> The real question is whether it would happen in a practical timeframe. How are we defining a practical timeframe? How many billions of man-years did it take for a human to come up with velcro? In a world without…
Europe is putting economic restrictions on Starlink; the technical restrictions the US placed on Starshield are unrelated.
So? If you import $100 billion dollars of components and you do nothing to them before reselling abroad, you have $100 billion of exports.
> "It would cost more than one quadrillion dollars per ounce to produce gold by this experiment." "This experiment" being a radically different method than the one under discussion. Wikipedia pulled something useless…
> So, in short: they want AI to take the good jobs. You're assuming that high paying jobs are good jobs. While high pay is obviously desirable, the jobs themselves often suck, and people are paid those high premiums in…
People are saying "AI took our jobs" or are concerned it imminently will. A lot of white collar tasks are doable by AI today.
Ah but I'd take roofing in the summer over septic tank cleaning any day. The existence of even shittier jobs does not make any particular job not-shitty.
Which would you consider more premium, the hotel with a lobby with marble floors or with linoleum? That doesn't mean marble provides any utility that the linoleum does not.
> remove the need for a waiter to come by and ask, or for you to get up and order, but by automating that away you also remove that little bit of social interaction for both the people ordering and the waiters. Okay,…
You wouldn't enrich the 198 isotope, you'd just bombard natural mercury and chemically separate out the gold afterwards. > "...the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gold." Wikipedia…
Anthropic's quarterly revenue is $16 billion. Assuming they are 40% of the ai market, pretend that all the ai market is american, and pretend all tokens are exclusively sold abroad, that would make AI tokens 7.3% of US…
A single airliner can be half a billion dollars. That's about 1/4000th of the US's total goods exported in a single item.
You wouldn't need many ships. The volume of a single shipping container is enough for 1300 tons of gold. Of course gold is extremely heavy, you'd need a specially built container to support that much gold, but the point…
I watch a guy solve a sudoku every day. The puzzle is always different, but conceptually it's just a minor variant of the same video. I don't watch Mr Beast or that sort of content but I can't judge anyone who does.
I mean if you are of the opinion that people stop watching videos because they don't like them and continue watching because they do, then it would logically follow that by tweaking videos in such a way that people keep…
> but you certainly can for Germany, which almost immediately fell into recession. The graph doesn't show that at all.
Yes and by a lot https://www.skool.com/the-logistics-war-room-1319/trucking-b...
It wasn't chance, it was fundamental to the starting conditions of the two continents and the nature of the exchange. First there were just more old world diseases which could infect humans than new world diseases.…
> On top of being what enabled them to form alliances, it also begs another question. If it was primarily these masses that overwhelmed the Aztecs (and I don't disagree) then what need did they have of outsiders You…
> As long as we don't have a viable explanation, there is something interesting there to discover. This assumes there is something which needs explanation. For any finite string of gibberish there are an infinite number…
Stabilizing ourselves and our allies when an enemy attacks and disrupts petroleum supplies is why we have a strategic petroleum reserve. It's just incredibly dumb to start a war that will tank global petroleum supply…
Article fails to note that the 2010s saw abnormally high per capita wine consumption, and even after the 20% decline in the 2020s to date, per capita consumption is still more than 50% above historical baseline. This…
The decrease in consumption predates the current trade issues. Peak domestic wine consumption was in 2021 and has been falling rapidly ever since. There hasn't been a decrease in demand of this magnitude or duration…
Higher demand incentivizes more production, increasing supply which drives prices down. Demand increases only drive up prices if supply is constrained. Very likely wine demand was not going up, and price increases were…
> It's a nice claim to say kinda implies the claim was said
> The real question is whether it would happen in a practical timeframe. How are we defining a practical timeframe? How many billions of man-years did it take for a human to come up with velcro? In a world without…
Europe is putting economic restrictions on Starlink; the technical restrictions the US placed on Starshield are unrelated.
So? If you import $100 billion dollars of components and you do nothing to them before reselling abroad, you have $100 billion of exports.
> "It would cost more than one quadrillion dollars per ounce to produce gold by this experiment." "This experiment" being a radically different method than the one under discussion. Wikipedia pulled something useless…
> So, in short: they want AI to take the good jobs. You're assuming that high paying jobs are good jobs. While high pay is obviously desirable, the jobs themselves often suck, and people are paid those high premiums in…
People are saying "AI took our jobs" or are concerned it imminently will. A lot of white collar tasks are doable by AI today.
Ah but I'd take roofing in the summer over septic tank cleaning any day. The existence of even shittier jobs does not make any particular job not-shitty.
Which would you consider more premium, the hotel with a lobby with marble floors or with linoleum? That doesn't mean marble provides any utility that the linoleum does not.
> remove the need for a waiter to come by and ask, or for you to get up and order, but by automating that away you also remove that little bit of social interaction for both the people ordering and the waiters. Okay,…
You wouldn't enrich the 198 isotope, you'd just bombard natural mercury and chemically separate out the gold afterwards. > "...the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gold." Wikipedia…
Anthropic's quarterly revenue is $16 billion. Assuming they are 40% of the ai market, pretend that all the ai market is american, and pretend all tokens are exclusively sold abroad, that would make AI tokens 7.3% of US…
A single airliner can be half a billion dollars. That's about 1/4000th of the US's total goods exported in a single item.
You wouldn't need many ships. The volume of a single shipping container is enough for 1300 tons of gold. Of course gold is extremely heavy, you'd need a specially built container to support that much gold, but the point…
I watch a guy solve a sudoku every day. The puzzle is always different, but conceptually it's just a minor variant of the same video. I don't watch Mr Beast or that sort of content but I can't judge anyone who does.
I mean if you are of the opinion that people stop watching videos because they don't like them and continue watching because they do, then it would logically follow that by tweaking videos in such a way that people keep…
> but you certainly can for Germany, which almost immediately fell into recession. The graph doesn't show that at all.
Yes and by a lot https://www.skool.com/the-logistics-war-room-1319/trucking-b...
It wasn't chance, it was fundamental to the starting conditions of the two continents and the nature of the exchange. First there were just more old world diseases which could infect humans than new world diseases.…
> On top of being what enabled them to form alliances, it also begs another question. If it was primarily these masses that overwhelmed the Aztecs (and I don't disagree) then what need did they have of outsiders You…
> As long as we don't have a viable explanation, there is something interesting there to discover. This assumes there is something which needs explanation. For any finite string of gibberish there are an infinite number…
Stabilizing ourselves and our allies when an enemy attacks and disrupts petroleum supplies is why we have a strategic petroleum reserve. It's just incredibly dumb to start a war that will tank global petroleum supply…
Article fails to note that the 2010s saw abnormally high per capita wine consumption, and even after the 20% decline in the 2020s to date, per capita consumption is still more than 50% above historical baseline. This…
The decrease in consumption predates the current trade issues. Peak domestic wine consumption was in 2021 and has been falling rapidly ever since. There hasn't been a decrease in demand of this magnitude or duration…
Higher demand incentivizes more production, increasing supply which drives prices down. Demand increases only drive up prices if supply is constrained. Very likely wine demand was not going up, and price increases were…
> It's a nice claim to say kinda implies the claim was said