3) Not surprising that money is the only one of those increasing. So many jobs are under threat, and the future has gotten so ridiculously uncertain, that many feel the need to get as much as they can. I would be the same way. The Boomers had the so-called “job for life”, which went by the wayside for my generation. That’s the price of progress, and it keeps speeding up.
9) This true, but we (I’m “Gen X”, but I hate these generational buckets) had at least an order of magnitude more buying power. I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse, and that’s tragic.
The real question is, how do the younger people at least keep up with the pace of change? Constantly learning and being infinitely more adaptable to the earlier generations.
Correction: “infinitely more adaptable THAN earlier generations”. At 39, I’m guessing you are completely engulfed in the most uncertain world I’ve ever seen. There’s always a path, no matter what’s going on. I’m not assuming anything, you seem like quite a thoughtful and informed man. Nice job, interesting.
It’s just the way the market has evolved Grant. IMO it’s just going to get much more uncertain, and that’s likely an understatement. Free thought, creativity, and communication are the new sought-after commodities, along with, at the least, managing AI. Those who don’t will get steamrolled (most people hopefully see that fact). Been studying it more some months and immediately saw the immense power; starting a company with significant AI components. Thanks
#20 - culture - about how social media polarizes and AI nudges people toward the political center. Fascinating. Another takeaway from that is how malleable we are… if the tech bros decide to nudge us in any particular direction, they absolutely can affect the political direction of the country. Harrowing times.
I read this as AI chats must be more moderate because the model works on finding and delivering averages. AI is not capable of divergent thought / opinion because that is antithetical to the very essence of how it operates. So, is it that we are malleable to the chatbot or is the chatbot malleable to converge on the average of fat tailed radical stances?
What I was trying to get at on #20 - culture - is that there's a few hundred LLM models across the major AI labs (not including open-source models). Which means we're becoming increasingly reliant on the same subset of pre-training, post-training, and inference to generate (and interpret!) the written word.
Every human has a lifetime of unique experiences leading to unique interpretations of the semantic meaning of every word you read. We're becoming increasingly reliant on the 'interpretation' of the pre-training, post-training, and inference of a few hundred large language models of the AI labs.
My theory is that by pushing reading & writing through the 'filter' of LLM's, we get a increasingly narrow interpretation of reality as a collective - and in the worst case scenario - total knowledge collapse.
3) Not surprising that money is the only one of those increasing. So many jobs are under threat, and the future has gotten so ridiculously uncertain, that many feel the need to get as much as they can. I would be the same way. The Boomers had the so-called “job for life”, which went by the wayside for my generation. That’s the price of progress, and it keeps speeding up.
9) This true, but we (I’m “Gen X”, but I hate these generational buckets) had at least an order of magnitude more buying power. I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse, and that’s tragic.
The real question is, how do the younger people at least keep up with the pace of change? Constantly learning and being infinitely more adaptable to the earlier generations.
I was born in 1997, so I’m smack between millennial and Gen Z
Imo but the job market is tough, but the competition is weak.
theres a world a lot of opportunity available to anyone willing to put their phone away for a few hours to learn new things
Correction: “infinitely more adaptable THAN earlier generations”. At 39, I’m guessing you are completely engulfed in the most uncertain world I’ve ever seen. There’s always a path, no matter what’s going on. I’m not assuming anything, you seem like quite a thoughtful and informed man. Nice job, interesting.
Thank you sir 🫡 and thank you for reading! I really value the thoughtful discussion
Today’s economy is bananas. What’s new!?
It’s just the way the market has evolved Grant. IMO it’s just going to get much more uncertain, and that’s likely an understatement. Free thought, creativity, and communication are the new sought-after commodities, along with, at the least, managing AI. Those who don’t will get steamrolled (most people hopefully see that fact). Been studying it more some months and immediately saw the immense power; starting a company with significant AI components. Thanks
#20 - culture - about how social media polarizes and AI nudges people toward the political center. Fascinating. Another takeaway from that is how malleable we are… if the tech bros decide to nudge us in any particular direction, they absolutely can affect the political direction of the country. Harrowing times.
I read this as AI chats must be more moderate because the model works on finding and delivering averages. AI is not capable of divergent thought / opinion because that is antithetical to the very essence of how it operates. So, is it that we are malleable to the chatbot or is the chatbot malleable to converge on the average of fat tailed radical stances?
Very thought provoking discussion guys.
What I was trying to get at on #20 - culture - is that there's a few hundred LLM models across the major AI labs (not including open-source models). Which means we're becoming increasingly reliant on the same subset of pre-training, post-training, and inference to generate (and interpret!) the written word.
Every human has a lifetime of unique experiences leading to unique interpretations of the semantic meaning of every word you read. We're becoming increasingly reliant on the 'interpretation' of the pre-training, post-training, and inference of a few hundred large language models of the AI labs.
My theory is that by pushing reading & writing through the 'filter' of LLM's, we get a increasingly narrow interpretation of reality as a collective - and in the worst case scenario - total knowledge collapse.