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Hedonic threadmill: it's the hypothesis that we tend to a baseline level of happiness and on average, after some time, people who have won the lottery are as happy (or unhappy) as people who have gone bankrupt.

Look at us, we are apes, barely out of trees. We were fighting predators and cold and diseases that no longer exist. Just by being alive, we are the winners of millions of years of genetic lottery, evolution, fights, love and ingenuity.

We have access to most of human knowledge through devices that fit in our pockets, can visit other countries that were legendary to our forefathers, instead of hunting wild beasts we have satellites that guide us step by step to the nearest McDonald's.

Imagine time-traveling a few generations back, describing our life to our grand-grandparents, seeing their eyes grow wide. Now imagine, at the end, telling them how ennui got to us and we can no longer find meaning in our life.

You're doing it wrong. You're meant to look at people who are happier than you and think smugly "ha... ignorants!"

I'm surprised they didn't go for their signature move.

"Here's the list. Aheam:

• Biden
• Biden
• Biden
• Clinton

... "

The article makes a good point that it's less about replacing a knowledge worker completely and more industrializing what some categories of knowledge workers do.

Can one professional create a video with AI in a matter of hours instead of it taking days and needing actors, script writers and professional equipment? Apparently yes. And AI can even translate it in multiple languages without translators and voice actors.

Are they "great" videos? Probably not. Good enough and cheap enough for several uses? Probably yes.

Same for programming. The completely independent AI coder doesn't exist and many are starting to doubt that it ever will, with the current technology. But if GenAI can speed up development, even not super-significantly but to the point that it takes maybe 8 developers to do the work of 10, that is a 20% drop in demand for developers, which puts downward pressure on salaries too.

It's like in agriculture. It's not like technology produced completely automated ways to plow fields or harvest crops. But one guy with a tractor can now work one field in a few hours by himself.

With AI all this is mostly hypothetical, in the sense that OpenAI and co are all still burning money and resources at a pace that looks hard to sustain (let alone grow) and it's unclear what the cost to the consumers will be like, when the dust settles and these companies will need to make a profit.

But still, when we're laughing at all the failed attempts to make AI truly autonomous in many domains we might be missing the point

A few slaps on the butt (assisted by a carpet beater when the occasion demands it) will usually do it. At least that's how my mom did it with us.

"You! Have! To be! Good! To! Your! Sister/neighbor/dog!"

(EDIT: /s if not clear)

don't call my tesla cars swastikars...

... that's reductive, they have so much MORE potential!

interestingly, $35 millions came from a single donation in $MELANIA memecoins

yes, but which one is more likely to try to invade Sweden, grab the Nobel Peace Prize and take it to Trump with blood still dripping from it?

although, if Trump wants to take over sucking dick in a gay bar..... I mean, he does have a lot of experience with Putin and Netanyahu

but why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard!

thank you for raising awareness on this, I had no clue

I want to boycott Lockheed Martin but man.... I was really looking forward to getting that Black Hawk helicopter for Xmas! No, but really, a few of the companies in this list are a relative surprise (Bcom, AirBnB), others are well known pieces of s*t, a few are literally in the military industry and are probably involved in every conflict in the world (or they are actively trying to)

Is Ukraine close to Putin's record at killing Russians?

but... but.... reasoning models! AGI! Singularity! Seriously, what you're saying is true, but it's not what OpenAI & Co are trying to peddle, so these experiments are a good way to call them out on their BS.

Congrats then, you write better than a LLM!

Interestingly, your original comment is not much longer and I find it much easier to read.

Was it written with the help of a LLM? Not being sarcastic, I'm just trying to understand if the (perceived) deterioration in quality was due to the fact that the input was already LLM-assisted.

They are just checking if there's something in there that someone hasn't already sent to a journalist on a Signal chat, or blurted out in conversations with foreign government members

In order to make sure they were wealthy enough, I'm sure he personally tested them one by one, challenging to send him a big donation in cryptocurrencies.

That's what a committed President-slash-genius looks like!

60% success rate sounds like a very optimistic take. Investing in a AI startup with 60% chance of success? That's a VC's wet dream!

"Eventually" might be a long time with radiation.

20 years after the Chernobyl disaster the level of radiation was still high enough to give you a good chance of cancer if you went to live there for a few years.

https://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation-levels/

I don't know how much radiation these "tactical" weapons release, but if it's comparable to Chernobyl, even if the buildings were not originally damaged, I don't know how fit they would be for living after being abandoned for 30 or 40 years.