iron_albatross

That’s fair. I guess I’m also thinking that whatever new kinds of intellectual work that arise from the introduction of AI could be also done by AI. But maybe this comes from a lack of imagination again.

When thinking about these valuations, shouldn’t we try to quantify how much knowledge work becomes obsolete if other knowledge workers are automated? I.e. there are a huge amount of knowledge workers employed in businesses that create tools for other knowledge workers. AI won’t automate their work, those businesses will just cease to exist.

And then there’s the second order effect: if all the knowledge workers get automated, who is going to buy the stuff that’s produced?

How does this happen in practice? Wouldn’t the privately funded news companies still cover the story? Or are all the news companies publicly funded?

Are there some dog whistles in your comment and its parent? If not then could you restate your point more clearly, it’s not immediately apparent what you’re talking about.

On the other hand, these are markets, right? Your ability to make profit is limited by the available liquidity. I wonder, if enough people get burned by insider trading, will liquidity dry up? At the same time, I suppose you don’t need that much volume to make a decent amount of money. And these platforms keep growing…

Does anyone else just work backwards from the nutritional information? The pasta that I get has the calories per 100g of dry pasta. So I just weigh out the amount of pasta that yields a reasonable amount of calories for a meal (taking into account an estimate of the calories contributed by the components of the sauce I’m making).

I get what you mean, it’s hard to retrofit/force this concept on low density, car dependent suburban sprawl.

But I’m not sure if I understand the conflation of 15 min cities and covid lockdowns? I don’t think any government would want its people to be permanently geofenced to 15 minute bubbles, this would absolutely kill commerce.

I’d argue that any sufficiently dense city is naturally a 15 minute city, and tens of millions of people (including myself) live in them. For example: in New York, Tokyo, London etc. one can feasibly access all the amenities they need within a “15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride”.

The key thing is that these cities developed this way organically. There is nothing stopping me leaving my 15 minute radius if I want to, and I regularly do.