The two groups I see speaking to massive productivity gains are CEOs of AI related companies, for obvious reasons, and software engineers and influencers that want a piece of the pie or to show their bosses they’re learning the technology. I think it’s important to understand what productivity means as well. Auto generating a document isn’t a productivity gain if it contains a bunch of falsehoods or ignores data that an expert in the field might catch.
I need to know way more about this model before taking it at face value that some economists got their math and software correct. Especially since the author talks it up like they came up with a unified model for the entire US financial system. Might as well use it to make billions with that precision.
This is a capitalists hand wave and hides many issues and tries to halt any discussion. It’s a cliche at this point. Now talk about housing. Are we better off there? My parents had it pretty good. They have a pension and worked at a public corporation even. They get their health care covered in retirement. I don’t get anything guaranteed for my retirement. They paid 50K for their house that is worth at least 550K now. Have salaries kept up? We have cell phones so it’s all OK I guess, why are you all complaining? Go watch some Tik Toks and count your blessings.
Ok? If you’re going to make accusations that I think everything is cynical for critiquing their marketing I don’t know what to tell you. People are allowed to do that.
That’s cool and I hope it works out then. The C64 is my favorite computing device ever produced since it’s how I learned to program and introduced me to music trackers. The marketing made it feel like a cash grab since there is another wave of retro revival going on.
This guy is so full of shit. Anthropic’s leadership are all talk and hype at this point. And they’re not the only ones guilty of this in this hype cycle by far.
I feel like we’re in a speculative thought loop. People seem to lose all memory when an asset rises. Every time it goes down people lose their minds and wonder how they could be so stupid to put money in such a risky asset, then it goes up and the same stories come out how it won’t go back down. Never trust investor sentiment online. It’s like taking advice from a drug addicted gambler.
I worked with some crypto kids back in 2013. One retired in his twenties after 2017 or so. I know this as his instagram account became nothing but travel photos that never stopped coming year after year. Another colleague announced his retirement at 27 one day. He must have had 20 million in the bank. I still think it’s dumb that people got rich that way, but being dumb luck rich is certainly a thing. I don’t hold it against them. Interestingly I knew a lot of others that talked about crypto all the time but they’re still working to this day.
The thing is, there were so many coins popping up and all this talk about coins surpassing BTC that it’s easy to look at BTC today and think that was the only choice. But people were speculating on a lot of soon to be dead coins.
There are stock plays you could make today that could make any of us rich off dumb luck.
It reads like Mark Fisher’s observation about capitalism absorbing all resistance. Resistance becomes the next market. So it’s doubly cynical as it’s a cash grab of sorts hoping to ride on everyone’s burnout from modern tech. I agree, it’d be better to just ride the nostalgia itself and let others come to their own conclusions about why they are nostalgic.
All that said I do miss this era of computing greatly where one could understand it inside out and that was encouraged. I loved the C64 demo scene in the 80s.
It seems like if the masses aren’t swarming to it, it’s dead. I don’t think a massive audience ever equated to better conversations and content. Especially in our engagement economy. It seems to just dumb everything down and restarts Eternal September. I think Mastodon is on the right track. It feels closer to the early web to me and I think part of that is the fact out isn’t an everyday term like Twitter but it’s also how it’s architected. Albeit it is still short form content so had all of the problems that come with it.
You know, it’s ok to call it fascism. I know everyone is having a hard time coping and is still waving their hands wildly to call it something else. And just because the undesirables aren’t all dealt with in the first year doesn’t mean it’s not a fascist takeover. It happens in stages. But that’s what it is. Trump suggested that the federal government take over NYC if Mamdani wins the election. Step by step they’re trying to make it happen. It’s fascism.
The rebranded modern stoicism, otherwise known as broicism? Or actual stoicism? Influencers normally push the broicism version which focuses on stifling emotions to be more “successful” and focused on self interest. Not unlike what the west did to buddhism and mindfulness.
Not to mention all the people on HN arguing we’re close to AGI because LLMs sound like humans and can “think”. “What’s the difference?” they ask, not in curiosity but after already making a strong claim. I assume it’s the same people that probably skipped every non engineering class in college because of those “useless” liberal arts requirements.
You answered this yourself. We’re not talking consumer products. We’re talking civil engineering for bridges. You also can’t just ship medical device software with no basic testing that could injure people in the software world. If someone asked me to ship regardless I’d get it in writing and ensure my objections were clearly stated and also in writing.
I really hope investors buy into this as it’ll be a great new entry point into the stock. I mean they seem to be buying into whatever without thinking so why not. AOL moment indeed.
I figured that I was reading yet another gamer plea to just use GOG due to lack of DRM and instead we got… this. The MS store even has a weird save game format so you can’t transfer game saves between stores.
“We might raise a generation that doesn’t know how to write essays, can’t read and understand long articles, can’t communicate well, and struggles with real relationships.”
I think we entered this reality a while ago from the rampant use of social media, dating apps, and short form content.
People have been asking the executive class this for a long while now: why don’t you care about training? Their response has ever been silence or threats or that’s what school is for. Do it on your own time, after the 50+ hours we demand from you. Some places get it and had a proper pipeline to train. A vast majority do not. And now they give us this. Great bunch of folks.
Key phrase is you hired them a few years ago. That’s not helpful in the discussion now.
Edit: Missed this was in response to “extinct for a long time” which makes more sense. It is true that it is an entirely different world than three years ago.
Watching them skewer Bernie Sanders was eye opening. I get not endorsing him, but it was far beyond that and was not measured journalism. They worked over time to discredit him. They are the poster child for neoliberalism.