agent_turtle

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by agent_turtle 1y ago
I don't know how you use search but I often find incredible information that I didn't explicitly search for. How do you quantify such things? How can you say with a straight face that this magic box gives you more relevant informa
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
My partner works at MSFT and I can confirm this.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
OpenAI is currently being evaluated in terms of hundreds of billions. That’s an insane number for creating a product that “speeds up searching a bit”.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
One of the major reasons there’s such a shortage of homes in the US is the extensive permit process required. Pivoting from data centers to home construction is not a straightforward process. Regarding the economics, the reason it’s a big d
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
The article you gave is derived from a poll, not a study. As for the quote, I can’t find it in the article. Can you point me to it? I did click on one of the studies and it indicated productivity gains specifically on writing tasks. Which r
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
There’s no evidence of AI causing layoffs. There’s lots of evidence of CEOs using AI as a scapegoat to entice investors: https://apnews.com/article/ai-layoffs-tech-industry-jobs-ece...
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Some of the variables that made the Great Depression what it was included very high tariff rates and lack of quality federal oversight. Today, we have the highest tariffs since right before the Great Depression, with the added bonus of econ
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
There was a study recently that showed how not only did devs overestimate the time saved using AI, but that they were net negative compared to the control group. Anyway, that about sums up my experience with AI. It may save some time here
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Long before I was born. If you're trying to suss out which came first, the addiction or the slot machines, I don't have a definitive answer for you.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
I'll throw some anecdotal data down. I'm a military brat who grew up on bases around the country and in Germany. My dad was a gambling addict. It was not uncommon for us to spend all day at the bowling alley on base, which was whe
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
"Yeah the house may be on fire but we can't even begin to put it out until we make sure every other house in the city is not also on fire."
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
> I do not have enough information to definitely say whether it’s good or bad. Usually when I don't have enough information on an issue, I take it upon myself to learn more about it before stating an opinion. > Most of the things
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
7.26 is technically more than 7.25. Further, a low floor acts as a weight, depressing wages generally. "Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift wages for over 33 million workers": https://www.epi.org&
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Trump just fired the BLS chief because the economic data from liberation day onward was terrible..
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
yeah, actually. If the worst thing you can find when paying living wages for workers is a small drop of 2.7% employment among fast food chains, that sounds like a great trade off. Seriously, do some introspection here.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
You view this as zero sum. How many new business owners would be created if people had enough to save? How many new businesses would exist if more money was flowing in the economy? Should businesses exist if they can't pay livable wage
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
> Decades of worsening conditions for the commoner is Ron Wyden's idea of a booming economy. Democrats are useful idiots. I can't anymore, folks. Republicans passed the largest tax cuts for billionaires, increased the deficit b
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
I got my first job as a grocer in 2010 which paid a minimum wage of $7.25/hr. That was 15 years ago and the minimum wage is still $7.25/hr.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Current unemployment is a very low 4%, which completely contradicts your baseless theory.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
You can do that without creating a single unaccountable entity housing everyone's data. In fact, it is a weakness to have a single point of failure.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Your argument is that stronger nations bully weaker nations, and somehow this supports the idea that there should be only one strong nation.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
That's because we elected a clown, not because our military is weak.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Again, you're not making the argument you think you are. "Russia attacked a weaker country because it is stronger. This is why we need one country to be stronger than any other country." Mutually Assured Destruction works bec
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Russia does not use nukes because the US and EU exists as deterrents.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
It's naive to frame this as a binary choice between disarmament and creating a single unaccountable entity for all of the world's data.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Cool, now imagine if Nazi Germany had that monopoly.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
You're making the case for why it is so dangerous for the world that one nation/company has this much power over others.
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by agent_turtle 1y ago
Part of the question here is how much power one company should have and who is responsible for it. A government is ultimately beholden to its citizens; a company is only beholden to shareholders.

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