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This article seems to be referring to people who do not need to work to live.

If you can, I say retire and if you have the skills, find an Open Source project to work on, or create you own. That way you control what you want to do as opposed to doing what you are told to do.

Articles like this, to me, only proves there is a very large the wealth gap in today's world.
I agree with this except just to point out

> Because that's the point at which you have enough wealth to live a comfortably middle class lifestyle for the rest of your life

15M is far from middle class by any measure. 15M affords you a big city place, a place for winter holidays, and a place for summer holidays. With still left to have spoiled little kids (and possibly spoiled grand children).

Also, 15M is not static money. If you have that much money you will certainly gain an income from just having that much money.
Standard equilibrium analysis proves that the efficiency gain is supposed to cut the prices to material cost, including cutting the material cost.

Of course actual capital fights tooth and nail to prevent this, even if this means literally getting people to starve and unable to earn with a job, even agricultural.

There are known fixes, starting from making basic services and items free (eating the material cost which is pennies actually), employing more people running these as they're currently all understaffed.

Abundance is the expected outcome of the technology. Including abundance of leisure time. Capitalism however requires scarcity for profit and oppression to keep the rich special.

We have an abundance of housing, so why are some unhoused? We have an overabundance of food but some people are hungry and malnourished.
Things might get more dicey with water soon.
It's strongly implied that Holmes used morphine for recreation as well by the fact that Watson had to ask which habit he was indulging in The Sign of the Four.

"Which is it today," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?"
"It Is cocaine," he said, "a seven-percent solution. Would you care to try it?..."
"Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling" ok boomer, but what about video games? I've long had a suspicion that the relative popularity of the FIRE movement among Millenials and Zoomers is largely due to the fact that they've found a hobby in interactive digital entertainment that's leaps and bounds more addictive, satisfying and fulfilling (at least in a shallow sense) than the hobbies of their elders.

I enjoy working and don't plan on ever fully retiring, but certainly plan to leave the 9-5 lifestyle and working for others eventually to be a full time entrepreneur / indie hacker at some point. My first project towards that end is Grizzly Bulls (https://grizzlybulls.com/), an algorithmic trading platform which is certainly going well enough to support myself full time, but I really enjoy my current FTE work too much to consider it for now.
Plenty of counter-examples of rich people that have retired.

They pursue other interests or find another outlet for their competitive urges.
@guizzy has it right. Much more unlikely to hallucinate because all of the information it needs is submitted in the API request -- its actually explicitly asked to not come up with anything new.

Of course though this is a concern that needs to be closely watched as AI summaries become more common in the world.
Like I have a choice?
Daniel Olsher here - thought I'd jump in.

As a threshold comment, every element of this (in theory and in practice) is entirely reproducible via the materials already provided in this paper and in the peer-reviewed literature, including AAAI, ICDM, KDD, Neural Networks, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Science, IEEE HumTech, and other venues.

There is a wealth of examples in those papers that you can compute and verify on your own. In the proof paper, I've added cites every time a particular area of performance is discussed. My recommendation would be to find those areas that seem most confounding to you and then read the corresponding papers in order to see how we handle them.

Going back to the proof paper, that paper provides a standalone proof of AGI achievement, as per its title. You can verify this proof entirely with your own resources.

The structure of the proof is simple; starting with the literature on intelligence as a base, we first derive the properties that any AGI must/must not have and then show that our formalism indeed holds all of those properties (and does not have properties that it's not allowed to have). Because the necessary properties have been met, AGI has been achieved. People often want to add a 'real-world realization' requirement as part of the concept of achievement, which is not required, but this too is met via the examples given in the papers and many years of real-world use of this technology within the US Government.

The structure of the proof is very simple, and is fairly obviously valid and sound, so if the premises are true then the conclusion (successful AGI achievement) must also be true.

Given this, you really only have three possible paths: show that the structure of my proof is not valid and/or sound, show that my derivation of the AGI properties is somehow incorrect, or show that my computation formalism doesn't have the properties just stated. If you can't do any of that, then I've met my burden and you have no rational basis to reject my conclusion.
We spend our lifetimes on projects that won't work in the long-term.
Utilities are subsidized by the taxpayer.

We also don't tax carbon emissions at what they cost to clean up, so bitcoin mining on a grid that uses fossil fuels dirties the planet without paying for its clean up.
Disclaimer: Do leave them, but hide them first.
> Good thing we are capable of reading beyond the headline

People don't read articles on tech forums like this so frequently that RTFA is a common meme.

