tag > Economics
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"Boomers are going to move into assisted living retirement communities owned by private equity, and all this wealth will be completely stripped out of the population."
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Why did opium production in Afghanistan fall by 99% after the US military left?
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In a society where 98% of the means of production are fully automated, what will people do with their time?
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"Remembering when jack clark and friends included the *complete* alibaba IPO as funding for ai along with a random china electric car company and the sale of ARM to nvidia (which never happened?!)"
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I'm fortunate to have many musicians as friends. Most of them are deeply worried about the impending AI-generated music wave. As practitioners in this field, we bear a responsibility to take this seriously & focus on creating tools that empower musicians, rather than replace them
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Auto-GPT - "a program, driven by GPT-4, that autonomously develops and manages businesses to increase net worth" This concept has been tried in the shadows of giants for years, with remarkable resources at play. Good to see it as open source.
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That a machine learning engineer straight out of school with 0 practical experience earns 10x more income than a Midwife or Nurse with years of experience helping people in critical situations, is a testament to the extreme vulgar stupidity that defines the late capitalist economy.
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Son: Dad, I'm considering a career in organized crime. Dad: Goverment or private Sector?
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Silk Road
From Samarkand to Venice, from Bukhara to Guangzhou, from Palmyra to Alexandria, from the Karakoram to the Hindu Kush - the old and new Silk Road is an important and fascinating economic, political, cultural and religious phenomenon.
