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Someone is selling a manor estate in Burgundy with a private river, waterfalls and a natural swimming pond. 2 hours from Paris. Two buildings arranged around a courtyard, 1,700m² (18,298 sq ft) in total, 12 bedrooms, an artist's studio, stables and 7 hectares (17 acres) of land. Inside there's a music room with a piano, a library in the tower, a writing room, and a dining room built around a fireplace large enough to roast a whole animal. Herons and wild ducks live on the property year round. The river has a depth of 3 metres and you can swim in it all summer. Near Vézelay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Asking price: €1.39M ($1.6M). The French sure do know about living well. A river on your grounds, your own land to walk, swimming in summer, dinner outside. What's the French word for this kind of life?

Even bigger irony of getting rich is that everything expensive isn't that much better than when you paid normal for it Many things are even worse (most expensive luxury hotels are guaranteed worse than regular simple hotels, I know I tried most of them now) The real reason you wanna get rich is not to buy expensive things It's so that $1M invested gives you 3% to take out every year with no risk, which is $30,000/year Which you can use to travel for $1000/mo on a shoestring budget forever without having to back to some desk job with a shitty boss Aka FREEDOM

YIMBY because I like tall pretty buildings

This week's column: choose your university wisely Post-1992 providers have been rapidly expanding business, law and computing courses. Yet the returns for students 5 years after graduating from these courses have, to date, been woeful 1/4

5.2 acres of land in Italy, a working olive grove that produces oil, private woodland, a renovated stone farmhouse and an 80m² cellar. €260k ($300k). A lot of people are rethinking where they live and how they live. This is what that looks like in practice. A courtyard with a wood oven and grape pergola. Three connected structures, 150m² (1,615 sq ft) of living space, 2 beds and 2 baths. Get Starlink, run your business from anywhere, add solar panels, collect your water. You're largely off-grid. One hour from Rome if you ever get bored and need the city. Is this the kind of property that starts making more sense the more the world changes?

🚨: A petri dish of human brain cells just learned to play DOOM

the x is ambiguous because this metalaw is so universal. In this case its something like compute/neurons but i am articulating it by references the universal issue in all networks that early on when you add nodes you get a “more than the sum of its parts” output but as you continue it actually goes back in the other way. For example, people working on a project follows a power law. 1 person working on it has X output. 5 people working on it don’t have 5X output they have 10X because each person is 2X as efficient due to working together. However 10,000 people working on a project only has 1000X output, each person at 1/2 efficiency, because the complexity of managing all the nodes went vertical while the creativity and specialization benefits flattened out. This same type of relationships exists in everything. My argument is that this includes intelligence. As you add neurons you get more intelligence than you’d expect at first and then less than you expect later. A fly has 100K neurons. a fish has 10M neurons. A crow 1B. a human has 100B. These are at best linear improvements in intelligence for every 100X increase in compute. Arguably these are diminishing returns for that exponential increase in compute. Either way, making something even noticeably smart than a human you need 100X more computer (10T neurons). Maybe you can get one more jump but after that you hit physical limitations there like “all the world’s money” or the speed of light. AI people say “we but even if true the output will be exponential” but i would argue that human civilizational productivity has the same power law issue. We like to say civilization has gone exponential but no its a power law and we are clearly flattening out due to the same coordination problems. And we’ve literally done the exact same thing before during Roman Empire. It is not the end of history and we have not escaped and there will be no singularly. It’s just the same thing it’s always been with the same limitations and through exponential technical improvements we will have marginal output improvements at best.

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An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture