It’s AI booster fanfic, but it’s well-written so kudos. The charts are slop though.
Global Intelligence Crisis
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#112Citrini’s calls have been so bad over the past 6 months that he has lost a ton of subs and is now desperate for attention.
Really? Well I stopped reading this piece when the AI generated charts showed up. Come on, that's just in poor taste.
Citrini charges like $1000/year for a subscription. It's ridiculous he is using AI generated charts.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I guess I didn't quite say my point clearly, the time and physical cost to get to a grocery store puts up barriers against perfect price matching. You likely are not going to go out of your way to visit a grocery store for just a single item. I think you’re a bit out of touch with the common man. People do this constantly, some to a comical degree, going so far as to make two loops on their shopping trip to return…
I have never heard of someone returning groceries (unless it turned out to be moldy or something). Definitely not because they were cheaper elsewhere. Surely there would be food safety issues with accepting such returns.
Step into any Walmart and look at the carts in the customer service section full of just-returned merchandise, waiting to be returned to the shelves. You might be surprised with what you see.
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#114In other words, switching costs go to 0, margins collapse. Middle men and people with products that aren't differentiated get hit hardest. A human can't search 10 apps for the best rates / lowest fees but an agent can. Thinking ahead 100 years from now, companies like doordash and uber eats don't exist and are instead protocols agents use to bid for items their user asks for and price discovery happens in real time.
Go to a supermarket, witness that dozens of brands sell the same things at wildly different prices, they still all make a profit, same for most services, you have comparator for subscriptions, mortgage rates, &c. And a human can 100% search 10 apps and use his brain to do basic maths, that's what we've been doing until now. Sometimes I wonder if ai shills live in a parallel universe because it truly feels like they'r…
> a human can 100% search 10 apps and use his brain to do basic maths
A human _can_ do all of that, but it takes time. If I have to search 10 apps for each item I want to buy (clothes, daily food, movie tickets, laptops, etc.), I will spend the rest of my life just searching for better deals. I'd rather have a bot do all of these searches for me.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also did err by making a blanket statement "no one price matches for protein bars", so GP was right to call it out. I do understand and see that there are cases in which one's time preference could be such that it is sensible or necessary to price-match at that granularity even when buying a single unit. However even then there's still other constraints such as cost of transportation & reputation of vendor. Even to…
>I also did err by making a blanket statement "no one price matches for protein bars", so GP was right to call it out. This was clearly an error. GP is right to call it out, but not right to characterize it as nuts. It's obvious what you meant.
It's not that "nuts" to take the literal meaning of people's own words. Calling it "obvious" someone meant something rather than what they actually typed with their own fingers is pretty nuts though. It might be common for folks to misspeak (mistype), but that by no stretch of the imagination makes their actual meaning obvious. It's quite literally the opposite...
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#116The situation is clear. There is a great risk to the livelihoods and bargaining power of workers everywhere. This risk is driven by a race dynamic that is accelerating. In tech we can see this earlier than others because we are close to the technology at the heart of this. This is quickly becoming one of the largests threats to the public in history and the concentration of power of this trajectory threatens democrac…
Good thing LLMs don’t have guns, yet
Drones have guns. One just needs drone APIs.
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#117Every time I read one of these doom and gloom pieces on AI/robotics, I think they are only describing the transition. After that, I think society will align with Musk's vision of AI/robotics freeing humans from work and scarcity. Then, humans will be able to focus on exploring the universe, scientific discovery, and artistic expression.
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#118It's quite clear that AGI will require a hard economic reboot. Say goodbye to capitalism. This is also why AI companies are not tackling robotics yet. Because doing so will make it painfully clear what is about to happen.
What's not clear at all is if agi will actually be reached any time soon
We do not need to reach AGI, just fractional AGI may be enough (maybe 0.5 AGI?) since 50% of workers are below average, so target for replacement by 0.5 AGI.
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#119Every time I read one of these doom and gloom pieces on AI/robotics, I think they are only describing the transition. After that, I think society will align with Musk's vision of AI/robotics freeing humans from work and scarcity. Then, humans will be able to focus on exploring the universe, scientific discovery, and artistic expression.
Is that Musk's vision? Because he just elected the guy that is gutting all of the safety nets that would enable the second part.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perishables don’t get reshelved, they get binned
amazing reading this thread and realizing just how much HN is disconnected from the reality of majority of people in America. returning food and hitting multiple stores is like a daily thing for several people I know
"It's just a banana hackers, how much could it cost?! $5?"
Though that joke is in desperate need of an inflationary update.