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Can George Hutchins come over and play, too?

http://www.georgehutchins.com/

Hah. I knew what this was before I clicked on it, and still said "whoa!"

As the saying goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

How exactly does the same amount of labor need doing when there will fewer people who need anything in the near future? You seem to be saying more labor per person is necessary to satisfy this “need.”

That doesn’t seem beneficial to workers as a whole. I thought innovation was supposed to benefit everyone? Where’s the hole in this logic?

What if the payoff is arbitrarily high? Do you believe there is any limit to the potential benefits of AGI short of those necessarily imposed by a finite planet? Who would’t want the equivalent of a tool that designs, builds, delivers, installs, maintains, and upgrades itself, all in addition to being able to produce useful goods or provide useful services?

Doesn’t owning a thing like that sound like being arbitrarily wealthy? What do you think the three people in the US who control more wealth than the entire bottom 50% of Americans would think about that? You think they’ll just say “Nah, I don’t want that. I won’t take steps to control this particular life-altering technology?”

If so, you are making an extraordinarily strong claim, and such claims must be supported by extraordinarily strong evidence, which I see none of here.

Lol!! France literally shut itself down today because of a general strike in response to raising the eligibility age for a state pension from 62 to 64, and somehow the US is one of “the most liberal places” in the world.

Damn, I think you made my day

https://apnews.com/article/france-retirement-age-strike-prot...

"Guardrails and safety measures" are useless. All it does is set up a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma situation among all the groups working on these things. If there's anything we know from game theory, it's that someone will defect in that situation. That group would then gain a pretty massive advantage over the cooperators.

I'm not going to debate whether enough people to fill multiple major cities is a "huge" class or not. Go nitpick someone else if that's your only point.

You don't believe individual landlords exist? They have a whole, entire subreddit, r/Landlord. Voilà, quod erat demonstrandum.

To wit:

> Of the approximately 50 million rental housing units in the United States, around 41% of the rental units are owned by mom and pop landlords, also known as individual investor landlords. That means approximately 20.5 million units are overseen by mom and pop landlords.

https://getflex.com/blog/landlord-statistics/

Also, from the same site, the average landlord has 3 properties. That means there are more than 6 million individual landlords in the US. I'm not going to nitpick whether that's "huge" or not; the point is proven.

A world where you cannot rent is also one where there isn't a huge class of people who own more housing units than they could possibly live in.

Very common in mathematics as well. There are lots of results that people use every day that don't seem to have a published proof. They're literally called "folklore" theorems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_folklore

Why not skill at writing 8-legged essays[0] instead? Either way, you're so far away from anything that maps directly on to "is this person likely to succeed as an X level software engineer at Y company" that it's all pretty arbitrary.

Not to mention, you'd have to have a precise and well defined notion of what "analytical hobbies" are. Preferably one that doesn't carry an inherent classist[1] (and maybe even racist or sexist) bias. That part alone seems pretty tough, forget the actual definition part.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-legged_essay

[1]: https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-b...

I loved being able to play Diablo 2 with my Voodoo 5. There could be 100 mobs, plus shitloads of fog effects and fire on screen, and I'd still get like 60 fps.

Not really. Not under OSX, brew makes this simple. Under Linux, worst case, you just download the source and compile it. (Not sure about Windows though.)

I don't see why that's relevant.

Yes, ~1 billion from $177 billion in global revenue is a negligible cost.

Yes, I disagree that fining a company with nearly $117 billion in revenue a billion euro is “large.” That’s “cost of doing business” money, not any kind of punishment or deterrent.

Yep, from test.js:

> const input = '(add 2 (subtract 4 2))';

> const output = 'add(2, subtract(4, 2));';

What huge fines? The largest fine I can find on record is Apple being fined $14.8B for their tax scheme.

If you believe there's a world "where OpenAI 'solves' jailbreaks," then you believe there is such a thing as software without bugs.

I don't see any evidence in either your or the GP's post.

It's called "lack of available evidence." You can't use the fact that there isn't evidence of a thing happening in order to give the theory weight. When the evidence comes out, if it exists, and if it ever does come out for general consumption, then my opinion is subject to change.

Why not just say it came from North Korea? There's just about as much publicly available evidence for that as there is that it came from a lab leak in China.

This is exactly why I can't give this article, or any of those multiple intelligence agency assessments any real credence. I don't have access to any of the data that went into those assessments. What I do have access to doesn't point very strongly at a lab leak origin, despite its plausibility.

> 75% of all new infectious diseases come from animals. How many of those do we have start to finish routes from animals to humans? And if we don't have that route, how many of those are we suspecting of being lab leaks?

None, as far as I know. Nor should it be particularly surprising that no animal origin for COVID-19 has yet been found. The animal origin for SARS was only discovered in 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9 The first outbreak was in 2002. We're less than 4 years away from the first known outbreak of COVID-19, so dismissing a wild animal origin at this point is extremely premature at best.

You don't need to "discredit" the hypothesis very much, because it shouldn't have any real "credit" to begin with. The only evidence for it at all seems to be the proximity of the Wuhan lab to the first known outbreak, plus the fact that 3 researchers got sick in November (i.e. flu season) with some unknown virus. If you ask me, that plus $5 might buy you a cup of coffee.

I'm a little disappointed by this article. After all, I'm sure the author knows that anything that stinks with sulfur can be made stinkier by substituting selenium! Selenoacetone is worse than thioacetone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vrZAMEHU

Well, "it turns out that" beats both, with about 26k results ;)

Yeah, Karim got raided a few years back but they couldn't make anything stick. Most people don't even record serial numbers on their bikes, much less register them with any type of organization that police can check for stolen bikes.

> Same happened to me with a rental cars. When I travelled to Scotland I reserved one from the US. When I picked up the car they added a ton of mandatory fees that almost tripled the price. The person working there told me that they do this only to people from the US. People from Europe get shown the correct price.

Wow. Somehow, that seems shadier than just showing a misleading price then piling on fees for everyone.

In the Oakland/Berkeley/Albany/El Cerrito area, you want to check out Karim's in Berkeley.