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This is an awful and really ignorant take. The manner in which the problem is “solved” matters a lot, and these AI solutions are about as poorly-done as possible. That a solution exists closes the door on almost any sort of support for finding another, better one, which is the real problem. If this continues, we wind up with a field with no open problems, no practicing mathematicians, no future mathematicians, and no way to come up with new problems (this latter being much more important than solving existing ones, in the main).

I like that you said genocide and not me. But what I like more is enjoying the long slide into irrelevancy of opinions like the one you expressed in your original comment. I look forward to the day we can have constructive discussions about capital investment and migration which feature no mention of such puerile and ignorant notions of ethnicity and nationalism.

Remind us what happened last time Europeans got too obsessed with cultural unity and shared identity?

This hasn't been a remotely reasonable characterization of math since at least Hilbert's time.

Writing that mathematics is a waste is such a hilariously ignorant comment to make on a programming forum.

You’re definitely happily collecting the proceeds of those sins, though, I’m sure.

Were we living in the same city? There were multiple heatwaves in the time I lived there, one so severe that Noe Valley got to 107.

And this isn’t to mention the wildfires or inevitable water issues.

These days, I’ve been separating the poop from the food before I eat it.

Good thing all those roads aren’t planned, built, and maintained by the government!

right, which is why this is a liquidity problem and not a solvency one. The assets cover the liabilities--you just have to wait ten years or whatever.

The liabilities are the same currency and the same amount in 2023 and 2033. They’re solvent.

The asterisk is that the liabilities are generating interest, but this is fine because (one very safely assumes) that’s covered by the interest on the long-duration assets SVB bought.

Once-in-a-century weather patterns happening multiple times per decade, that sort of thing.

> I find that especially important because to every appearance we are a machine learning algorithm.

Speak for yourself.

You might wanna check out some of jason hickel’s writings in the topic. As someone from such a “place with a lot of poverty” I’ve always chafed at the idea that capitalism (and thus colonialism) led to an improvement in living conditions, when really it meant mostly murder and looting.

Competition in its recognizably modern form only recently became the foundational organizational system for civilization, and civilization “won” because (in part) a) it generally has no problem deploying incredible levels of violence and coercion, against people and the environment, and b) it promotes continuous population increase, even beyond what may be sustainable.

There’s about a million places to source this, but I might start with something like James C. Scott.