most of retail/consumer trading is unproductive but institutional trading/investing provides liquidity to markets and it's how organizations fund the projects that eventually lead to productive outcomes
a huge percentage of people who "trade" (as in retail) lose money and that money goes into the market (trading platforms, market makers, other traders, etc.) which still fund things like more investment and likely other productive outcomes
even then, if by "trading" you mean retail, most of it is leads to a loss anyway -rarely if ever are traders profitable (very, very rare)
i'm cutting off a lot of stuff but that's a general idea
I started smoking weed in my early twenties and did so occasionally for about 3-5 years, sometimes daily, sometimes with weeks/months in between
Now that it’s been almost 2 years without touching it at all i can honestly say weed makes you retarded
Unless you are a very energetic person whose brain can’t usually relax and weed helps, then it is poebably bad (very bad) for your brain
I never bought the whole agent payments idea mostly because i spend a lot of money on the internet and if there’s one thing I hate is spending money on things without realizing/by mistake
Giving money to agent to buy things for me sounds too risky and expensive
I’d bet most people close to my age range feel the same
Maybe the newer generation won’t care as much
@seyitaylor it was a great film, but was so different and hard to follow that most people either got bored or straight up just didn't understand enough to like it
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa
the interesting thing about LLMs to me is that despite they're doing technically the same thing... they're still entirely different in results and how they feel
using Claude vs. ChatGPT is such a wildly different experience despite both being chatbots
one thing I've noticed over time is that people who've gone through difficult things in life: poverty, tragedies, mental illness, etc. truly live their day-to-day lives without little to no ability to plan beyond a few days/weeks out
this is wild to say when the last 2-3 years most of what sama and dario said publicly was "AI is going to automate jobs" and "we need to make sure this doesn't get out of our hands"
it's recently they're giving more dull predictions
I would bet it got out of their hands or happened faster than they thought so they couldn't update their beliefs/comms fast enough
We are in a golden age where, if you are good at systems and understanding, AI increases your abilities by an order of magnitude. But if you are not good at it, you just spin your wheels and end up nowhere helpful
"As the cost of writing software drops to zero, I find myself valuing ambition above all else. Unreasonable, unrelenting ambition."
true but also ambition ≠ slop