baron816

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by baron816 11d ago
They don’t because they hire people to pick it up
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by baron816 11d ago
Anyone reading this who works/runs a robotics company, I really want to encourage you to build a robot to pick up trash on city sidewalks as an early product. Picking up trash requires a lot of dexterity and will come with many challen
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by baron816 15d ago
Alphabet hasn’t had any layoffs, tightening of salaries and perks, or impacts to work life balance. Morale is quite good, imo as an employee
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by baron816 20d ago
People have this right to take better jobs at other companies. This is how we get better working conditions: competition between employers. Tech has figured this out. I’ve never felt the need to go on strike. Unions can be a deterrent to th
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by baron816 20d ago
Why do you assume unions are always reasonable? Unions in the US have a long history of over reaching and crippling industries and governments.
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by baron816 20d ago
Where do I say that nurses shouldn’t have good working conditions or good pay? Most of us have figured this out already: you can take a job at another company that’s better to work for. Most nurses do have pretty good working conditions and
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by baron816 20d ago
Have you ever not been able to send your kids to school for weeks (or years in the case of COVID) because the teachers refused to work? Have you ever been unable to get timely medical treatment because nurses refused to work? Have you ever
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by baron816 29d ago
The labor market is just kind of complicated. Having a four year span where your real income goes down because you didn’t job hop isn’t ideal, but it’s totally possible that it pays off in the long run quite handsomely. Ideally, you want to
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by baron816 1mo ago
Rupert Murdoch absolutely is capable of doing all that. He’s absolutely done far more harm globally than Zuckerberg.
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by baron816 1mo ago
This take only makes sense if you don’t know what people use Google search for. If you’re looking for your local Ford dealership, or to book a Carnival cruise, or need a disability lawyer, or to refinance your credit card debt, you’re searc
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by baron816 2mo ago
Sneaker manufacturing is a very manual process. Nike famously tried to automate it and failed ( https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/why-its-so-difficult-for-r... ). Designing and constantly changing all the processes
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by baron816 2mo ago
IMO, the area where AI is going to be most useful over the next couple years is in developing manufacturing processes top to bottom. Maybe a million token budget is too small, but something like "design me a sneaker and all the equipme
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by baron816 2mo ago
He knows he brought these attacks with his war, but he doesn’t take the blame for anything.
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by baron816 2mo ago
I hope humanoids will be ever present, it’s just that the scale of impact from specialized robots will be far greater. Humanoids will be our butlers, but the other robots will be creating a world of unimaginable abundance.
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by baron816 2mo ago
I don’t think this is where the robotics revolution is going to happen. The big one will be using AI to design and build highly specialized robots to automate mining and manufacturing.
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by baron816 2mo ago
Yes of course life insurance and pension funds are going to buy this debt. This is the highest quality debt that's out there. If you don't want life insurance and pension funds to buy debt from big tech companies because you belie
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by baron816 2mo ago
Interstellar travel is probably not ever going to happen. Even if we have antimatter propulsion (which is still probably not practical even under ideal circumstances), we’re still talking hundreds of years of travel time to get to somewhere
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by baron816 2mo ago
I don’t think you finished reading my comment. If you want the government to build lots of housing, fine. But you just have to really commit to doing so and expect it to be a perpetual project. Building out the highway system worked because
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by baron816 2mo ago
Progressives and Democratic Socialists like to pretend that the government can pass a law which would allow it to build lots of social housing/provide health care for everyone/build a lot of green energy/etc and it would just
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by baron816 2mo ago
I’ve been worried about the same thing, but I’m more worried about it being used as a mechanism for deploying chemical weapons.
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by baron816 3mo ago
My view is that AI's productive power will allow more individuals to be independent from powerful corporations, and that will significantly weaken those corporations. It's been really challenging to start companies because you nee
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by baron816 3mo ago
This is just how productivity works. If people spend less time building a unit of output, then you have more output. People aren’t going to stop wanting stuff. Right now, the world can’t come close to making all the stuff people want. As lo
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by baron816 3mo ago
Are they built in people’s backyards? There’s a famous case in Northern Virginia that has admitted they messed up zoning which gets cited in every story to make it look like they’re all built in people’s backyards, but the vast majority of
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by baron816 3mo ago
The tradeoff isn’t dev job easy vs better performance. The abstractions allow devs to build faster or work on things users care about instead of unobservably better performance.
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by baron816 3mo ago
Why are you assuming this? Because Bloomberg didn’t report the execs’ performance reviews? Maybe they did face consequences and we just don’t know.
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by baron816 3mo ago
I really like what https://www.deepfission.com/ is trying to do. They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine. They’re digging one mile (1.6 km) holes dropping low enriched nuclear fuel to th
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by baron816 3mo ago
Well, probably the right thing to do for large trucks and suvs is to reclassify them so that you need a commercial license to drive them.
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by baron816 3mo ago
Well, my conspiracy theory is that it’s the other way around: AI leaders know they’re never going to recoup money for their investors. Money will be become useless and no one will be any richer than anyone else (though everyone will be far
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by baron816 3mo ago
I really think there’s a concerted effort by the media to demonize AI though. Every third story I see on my news feeds is some sensationalist story about how AI/data centers are bad. The media does have an interest in doing this—writer
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by baron816 3mo ago
It’s an economic fallacy that a group of people would get “locked out” of the economy. If you and I are able to work, but can’t get jobs because robots do all the jobs, then we’re not just going to sit on our hands and starve. You and I can

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