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How can you get the agents to do anything useful without giving them meaningful access? If it only lives in an isolated sandbox, it can only act within the sandbox, then I would ha…

I just had chatgpt draw a table of wealth distribution by year based on best data sources it can find. It shows that inequality has been on the rise from year 0 (top 1% has 45% of …

Exactly. And this is why ideas like post-scarcity or universal-high-income are not realistic. Because we can already make life heaven on earth for everyone alive. But we won't. Not…

Just learn, sure. But the difference between my efficiency of using it on my day 2 and month 6 is significant. Yet I feel I am barely scratching the surface of it.

The reason for food shortages is not scarcity of food, nor the reason for shelter, clothing, or transportation. We have enough technology and resources to make it a heaven for ever…

If the assets are public and not associated to my account, how could they ever restore access if they made them inaccessible?

My guess is that if they take down the public hosting, most clients would lose access to work they paid for and fiverr has no way to put these back behind an authorisation. It is j…

I can’t elaborate on your example as I’m not very knowledge-able on the smallpox vaccine bit that depends on how close we were to inventing the vaccine anyway - I’ll take your word…

No. Because success is individual, inequality is statistical. It ia true that AI gives ordinary people a lot more chance to be successful. But do not forget that success depends on…

I would rather you did not do that. You would create a shit tone more global transfer of goods accelerating global warming, and make societies dependant on unsustainable dirt cheap…

Is what you say really controversial? Except for commercial flights (which I would easily give up for a hopeful society), I do not find anything on your list remotely relevant to m…

To say “because of war”, you would also have to prove we could not do it without war.

You are right. I think there are quite a lot of people who are only interested in playing and never deliberately practising. They do not get that far (they do not have to!). And th…

If you can afford it and have the time, your local conservatoire. Piano is very different than the guitar, it is much more technique and repertoire focused (as opposed to improvisa…

Putting in the hours is important, but not I would not single it out as what matters because there is so much varienty of talent between musicians who put in similar hours. What yo…

I can attest. After 7 years of practising guitar, the gap between my ability and my taste is even greater compared to when I started. Actually I can say the same thing for programm…

I think there is an expectation that it should not matter, and there is a reality that it does matter, and there is lots of discussion because the expectations and the reality do n…

I think being conventionally attractive gives you a lot more chance practice socialising and my observation is that, people who use that chance get so good at it, they remain very …

That world is not necessarily bleak. We currently have two broad mechanisms to equate people's value. *Employees:* Easy to replace = Low Salary = Gets Few Resources Hard to replace…

I would not want a quadrillion dollars in the first place, I would first try to reduce it to an amount that I can maintain relatively hassle-free and under-the-radar. But even for …

Not sure if that would work better: 1. The idea behind UBI is that it is near-zero effort, the cost to operate UBI should be minimal. UBW cannot be low overhead I suppose. 2. What …

Everything you say is still the idea and I agree but where does the idea that progressive taxation would go away coming from? What does it have to do with UBI?

Nah - I've also spent decades trying to become the best software developer I can and now it is giving me enormous power. What used to take me 5 days is now taking me a day, and my …

I’d do that in a heartbeat for IWC! There are of course people who buy Rolexes or whatever for the brand. There are probably more people who buy Mac Books for the logo. But most pe…