MLgulabio (u/MLgulabio)

MLgulabio commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

integralid · 2 months ago

>Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy

Which people were happy? Nobody hates communism more than Eastern Europeans. I don't know a single elderly (i.e. lived through communism) person in my country who doesn't hate communism. I think you have a rose tinted view of how communism worked out on Europe.

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

Plenty of people were 'content' enough and had a normalish childhood.

I don't want to romantesize it though.

MLgulabio commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

rjdj377dhabsn · 2 months ago

> If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

That sounds nice, but who is going to decide exactly which behaviors to reward and by how much?

To avoid grift and corruption, we should probably have everyone vote on it in some kind of democratic process, right? Well that's basically what we have today with municipal elections, and looks like the consensus is we actually don't want to pay teachers all that much.

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

We already talking about a hyposisis that AI replaces workers.

I don't think i have the choice of changing the world with a hn comment.

MLgulabio commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

rjdj377dhabsn · 2 months ago

So.. communism? That hasn't worked out too great in the past.

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

Uncontrolled capitalism hasn't worked either. Controlled capitalism brought us were we are today: Huge inequality around the globe especially in 3th world countries like the USA and destruction of the whole ecosystem we live in.

Communism didn't look great next to capitalism (east europe vs. west europe) but those people were also happy.

My idea is not communism though, its a 'if you do beneficial things for society, we have resources for it'. If you are teaching kids, we the planet have resources for you.

If you take care of kids, we the planet, have resources for you.

Lets call it Civic Duty Dividend or Care Standard or Public Service Money.

MLgulabio commented on AI agents are starting to eat SaaS martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/jnord

benzible · 2 months ago

I'm CTO at a vertical SaaS company, paired with a product-focused CEO with deep domain expertise. The thesis doesn't match my experience.

For one thing, the threat model assumes customers can build their own tools. Our end users can't. Their current "system" is Excel. The big enterprises that employ them have thousands of devs, but two of them explicitly cloned our product and tried to poach their own users onto it. One gave up. The other's users tell us it's crap. We've lost zero paying subscribers to free internal alternatives.

I believe that agents are a multiplier on existing velocity, not an equalizer. We use agents heavily and ship faster than ever. We get a lot of feedback from users as to what the internal tech teams are shipping and based on this there's little evidence of any increase in velocity from them.

The bottleneck is still knowing what to build, not building. A lot of the value in our product is in decisions users don't even know we made for them. Domain expertise + tight feedback loop with users can't be replicated by an internal developer in an afternoon.

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

The basic assumption is, that we already see that an LLM can do basic level of software engineering.

This wasn't even an option for a lot of people before this.

For example, even for non software engineering tasks, i'm at an advantage. "Ah you have to analyse these 50 excel files from someone else? I can write something for it"

I myself sometimes start creating a new small tool i wouldn't have tried before but now instead of using some open source project, i can vibe spec it and get something out.

The interesting thing is, that if i have the base of my specs, i might regenerate it later on again with a better code model.

And we still don't know what will happen when compute gets expanded and expanded. Next year a few more DCs will get online and this will continue for now.

Also tools like google firebase will get 1000x more useful with vibe coding. They provide basic auth and stuff like this. So you can actually focus on writing your code.

MLgulabio commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

Around the world, every country should be allowed to make 'money' for specific cases like for teacher salaries, ... so that most people are able to work for the state or for our community.

Everyone works less, everyone works better, we will then see how much humans we still need.

MLgulabio commented on Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/bikenaga

TurkishPoptart · 2 months ago

Long Covid is really not new. It is virtually indistinguishable from the condition long known in the medical lexicon as post-infectious syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Although some have recognized and studied their similarities, it seems no one has made the simplifying observation that they are essentially the same condition.[1]

[1]: https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/14/long-covid-me-cfs-myalgi...

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

I really don't understand this comment? Its quite commonly known that this is the same/related?

Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.

Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.

I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?

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echelon · 2 months ago

I would pay so much for my own SUV to self-drive as well as Waymo.

Keyword: my own SUV. Not a rental. With the possibility for me to take over and drive it myself if service fails or if I want to do so.

The significant unlock is that I get to haul gear, packages, family. I don't need to keep it clean. The muddy dogs, the hiking trip, the week-long road trip.

If my car could drive me, I'd do way more road trips and skip flying. It's almost as romantic as a California Zephyr or Coast Starlight trip. And I can camp out of it.

No cramped airlines. No catching colds by being packed in a sardine can with a stressed out immune system.

No sharing space with people on public transit. I can work and watch movies and listen to music and hang out with my wife, my friends. People won't stare at me, and I can eat in peace or just be myself in my own space.

I might even work in a nomadic lifestyle if I don't have to drive all the time. Our country is so big and there's so much to see.

One day you might even be able to attach a trailer. Bikes, jet skis, ATVs. People might simply live on the road, traveling all the time.

Big cars seem preferable. Lots of space for internal creature comforts. Laying back, lounging. Watching, reading, eating. Changing clothes, camping, even cooking.

Some people might even buy autonomous RVs. I'm sure that'll be a big thing in its own right.

It's bidirectional too! People can come to you as you go to them. Meet in the middle. Same thing with packages, food, etc.

This would be the biggest thing in travel, transport, logistics, perhaps ever. It's a huge unlock. It feels downright revolutionary. Like a total change in how we might live our lives.

This might turn big suburbs from food/culture deserts into the default places people want to live as they have more space for cheaper - because the commute falls apart.

This honestly sounds better than a house, but if you can also own an affordable large home in the suburbs as your home base - that's incredible. You don't need a tiny expensive place in the city. You could fall asleep in your car and wake up for breakfast in the city. Spend some time at home, then make a trek to the mountains. All without wasting any time. No more driving, no more traffic. Commuting becomes leisure. It becomes you time.

This is also kind of a super power that big countries (in terms of area) with lots of roads and highways will enjoy the most. It doesn't do much in a dense city, but once you add mountains and forests and streams and deserts and oceans - that's magic.

Maybe our vast interstate highway infrastructure will suddenly grow ten times in value.

Roads might become more important than ever. We might even start building more.

If the insurance and autonomy come bundled as a subscription after you purchase or lease your vehicle, that's super easy for people to activate and spend money on.

This is such a romantic dream, and I'm so hyped for this.

I would pay an ungodly sum to unlock this. It can't come soon enough. Would subscribe in a heartbeat.

MLgulabio · 2 months ago

I'm lost on why you fantasies this so much and don't just buy an RV or something?

Do you really hate driving that much?

I don't think this would change the world as you imagine it. I don't mind driving long i will just make sure i get entertainment for the purpose. Like an audio book. My wife doesn't say 'Lets go soemwere you can drive me around and i can finally do that many things in parallel'.

And plenty of family drive today with RVs while the parents are in the front and the kids are in the back. No one is showering while the parents drive. Do you know how slow Cars now would need to drive to make this suddenly that much more comftable than what we have today?

You would need to rebuild the car and streets to get to this point.

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MLgulabio · 2 months ago

Argh i was so so hoping that this is a 'thing' and I can just do that too.

Lets continue to hope