You have a caricature picture of big cities. You have clearly never lived in a well functioning one, you may have to leave the USA to find any.
Most people who live in dense cities don’t live in high rises… It is very clear you have never lived in a well functioning city before, and just have no idea what you are talking about. Take the L and admit you just…
Houston is not a free market for housing at all. They don’t have “zoning” because they call it “land use covenants” and “parking requirements” instead, and it ends up amounting to the same thing as “zoning” in other…
I am liking the term “car brained” more and more for this type of attitude. Have you ever heard of trains, busses, bikes? The options for transportation are not binary car or no car. Maybe in North America where they…
Literally not a single one of those numbers is above the 25th percentile. 18 < 20.
Median income in the US is much higher than $12-18/hr, it is about $30/hr. 25th percentile make $20/hr. 10th percentile make $15.58. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.htm So, the people you are mentioning making…
Statistically parents spend more time with their kids now than in the 1900s, and the trend seems towards more and more time, especially among fathers. There’s some “well we have no idea how much is quality time”…
Robots? I agree in some sense, I think the runway on human physical labor is measured in decades. But it’s likely not infinite, and likely not 100 years. I expect my children will at least see “the end” in their…
This requires an assumption that humans have some capacity that LLMs/machines can not fundamentally match (or match cheaply, or we’ll make matching it illegal). That’s fine, but one of those assumptions has to be the…
The window of uncertainty is absolutely massive. I could also equally see a world that looks mostly like ours today because it becomes illegal to use sufficiently intelligent AI (Mythos is already generating…
I think you have no idea what Jevons Paradox is if you think it is a retort to what I just said.
I don’t think the claim is that people will be less productive, the world will be far more productive. The claim is that the value of most human labor will be at or near enough to 0 compared to deploying capital…
Have you not met Americans? The very first thing 95% of Americans will say if you propose public transport closer to their house is that you are bringing crime. Also if the transit comes close then someone might build…
Really? The modern ones I’ve run into lately are like 100x better than the old flows. “Press 1 for sales. Press 2 to know our hours. Press 3 if you have a ticket. Press 4 to hear our website address…”. Of course nothing…
So 164,339,764 made it happen? I don’t like any direction this administration has taken, but acting like it’s not the completely legitimate will of the people is BS.
And no one is saying eat the homeless. My city is deadlocked on doing anything about the literal crimes I’ve described because acting against violent offenders is seen as oppressing the downtrodden. Building new shelter…
What cities? You’re right that I never saw anything like this when I lived in Oslo, nor did I see anything like it living in Sydney. I’m reacting to a specific environment in two major west coast cities, Seattle which I…
Yes the guy who screamed “I’m going to f*ing kill you!” Out of nowhere at my daughter and then chased us, or set fire to random trees in my neighborhood for fun, or cut the copper wiring off the side of my house, or…
The everything crisis is somewhat apt, but if I look at my cohort (older gen z/very young millennial) it’s really mostly a cost of housing crisis. And if I look at the squeeze I feel as a very high income young person,…
This is disinformation. Blackrock and Vanguard manage the accounts of people who own these. They themselves do not own the shares. It would be like you saying you don’t own your 401k, Fidelity does. There are still…
Yes. Kind of. Anything involving home invasion I’ve usually seen them go in like an occupying force. Including the time i called them because a small group was going around the neighborhood trying to break into houses.…
There is huge variation in what the US trend looks like from the ground that varies by region, age, income level, industry, and demographic. EI think if you’re a professional class baby boomer the trajectory has looked…
I agree, difference between explosive growth and “consistent draw” is large employers setting up in the region. Another interesting anecdote is that I know many people who work remote for companies all over the world…
“ Most of the attraction of living there historically was its extremely business-friendly environment.” How old are you? What propaganda told you this? In my generation (young millennial/genz) the attraction of living…
Ok so if that labor was someone’s job, that implies they couldn’t get something better for them. If you’re straight eliminating those jobs and now they have to take something even worse for them (lower pay, worse hours,…
You have a caricature picture of big cities. You have clearly never lived in a well functioning one, you may have to leave the USA to find any.
