I mean, have you looked at prices recently, they’ve already been going up. That’s why they didn’t want to lower the rates, it’s only going to accelerate inflation that’s been creeping up due to tarrifs.

I’m sure someone out there is running something on paper still, but that’s not how most things are run.

Additionally, unless people are legally required to do all exchanges on the public ledger (which seems highly unlikely), then you’d still end up with transactions not monitored on the public ledger.

I mean, you can only gouge so much. Sure groceries and essentials can do crazy things, but people stop buying stuff when they have no money/job.

I mean, we’re hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we’ve probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.

This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.

Is that finished or still ongoing?

How does a regular database not do that?

Either it’s tracked or its not, the medium for that tracking doesn’t really change much.

I think it’s a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.

However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.

For your first question, I think the average person would benefit from a simple digital currency that let’s them exchange “cash” without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Venmo, Zelle, etc. are all proof that normal people want easy ways to pay each other.

As for your second point, I’m not sure I follow. But I assume you’re implying that crypto is better because it isn’t tied to the state?

So I’ve been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don’t understand why anyone would care about them. And what I’ve come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:

• Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can’t do with actual dollars/currency
• People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it’s easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency

At the end of the day, it feels like a “true” digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they’re here now and less regulated.

I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.

Edit: Edited to fix formatting.

I think it’s also one of the best DS games. They somehow packed the full fight experience into the DS and I don’t know why it wasn’t a bigger game.

We definitely haven’t cracked AGI, that’s without a doubt.

But yeah, LLMs are big (I’d say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven’t run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.

That’s the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.

The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.

I think we may see an agentic AI winter, but there are so many other applications and systems that can benefit from deep learning still.

It’s hard for me to think of one as many artists may come out with a couple political songs, but it isn’t necessarily their whole discography.

Macklemore and Childish Gambino come to mind for me as both have had political songs and somewhat politically active.

Haha, yeah… temporary.

The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.

As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.

Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.

Edit: My point being that the market shrunk before GPUs became so critical. To counteract Nvidias stranglehold, a lot of big tech companies are creating custom TPUs (Tensor processing units) which are just ML/AI specific chips.

Yeah, but that doesn’t help if you can’t make apps that support the hosted services. Google is trying to have complete ownership of what runs on your phone.

There are laws about how to handle PII and potential criminal charges based on things like the Privacy Act. Meaning there are additional requirements above and beyond how people normally store data on a system.

More requirements = More chances to mess up

I think the line “how does handling PII make it easier to mess things up” just about sums things up for me.

While AWS/Azure do make the initial configs rather fool proof, that falls apart the moment you start configuring them for actual use. It’s also especially easy to mess things up when handling PII, at the SSA level it’s probably something that DOGE staff don’t have experience with.

As for vaccines. Largely through that out there cause it seemed like obvious bait for you, but I don’t think a single slogan “my choice my body” really encapsulates the arguments around abortion