A writers perspective: I like to pause from time to time and thank my talent and my education for training me to the point I can trully enjoy difficult classical work. And read it again and again when I miss it. Also being able to sit and write for hours is pretty incredible on its own.
Yes I have nothing to show for it. No money, no deals, no awards... And that upsets me 70% percent of the time. In a healthy way, where it just keeps me going back to the desk same time every day.
Rest of the time I really enjoy just being able to do it and being able to afford the time to do it. As one of the few in my family with degree and withouth second job.
this. I keep repeating to people to stick to very specific questions with very specific limits and expectations but no... give me 20 pages of phd level text that finds cure for cancer
I noticed on our own agentic setups that there are very few actual scenarios being executed. I suggested implementing some type of monitoring so you can replace 99% of most used workflows with normal python and activate AI calls if something new happens. until that new thing repeats few times and you translate that to code to. that has to be carreer in itself. you can turn a lot of AI apps into profitable and fast internal apps
The joke is on you, I was raised in Eastern Europe, where most of what history teachers told us was wrong
That being said. as someone who worked in a library and bookstore 90% of workbooks and technical books are identical. NotebookLM's mindmap feature is such a time saver
there are so many different names for this. and time blocking. but it really works. small reminder. it works even when, like me, someone has serious case of ADHD. but its slightly different and there are extremes on both end. where it does not work or it works to well. but it always work. what I am trying to say if you feel its not efficient you still have to feel it out until you find how it works for you in whatever form it works.
>the point of all of this is: this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI whatever that is
Maybe they publicly made it available at alpha 0.7 and now it's more like 0.9 RC instead, with not much room to go except through marginal improvements for an ever increasing training budget making them less and less worthy?
And that's before 90% of the internet becomes LLM ouput, poisoning any further corpus for training and getting into LSD-grade hallucinations mode...
People always push the argument into extreme but for practical example you have housing around industrial zones going 250% up and being turned into gated communities and factories cant move because of nearby high way and harbor.
So it is not socialism but common sense to call for residency zoning area reserved for workers.
In tourist zones this is normal: from Alps to Mediterranean.
But if you mention big cities suddenly nobody ever heard of workers working there only landlords and retail shops.
And I am not talking across the street where you work I am talking 1h commute area around industrial zone rejecting cheap apartments and building gated communities where one foreign firm can buy all 128 houses at once.
If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging we can talk about housing without being mocked at and called greedy lazy socialist. I just dont wanna live in a shoe box or be 3h in traffic every day.
I do not believe my desire, having been born in a $5million house, and wanting to also live in an equivalent house is at all extreme. It is no differnt to being born in the bronx and wanting to live in the bronx or the projects and feeling entitled to also be given project housing.
> If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging
I was able to buy a ps4 on release for $399.99. How is it fair that they want $499 for a ps5. Is this really equivalent?
Best time of my life was living next to the coast. I would leave train one station early and just walk 30 minutes. My social anxiety gets triggered if there is any friction in my surroundings. I know I could take a buss to the beach or go to the park but having any kind of negative experience pushes me back to my gaming station. Living in small town in Alps also had similar effect as the beach. Lots of woods where you only meet other people who want quiet walk so nothing but short hello and good day. My five years living in city center seem the same even though I move 3 times because I never left the room. Esp after 20h. My job is stressful and I just dont have patience and energy to deal with other people problems constantly.
You are wasting your breath. You know he thinks most people are lazy and earning below 200k "for a reason."
A guy won Nobel prize proving your quality of life or happiness does not improve above 75k. Thats what you need.
And in IT you dont need to do unpaid overtime or sacrifice your time with family to get to 75k. Everything above that and you are doing it on purpose cause you value money over family and personal relationships. And that is your choice. But that is not healthy and that should not be norm.
And if you need your workers to work 16h a day with unpaid overtime but they are refusing your workers are not lazy you are incompetent CEO. Or just evil level of greedy.
That study is old, but I still suspect there’s a grain of truth that the financial cutoff is lower than many would suspect.
A rough off-the-cuff calculation is that $75k is roughly double the median US income. If the same rough estimate is applied to SV, that’s about $110k. I bet that’s much much lower than many SV/HN would suspect for a happiness threshold. If you can’t find a way to be happy on double the median income, it implies the system is rigged to make an awfully lot of people miserable.
The problem is often not that happiness isn’t possible, but that we compare ourselves to our peer group to calibrate our expectations. As Roosevelt said, comparison is the thief of joy.
Yes I have nothing to show for it. No money, no deals, no awards... And that upsets me 70% percent of the time. In a healthy way, where it just keeps me going back to the desk same time every day.
Rest of the time I really enjoy just being able to do it and being able to afford the time to do it. As one of the few in my family with degree and withouth second job.