> Every single time Tesla gets a recall (kinda often aint it?) there are people in HN comments who just want to fight over a word

You only think it's often because the other ones don't get reported on HN, creating the false impression.

> According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford issued 55 safety recalls in 2023, down from 67 last year. The repair campaigns affected 5.9 million vehicles, down from 8.6 million in 2022, which put the automaker in second place for the total number of vehicles recalled. Honda’s 19 recalls affected 6.3 million cars.

> Chrysler issued the second-highest number of recalls, at 45. Kia came in third for the total number of recalled cars, with more than 3 million affected by its 20 repair campaigns.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/in-2023-ford-again-led-nation-i...

Anti EV publications like the NYP should definitely be called out for writing misleading headlines.
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This effectively disincentives expanding storage which would benefit everyone. Mining is getting rid of the issue of temporary excess power, so now the power plant needs to do more work overall to keep up with demand during other times.
I think most Americans would be plenty motivated by the prospect of home ownership, let alone being a multi-millionaire.

I don't spend much time worrying about what we'll do without billionaires working towards their next billion.
I'm not arguing whether the use of electricity is compelling or not.

I'm arguing that the unique energy demand characteristics of bitcoin mining allow it to support building renewable energy projects and balance electricity costs and thus it has effective positive contribution to the environment.

Whether it's used to mine bitcoins or cool a house is irrelevant, except that the demand for cooling a house is location and time sensitive, whereas bitcoin mining is cost sensitive. This flexible consumption gives it unique properties that support deployment of renewables.

Please explain what you mean by "false economy". Is the economy for skins in a game you don't care about "false" because you don't like that game?
I think most people go for the money. If you were to walk into any undergrad bio 101 class and announce: "sorry guys, but you can only make 80k a year," 95% of the students would leave immediately.
Noah Kagan says you should do it this weekend: https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-Weekend-Surprisingly-7...

While I have a fair few qualms about such an idea, I think the 'now not how' approach is correct. We don't learn how to swim without getting wet, after all.
When you say "billionaire utopian" a couple of people spring to mind:

- Bezos

- Musk

- et al

These can be removed by market power, even during their own lifetimes. I bet you anything that in a generation or two, their fortune will be mostly dissipated.

The vast majority of rich people are much less rich than these two; their money will dissipate even quicker. Most of them made their fortunes in their own lifetimes; many will lose it in the same timeframe. They have to keep performing economically (work + investment) to keep their money.

But: I will also bet you anything that in a generation or two, the state will be larger than it is today, and will have assigned to itself more rights and prerogatives, and will somehow have inserted itself into our daily lives in an even more intimate way, whether anybody likes it or not.
Another reason to feel good about donating to the EFF.
You are exactly making China look good with your "help".

> He was calling them "Japanese"

Due to a misunderstanding. He had just talked with another guy who was expecting a Japanese crew to show up so they could do some filming. He thought the Chinese people were the Japanese crew.
Personally I would say you should just ignore this altogether. There's zero reason to go along with such a silly change for the sake of change.
I’m sure this is an unbiased article.
> We co-evolved with natural chemicals which means that they're usually not too harmful to us

There are plenty of counter examples to this (and also pretty unclear what is meant by "natural")

Lead is natural. Mercury is natural.
As someone who has done a lot of work travel and work from home, I'm going to argue that it depends. You set your own boundaries and not everyone needs to make it about closing a lid on a laptop. I don't go crazy and I've had a lot of great experiences mixing business and pleasure on the road (and around my home).
Writing an ELF file by hand is something I did recently: https://github.com/avik-das/garlic/blob/master/recursive/elf...

To explain the format to myself and others, I also created an interactive visualization for the bytes in the file. It helps me to click on a byte, see an explanation for it and see related bytes elsewhere in the file highlighted. https://scratchpad.avikdas.com/elf-explanation/elf-explanati...
Organized by an employer, capital, and management. The orchestration, decision making, done well, is the difference between a highly valuable well functioning company, and dysfunctional paralysis. There are now multiple examples in history (pre-1989 Poland, Soviet Union, DPRK, etc.) that show the communal ownership of industry by labor does not create a high standard of living, enabled by plentiful goods, services, and innovation.
cat-ing a binary to the terminal is a recipe for sadness. I like | hd, which is hexdump -C, though that's just as impenetrable to the naked eye.
> To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly".

