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That can be terribly hard on people, while great for other people. What would you suggest would be better?
Tax robots. At a minimum, at the highest income tax rate bracket.
Computer used to be a job description, do we all owe?
Where would you draw the line?
How would you enforce it?
Edit/Append: Also, how do you calculate the income to be taxed?
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I read this to see if it would be useful to share with my 9 year old. After reading it, I think it is not any more useful (alone) than watching the 3b1b video on this topic. The video is longer, but has more visualizations. I think that perhaps reading this description after watching the video might make the process more memorable. My guess is that if I had my daughter read this first, it wouldn't do much to make the…
Sorry if this is a personal question, but why would you get a 9 year old into machine learning ?
Sorry if this is a personal question, but how did you choose your username?
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Tax robots. At a minimum, at the highest income tax rate bracket.
How? What should a Roomba owner have to pay? Or a dishwasher owner? Or someone who has a calculator? Computer used to be a job description, do we all owe? Where would you draw the line? How would you enforce it? Edit/Append: Also, how do you calculate the income to be taxed?
The same amount that someone with a stay-at-home spouse who cleans the house pays.
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I read this to see if it would be useful to share with my 9 year old. After reading it, I think it is not any more useful (alone) than watching the 3b1b video on this topic. The video is longer, but has more visualizations. I think that perhaps reading this description after watching the video might make the process more memorable. My guess is that if I had my daughter read this first, it wouldn't do much to make the…
> I think it is not any more useful (alone) than watching the 3b1b video on this topic This one? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_...
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There is research claiming the entire universe is a neural network: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7712105/
Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
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Frankly, stuff like this makes me more skeptical of the ML community. Remember when people thought Brains were just really complicated hydraulic systems?
The author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back. Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics?
He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin
Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics.
[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...
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That can be terribly hard on people, while great for other people. What would you suggest would be better?
A progressive income tax that does not exclude or favor capital income, so that funding ideally targeted transitional assistance, UBI (with a rate ratcheting up with sustained increases in per capita revenue), or, ideally, both so that the adverse effects of labor market shifts which shuffle or concentrate labor demand or shift from labor-intensive to capital-intensive methods are buffered.
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That can be terribly hard on people, while great for other people. What would you suggest would be better?
Tax robots. At a minimum, at the highest income tax rate bracket.
Are you going to pay this tax for your washing machine, dishwasher, car, word processor, electric lightbulbs? The first two are robots, and all of them put a lot of people out of work.
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A progressive income tax that does not exclude or favor capital income, so that funding ideally targeted transitional assistance, UBI (with a rate ratcheting up with sustained increases in per capita revenue), or, ideally, both so that the adverse effects of labor market shifts which shuffle or concentrate labor demand or shift from labor-intensive to capital-intensive methods are buffered.
How do you prevent UBI being captured by landlords in rent, and similar non-discretionary spending?
Progressive taxation + UBI compresses income ranges, rather than adding it, there’s not really anything to capture unless the market was sharply segmented before and after the change, its dubious even before UBI and to the extent “lumpiness” in income distribution might allow market segmentation, UBI reduces that and weakens capture opportunities.
If anyone is looking for a quick overview of how LLMs are built, I highly recommend this video by Steve Seitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnA9DMvHtfI . It does an excellent job of taking you from 0 to a decent understanding without dumbing down the content or abusing analogies.