> not everybody feel like spending their time on hobbies or family. Most people don't pick one thing and put all of their time into it. They balance priorities. You don't pick one and ignore the others. Even the most…
I’m glad you’ve never written any bugs into your software. If only we could all be that perfect. However the standard for performance is relative to reasonable expectations for someone in that role. Typically relative…
> A new Amish-like lifestyle may be developing before our eyes in real-time and that's very interesting to follow and observe (from a distance). I’m just old enough to remember some older adults in my life who refused…
He probably has a lot to say on the topic, but it’s not up to him. The accommodations only extend to reasonable affordances, but do not entirely exempt the person from requirements to perform to the level of expectation…
> For example, will this religious exemption become moot if productivity is sufficiently higher with AI giving employers an easy out? For this person’s job at an academic institution, I doubt it. This specific case…
You actually cannot. There are standards to meet to qualify as a true religious exemption. There have been many court cases where people tried to claim religious beliefs when convenient for them, which were denied…
Right. That’s exactly what pushes wages up. Employers have to find the wage that retains employees while still being profitable. Money is not unlimited though so “just pay everyone a living wage” isn’t a real solution.…
> Big issue though is knowing that even if I pay someone 2x the going rate for an employee it still will not be a living wage. Being mindful of wages is great, but eventually you have to accept that creating a job at a…
I also have a high spec M1 and was delaying upgrading, but eventually I needed more RAM. My M1 is still fast and enjoyable, but I regret to inform you that the M5 actually does feel faster in day to day use. I thought…
Whenever I do this, I enter into a perpetual one-more-year wait loop. When I finally cave in and buy something after 5 years I’m very momentarily sad for not perfectly timing the release window, then I realize I keep…
The last court case, mentioned in the article, found Anthropic guilty of pirating eBooks. That's where the penalty came from. The court ruled that it was fair to train on books, but they had to acquire them legally.…
The Aaron Swartz case is not an analog of these claims. The Anthropic class action was already settled. It's what they mention in the opening of the article. Anthropic got in trouble for downloading the books (pirating)…
> To be fair, I'm trying to remember things that happened over a decade ago, I could get some things wrong. The reason I know these things is because I remembered it the same way you did up until a few years ago. Then I…
I prefer that we discuss the people and situations for what they are, not reduce them to catchy phrases that lump people together and discard any nuance.
> He was charged with felonies for stealing PDFs for publicly funded research papers, he was tried as if he hacked these systems. The Aaron Swartz case is important to know about and has catalyzed some good discussions…
I understand that, but they said they were waiting for a higher memory variant M6, which was not planned. If they need higher RAM they can go M5 Pro/Max (outside of iMac form factor) or wait hopefully for newer iMac Pro…
> I'm personally more concerned by... I wasn't trying to imply any priority or ordering to concerns or suggest that one group of people was worse than another. I'm simply relating something I've observed through…
Agreed. "Crypto bro" was the selected shibboleth for that movement, just as "AI booster" has become the unifying phrase for this movement.
> and we have to compete globally with basically an entire planet This is the part missing from many of the hot takes about regulating AI: The type of work that AI can do is the most portable globally. You can try to…
I’ve been baffled by how common these illusions about the labor market can be among people who have been isolated from the realities of the world in their career. I most commonly see it in juniors who never had jobs…
> Two problems with that: one, the government can largely regulate access to its market -- the ability to do labor arbitrage is a policy choice not a law of physics We’re talking about work that AI can accelerate, which…
> Which is proven because as I wrote "AI booster" above, mentally I was trying coin a descriptive label rather than use a predefined stock term. AI booster is a common predefined term, not something you coined on the…
The phrase “AI booster” isn’t used to accuse people of astroturfing. It’s all over this thread as a pejorative for anyone who doesn’t have a cynical view of AI.
