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right - so imagine how much worse it would be with a paper map or printed instructions

> Who hasn't been annoyed with "AI customer service", who hasn't been annoyed with "customer service", period

nah, i distinctly remember family road trips as a kid. Driving was super stressful with my mom yelling about missing an exit as she reads the map, getting lost in a not so nice neighborhood, etc.

you're romanticizing the past

Oh wow, this is great!

but would the scale stay the same?

Take a hotel for example - it's nice to have a butler, someone at the front desk, and a waiter, perhaps. But you don't need the cleaning crew, the kitchen staff, etc, that run behind the scenes. These you could replace with robots, no problem.

I mean, yeah, but it's not like it's done in a deceiving way. Nobody forces anybody to be a first hire

So how much should they be rewarded? You suggest a cap? What prevents someone that's more poor than you deciding that you nobody needs to make more money than them, so now you should make less money?

no, it's not. It's math. If you make a rule that you lower the person at the top of the pile, over time, there will be nobody left to lower - everybody will be at the top of the pile.

The fact people say 1 billion is too much money, or 1 trillion is too much is something to dig into - the number is relative! 1 billion is only a lot because not many people have a billion dollars. If inflation keeps up, one day everybody will be a billionaire.

yeah, but lot's of bad parents exist. Which is why there are laws around kids having to be in school, etc.

Maybe fine the parents if the kids get caught. Teaches them to teach their children better.

incredible to see this opinion on hacker news.

>He can borrow against it which gets around taxes and that should probably be addressed, but he like the hypothetical fresh billionaire startup founder don’t have that money. And the mega rich on paper can’t access more than a small percentage of that money without reducing their control of the company they built or are building.

Yes, this is a good take. I wish more people understood this. Things like sales taxes could address this. Land value tax, with single homestead exemptions are another.

His money is tied to his equity. The equity itself is created by typing a number into a computer - it's not taken from anybody. The equity represents the value that the company has created

This one does seem to be a no brainer

I don't understand why people argue for a limit on wealth - the line of reasoning, when reasoned out, concludes with a majority of people having the exact same amount of wealth.

How so?

Well, suppose we say, nobody should be a trillionaire - is this an arbitrary number, or is it aimed at the richest person? Clearly, the latter. Now if we carried this out, now there are billionaires remaining. Well, nobody should be a billionaire, one might say. Most will agree. So the wealth of billionaires is taken away, and redistributed evenly.

This will continue, with the majority of people below the average wealth level, demanding a more equal playing field. You can see how it ends

This sort of comment does not belong on hacker news.

They are rewarded, yeah. And then they could retire, or they could take that money and put it towards more good ideas, like what Elon has done his entire life.

If we don't have a system for that, then how would you incentivize people to take on bigger risks, bigger projects, etc?

Also, should the lottery not be a thing? What exactly are you advocating by this line of reasoning?

Interesting that Canada is trying to do the same thing. Seems suspiciously similar.

The idea that this is about surveillance is also interesting.

I think it's important we ask: could we invoke this ban without surveillance?

- identity scan is one solution

But surely there are other solutions? Can't you just make laws that get kids in trouble if they get caught on social media? Kids get in trouble for missing school.. there are other incentives than identify checks, surely?

Yeah.. In Texas, there is loads of housing, and loads of affordable housing.

In Canada - not so much

I mean, Claude itself has been built by people using Claude. Is that not enough of an example?

I keep seeing this question asked, and I don't understand. Have you tried it? It's so easy to build useful things for myself now.

I've been able to build things that I otherwise would not have been able to build, in the free time that I have: - a VST audio plugin

- a wedding website with RSVP functionality

- a relaxing game for my wife

At work, I've been able to build much more than I would have been capable of in the past. I'm a backend eng, and it allows me to build much much nicer frontends than I've ever been able to do in the past.

And before you tell me that the code is crap - it doesn't matter! It may or may not be good code, but it works and serves it's purpose very well. Anyways, I'm I'm not launching a rocket, or putting software into cars.

I've been able to build things that I otherwise would not have been able to build, in the free time that I have:

- a VST audio plugin

- a wedding website with RSVP functionality

- a relaxing game for my wife

At work, I've been able to build much more than I would have been capable of in the past. I'm a backend eng, and it allows me to build much much nicer frontends than I've ever been able to do in the past.

And before you tell me that the code is crap - it doesn't matter! It may or may not be good code, but it works and serves it's purpose very well. Anyways, I'm I'm not launching a rocket, or putting software into cars.

we have "unlimited" time off, with the recommendation of taking off at least 1 week per quarter. This seems to work pretty well, and I'd rather have this than 20 days PTO. I usually try to take 1 week off, as well as 1 day here and there for an extra long weekend.

That's funny, that's the exact conclusion I'm starting to come to

I sure hope things change

Exactly this

AI is the most important, impactful and disruptive technology of today. It makes sense to be talking about it.

Exactly. The incentive isn't there.

If you like gambling, sure. Market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, or something like that

Yeah. I find a lot of the gripes people have a bout LLMs, these days, could also be said about employees.

Like, "the agent went and did a bunch of unrelated changes for the task I asked it to do!"... Have you ever worked with other engineers? This happens all the time

Woah, this is really cool to see