I used to teach how to write serial letters with Word to secretaries when I was in high school.
I used to write VBA macros that call in and out SAP systems when I was a junior software engineer - because "I was young and I needed the money."™

Now I either write in Emacs or Sublime on a Linux box with 2 TB RAM, or in Overleaf (LaTeX collab Web application), and I say: "Word sucks", I shall be suffering no more.

Word does not exist in my operating system (except for QEMU), and nobody notices.

LaTeX creates beautifully typeset publications, and most day to day writing requires nothing more than plain text, which is the most durable format.
If retirement is just eat drink vacation, TV then yeah don’t do that it won’t fulfill you, you still need hobbies(work). Free or otherwise, don’t just sit there.

There are people thinking of living forever, be careful what you wish for as good luck finding enough things to do for even 100k years let alone 1billion
.... I think you're agreeing with me?
I think the public would hate the vast majority of other humans, if behavior was transparent and they focused attention on the negative.

Ghandi was a pedophile, MLK was a wifebeater, Mother Teresa was a homophobe, Jefferson was slave owner, ect.
Might be less of a case of ‘can’ self deploy and more ‘has to’. Not entirely sure one of these will even fit in a C17.

(In comparison, you can fit three Blackhawks in a Globemaster)
David Kahn has died
I liked Amazon when it wasn't just AliExpress crap marked way up. Now I've started shopping pretty much anywhere else. A lot of companies even include "free" two day shipping now to stay competitive with Prime. Amazon is steadily losing my business because they've decided to compete with the likes of Temu but at Amazon prices. I hope Temu eats their lunch.

IMO, Amazon ought to reconsider the third-party strategy. At the very least, if they want to keep my interest they need a toggle that I can flip which will hide every single product that isn't shipped-from-and-sold-by-Amazon.com.
I wonder if the (presumably French) creator realizes how crass that name sounds in English.
You score points. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
I would point out that some of the issues you've called out are particular to a parliamentary system. The USA forms executive governments differenty. The closest analogy would be the speaker of the house, where the USA has already seen significant infighting recently.

Where I think a broader range of parties would benefit the US system is reducing the degree by which measures and bills are passed and opposed along consistent party lines. With more parties, there would be coalition building that would encourage more negotiation and cooperation.
I don’t know how you can have this conversation without talking what the marginal utilization of that energy is - do I care if crypto miners want to mine at night in west Texas when wind is generating energy and the wholesale cost is negative (I.e. there is really no marginal productive use for that generation)? Absolutely not.

It’s a trickier question when that mining activity is competing with generation assets that could be charging a car or powering a manufacturing facility…
Exactly. I have a hard time viewing articles like this as anything other than deliberate propaganda. But maybe it's the case that many people reading the Economist cannot derive joy from anything besides employment.

Furthermore, who is this article for? People deciding whether to retire, but who weren't around for Seinfeld?
> This does a bunch of Very Important Things that I don’t understand very well, including calling main. So I won’t explain them.

Honestly, this line was the best in the whole article. It felt like at that moment I knew the person talking to me wasn't trying to prove that they were some sage (personally guilty here) but instead of was someone who wanted to show me something cool that we could both enjoy.

Wonderful write up.
Surely next step is ERA plates in our t̶a̶n̶k̶s̶ average-sized SUVs.
The neoliberal paper of record here to tell you to give your life to capital's benefit.
What, you're telling me that you don't want to be like Georgio Armani or Charlie Munger or Warren Buffet or Jerry Seinfeld or a writer for the Economist? /s
Maybe slip in a poison string [0] in your questions that trip up the LLMs?

[0]: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1745511940351287394
Shown in the article but not called out specifically, I recommend avoiding implicit tables entirely when using clickhouse materialized views. We use clickhouse for similar purposes, and there are several cases where views are listening to tables populated by another view. So [table] "events" -> [view] "mv_events_to_view1" -> [table] "view1" -> [view] "mv_view1_to_view2" -> [table] "view2". If you use implicit tables, the 2nd view will never receive data.

This document provides a ton of great information if you're doing anything with materialized views in clickhouse: https://den-crane.github.io/Everything_you_should_know_about...
>Not everyone's lucky enough to love their jobs

Most people are not, I'd say. Remember, you don't have to hate your job to be miserable. You merely need to not "40 hours a week + commute for decades" love it. That's love.

