Nobelium

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It’s more chemical than food.

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It always cracks me up when people cite high obesity rates among the poor in America as a sign of America's economic prowess, as if the poor are gorging themselves daily on cornucopias of raw fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, wholesome grains, beef, seafood, etc.

People are fat in America because they eat hyper-caloric, non-satiating slop designed in labs by multi-billion dollar corporations to be as addictive as possible. Soda, cheetos and ruffles, frozen pizzas and burritos and hot pockets, little debbie cupcakes, chips ahoy, cosmic brownies, and deep fried everything aren't nutritious, but they'll sure as hell make you fat.

AGI = the stage where AI is better than any human at any conceivable intellectual task. That stage is essentially Kitty Hawk for AI; it's ground zero for actually starting to explore just how many areas of existence AI can replace humans in.

Until AGI is achieved, as pretty and neat as AI is, everything it can do today is the paper airplane stage compared to what things will look like 5, 10, 50 years after AGI is reached. Think about the Wright Flyer vs the SR-71.

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He discussed the amounts that tradesmen can earn.

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Can being the operative word there.

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It's a lot.

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Not relative to what you can earn in a lot of other fields.

These threads always revolve around a fundamental misrepresentation of how many of these high-paying trades jobs there are, how difficult it is to get them, the experience and training required, the entry costs to enter those fields and pay out of pocket for tools, classes, certificates, licences, etc, how much of that high pay comes from OT and time and a half, etc, etc, etc. Half of all auto mechanics are making less than $48k and 90% are making less than $78k. Talking about the tiny fraction of auto mechanics who end up comfortably making six figures is like talking about the tiny fraction of high school theater kids who move to New York with $100 to their name and end up on Broadway.

Again, if a guy is such a genius that it's a done deal that he's automatically going to end up being in that 99.9th percentile, why not just go be a neurosurgeon?

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