not at all extraordinary if you understand how they're trained. For math and programming it's possible to generate an infinite amount of training data with correct answers, as compilers and theorem provers can guarantee correctness. For writing, the quality is not objective, it's determined by human preference, so you need humans in the loop, which slows things down massively and limits the amount of data that can be generated.

>Google, Apple, and Microsoft are each in a stronger position to win consumer AI

Microsoft has completely lost the ability to make good software; see Microsoft Teams and what they've done to Windows 11. Apple don't have a foundation models team so they're limited to using other people's models, which handicaps them as they can't do vertical integration like with their other products. Google hasn't made a single competitive consumer product in the past decade, but has certainly killed a few.

The homogenization of culture was the fault of traditional centralized media. If you go back before the printing press, there was actually a much greater diversity of cultures and languages. Decentralized (social) media is bringing us back to how traditionally tribal humanity used to be.

That should be "In-Person Social Activity Has Steeply Declined". While online social activity has increased significantly.

Maybe they're actually using the model to review and clean up the code too? I hope you realize that "just merge whatever the LLM spits out on its first attempt" is not the only way to use LLMs.

>$4/$20

Is Elon Musk doing their pricing?

Joining or starting a startup is a risk, many fail and leave the founders and early joiners with nothing. No risk, no reward.

Kurdish is also Indo-European, but that doesn't stop Turks claiming it's just a dialect of Turkish (mountain Turkish).

The best response to them is "If it's so easy, then when didn't you do it? Easy $90k."