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The Weimar Republic didn't have a contracting money supply in that period

There is a bar on personal projects. Period. Period.

Either you're misunderstanding logic, law or society. If Karparthy fails he runs a real risk of having his life very closely examined. The rules are different for different people.

I do machine learning medical work for the coronavirus. I work at near optimal as humanly possible. Occasional hackernews is one of my few indulgences.

His job affects peoples lives. He certainly is human. I'm not criticising his project. I'm not saying he can't have personal hobbies. And I'm not the one that decides the bar.

I'm saying that there is a bar and it's higher when lives depend on it.

There is a long list of activities that people could do in their personal time that would be considered inappropriate. What is done outside of work is relevant. It can form part of a character assessment which can have political and legal ramifications.

If Tesla ends up with a dangerous product then it becomes very relevant.

That certainly depends on how much time off and what was done in that time.

Society has given Kaparty et al a lot of latitude to take liberties with other peoples lives. In my view this creates an obligation to do the best job humanly possible.

If they’re giving up on autopilot then fine. But if people’s lives are riding on the quality of the work then I think it sets a high bar for personal projects.

I’m no fan of ham fisted normalization.... but I think the bigger issue is the fairness aspect of thresholding based on class sizes.

I think it should be possible to create ‘virtual classes’ above the threshold by combining smaller like classes together.

Such a model would be fairly ham fisted.

Maintain 3 gigs simultaneously and drop the lowest paid one on occasion. Or devote fewer hours to it. Negotiation becomes, “sorry I can’t do more hours for you, someone else is paying me more for my time.” This will also mean you don’t have to worry about who gets what cut, just your cut. It means only doing part time and keeping a float of 40-60hour weeks.

I always wonder how much of the reduction in cleaning of glass can be attributed to better aerodynamics and better glass.

But it’s not poison it’s a virus. You’re less likely to catch it but if you catch it you get a complete dose.

The one thing I liked about MS was that it didn’t have a successful social media asset. This allowed it to stay generally apolitical and out of the fray.

This will be the beginning of the end of MS. (As opposed to the middle of the end of a very drawn out decline.)

I’m sure they see it as another Skype. The US govt subsidizing an acquisition to get access to data.

TikTok optimizes hard for popularity which involves many unpleasant choices in their algorithm. MS will feel compelled to ‘fix’ this both for a perceived social good but also for the benefit of the US government who is no doubt subsidizing this.

MS will become a target for lobbying by interest groups and the US government to a degree it has never dealt with and I don’t think MS can handle it. This is not the same as criticism for being a monopoly or making crappy software.

The best case scenario will be they screw with the algorithm early enough and bad enough that people leave en mass.

These are the same people who couldn’t leave Skype alone.

I wonder if it’s inevitable that we will get denial of entry based facial recognition systems. It’s legally difficult to stop people from leaving the store whereas it’ll be much easier to prevent them from entering.

If someone shoplifts then they get banned from the chain, or a network of chains. This would be an alternative to police involvement. Restitution could be done proportionality and privately.

Of course there will be issues with it but I’m sure it could be cheaper to figure this out than the alternative loss prevention solutions.

If rich people sold the assets they wouldn’t have them anymore. The mechanism is more that rich have access to lower interest rates. The proportional difference of interest rates between the rich and poor increases as the risk free interest rate decrease.