laterium

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by laterium 7mo ago
95% of human farmers lost their jobs because of industrial revolution. What happened then? No jobs were created and we still have 95% unemployment, right?
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by laterium 7mo ago
You generate 20k LOC in a few hours. How long will it take you to read it? One week? You just keep going instead. I don't think this works great at large scale production codebases yet, but it's an approach that will have more and
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by laterium 8mo ago
If an AI system autonomously built a rocket and went to the moon, would you call it unimpressive because it's already been done? The moving of goalposts is shocking.
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by laterium 8mo ago
You can sit down at a library or Barnes and Noble and memorize for free.
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by laterium 8mo ago
What makes you think they plateaued?
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by laterium 8mo ago
Is 75% of the country zoned SFH because of safety regulations or environmental reasons?
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by laterium 9mo ago
Why are you celebrating compute becoming more expensive? Do you actually think it will be good?
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by laterium 9mo ago
Being able to conduct monetary policy is valuable, even if it can be misused. Otherwise all other countries would just be using USD.
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by laterium 9mo ago
Some people sure, but "everyone"? Everyone's exaggerating nowadays.
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by laterium 9mo ago
The issue you're overlooking is the scarcity of experts. You're comparing the current situation to an alternative universe where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.
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by laterium 10mo ago
Where's the argument? Or we're just asserting things?
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by laterium 10mo ago
What have politicians been doing forever?
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by laterium 10mo ago
How does this add to the discussion? Is the goal to make HN as toxic as everywhere else online? If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise this performative negativity and cynicism is boring honestly.
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by laterium 10mo ago
Why did you waste all your money on 32gb when 4gb is enough? Why did we all need 32gb?
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by laterium 10mo ago
Who declared it? Who cares what anyone declares? What do you think will actually happen? If software can be fully automated, then sure SWEs will need to find a new job. But why wouldn't it increase productivity instead and there still
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by laterium 10mo ago
The reason housing is extremely expensive in the US is the current old NIMBY home owners. The country has 66% home ownership rate thanks to the long term policy of US government to promote homeownership. But this has the undesirable side ef
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by laterium 10mo ago
> LLMs are garbage That's just your opinion man.
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by laterium 10mo ago
Humans are risk averse and loss averse. You see the downsides and are fearful but can't yet see the upsides or underestimate them. Why not make the same argument for internet and computers? We would've been better off without them
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by laterium 10mo ago
Which tech leader said the rewards will be distributed evenly? That sounds more like a rhetorical strawman for you to dunk on to make a point. It would be similar to saying "Most HN commenters argue that all the benefits of AI will go
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by laterium 10mo ago
It's really tiring that LLM skeptics will always talk about LLM fans every time AI comes up to strawman AI and satisfy their fragile fantasy world where everything is the sign of an AI bubble. But, yes this is a good way to use LLMs. J
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by laterium 11mo ago
How do you propose we address adverse selection in insurance markets then? That's the part you're overlooking and making you go "Huh?". It's clear to everyone else.
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by laterium 11mo ago
How do you address adverse selection then? There's no private insurance where you don't address adverse selection. Either you force everyone to have coverage: ie car insurance in US or universal health insurance systems or you for
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by laterium 11mo ago
If we're talking trading, it means a short timeframe, let's say over a few days. The stock market doesn't really grow over a few days, it's basically zero sum. So every gain you make is balanced by someone else's lo
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by laterium 11mo ago
Taxing something almost always decreases usage. By how much depends on the rate and the elasticity of demand. Gambling demand is probably very inelastic, much like cigarettes and alcohol. (Your argument supports this too) If the rate is low
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by laterium 11mo ago
Yes, building houses actually solves homelessness. Housing prices are the best predictor of homelessness and of course increasing supply of a good decreases its price. Why does the law of supply and demand not apply to housing? Sometimes th
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by laterium 11mo ago
Housing prices are the strongest predictor of homelessness. Therefore, homelessness is not a moral failure of homeless individuals but of the NIMBY vetocracy that is the housing market.
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by laterium 11mo ago
Investors come out ahead, not traders. The more "trading" it is (meaning more short term), the more like gambling it is. There's even a point where you go from positive to negative sum.
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by laterium 11mo ago
Yes, it is negative sum after transaction costs and taxes.
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by laterium 11mo ago
Regressive taxes can be counterbalanced by redistributive policies. Sales taxes are regressive too for example and bring much much more revenue. The issue is sales taxes disincentivize consumption whereas gambling taxes disinventivize gambl
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by laterium 11mo ago
The thread we're in was arguing that the requirement to be AGI is to fail the exact same way humans do. I pointed out by showing these examples that failing the exact same way is not a requirement for a new technology to replace people

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