It hit 400+ twice already. They are holding it for the long term, like 10 or 20 years, not watching the price move every day.
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I respect Steve Jobs for his ruthless and uncompromising focus on quality and his attention to detail. He wasn't just a sales guy.
38% of women vs 27% of men. The number would be higher for young women.
Now it’s “counter culture” to not have a tattoo. They are so common. They have become a sign of conformity.
Local US film industry is dying because it's all offshored.
I live in a country that is leeching off the US film industry with subsidies. Our country benefits at the expense of American jobs.
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-paid
For unpaid services there is no difference between aistudio vs gemini.google.com. They will harvest your data.
Introverts are only 25% - 40% of the population, and most people are not intellectually or artistically gifted (whether introvert or not), but they still want to contribute and feel valued by society.
> I'd argue that just having a job so that you have a purpose
It's not just about having a job. It's having an important or valuable role in society, feeling that your contributions actually matter to others - such as building or fixing things that others depend on, or providing for a family,
What would motivate a young boy to go through years of schooling, higher education, and so on, just to become a hobbyist, tinkering around on projects that no one else will ever use or really need? That may be acceptable for some niche personality types but not the majority.
Aspiring engineers or entrepreneurs are not merely motivated by having a job.
I am envisioning the AGI or ASI scenario which truly overtakes humans in all intellectual and physical capabilities, essentially making humans obsolete. That would smash the foundations and traditions of our civilization. It's an incredible gamble.
Probably 99.99% of developers don’t care.
The ones who complain about it online are a tiny vocal minority.
In the case of AGI we already know it is physically possible.
I am thinking about society as a whole, how it will affect all types of people and cultures on this planet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43893596
"Defund education"
Trump is abolishing the Department of Education, leaving it to the states.
Maybe some LLMs are better for different languages
Jobs, careers, real work, all replaced by machines which can do it all better, faster, cheaper than humans.
Young people with modest ambitions to learn and master a skill and contribute to society, and have a meaningful life. That can be blue collar stuff too.
How will children respond to the question - "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
They can join the Amish communities where humans still do the work.
The new life form will be to humans, as humans are to chimps, or rats, or ants.
At this point we have lost control of the situation (the planet). We are no longer at the top of the food chain. Fingers crossed it all goes well.
It's an existential gamble. Is the gamble worth taking? No one knows.
The American education system was not mass producing incompetent retards before the DoE was established in 1980.
ASI to humans, is like humans to rats or ants.
Hobbies, hanging out with friends, reading, etc. That's basically it.
Probably no international travel.
It will be like a simple retirement on a low income, because in a socialist system the resources must be rationed.
This will drive a lot of young ambitious people to insanity. Nothing meaningful for them to achieve. No purpose. Drug use, debauchery, depression, violence, degeneracy, gangs.
It will be a true idiocracy. No Darwinian selection pressures, unless the system enforces eugenics and population control.
The economic value of human labour will drop to zero. That would be an existential threat to our civilization.