krickkrack
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Comment · 3 years ago
Good.
Comment · 3 years ago
thumbs up
Also it does not appear on the front page any longer (but that is where I saw it).
Comment · 3 years ago
What faith? I never made the claim you're attributing to me. Smug idiots like you are wrong all the time.
Comment · 3 years ago
"Nobody knows how we think, yet."
Then how can you confidently say we don't think 'like' Transformers/Attention/Statistical models/etc/etc?
Comment · 3 years ago
I read this and can't help but chuckle... To say that we are nowhere being able to have AGI is quite a bold statement. It was after all only a few months ago where many people also believed we were a long way away from ChatGPT-4.
The confidence with which you think we are not weighted transformers or statistical inference models is also puzzling. How could you possibly know that? How do you know that that's not precisely what we are, or something immediately tangent to that?
Perhaps if you keep going you do get something that begins to have feeling, religion and understand that it's a self and perhaps that's precisely what happened to humans.
Comment · 4 years ago
Employees can and do work part-time. What a silly 'diss' lol.
Comment · 4 years ago
For an employer the fix is simple: Each year fire the 10,20,30% least productive employees.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow... So like magic? Why aren't all successful businesses already doing this if they can get more productivity for less time?
Comment · 4 years ago
If workers were more productive working less hours you wouldn't need the government to do anything - businesses acting in their own interests would do this automatically.
The government doesn't know how to run businesses better than the businesses themselves.
Comment · 4 years ago
As an employer there are plenty of jobs that I would be perfectly fine allowing the employee to work 20% less, as long as they cost me 20% less.
Comment · 5 years ago
>There's a particular problem with that hypothesis:
>> Over the past 5 years, single-family home prices are up 150% in London-St. Thomas [Ontario], but down in Regina. They've barely budged in Edmonton. Monetary policy provides no explanation for that phenomenon.
In the short term effects other than those caused by monetary policy can be overwhelming (e.g., London-St.Thomas, has had a huge influx of people from Toronto over the last 5 years that would have driven up prices regardless of whatever the monetary policy may be). But this doesn't change the fact that the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power and that the average house price in the 1930s used to be 1X the average yearly salary, whereas now it's 12x.
Comment · 5 years ago
I understand that this is the narrative, but show me what markets specifically. Even if ownership is 10%. That means 90% of homes that are bought and sold are NOT to foreigners.
The fact is that inflation has eroded away the value of $$ and houses that should cost $50,000 now cost $700k.
Comment · 5 years ago
Typical - print 100s of billions, when assets inflate blame x, y or z.
How about Justin explains how foreigners owning 2% of homes in Canada has ANY impact whatsoever on prices?
Comment · 5 years ago
It's interesting to me that, generally speaking, both Uber and it's drivers are fine with the way things are, entering into a mutually agreed upon contract...
Only to have people who have no skin in the game tell them both what they have to do... because it's 'the right thing'.