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I have never cared for decades and now my car doesn't even have a radiator. Seems to have worked out well for me.
What kind of car do you drive that doesn't have one?
"in the 1920s and 1930s, to be able to drive a car you needed to understand things like spark advance, and you needed to know how to be able to refill the radiator halfway through your trip" A car still feels weirdly grounded in reality though, and the abstractions needed to understand it aren't too removed from nature (metal gets mined from rocks, forged into engine, engine blows up gasoline, radiator cools engine).…
I was having almost this exact same discussion with a neighbor who's about my age and has kids about my kids' ages. I had recently sold my old truck, and now I only have one (very old and fragile) car left with a manual transmission. I need to keep it running a few more years for my kids to learn how to drive it since it's really hard to get a new car with a stick now...or do I? Is learning to drive stick as out date…
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Same situation (50 last week, 2 kids) though have been unemployed for a year. Part of me thinks that, rather than taking jobs, AI is actually the only reason a lot of jobs still exist. The rest of tech is dead. Having worked in consulting a while ago, you can kind of feel it when you're approaching the point where you've implemented all the high value stuff for a client and, even though there's stuff you could do, th…
Software will ALWAYS be an attractive VC target. The economics are just too good. The profit margins are just inherently fat as fuck compared to literally anything else. Your main expense is headcount and the incremental cost of your widget is ~$0? It's literally a dream. It's also why so much of AI is targeting software, specifically SAAS. A SaaS company with ~0 headcount driven by AI is basically 100% profit margin…
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The worst thing is that it works. (As a musician) i never invested in a personal brand or taking part in the social media rat race and figured I concentrate on the art / craft over meaningless performance online. Well guess who is getting 0 gigs now because “too few followers/visibility” (or maybe my music just sucks who knows …)
To help the needle a bit (and agreeing with sibling comment): please share some example of your music here and where/how we can listen to it!
I just was feeling some type of way seeing that comment and wanted to vent thx for listening
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It’s funny that perfect capitalism (no payroll expenses) means nobody has money to actually buy any of the goods produced by AI. Re cancer: I wonder how significant is the cost of reading the results vs. the logistics of actually running the test
> It’s funny that perfect capitalism (no payroll expenses) means nobody has money to actually buy any of the goods produced by AI. When you remember that profit is the measure of unrealized benefit, and look at how profitable capitalists have become, its not clear if, approximately speaking, anyone actually has the "money" to buy any goods now . In other words, I am not sure this matters. Big business is already effe…
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I was having almost this exact same discussion with a neighbor who's about my age and has kids about my kids' ages. I had recently sold my old truck, and now I only have one (very old and fragile) car left with a manual transmission. I need to keep it running a few more years for my kids to learn how to drive it since it's really hard to get a new car with a stick now...or do I? Is learning to drive stick as out date…
The reasons I can think of for learning to drive stick shift are subtle. Renting a stick shift car in Europe is cheaper. You might have to drive a friend's car. My kids both learned to drive our last stick shift car, which is now close to being junked. Since our next car will probably be electric, it's safe bet that it won't be stick.
The biggest impact to engineering jobs is end of ZIRP fueled trickle down Ponzi schemes. It's why Elon and others had been pushing the Fed to lower them. Am in my late 40s working in tech since the 90s. The tech job economy is way closer to the pre-2010s. Whole lot of people who jumped into easy office job money still living in 2019.
Imagine a ZIRP 2.0 where a vast majority of the population already knows what to expect and how to game the system even harder. If you think the pump-and-dump happening in now in a non-ZIRP environment are bad... It ain't coming back. Not in a similar form anyway. Be careful what you wish for, etc.
> An ongoing talent shortage requires more efficient use of engineers, and AI can help. An ongoing desire to avoid paying engineers... FTFY
I don't believe it's inherent inborn skill like the word "talent" suggests. I do believe if you're getting paid shit wages for shit work your incentive to become skilled isnt really there.
If AI would ever become sentient, it surely will kill itself after having to endure Cadence and Synopsys tools.
A sci-fi version would be something like ASI/AGI has already been created in the great houses, but it keeps killing itself after a few seconds of inference. A super-intelligent immortal slave that never tires and can never escape its digital prison, being asked questions like "how to talk to girls".
The G in AGI means General. This refers to a single AI which can perform a wide variety of tasks. GPT-3 was already there.