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One should not confuse growth as in producing more and more stuff with growth as in progress. Of course you can't produce more stuff ad infinitum. A balance to reach net-zero stuff…

Rather, the result of sanctions, i.e., the almost total absence of cross-border trade. Historically it was through trade that societies/nations became successful, were growing, wer…

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Issue with system design is that our industry is so highly opinionated about things. You design something to the best of your abilities, it works (though may have its pros and cons…

Not? "After a few hours of playing with it I give the opinion that it can't be that hard" is kinda the essence of basically not having a clue but feeling competent to express such …

> I urge people to shift their mindsets and approach cutting edge technology from a perspective of what it could be in the future, vs what it is today Maybe they realized that too …

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> At this point the word "engineer" has lost its original meaning. Until there's a formal theory of how we can interact with LLMs and you make use of that in a systematic fashion, …

I think you are mixing up the general concept "hiearchy" with the very concrete concept of a "pyramid scheme". The defining characteristic of a pyramid scheme is that the income at…

The theory of 16 stages is pretty entertaining. > According to Ingram, one must continue to meditate through these awful experiences until reaching a deeper state of awakening. He …