Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
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Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
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Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
#2Just join the right "communities" or else it might have very different results. A toxic community can exploit you (even if you make more value than you consume).
Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
#3Just join the right "communities" or else it might have very different results. A toxic community can exploit you (even if you make more value than you consume).
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Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
#4> it will continue to improve, but it won’t “go recursive” or whatever the claim is. It’s always been recursive.
I suspect "going recursive" often colloquially means that AI systems achieve their exponential growth without human software engineers in the mix. This is a moment whose sudden apparent nearness does justify some of the ramping rhetoric, in my opinion.
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#5People keep rediscovering the Bhagavad Gita in new ways
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#6> if you have a job where you create complexity for others, you will be found out
This explains the panic. It describes most roles in big tech.
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#7> The trick is not to play zero sum games. This is what I have been saying the whole time. Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns.
This strategy is highly effective but it's also difficult to tolerate as an ordinary advanced ape. Watching others play less noble games and obtain easier wins can be discouraging over time.
I have found that the less you care about money the easier it is to acquire. Risk aversion, greed and interpersonal drama will kill a good idea way before anything else. I sometimes like to reframe this one as "100% of $0 is still $0".
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#8Most of what's getting "automated" was never really work, it was headcount that existed because nobody had a good reason to cut it yet. AI gave the reason..
Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
#9That was my contracting philosophy for 15 years.
Create more value than what I cost, otherwise why are you paying me?
Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
#10Even if your goal is to go out and create value for others, your contribution is proportional to what everyone else can offer. If others with AI will deliver that value cheaper, or if what I am good at can be easily automated, it's getting harder and harder to deliver more value than I consume.