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  1. This. This is exactly what a sane and rational response sounds like when you are actually intellectually curious and open-minded, while simultaneously being put off and disgusted with the present bubble. Find use cases that make financial sense and actually help people and society in a variety of ways.
  2. What are you offended by here exactly? That there is a *gasp* positive aspect to something that you want to mortally hate? I’m not an AI bull at all, but it IS interesting and there is a silver lining of a cool application for AI as Waymo absolutely uses LLMs and Google’s entire deep mind/brain/gemini gen AI expertise to train and run their models that power self driving. Waymo (and fully self driving generally) is 100% an AI use case.
  3. For all the fun we have about how there aren’t any real or good applications of AI and it’s all fugazi, I was listening to something that startled me. self-driving à la Waymo is a slam dunk grand slam AI story from every angle you look. Self driving only took off after all the neural AI discoveries and advancements of LiDAR and sensors to feed data for foundational models to process. Most of us are familiar because we live or spend significant time in Austin (or SF), but as it starts to roll out nationally and globally the world will appreciate it. - CDC statistics cite over 40k deaths in USA a year or 120 a day due to vehicle crashes operated by people. - adjusted for city street driving, apples to apples, Waymo is 91% safer then people driving . You can understand why if you’ve driven the last 10 years with the advent of the smartphone and the epidemic of distracted driving. Heck someone on one of the AI threads posted while driving on CarPlay. - and this isnt just a small data set. Waymo has millions of miles driven. - 91% reduction in accidents is a massive cash savings. CDC put out a report on Medical costs and cost estimates of lives lost is $470bn a year (2022). 91% reduction and reducing crashes 10x is $420bn a year. That is nuts. - It was relatively cheap for an AI investment too. 15bn investment to get this to this point. $15bn is a fraction of what foundational AGI models have burned. $15bn is 1 year of Ubers profits. It’s 1 month of Google profits.
  4. There is a reason people who look and talk and live like me are enjoying Mamdani in NYC.
  5. I think the argument is that for some of these aggrieved white males, sure, they are lost to the other side making promisses, etc. But there are some who can be reasoned with and who can come around from the initial bloody nose with a little empathy and pep talk, who can be saved from the dark side. You seem to think there is not a messy middle ground where perhaps slighted people can feel safe in calling out a wound, maybe feeling sorry for themselves for a minute or two, but then taking a step back and weighing everything out on the balance and making a decision to move forward as non (or less) aggrieved. You seem to think all these white guys who carp about the changes they are facing are either all lost causes or actually have no right to those feelings. At least that's what it seems like based on your responses.
  6. That was unintentionally funny, too, but the main call out there was showing the author, in his own words, is trying to say he and his ilk are still liberals.
  7. I think the argument is, much like it does in your whole professional career, it helps people to get onboard with the new reality. Whereas if you were to take a more antagonstic tone of the just deal with it and glossing over the personal impact with a lack of implied care or empathy, it invites conflict. The point is to minimize conflict.
  8. Reminds me so much of this lol Preach.
  9. Have you never had to deliver tought news to someone, a child, an employee, a player, that was coming from above you? Maybe you didn't completely agree with it or maybe you could see from their perspective how it wasn't fair and there was some tough breaks and bad news, but that decisions and strategy was set and the direction was final? I think that's the posture he's saying to take. Acknowledge/address that the situation sucks for them and have some empathy but, like, there's not a lot we can do about it and it ain't going back the way it was. We can take 15 minutes to mourn it but we have to move on and build a bridge and get over it. Or as Bezos famously said, "disagree and commit".
  10. https://thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics/the-story-of-ai
  11. Back to AI and the bubble, read this and though it appropriate and directionally correct:
  12. While not that extreme and I joke, but I have become definitely more progressive on certain things in my old age. Namely marijuana legalization is 100% a no-brainer and billionaires and late stage capitalism is a scourge. I'm an agrieved middle class guy who is seeing the light that we are being squeezed and wrung out. "bled of every dollar and left an empty husk" as you so eloquently stated. It's we (99%) who have the leverage and grievances. It's they (1%) who should be changing for us. Fitting that today is Festivus, I guess.
  13. Isn't this the screaming red flag of a capital K, K-shaped economy?
  14. Worse still because the team around him cannot shoot the 3 with any consistency when Max Christie and Naji Marshall go from ice in veins to ice cold.
  15. I'm morphing into a delusional progressive in my old age. Sue me!
  16. But it raises the question, when looking at wage and income and life inequality, why can we NOT use income-based or wealth-based relative pricing to help the poor and be more fair to the wealthy? It's the opposite of the day fine system in european countries where your speeding ticket is relative to your worth and ability to pay. It handicaps it to your wealth and makes it more fair. I get this is different but also has shades of the same idea but goes further in that it might actually help to subsidize good and healthy food for the poor based on the "overpay" of the "what can a banana cost, 10 dollars?" crowd.
  17. Taxation of the middle class, as it stands today, is thinly veiled theft. Leave the 98% alone. Tax the billionaires. Full stop.
  18. NOW we are getting to some interesting cocktail party conversation (and I still gag everytime this thread is bumped and I see the title "Lost Generation" and it not being a Hemingway or Post-WWII expat literary community reference).
  19. I would say they chose poorly.
  20. I've literally never used carplay. Sorry I'm an ancient human being. You'll be sad when we are gone.
  21. I think he means the human error was in accidently including it in his post at all (it must have been a fat finger situation or it was somehow copy/pasted from the phone when he posted)? Or maybe he was posting on surly and driving which would be insane to me lol
  22. Humans. AI. Nothing is 100% perfect, I guess. lol
  23. The only way I've ever heard that term previously is when people would talk about "heritage indian firms" in the context of tech consulting (e.g. Infosys or Tech Mahendra, etc.)
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