Too relatable. Though I have had good results buying 1-2 generation old refurbished Macs as my secondary machines or for family members who don’t need cutting edge everything. It’s even more valuable now that Apple…
The M6 Pro and Max variants with higher memory support have been dropped in favor of accelerating M7. This has been reported for many months. Sorry if you missed the news, but if you need a much higher memory variant…
> not everybody feel like spending their time on hobbies or family. Most people don't pick one thing and put all of their time into it. They balance priorities. You don't pick one and ignore the others. Even the most…
I’m glad you’ve never written any bugs into your software. If only we could all be that perfect. However the standard for performance is relative to reasonable expectations for someone in that role. Typically relative…
> A new Amish-like lifestyle may be developing before our eyes in real-time and that's very interesting to follow and observe (from a distance). I’m just old enough to remember some older adults in my life who refused…
He probably has a lot to say on the topic, but it’s not up to him. The accommodations only extend to reasonable affordances, but do not entirely exempt the person from requirements to perform to the level of expectation…
> For example, will this religious exemption become moot if productivity is sufficiently higher with AI giving employers an easy out? For this person’s job at an academic institution, I doubt it. This specific case…
You actually cannot. There are standards to meet to qualify as a true religious exemption. There have been many court cases where people tried to claim religious beliefs when convenient for them, which were denied…
Right. That’s exactly what pushes wages up. Employers have to find the wage that retains employees while still being profitable. Money is not unlimited though so “just pay everyone a living wage” isn’t a real solution.…
> Big issue though is knowing that even if I pay someone 2x the going rate for an employee it still will not be a living wage. Being mindful of wages is great, but eventually you have to accept that creating a job at a…
I also have a high spec M1 and was delaying upgrading, but eventually I needed more RAM. My M1 is still fast and enjoyable, but I regret to inform you that the M5 actually does feel faster in day to day use. I thought…
Whenever I do this, I enter into a perpetual one-more-year wait loop. When I finally cave in and buy something after 5 years I’m very momentarily sad for not perfectly timing the release window, then I realize I keep…
The last court case, mentioned in the article, found Anthropic guilty of pirating eBooks. That's where the penalty came from. The court ruled that it was fair to train on books, but they had to acquire them legally.…
The Aaron Swartz case is not an analog of these claims. The Anthropic class action was already settled. It's what they mention in the opening of the article. Anthropic got in trouble for downloading the books (pirating)…
> To be fair, I'm trying to remember things that happened over a decade ago, I could get some things wrong. The reason I know these things is because I remembered it the same way you did up until a few years ago. Then I…
I prefer that we discuss the people and situations for what they are, not reduce them to catchy phrases that lump people together and discard any nuance.
> He was charged with felonies for stealing PDFs for publicly funded research papers, he was tried as if he hacked these systems. The Aaron Swartz case is important to know about and has catalyzed some good discussions…
I understand that, but they said they were waiting for a higher memory variant M6, which was not planned. If they need higher RAM they can go M5 Pro/Max (outside of iMac form factor) or wait hopefully for newer iMac Pro…
> I'm personally more concerned by... I wasn't trying to imply any priority or ordering to concerns or suggest that one group of people was worse than another. I'm simply relating something I've observed through…
Agreed. "Crypto bro" was the selected shibboleth for that movement, just as "AI booster" has become the unifying phrase for this movement.
> and we have to compete globally with basically an entire planet This is the part missing from many of the hot takes about regulating AI: The type of work that AI can do is the most portable globally. You can try to…
I’ve been baffled by how common these illusions about the labor market can be among people who have been isolated from the realities of the world in their career. I most commonly see it in juniors who never had jobs…
> Two problems with that: one, the government can largely regulate access to its market -- the ability to do labor arbitrage is a policy choice not a law of physics We’re talking about work that AI can accelerate, which…
> Which is proven because as I wrote "AI booster" above, mentally I was trying coin a descriptive label rather than use a predefined stock term. AI booster is a common predefined term, not something you coined on the…
The phrase “AI booster” isn’t used to accuse people of astroturfing. It’s all over this thread as a pejorative for anyone who doesn’t have a cynical view of AI.
Too relatable. Though I have had good results buying 1-2 generation old refurbished Macs as my secondary machines or for family members who don’t need cutting edge everything. It’s even more valuable now that Apple…
The M6 Pro and Max variants with higher memory support have been dropped in favor of accelerating M7. This has been reported for many months. Sorry if you missed the news, but if you need a much higher memory variant…