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I don’t know about metrics, but everything is way more expensive in my city comparing to pre-Covid time. I’m not talking about CPI level inflation but way more than that, which is definitely not normal.

And that boom? Well it’s so hard to find jobs across the board, not just IT, but including trades people too.

Selling shovels is definitely more profitable, less risky and easier than using it to earn money.

I did read from HN someone from Spain said that the system crashed very often that they had to rely on humans frequently.

I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.

That’s the deal. You are asking the hand to tax itself and for sure it’s going to make sure the rest of the body feels the pain.

That’s why it is extremely difficult to make even modest improvements in a dug-in system.

Tech is the least important thing even for a tech company. Unless you are a 10x better than anyone else in the game. This did happen once for a while but you can do it without AI anyway — and probably better for you because it’s a lot more difficult to copy yours. However, hardware oriented companies may be the outliers.

The ability to rent cheap AI capacities, the ability to push to a million consumers, the ability to persuade for large contracts, these are the most important ones.

Probably because you are self employed.

It shows 13 mins ago for me.

Oh that's for sure, I thought OP means literally living in a forest like people a few hundred years ago.

Actually, in the small towns that I described in my reply, people live in homes exactly like yours -- they don't have city sanitary pipelines so they use septic tanks.

I actually don't know about trash! Thanks for reminding me. And I agree with the food part, although I'll probably cook mine.

Long term? Definitely a No because nature is pretty harsh and we spent a few millennia to get out of it. Most common people are not fit or rich enough to live in a forest.

Short term? Yes that’s interesting. Maybe a couple of weeks in a cabin or something. I don’t mind chopping woods to make firewood but I need managed sanitary.

A good middle ground is to live in a small town bordering the wilderness. I’d like to live in some town that neighbours a forest and is about an hour from the sea.

I still have the luxury of reviewing every line of code. I still try to understand every piece of code AI writes —- and if I don’t I tell the stakeholders that part of this piece of business logic (in my domain it’s always the business logic that is too complicated, e.g. four layers of CASE WHEN THEN ELSE END) is better to be pushed to the next layer so that each layer is simple enough.

But if it’s someone else’s code then I don’t care much. Some people push 5K lines of code every day and there is no way I’m gonna look at any of that.

For my own project I do the reverse — AI designs the architecture and the steps to follow, and I implement. I always love the role of a senior engineer who takes a design and implement.

I’d say find like minded people in your local and befriend with them. Going go into the cave does push away whatever you don’t want to see, but leaves you with resentment that is unhealthy.

Get into offline meetings and promote your ideas. Give your voice to the locals as well as the online communities.

Other than literacy and Math, I’d say, if you are capable, and is willing, teach them about everything that involves some manual labor.

DIY, homesteading, animal husbandry, electronics repairs, survival skills, cooking, whatever that cannot be easily automated.

Also teach them weapon handling, surveying, map reading, ham radio.

Their propaganda is that they care so the point is that the other guys don’t care so people flock to someone who says they genuinely care. It’s hard to fix the economy so I don’t think anyone can fix it. And as history shows again and again I think whoever gets the government is going to sleep with the big corps anyway.

Exactly. The establishment doesn’t care about the people and wave them off, so populist parties took the advantage. This happened before and will happen again.