If NZ really wanted to help startups they'd sort out the tax problems with options so that companies can actually interest people in taking risk by working for new businesses.

Personally, I think I'd be in favour of a wealth tax if I had the kind of wealth that could be taxed. I don't resent the tax I pay now.

Not arguing that we shouldn't strive to do far far better here, better is by our own imagining. There is no development scale. There are no aliens or prior non human civilizations to compare against. So we're not underdeveloped. We are as we are. For all we know we're at peak capacity and humanity will never be better.

Have to disagree with this line of thinking, and I think it's even more dangerous with intimation further down that using an LLM for coding is akin to being a manager of people.

You do not have to consider the feelings of an LLM. You can micromanage it as much as you like, and you can modify it's thought processes. Don't like this one? Switch to another model. Most importantly, you cannot /new on a person and get a fresh state.

Working with people means building trust, respecting their autonomy, and considering how your actions affect them. I worry a lot that the transactional nature we treat LLMs is leaking into how we treat other people. And yeah, there's an argument there about how that was already the case, company / society culture and so on, but I mean additive or multiplicative to that.

LLMs feel to me like an entirely new kind of interaction, and I'd rather it was discussed in ways that set it away from how we interact with people, making the differences clear.

Are you talking about the LLMs or the people at OpenAI running the experiment? Or are they the same?

It's not that they needed an excuse to say no, it's that they each thought backing down would be worse. And tbh I don't think any the current leaders are better. Nicholas II "I will not become responsible for a monstrous slaughter" vs Putin's war of choice.

My 8 year old hardly ever practices but just looks at the music and knows the notes on piano and violin.

In any case, I agree that this isn't that helpful to being able to play, it's just an interesting way to understand why things are as they are.

Go back not even that far and money comparisons like this make no sense. A family subsistence farming doesn't have the same kind of relationship we do with money. Also they couldn't really go down the shops. Existence was in the edge for everyone, even the wealthy.

The other problem I see is that it's seems to pick a random time before a random location. So this will favour the times when there were far fewer people. No way around this, you either end up picking mostly near modern times because that's when the bulk of the people lived, or people further back in time who are pretty disconnected from our modern society.

Or she just gets cold. My daughter wears those kind of gloves all winter regardless of how warm we heat the house.

I do notice that new houses seem to be built to maximize house size and leave little for the garden. I assume most people want that. Personally I've got a large garden, although it's a lot of work.

But you used the word 'want'. I don't imagine anyone wants to be involved. Everyone who is wants the other side to stop fighting.