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95% of human farmers lost their jobs because of industrial revolution. What happened then? No jobs were created and we still have 95% unemployment, right?

You generate 20k LOC in a few hours. How long will it take you to read it? One week? You just keep going instead. I don't think this works great at large scale production codebases…

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If an AI system autonomously built a rocket and went to the moon, would you call it unimpressive because it's already been done? The moving of goalposts is shocking.

You can sit down at a library or Barnes and Noble and memorize for free.

What makes you think they plateaued?

Is 75% of the country zoned SFH because of safety regulations or environmental reasons?

Why are you celebrating compute becoming more expensive? Do you actually think it will be good?

Being able to conduct monetary policy is valuable, even if it can be misused. Otherwise all other countries would just be using USD.

Some people sure, but "everyone"? Everyone's exaggerating nowadays.

The issue you're overlooking is the scarcity of experts. You're comparing the current situation to an alternative universe where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 ti…

Where's the argument? Or we're just asserting things?

What have politicians been doing forever?

How does this add to the discussion? Is the goal to make HN as toxic as everywhere else online? If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise this performative negativity and cyn…

Why did you waste all your money on 32gb when 4gb is enough? Why did we all need 32gb?

Who declared it? Who cares what anyone declares? What do you think will actually happen? If software can be fully automated, then sure SWEs will need to find a new job. But why wou…

The reason housing is extremely expensive in the US is the current old NIMBY home owners. The country has 66% home ownership rate thanks to the long term policy of US government to…

> LLMs are garbage That's just your opinion man.

Humans are risk averse and loss averse. You see the downsides and are fearful but can't yet see the upsides or underestimate them. Why not make the same argument for internet and c…

Which tech leader said the rewards will be distributed evenly? That sounds more like a rhetorical strawman for you to dunk on to make a point. It would be similar to saying "Most H…

It's really tiring that LLM skeptics will always talk about LLM fans every time AI comes up to strawman AI and satisfy their fragile fantasy world where everything is the sign of a…

How do you propose we address adverse selection in insurance markets then? That's the part you're overlooking and making you go "Huh?". It's clear to everyone else.

How do you address adverse selection then? There's no private insurance where you don't address adverse selection. Either you force everyone to have coverage: ie car insurance in U…

If we're talking trading, it means a short timeframe, let's say over a few days. The stock market doesn't really grow over a few days, it's basically zero sum. So every gain you ma…

Taxing something almost always decreases usage. By how much depends on the rate and the elasticity of demand. Gambling demand is probably very inelastic, much like cigarettes and a…