Narcissists date people that have physical features they see in themselves.

This is all downstream of people not giving a shit about what they do.

It’s not about AI. If it wasn’t AI, it would be some other convenience.

There are a myriad of reasons why people generally give less of a shit now, that we can all opine about, but that is ultimately what has to change.

Nobody was talking about repatriation.

It’s kind of wild seeing American soft power evaporate like this. I didn’t think it was the kind of thing that would happen in my lifetime.

Funny how that happened, isn’t it?

How what happened? How everyone stopped having cutting edge graphics cards in all their devices? Most people have never been in a position to be able to do local inference on cutting edge models.

Because the more we reject our shared reality and substitute it with each our own, the less humane we become.

The AVP is primarily an AR device, not VR.

God forbid a person rejects the shared reality of a boring 12 hour flight and substitutes it with their own. Some real deep thoughts here

I’ve met some very interesting people on flights. I’ve done some great work. I’ve had some great ideas.

Don’t be so scared of variety. You just keep subjecting yourself to more of the same. The unending familiarity makes you dull.

You have it backwards. The person didn’t change, they were always like that, long before money. Our system selects for them and rewards them, and when they attain those rewards they use them to further express themselves as the person they always were.

This is the truth of the matter - everyone else got off the train at millions or a small billion; the only people who ride it all the way to trillions are the pathologies.

We used to say the pathologies were the ones who made it to a billion! Times change. :)

Quite often money is equated with intelligence and with time people want their opinion on everything under the sun - especially on things outside their area. With time so much smoke has been blown up their ass that they think they are better than everyone and can get away with mistreating people. Money does impact people.

This.

Directors of small companies are the same, they're just not wealthy enough that they could do any harm.

Good point well made.

Unaffordable housing turns entrepreneurship into a rare privilege.

Whether you think that’s a good thing or not depends on whether you _actually_ believe in meritocracy or not. I’ve found most people don’t believe in it as much as they say they do.

Which kind of meritocracy - the original definition that points out that “merit” is a function of wealth and social advantage, or today’s sanitized version that attributes merit to achievement while ignoring all the advantages that lead to ahievement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

2007 called they want their free-market philosophy back.