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The viability of a currency is nothing more than faith.

Georgism is the only way forward. Tax land, energy, metals, and other constrained natural resources, not labour.

Yep. Tax the resources that capital needs to produce the stuff. This is just a simple way to think about how we think about tax regimes etc can evolve.

We're already there. Most of us have jobs that are just made up to fill the gaps after steam power and automation. In the future, we'll have jobs that fill up the AI gap. It's UBI, but more arbitrary so we can tell ourselves we're useful while group X is not.

Hmmm. I wonder if you get to choose between window maker or window breaker.


That’s it, but I was also thinking about https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

Through extensive data harvesting, and exchanging and partnering across thousands of such data miners, I suspect that by now, the graph of identities and fingerpinted devices must be practically complete. That means that all your actions on the internet can be tracked back, via device fingerprinting and cookie networks, to your physical identity. Great milestone for the surveillance states.

I don't understand this approach. How are you going to convince customers-to-be by demoing an inferior product?

Because they have too many free users that will always remain on the free plan, as they are the "default" LLM for people who don't care much, and that is a enormous cost. Also the capabilities of their paid tiers are well known to enough people that they can rely on word of mouth and don't need to demo to customers-to-be

They're not more default than people innocently googling something and getting an AI response from some form of Gemini.

Right, but that form of Gemini is also not the top Gemini model with high thinking budget that you would get to use with a subscription, the response is probably generate with Gemini Flash and low thinking.

Through hype. I am really into this new LLM stuff but the companies around this tech suck. Their current strategy is essentially media blitz, reminds me of the advertising of coca cola rather than a Apple IIe.

It's all trade offs. The router works most of the time so most free users get the expensive model when necessary.

They lost x% of customers and cut costs by y%. I bet y is lots bigger than x.


The good news for them is that all their competitors have the exact same issue, and it's unsolvable.

And to an extent holds for lots of SaaS products, even non-AI.


I was waiting for the cases where they inverted this. That would really trick me. But it didn't happen in the few cases I tried.

This can only be fixed by authors paying humans to read instead of the other way around.

They were already excellent at survival, and they migrated, and many of them died young. Sure, _humanity_ will survive, but a large part of the population won't.


> They were already excellent at survival, and they migrated, and many of them died young. Sure, _humanity_ will survive, but a large part of the population won't.

Hence the egregious exaggeration of the title. Even large fractions of the population dying != "Bye Bye Humanity."


Jobs are a means, not a goal.


Jobs are the only way that you survive in this society (food, shelter). Look how we treat unhoused people without jobs. AI is taking jobs away and that is putting people's survival at risk.


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