ljw1001

Everyone is less valuable than they think, especially in a tech startup

We don’t really know how harmful this stuff will be, but we’ll keep on making it more powerful (and keep on bragging about it) until we find out.

If you don’t consider the difference in kind between a human vulnerability and an automated vulnerability that derives from the essentially unlimited capacity of the latter to scale, your comment makes a lot of sense. If you do consider that, the argument becomes irrelevant and deeply misleading

Exactly. Only an amateur criminal steals from the rich.

It’s a “full” capability they’re incapable of delivering. It’s really hard to see how your distinction has any meaning.

You lost me at calling AI an “advance”. I think that’s a speculative statement that has yet to earn the positive bias it entails.

How many? So many. And that’s not just my opinion; it’s my strongly held opinion

Everything that matters, including how much money you have, but more importantly when you and the people you love become sick or die accidentally is governed by chance.

If you think money gets you a pass, maybe recheck your understanding of the issues and the stoic solution. The shallow packaged version produced by Ryan Holiday isn’t a good source

Given that the mean salary at google is probably driven by people making 7 or 8 figures, I’m going to suggest that laying off 10,000 people will not change that one bit

What is the average salary at TCI?

Yeah. Or Ma Bell

I think the fair comparison is: if you’re living someplace with any given level of economic opportunity (and the other things you mention) would you be happier if it was on the water than if it was not.

It seems for you the answer is no, but that’s not necessarily the typical response.

I suspect it’s because they have a near monopoly in high-quality, next-gen sequencing. They’re trying to grow the market for their machines rather than take business from a competitor.

What’s your evidence for massive interest in business markets? I use a quest for gaming, but find the idea of interacting with colleagues for corporate stuff to be just hideous.