Most people who live in dense cities don’t live in high rises… It is very clear you have never lived in a well functioning city before, and just have no idea what you are talking about. Take the L and admit you just…
Houston is not a free market for housing at all. They don’t have “zoning” because they call it “land use covenants” and “parking requirements” instead, and it ends up amounting to the same thing as “zoning” in other…
I am liking the term “car brained” more and more for this type of attitude. Have you ever heard of trains, busses, bikes? The options for transportation are not binary car or no car. Maybe in North America where they…
Literally not a single one of those numbers is above the 25th percentile. 18 < 20.
Median income in the US is much higher than $12-18/hr, it is about $30/hr. 25th percentile make $20/hr. 10th percentile make $15.58. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.htm So, the people you are mentioning making…
Statistically parents spend more time with their kids now than in the 1900s, and the trend seems towards more and more time, especially among fathers. There’s some “well we have no idea how much is quality time”…
Robots? I agree in some sense, I think the runway on human physical labor is measured in decades. But it’s likely not infinite, and likely not 100 years. I expect my children will at least see “the end” in their…
This requires an assumption that humans have some capacity that LLMs/machines can not fundamentally match (or match cheaply, or we’ll make matching it illegal). That’s fine, but one of those assumptions has to be the…
The window of uncertainty is absolutely massive. I could also equally see a world that looks mostly like ours today because it becomes illegal to use sufficiently intelligent AI (Mythos is already generating…
I think you have no idea what Jevons Paradox is if you think it is a retort to what I just said.
I don’t think the claim is that people will be less productive, the world will be far more productive. The claim is that the value of most human labor will be at or near enough to 0 compared to deploying capital…
Have you not met Americans? The very first thing 95% of Americans will say if you propose public transport closer to their house is that you are bringing crime. Also if the transit comes close then someone might build…
Really? The modern ones I’ve run into lately are like 100x better than the old flows. “Press 1 for sales. Press 2 to know our hours. Press 3 if you have a ticket. Press 4 to hear our website address…”. Of course nothing…
So 164,339,764 made it happen? I don’t like any direction this administration has taken, but acting like it’s not the completely legitimate will of the people is BS.
And no one is saying eat the homeless. My city is deadlocked on doing anything about the literal crimes I’ve described because acting against violent offenders is seen as oppressing the downtrodden. Building new shelter…
What cities? You’re right that I never saw anything like this when I lived in Oslo, nor did I see anything like it living in Sydney. I’m reacting to a specific environment in two major west coast cities, Seattle which I…
Yes the guy who screamed “I’m going to f*ing kill you!” Out of nowhere at my daughter and then chased us, or set fire to random trees in my neighborhood for fun, or cut the copper wiring off the side of my house, or…
The everything crisis is somewhat apt, but if I look at my cohort (older gen z/very young millennial) it’s really mostly a cost of housing crisis. And if I look at the squeeze I feel as a very high income young person,…
This is disinformation. Blackrock and Vanguard manage the accounts of people who own these. They themselves do not own the shares. It would be like you saying you don’t own your 401k, Fidelity does. There are still…
Yes. Kind of. Anything involving home invasion I’ve usually seen them go in like an occupying force. Including the time i called them because a small group was going around the neighborhood trying to break into houses.…
There is huge variation in what the US trend looks like from the ground that varies by region, age, income level, industry, and demographic. EI think if you’re a professional class baby boomer the trajectory has looked…
I agree, difference between explosive growth and “consistent draw” is large employers setting up in the region. Another interesting anecdote is that I know many people who work remote for companies all over the world…
“ Most of the attraction of living there historically was its extremely business-friendly environment.” How old are you? What propaganda told you this? In my generation (young millennial/genz) the attraction of living…
Ok so if that labor was someone’s job, that implies they couldn’t get something better for them. If you’re straight eliminating those jobs and now they have to take something even worse for them (lower pay, worse hours,…