It's simply logistically impossible for the majority of people to manage to match themselves with a job like that.
These arguments nearly always come back to the fundamental desire (greed) for "Giev moniez pl0x.", as you say the limit is above their own wealth as to not be an inconvenience to themselves while siphoning monies from those around (and presumably above) them.

It would make for better discussion if these social justice warriors were at least honest about what they actually want.
Temu has all of the hallmarks of a "big tent" dark money scheme that rolls in a lot of unseemly business into one constantly-changing target. Big enough to force public awareness of any brand they make up, and obfuscated enough to switch brand names the minute one becomes toxic. It's like a hyper-magnified (possibly government-sponsored) "facebook ad scheme" where they rip off whoever they can and as soon as there's heat, the spin up another website and burn the old profile. Only here, it's a whole new brand, complete with corporate bona fides. Coupled with the reported treatment of specific demographics, there's evidence to suspect a coordinated effort to generate cheap 'knockoff' products (a popular scheme) with slave labor (a common abuse) which are funneled into instant-established brands (the novel addition) to make as much money as possible before the brand has been tarnished, and then swapping the supply chain to a new brand, to obfuscate the malfeasance and absolve themselves of the previous company's responsibilities (the widespread "facebook ad scheme").

So, a billionaire-level version of the bullshit social media scams.

And, okay, fine, I'm a conspiracy theorist for not providing any evidence. But nothing I've presumed is implausible, even if it's not true of Temu. So I suppose commenting about it, here, is just a way to express my concern over what we think could be done if someone was out there doing this.
Yup. I still think on the whole Elon has done more good than harm in the long term, but man is he trying hard to make it zero sum.

I think the ideal for society would be for him to lose leadership over those companies and just disconnect from the internet/enjoy life, but I don't see him ever doing that
No, you’re just being disingenuous.

How do you create a MSDS for a chemical that hasn’t been made yet?

How do you decide it’s safe to create a large enough quantity of a chemical to figure out what even should be in that MSDS?

How can you know if something is mutagenic without exposing it to DNA? Or cancer causing without exposing it to a living organism? Or causes reproductive harm without exposing it to organisms and seeing how it impacts reproduction?

Those all are potential harms.

Traditionally, some enterprising alchemist/chemist would just try it - and if they lived, would write a paper on it. Further research and experience would then inform if a better alternative should be used.

The Haber-Bosch process that allowed the creation of artificial fertilizers has allowed for the massive expansion of the human race. Roughly 3/4 of the humans on this planet right now would starve to death without it. Assuming they didn’t get nuked first. That was in 1909.

It also allowed for the creation of modern high explosives (and propellants) at scale, and the horrors of WW1 and WW2. And the mining revolution, which has provided the raw materials necessary to build our modern economies at vastly cheaper prices than were ever possible before for humanity.

Chemistry is a fundamental building block of modern society, and removing it would literally cause its sudden and violent collapse.

Deciding if ‘freezing’ it in place, or letting it continue to develop new and interesting applications is the discussion - because no, we weren’t sustainable before (unless you count constant and ongoing genocides as ‘sustainable’), and we’ve long passed the point where trying to return to that would be anything but apocalyptic.

Literally.

And keeping in mind that just because we agree to stop research in one area doesn’t mean anyone else (competitors) will do so. Regardless of if that is in the realm of drugs, or weapons, or soaps, or foods, or whatever.
I am not in favor of a planned economy, but I do believe our society faces a significant issue with certain individuals hoarding money and resources. If we are to employ a group that uses violence to enforce the will of the majority under the threat of violence, then we should at least utilize this forceful approach to prevent some individuals from becoming entrenched in power and wealth. As they exist now, mechanisms of state violence exist primarily to suppress the uneducated and poor of our society. We should not allow people to hoard wealth. I dont know where that cutoff is or how it should be decided. Maybe increasingly aggressive taxes with no loopholes? It does need to happen
Transfer of liability from SpaceX to US government. SpaceX does not want long-term legal liability after a military conflict is resolved.

From the military's perspective, war-fighting is their domain. Do we really want the US version of the strange drama around the Wagner Group? Blackwater was bad enough.
> Hobbies are all well and good for many. But for the extremely driven, they can feel pointless and even slightly embarrassing. That is because there is depth in being useful.

I would assume that an "extremely driven" person is capable of finding a useful hobby, but apparently not.