elevatortrim

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by elevatortrim 22d ago
But only one of them need to succeed for PG to make a lot of money.
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by elevatortrim 29d ago
3- The CS rep tought that would make them more favourable to their manager.
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by elevatortrim 3mo ago
How can you get the agents to do anything useful without giving them meaningful access? If it only lives in an isolated sandbox, it can only act within the sandbox, then I would have to manually move what was done in the sandbox to real-lif
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by elevatortrim 4mo ago
I just had chatgpt draw a table of wealth distribution by year based on best data sources it can find. It shows that inequality has been on the rise from year 0 (top 1% has 45% of wealth) all the way until WW1 - top 1% had 65% in 1910. It t
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by elevatortrim 4mo ago
Exactly. And this is why ideas like post-scarcity or universal-high-income are not realistic. Because we can already make life heaven on earth for everyone alive. But we won't. Not because we do not have the resources or means of produ
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
Just learn, sure. But the difference between my efficiency of using it on my day 2 and month 6 is significant. Yet I feel I am barely scratching the surface of it.
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
The reason for food shortages is not scarcity of food, nor the reason for shelter, clothing, or transportation. We have enough technology and resources to make it a heaven for everyone except for unpreventable diseases or similar. Yet we do
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
If the assets are public and not associated to my account, how could they ever restore access if they made them inaccessible?
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
My guess is that if they take down the public hosting, most clients would lose access to work they paid for and fiverr has no way to put these back behind an authorisation. It is just a public list of files, either everyone has access to yo
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
I can’t elaborate on your example as I’m not very knowledge-able on the smallpox vaccine bit that depends on how close we were to inventing the vaccine anyway - I’ll take your word on we were not and Edward Jenner had a revolutionary advanc
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
No. Because success is individual, inequality is statistical. It ia true that AI gives ordinary people a lot more chance to be successful. But do not forget that success depends on lots of factors that are not in one’s control: knowing the
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
I would rather you did not do that. You would create a shit tone more global transfer of goods accelerating global warming, and make societies dependant on unsustainable dirt cheap production practices. Even if yourself could argue that you
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
Is what you say really controversial? Except for commercial flights (which I would easily give up for a hopeful society), I do not find anything on your list remotely relevant to my happiness or well-being. Imported cheap goods are obviousl
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
To say “because of war”, you would also have to prove we could not do it without war.
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
You are right. I think there are quite a lot of people who are only interested in playing and never deliberately practising. They do not get that far (they do not have to!). And then the vast majority of aspring guitar players who frequent
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
If you can afford it and have the time, your local conservatoire. Piano is very different than the guitar, it is much more technique and repertoire focused (as opposed to improvisation and interpretation of guitar). In comparison to guitar,
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
Putting in the hours is important, but not I would not single it out as what matters because there is so much varienty of talent between musicians who put in similar hours. What you do in those hours at least equally matters.
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by elevatortrim 5mo ago
I can attest. After 7 years of practising guitar, the gap between my ability and my taste is even greater compared to when I started. Actually I can say the same thing for programming, I can build most software I would think of building whe
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
I think there is an expectation that it should not matter, and there is a reality that it does matter, and there is lots of discussion because the expectations and the reality do not match.
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
I think being conventionally attractive gives you a lot more chance practice socialising and my observation is that, people who use that chance get so good at it, they remain very good at relationships even at old age.
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
That world is not necessarily bleak. We currently have two broad mechanisms to equate people's value. *Employees:* Easy to replace = Low Salary = Gets Few Resources Hard to replace = High Salary = Gets Many Resources *Entrepreneurs:* O
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
I would not want a quadrillion dollars in the first place, I would first try to reduce it to an amount that I can maintain relatively hassle-free and under-the-radar. But even for that perfect amount, I can't think of an age where I&#x
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
Not sure if that would work better: 1. The idea behind UBI is that it is near-zero effort, the cost to operate UBI should be minimal. UBW cannot be low overhead I suppose. 2. What motivation do I have to do the work if I can’t get fired?
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
Everything you say is still the idea and I agree but where does the idea that progressive taxation would go away coming from? What does it have to do with UBI?
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
Nah - I've also spent decades trying to become the best software developer I can and now it is giving me enormous power. What used to take me 5 days is now taking me a day, and my output is now higher quality. I now finish things prope
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
I’d do that in a heartbeat for IWC! There are of course people who buy Rolexes or whatever for the brand. There are probably more people who buy Mac Books for the logo. But most people are rational. Most people would pay that much money for
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
Considering he is one of the most prominent tech writers, PG's articles are likely among the most impactful to have influenced AI writing styles.
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by elevatortrim 6mo ago
Fair enough. This particular article, I would say compherensive, but lacking substance. The very promise of this article, that people primarily paying for brand name is simply wrong and it does not take too much time to spend in watch circl
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
Of course, they look like normal watches, that’s the point. However, if you paid for, you would get an extremely polished watch, rares/high-quality materials, hand-checked for every imperfection etc. as opposed to an almost the same lo
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by elevatortrim 7mo ago
These particular watches are not my taste as well (I do not find them ugly though) but these are some of the most popular examples watch community find very pretty.

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