Intuitively, and based on my studies of economics, I believe that we will create new jobs or jobs will transform in some way as AI rolls out. That is, mathematicians would take on some new role in the math pipeline, as described in the article. But it’s not immediately clear to me what those jobs or roles might be.
However, when I zoom in on the question, I see that it distills down to this problem: Is there something a human brain can infer that a computer cannot infer? The answer to this seems much clearer and less optimistic for those tied to their jobs.
Yes, you’re right. I was just quickly lumping any contractor whose job is to run tests from a test case sheet under the QA umbrella. I guess a more likely title is Product Market Analyst, or something like that. But I was mostly stating that I don’t find this weird at all. I definitely have looked at competitor’s API’s, for example, when designing my own. I would find it weird not to.
This is really a great laugh! It’s like watching a germaphobe come to the realization that germs are everywhere. It reminds me a little bit of how the new left approaches consumption as an identity forming action. It’s really beautiful to behold.
Edit: we need a food-coop take on every digital product. The same shit in an unbleached-brown, compostable container with social justice catchphrases splashed on the label. Produced at the same publicly-traded factory as the old, unethical stuff.
So his plan is to just take what he wants from the people who built it? What the fuck. That’s not a plan. Why are these people incapable of making the world better on their own.
I too, long for the days of 5 years ago when people understood how systems were built. What a peachy time that was. People were so knowledgeable, curious, and engaged with the systems that defined their lives. I am glad you reminded me about those happier, erudite days, as I was almost struggling to believe that such a time ever existed.
I know multiple employed, functional people who do not own a cell phone. This is absolutely not a requirement. People have simply atrophied in the machine’s embrace.
And not being able to afford having someone cook for you and serve you is not equivalent to subsisting on gruel. I could not even conceive of a word in which my parents or grandparents casually paid people to cook for them. People whining about this just comes off as entitled and out of touch.
Should we perhaps look at the top 51% instead? Why pick one perspective over the other?
I’m not familiar with Dalio outside some weird pseudo-academic paper he wrote where he attempts to provide a new grand theory of economics based on “transactions”, but I would be interested to hear this perspective supported.
Thank you for this; you are completely correct but this is not the narrative on the streets. He was a tyrant (in the original sense) and dictator who believed in absolute power of the executive, which paved the way for Trump. His federalization program wiped out the America that existed before. Like Trump, he ruled via mob passion. He was America’s Marius.
For real. Reading old comment threads makes me sad, because the level of discourse was so much higher in the past. Although this place is still deeply appreciated, it’s clear that its culture is going monotonically towards reddit.
Is there anywhere public anymore that isn’t being overrun by lobotomized p-zombies (partisan zombies)? Is it even possible to make such a public space? Ressentiment consumes all discourse.
Crypto and AI are deeply connected, and you see similar structures/problems in both. Shannon, the “Father (or whatever) of AI”, worked for the NSA and published many papers there that were later declassified.
Here is a banger quote on this by Shannon’s boy Warren Weaver, keeping in mind LLMs came from translation problems:
“One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: 'This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.”
Thanks for this! I have been reading through early information/automata theory lately, and hadn’t come across this one. If you have any more recommendations, please share.
Yeah, I did not use Jira or other project management software. There was no need as the project could be implemented very fast with essentially one contributor.
However agents (not just LLMs) were definitely involved.