@paulg Agree. I always thought the ROI argument was a terrible take because of what you mentioned and that the costs always seem to go down once you let everyone compete for a while.
Few people understand that Ray Kroc started in door-to-door sales before scaling McDonald's.
The lesson?
Your current opportunity is not likely to be your last and can help form you into the person you need to be.
You might need to get rejected thousands of times before you learn the skill of sales.
Then once you find the right opportunity, it becomes easier to scale because you now know how to sell.
Oh and by the way... it's not too late.
He was 52 when he joined McDonalds.
one of the single greatest tactic for your social life is the concept of "assumed familiarity". once you know this concept you notice it in every charismatic man. makes you instantly likable. just act like you've known others for years already.
Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized:
You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway.
In other words, you want the government to save us from… you.
"I don't understand the companies that sell door to door. No one buys anything at the door anymore."
One second while I grab the thousands of contracts we sold over a year.
Everyone saying AI is too expensive for it to be useful is completely missing the boat.
This happens with all new tech and the price will inevitably come down.
.@danshipper: "The AI jobpocalypse is not a thing.
The mass unemployment thing that AI lab CEOs are talking about—that's not going to happen.
AI models make yesterday's human competence cheap.
But what's interesting is that since everyone's using the same models, it all looks the same. So it becomes commoditized. It's not valuable anymore.
And what humans do is we go in there, and we're like, yeah, we have all this frozen human competence from yesterday, how do I use this to make something new and interesting, today?"