Foraunt O' connely (FourFire)

@ahogegirI @dejavucoder What have the people in charge of the country closest to post scarcity done with it?

@dejavucoder Pfft. Post scarcity is nothing to you then?

oh husbant... karpathy sensei said AGI is a decade away... we have 10 years to escape the permanent underclass now!

@aidoktorrr43645 @dejavucoder Given the track records of governments around the world, what do you realistically expect them to do?

@dejavucoder "AGI", "Underclass" 😂. That's not how this works. Why would there be an Underclass when machines will be better than humans at everything (not "thinking"). The global economy will colapse if the governments around the world won't do anything.

@andreiC_dev @dejavucoder What have corporations done every single time there was an excuse to cut jobs? When you reach for the lump of labour fallacy to deflect any criticism, read this: @sapo_cosmico/this-time-its-different-a611087b5ad3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@sapo_cosmico/…

@dejavucoder why so people think AGI means there will be an underclass

Mean while US politicans:

@Fanlo3n @yaireinhorn @MichaelAArouet A survey showed that a majority of Gen Z would pay to eliminate TikTok from the world. They only use it because they are forced to by social circle effects.

Seriously, how should any foreign company invest in the EU if they will be taxed based just on turnover, regardless if their business is profitable or not?

@yaireinhorn @MichaelAArouet How much of that innovation is actually benefiting the median American in the end?

I’m sorry for repeating myself but the EU is doing everything in its power to destroy innovation in Europe! I hope that some Brussels 🇪🇺bureaucrats are following you so I’m reposting this excellent WSJ which demonstrates how bad the situation in Europe really is - innovation-wise, and now they are only going to make it much worse! Unbelievable!

@MichaelAArouet If a business isn't profitable then it shouldn't exist with >€100 million in revenue "Unprofitable" businesses with massive market caps are a large portion of what is hollowing out society in the US.

@mazag08 @GeneSohoForum @cafreiman @bryan_caplan If you didn't have a housing shortage, why are the existing houses priced so high? Perhaps recent housing construction was funded with debt which must be repaid?

@GeneSohoForum @cafreiman @bryan_caplan Those restrictions are mostly limited to heavily blue areas. Red areas have been building like gangbusters as population has migrated. On the aggregate, we don't have a housing shortage. We have an affordability crisis. Bring price down 40% and demand will catch up to supply.

Capitalists respond to rising prices by increasing supply (which, over time, brings about lower prices). The question anti-capitalists need to ask themselves is why this hasn’t happened in the case of housing

@adarl82 @MRrbzCT @cafreiman You can charge only up to what the market will pay.

@Augustus__J @PeesInSinks @cafreiman Obviously, the cost is not too much for existing homeowners, who benefit financially from excluding the rest of society from home ownership.

@PeesInSinks @cafreiman You also create positive externalities. Since these are next to impossible to quantify, we should prioritise looking at the direct impacts, where obviously the cost of restricted housing supply is too much to accept.

@raulseirintai @VictorTaelin At some point in the not too distant future noninvasive brain imaging could give stronger predictability of being a real creator than the current (low investment) heuristics you mentioned. others will decry a return to phrenology though.

There is 0.00006% chance for any startup to become a unicorn. That jumps to 2.5% for venture-backed seed stage startups. Technically, Y Combinator, A16z, etc was supposed to increase this even more by providing resources and connecting you with important people, being part of it is like getting the “hunter license” in the current economy state we live in But now most of them suck, respectfully, analyzing a pitch deck and then what university their participant made in does not look like a good exam to me. I really believe that with the right people in the board of such investment group, and the right type of exam, we could find and finance founders to find their way into impacting the world, with their own lab, with their own company. Just imagine if someone had identified you and just gave you enough money and connections to exclusively work in what you were interested in. I believe we can already do that, but things like Cluely gives more likes, but that doesn’t matter, a “hunter license” is just matter of time since we broke Turing’s test, if you stop to think, an O1 Visa is already sort of a hunter license. Actually is my dream to build the IRL hunter association. And find more people like you.

you know what would push us into a new era of scientific progress universal basic income for real - just imagine if all the highly smart kids working in utterly useless shit like betting apps, suddenly weren't desperate for money for their own survival imagine if working on biotech labs was cool and everyone was there that's what a world with UBI looks like

@VictorTaelin adding to my previous chain of replies some people, like you got lucky. there's more wealth than ever before there's more wealth Per Capita than ever before it's just going to (in first world, relative terms) a smaller share of the population for them, the world is a playground.

Bend / HVM would be 6 years more advanced if I didn't need to work from 18-24. and they wouldn't exist if I didn't get lucky for being paid in ETH. how many Bends / HVMs are we missing because ppl smarter than me need to work in all the useless shit that plague this economy

@VictorTaelin worsening (perceived) inequality also creates scarcity mindset more people are focusing on the struggle to survive (which means very different things in developed vs. developing countries) instead of investing in improving the world, I find myself caught in this (zero sum) trap.

@VictorTaelin additionally the worsening of US and UK political climate (and the consequences) casts a pall over the very english-speaker centric internet. This harm is demonstrated in curtailed creative potential among new contributors in many fields Note: not gone, curtailed.

"Levin’s limb-regrowth work is still in frogs, with small sample sizes and strict lab conditions. Repeating it in mammals—and then humans—takes years of careful toxicology, dosing and delivery studies" Why it takes years lol. We literally could have 100 labs working on this shit in parallel right now. Yet we don't. We do have 100 betting app companies though. We're an incompetent species. Almost like we're failing on purpose.

@VictorTaelin Something else which could help is a tool to identify when papers (or other research texts) are demonstrating sesquipedalian loquaciousness of the academic vernacular, and transpile such texts to normal (and therefore more readable) words, without losing semantic content.

Like I literally don't care about enjoying life or anything. What is even the point. I will just keep working and being useful, until either all diseases are cured or I'm fucking dead. And even if my work is irrelevant to this process, I'll do it anyway BTW if you're working on biotech, and think I can help your research in any way, just let me know. Perhaps your lab needs a compiler or smth, I might write it for you, for free, just let me know... Also one thing I do not understand is why we *choose* to move so slowly and ignore miraculous breakthroughs... For example, Michel Levin has discovered there is an entire communication protocol that spans all living cells, and can be used to instruct them to reprogram themselves, live. He managed to regrow a frog limb by just sending a message! This is major - like, bigger than the discovery of DNA itself. Cells talk, and we can just talk to them! It should have spawned an entire industry, trying to decipher this language and see how much can be done with it. Yet, nothing major happened. Why? It is like we have an open path to solve big problems but we're just not putting enough effort in the right ideas