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Agreed, and I think this is reasonable. There are a great many examples of people who amassed wealth in unsavory or illegal ways. And my sense is that almost nobody defends all for…

> if the economy is growing at 2.5%, how do you sustain 15% over 5 years? US GDP is $31.82 trillion dollars per year. Taking the 2.5% growth rate, that's nearly $800 billion dollar…

I think that's fair for certain one-shot generations. For example, sending off a single prompt to an image or music generator and just accepting the output. But I think most of thi…

One can reason by analogy here. In a pre-LLM world, a classic software team would have PMs, designers, and engineers. Of those three, the PM wouldn't have any real role in writing …

I would assume that at least one of two things are true: 1. They're costs are so so out of control that they need to impose a blanket cap immediately. Figuring out an allocation me…

Small models are super useful. But I'm skeptical of their use for coding in particular, which is what this model is advertised for.

Also didn't say that. You're arguing phantom arguments I very clearly didn't make.

The top 0.01% still pay enormous taxes. Elon one year personally paid $11B in taxes. I get that a lot of people think people's unrealized capital gains should be taxed, so maybe th…

This perception that "lower ranks" are becoming poorer is just empirically not true. On every metric, people in all income brackets are earning more on both a gross and COL-adjuste…

I didn't say any of that. Taxes are fine.

The top 1% of income earners pay 40% of all the federal taxes collected. The top 25% pay 89% of taxes. Net of transfers, 60% of households receive more from government transfers th…

This is definitely the way. There are good use cases for real sandboxes (if your agent is executing arbitrary code, you better it do so in an air-gapped environment). But the idea …

Reflexivity is nodded to in the definition of complex systems in the piece! I think what you're saying is poverty is actually simple, and the solution is to stop the bad actors cau…

Super interesting, I've never heard of this before. Thanks for sharing!

True -- I didn't mean to communicate that Santa Fe was a failure writ large. Their contribution was very important! Though I think it's fair to say that the torch was picked up and…

Not the intention at all. The part about mechanistic interpretability was meant to gesture at how building such systems can provide new tool kit for building further intuition and …

Agreed!

Perhaps a failure of communication -- I was indeed attempting to say that Chomsky was wrong and his ideas were interesting, but more or less a dead end.

I have this little bookmarklet in my bookmarks bar that I use constantly. It removes all fixed or sticky elements on the page and re-enabled y-overflow if it was disabled: javascri…