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That example is a good reason nominal GDP has limits on what it can measure, as a drive thru Mississippi would show a poor state with small pockets of wealth

Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences

planes fly above the weather, so kinda irrelevant. you can cross the atlantic fast with something like the Concorde

yeah but the size of the us healthcare sector (like 18%) is a policy choice, other developed countries have theirs at 10-12%. U.S. healthcare is a giant predatory clusterfuck and s…

I think it’s just where they focused RLHF resources. The models have generally only gotten worse at writing. And writing doesn’t have validators like code so you can’t really scale…

A lot of these markets aren't really functioning when there are many middlemen that have an 2-4 company oligopoly that choke out any actual competition. Many markets don't really h…

Its meat processors having a monopoly.

No they wouldn’t. A balanced budget would be incredibly unpopular with everyone as you’d have to raise taxes and cut spending.

The problem is that half the political system thinks you can cut taxes and grow revenues. Which is an intentional strategy to repeal social programs that they’d never get the votes…

It’s funny because no frontier labs would exist if the Google transformer paper wasn’t published

The value of the company and lapses in governance have nothing to do with each other. One does not disprove the other

You’re saying this as if that wouldn’t have been a positive outcome

I’m the person implementing and monitoring output. What high am I supposed to be getting? Please let me know so I can stop buying drugs

Hallucinations are not really a big problem in day to day work

distribution

you're renting a space per month, and they're essentially adding an extra fee if you're doing more than sleeping there. kinda nuts

output only slows down because companies don't want to adjust how they work. its a complete skill issue if you cant manage a remote org. if a company/team is already spread out acr…

sure, that doesn't mean pay is justified

None of that will address the fact that China is intentionally engaging in mercantilism and keeping the value of the yuan low to maintain export volumes. cutting 100k jobs will sha…

Tesla already lost that fight, which is why they're resorting to asking for import bans.

You kinda don’t want to kill the whole river ecosystem. We need a functioning environment

And none of it will matter because everyone will know you’re a 64k a year peon. Working for basically free for “prestige” is a sucker move

You don’t.

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Let's pause for a moment, that actually sharpens the case rather than complicating it.