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New comment by kajumix in "LLM Daydreaming"

kajumix — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:30:55 +0000

Most interesting novel ideas originate at the intersection of multiple disciplines. Profitable trades could be found in the biomedicine sector when the knowledge of biomedicine and finance are combined. That's where I see LLMs shining because they span disciplines way more than any human can. Once we figure out a way to have them combine ideas (similar to how Gwern is suggesting), there will be, I suspect, a flood of novel and interesting ideas, inconceivable with humans.

New comment by kajumix in "Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?"

kajumix — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:02:58 +0000

Your suggestion basically amounts to: digitize and centralize welfare. There are already electronic cards for food. If the money is drawn directly from the central bank as credit instead of from the state welfare fund, it won't make it any more efficient. In fact any experimentation among states will disappear. Also, if CBDCs become a thing, you could see a slow slide into behavior control. What people eat, and where they live becomes a concern for the central bank, because they get to decide who the approved vendors are for those things. "Central" anything is a design smell in most cases.

Getting rid of cash also requires proper paper work and identification so you can sign up for the CBDC wallet. In that case you're excluding the very people from the system who need it the most.

New comment by kajumix in "Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?"

kajumix — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:51:34 +0000

If it's not for _everyone_ it's not _universal_ basic income. It's just welfare for poor in that case, and that's already very common

New comment by kajumix in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

kajumix — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:45:16 +0000

it's a good question. what would true abundance look like? I can't wait to find out

New comment by kajumix in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

kajumix — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:53:46 +0000

you may not need to buy a box of cereal or a vacuum cleaner, but maybe a flight to moon, or a humanoid companion? products move up a level

New comment by kajumix in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

kajumix — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:47:41 +0000

Once he replaces everyone with robots, and all the factories do the same, people will get stuff at home for watching ads.

New comment by kajumix in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

kajumix — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:30:10 +0000

In neighborhoods with better school districts, home prices and rents are higher in proportion to the demand people have for better schools, creating de facto segregation based on income, and by your logic, by race too.

New comment by kajumix in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

kajumix — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:01:49 +0000

Why do you imply that the fun, constructive environment for homeschooling a long shot, but the weird religious or abusive environment is more of the norm?

New comment by kajumix in "Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers"

kajumix — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:00:06 +0000

Most CEOs, yes. But founder CEOs normally don't care about stock price that much. Zuck turned down yahoo, remember. Bezos kept taking losses in Amazon in the beginning for the sake of future growth despite the stock being punished so hard. Steve Jobs was like that too. Your cynicism is misguided. VR is a very long call.

New comment by kajumix in "Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers"

kajumix — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:53:17 +0000

Do you realize most enterprise coders are writing just simple CRUD applications?

New comment by kajumix in "Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers"

kajumix — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:47:22 +0000

Also, I'd expect he cares very little about the stock price. He turned down Yahoo's offer when it must have seemed so lucrative

New comment by kajumix in "Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers"

kajumix — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:45:38 +0000

Why do you doubt Zuck's foresight? I am not a fanboy, but he timed the pivot to mobile really well, acquired instagram, and anticipated how crucial messaging would be. All pretty good calls. The VR stuff is still playing out. In fact I think he is one of the few who do a better job of looking ahead.

New comment by kajumix in "‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’"

kajumix — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:53:46 +0000

When I look back on my 45 years life, there are spans which feel like a different life altogether. I thought differently, and made choices that I won't make today. I'd say "in my former life" as if that life ended and a new one began. I suspect youthful immortality would be a sequence of many deaths and rebirths. If you had the neuroplasticity of a 25 year old and the experience and wisdom of a 50 year old, I imagine it won't get boring, and perhaps new ideas and modes of living won't require a generation to die, and a new one to be born.

New comment by kajumix in "‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’"

kajumix — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:36:12 +0000

Those hundred years won't exist for the dying. I would personally find comfort in knowing that I will feel waking up right away into a technologically much more advanced world

New comment by kajumix in "Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says"

kajumix — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:06:56 +0000

The idea of "intellectual property" is anti-productive as well as immoral. Open source software is a very good evidence of the utilitarian benefits of doing away with software patents. And IP is immoral because it's impossible to grant and secure "intellectual property" rights without violating physical property rights. Please read Stephen Kinsella's "Against Intellectual Property" for a good treatment of both the utilitarian and the moral dimensions:

https://cdn.mises.org/15_2_1.pdf

New comment by kajumix in "Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle"

kajumix — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:41:08 +0000

The Fed (the central bank in the US) didn't exist before 1914. The government did. They aren't the same

New comment by kajumix in "Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle"

kajumix — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:02:36 +0000

Banks are great, and they will exist in the bitcoin world. The central bank is the problem.

New comment by kajumix in "Sora: Creating video from text"

kajumix — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:14:34 +0000

I didn't go to film school or had any training in creative arts. I love the fact that I will have an outlet for creative expression where my text can generate image, video and sound. I can iterate over them, experiment with visualizations, and get better without technical barriers. Generative AI is making everyone an artist as well as a coder

New comment by kajumix in "U.S. Consumers Spent More on Food in 2022 Than Ever Before (Inflation Adjusted)"

kajumix — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:18:35 +0000

I eat a lot of eggs and meat, and their prices are at least 50% higher than last year, not 6%. Inflation measures are such a joke.

New comment by kajumix in "Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness"

kajumix — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 18:57:06 +0000

I have fantasized about a secular technological possibility for reincarnation (or afterlife). It's not outrageous nowadays to consider a future tech that allows taking a backup of your brain and restoring it later in a compute substrate other than your brain. The effect would be you waking up with your memories and personality in some other place out in the far future. Now, perhaps, our brain is being constantly backed up in the nature. Perhaps, if physics gets to the bottom of everything, we can travel far enough out into outer space in an instant, and look back at the brains of people on earth as they were an arbitrarily long time ago when light bounced off of them to reach that far out, and that with insane optical zoom and perfect neural resolution, so they can restore them? Whether you wake up in a hell or a heaven, is another question.