SaucyWrong

We have a very individualistic attitude, except when it comes to our own failure, where we are too quick to pass blame to someone else.

Just reading now, but sure, I’ll risk the downvotes.

I agree that the American societal zeitgeist has certainly not evolved to a point where we acknowledge luck as a major factor in personal success.

Personal success is attributed to the talent and persistence of the individual.

Personal failures are attributed to character flaws of the individual.

In the US we lionize billionaires because we believe if we are smart enough and work hard enough we could become one. We spare no thought for the role of luck in the rise of a billionaire.

But if we work hard and don’t become a billionaire, best believe it’s somebody else’s fault.

I was surprised to learn this just now.

Me too, I have a 15 year old Panasonic 60” that I’m still daily driving until the proverbial wheels fall off. I’m not looking forward to tv shopping in the smart-garbage-infested marketplace of today…

Not the parent, but sorry, for me, no. And this is a perspective that I don’t think I will ever understand.

This idea that we are on the path to creating a new synthetic intelligence that surpasses our own with the goal of, what, speaking to it? Cooperating with it? Evolving with it? To me, this sort of goal is an affront to humanity and human self-governance and I’ll probably never be able to see it as anything else.

There were so many more repeats of this sort of expression that at one point, I spoke aloud to myself, “we get it dude, you like girls.”

This is the horniest article about general dentistry I’ve read…ever?

Is fiber optic cable actually a high-volume-demand component in all of this? All your other semiconductor picks seem good though.

I can’t short anything due to this. I know something smells but I can never predict when the system will fall apart. And especially recently, the markets seem way too “vibes based” as if even normal securities are all meme stocks now.

> but the consumer is quite healthy this time around

This is one of the more out of touch things I’ve read today. I’m not sure from where you’re sourcing your economic data.

Maybe you’re saying this financial collapse won’t be as bad as 2008? I’d agree with you, that one was singularly dangerous and required large scale government intervention to guarantee that the global financial infrastructure didn’t bust. But this bubble will hurt very badly at a time where the consumer is not as strong as you think.

That’s true, but before you try to shift the blame onto the homeowners, remember that these mortgages were intentionally issued to extremely risky borrowers, and then that risk was intentionally obfuscated when the loans were collateralized. The fault cannot be laid entirely on the borrowers, which is what I sense you’re trying to do here.

Investors bought a lie packaged by the financial institutions. They shouldn’t have believed in the first place because the risk was junk-level but not sold as such.

There is no distinction at this point. If you know your blogs always get picked up by HN, and they do know this, then you know your blog is a de facto and gratis marketing channel and will use it as such.

I’m a software engineer and not a mathematician, and, yeah I read this article and immediately recognized the same pattern from my field. Even in this comment thread is somebody making the “AI is a tool, get over it,” argument. I feel sadness for the mathematicians because I already know the misery that’s coming for their field.

Software engineering has always felt somewhat broken and dysfunctional to me even 20 years ago when I started. And LLM economics have turned into something downright hostile to its practitioners. I don’t have a similar intuition about the field of mathematics. Possibly they are in a better state to have a healthy disagreement about the use of this technology.

The author of this blog isn’t the person this happened to FWIW, this blog appears to be a collection of horror stories from around social media.

Ah yes, my favorite hacker news retort: one is entitled to a prediction if and only if one is prepared to take a huge financial stake in that prediction.

This take has been trotted out so many times, e.g. “How many puts have you bought if you’re so certain?”