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@oelma__

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@FightWithMemes

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@ThrillaRilla369

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@Rainmaker1973 Phones - you can touch the color screen and it reacts? You can talk to it and it answers? You can record as much video as you want on this tiny rectangle? You can summon up any song ever recorded? You can play fart noises on demand?

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@robinhanson I’m the same. Sometimes wonder if this is because I believe a) that absolute levels of wealth are more important and b) that high inequality and high growth go hand in hand.

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@Rainmaker1973 It gets better

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@RobertMSterling Actually I think this is also because STEM classes build on knowledge from earlier year courses. Even someone capable of doing the work can’t snipe the prerequisite classes.

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@stepha_henson Use the “random page” feature on Wikipedia to pick two random pages and then write something that connects whatever those pages are about somehow. Creative jumpstart.

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@Noahpinion * single use plastic from the US ends up in the ocean or contributes to microplastics

* recycling just ends up in landfill anyway so why bother

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@redpillb0t If only there were a system that aligned people’s desire to make money with the problems other people needed solved

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@nikitabier If the base rates are very low a positive test result can be more likely to be a false than a true positive, even if the test is quite reliable.

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@MikeyDiMercurio

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@DrPhiltill I asked Claude about this and

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@Noahpinion No one knows the details but at a theoretical level, jobs exist to fulfill the wants of other humans, which are infinite, AI capabilities or compute capacity won’t be infinite, comparative advantage will determine the shape of future human jobs

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@AllaAisling

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@vibrantdad How much more do you think the average buyer would pay for a dumber appliance that would last longer? It would be more expensive to make.

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@AllaAisling

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@RobertMSterling We need a pithier way to say this. Maybe profit is what happens when what you create and put back into society is worth more than what you took out to make it?

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@BecomingCritter They also cope by making fun of people who use big fancy words

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