Seems out of date. I think Peterson and Shapiro “fell off.” Didn’t know Trevor Noah was still doing stuff. Don’t know who the fuck Russell Brand’s audience is. I guess basing it off subscriber accounts biases it toward channels/influencers that have existed a long time, and many subscriptions may just be ignored or tied to inactive accounts. I agree the right dominates the online ecosystem, but different influencers dominate now.
Highly depends on area. $1 million is about 16 years of the median wage. It can be hard to survive on the median in some cities, but can be OK in rural or extremely economically depressed cities/towns. I don’t think federal minimum wage is enough to survive anywhere without assistance.
I’ve used AI by just pasting code, then asking if there’s anything wrong with it. It would find things wrong with it, but would also say some things were wrong when it was actually fine.
I’ve used it in an agentic-AI (Cursor), and it’s not good at debugging any slightly-complex code. It would often get “stuck” on errors that were obvious to me, but making wrong, sometimes nonsensical changes.
There’s a lot of indication that LLMs are peaking. It’s taking exponentially more compute and data to get incremental improvements. A lot of people are saying OpenAI’s new model is a regression (I don’t know, I haven’t really played with the new model much). More foundational breakthroughs need to be made, and these kinds of breakthroughs are often the result of “eureka” moments which can’t be manifested by just throwing more money at the problem. It’s possible it will take decades before someone discovers a major breakthrough (or it could be tomorrow).
China leads the world in scientific publication, even when only taking into account reputable journals and high-impact publications. There’s no doubt in my mind the US will decline further with the current attacks on science and education, and anti-intellectualism in general.
Which will then cause a panic.
And I think that leads to calls for one or more of the following:
- Redistribution of wealth
- A hurried UBI implementation
- A nationwide ban on foreclosures and evictions
- A law saying you can’t use AI employees
- A law saying you can’t fire anyone
- Etc.
Is he implying these are a list of bad things? I mean the term “AI employee” is nonsensical, and people should sometimes be fired with-cause if the cause is bad enough, but the rest is OK. No need to worry about any of this happening any time soon though given the populace’s politics, media/propaganda consumption, and the people currently in power. In the event of severe economic downturn, we’re more likely to see the rich buying up everything on the cheap and trying to implement their fantasies of labor camps, company towns, network states, corporate city-states, or whatever other stupid ideas they have.
Not sure the downturn will start in a few months, but an economic downturn under this admin is a certainty. I don’t think it’ll officially be called a recession, and the official economic data will be fake…
This image seems right-wing coded. Also, nobody has to invade, it’s for sale.
In the grand scheme of things, I think AI code generators make people less efficient. Some studies have come out that indicate this. I’ve tried to use various AI tools, as I do like fields of AI/ML in general, but they would end up hampering my work in various ways.
Does Snowflake still work in China? Thought I read they’re now able to detect and block it.