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New comment by eulgro in "Economists Are Obsessed with "Job Creation." How about Less Work? (2017)"

eulgro — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:32:11 +0000

That's less productivity for same pay. We can have less work without impacting productivity much.

New comment by eulgro in "Can we have the day off?"

eulgro — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:42:21 +0000

Unfortunately that's not how it works. Productivity gains have already increased tenfold in the past, yet still all work full time.

It used to be that 80+% of the population worked in agriculture. In developed countries that number is now around 1-2%. Some of the freed labour was funneled into improving living standards, some of it was funneled into new jobs created by the increasingly complex society (the "intermediate economy").

With AI, the same is true: labour is freed by the productivity gains (which I doubt are 10x sustainably but whatever), more labour is needed for power generation, mineral extraction, maintaining this new extra layer of complexity in the intermediate economy, etc. In the end we might see, say, a net 3% increase in global productivity per year over the next 10 years, which will be funneled into increasing living standards and increasing economic inequalities, but not in reducing working hours.

If you accept living below average standards, you could easily work a single day of the week for the rest of your life. But why would an employer hire 5 people working one day a week, instead of one working 5 days a week? They won't, hence we don't see a reduction in working hours.

The alternative is to work full time but retire earlier, much earlier, than you would otherwise, which in the end is the equivalent of having worked one day a week for your whole life.

I highly recommend reading Lean Logic by David Fleming, it explores several of these concepts in a very interesting way.

New comment by eulgro in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

eulgro — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:23:13 +0000

These satire articles on cybersecurity are really entertaining.

The other one a few days ago was also good: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes...

New comment by eulgro in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""

eulgro — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:58:26 +0000

I enabled it and I had to read carefully to check if it was really active... turns out I never read the words that caveman omits, so to me it makes zero difference.

New comment by eulgro in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

eulgro — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:29:35 +0000

At what point does milk become oil?

New comment by eulgro in "The RAM shortage could last years"

eulgro — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:08:07 +0000

The law of supply and demand works in a perfect competition market.

There are two RAM suppliers...

New comment by eulgro in "Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026"

eulgro — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:03:34 +0000

> The report estimates that carbon emissions from models with the least efficient inference are over 10 times as high as those with the most efficient inference. DeepSeek’s V3 models were estimated to consume around 23 watts when responding to a “medium-length” prompt, while Claude 4 Opus was estimated to consume about 5 watts.

This makes absolutely no sense. I suppose they meant watt hours, and that's a weird way to explain carbon emissions...

New comment by eulgro in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

eulgro — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:08:54 +0000

And vegan of course

New comment by eulgro in "Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 Snapshot 1: Initial Vulkan Support"

eulgro — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:18:27 +0000

It's impressive how much details they give in the release notes, down to the filenames of added sprites and changes to the shaders. I can't think of another game that does that.

New comment by eulgro in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

eulgro — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:02:51 +0000

The channel owner seem to be a non-speaking person so that explains it.

New comment by eulgro in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

eulgro — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:30:08 +0000

In science fiction maybe. We're hitting real limits on compute while AI is still far from a level where it would harmful, and FHE is orders of magnitude less efficient than direct calculation.

New comment by eulgro in "Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food"

eulgro — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:03:29 +0000

That's 58 GWh, but considering each food calorie actually require 5-10 calories of input energy (oil mostly), let's say 290 GWh.

I couldn't find much on training AI models. Apparently GPT-3 used 1.3 GWh for training. So maybe ~10 GWh for newer models?

So... let's stop training humans I guess.

New comment by eulgro in "Tiny C Compiler"

eulgro — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:51:21 +0000

To be honest, these all seem like pretty basic features.

Goto is easier to implement than an if statement. Postincrement behaves no differently in a switch statement than elsewhere.

New comment by eulgro in "Ode to the AA Battery"

eulgro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:54:51 +0000

This makes no sense. With the li-on batteries you would need everything you listed, minus the extra batteries.

New comment by eulgro in "How many chess games are possible?"

eulgro — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:50:33 +0000

Well there is. The three/five fold rule. And 50 moves rule.

New comment by eulgro in "First, make me care"

eulgro — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:44:27 +0000

Thanks. Ironically, the article started off great with that but clearly it wasn't going to answer the question, so I only read the first paragraph.

New comment by eulgro in "CSS Optical Illusions"

eulgro — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:57:55 +0000

They could make capchas out of these.

New comment by eulgro in "Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?"

eulgro — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:05:33 +0000

https://archive.is/ppHt0

Paper this article is based on (2021): https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28967/w289...

New comment by eulgro in "China obsesses over America's "kill line""

eulgro — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:47:54 +0000

https://archive.is/H0Egd

New comment by eulgro in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)"

eulgro — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:10:18 +0000

Given the current upper bound on legal chess positions is 7.7e45 ≈ 152.4 bits, you either have found a better upper bound or your memory doesn't serve.