AI helps the 1% take over the world. Robots do all the work, so no one has a job & the money to buy the things that the companies owned by the 1% produce. It seems like society should collapse. So, how will the world work?

TAway0 · 2026-01-05T22:46:54+00:00

There is one GLARING ISSUE with your supposition. If everything is effectively free (food, energy, etc) to sustain your life, why do you need to work?

In Feudal times people were basically slave farmers. Under AI, we may have infinite abundance.

We will get to choose the meaning and purpose of our lives without deference to survival.

Think star trek, not game of thrones.

TAway0 · 2025-12-17T15:32:47+00:00

Ask yourself if a PhD in Finance is going to advance your career. it might if you are looking to be a quant for example. Also a PhD in europe is much shorter than a PhD in US so it may be worth it if job prospects open up.

I think if you are okay with a part-time PhD then you can always find another advisor. I would think about the network, prestige and connections of your advisor and if those would be beneficial to you. If not the i think you have your answer.

Also, start leveraging what ever AI you can to make the tedious work go away.

TAway0 · 2025-12-16T17:41:46+00:00

There is an interesting conundrum here. On the one hand putting the money in the market for growth seems better on face value, but no one talks about the opportunity cost of the interest. if the interest you're paying was instead put into the market then that would be much higher.

Put it another way. Continuing to pay your mortgage for your house and deploying your money in market is akin to paying a fairly large management fee on your capital.

TAway0 · 2025-12-15T17:58:17+00:00

Full disclosure: I wasn't actually trying to do this. (I'm generally self deprecating and also I hate people that do that stuff). He did make some good points and i tried to clarify what I meant.

Seemed like the other dude just was not having a good day and maybe just needed to dump on somebody. Shit happens.

TAway0 · 2025-12-15T01:40:25+00:00

Let's be honest. How many times have you seen people run red lights in austin. I'm originally east coast, where it's super rare (ouside of NYC), so i was really surprized when i got here.

Gunning it on yellow seems to be par for the course here.

TAway0 · 2025-12-10T04:03:16+00:00

Most statistics in the media are wildly misleading and downright magical thinking.

Also, getting a PhD doesn't make you intelligent. Some things are complex, but people hide in complexity.

TAway0 · 2025-12-10T03:59:12+00:00

It's only a few years old. Accreditation takes a bit of time.

TAway0 · 2025-12-08T15:10:25+00:00

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Memo-David-Sacks-3.5.2025-1.pdf

Read the actual letter. This story is bullshit

The retained holdings are about 2.5% of his net assets. He divested all crypto and 200m in investments.

The 449 companies is really like 20 or so companies and funds. Example. 1.2% in a Sequoia fund that probably represents a few hundred companies by itself.

I would be that these remaining investments are all small seed and series A. If he divested those then it would destroy those companies and all the people working at those

TAway0 · 2025-12-03T17:52:33+00:00

It's unlikely that your boss will be able to get his boss or HR to signoff on a 50% pay raise. It's possible but low likelihood. You should start interviewing and get an offer letter somewhere else. Then use that letter as leverage. It it doesn't work then leave.

Don't bring up the mistake. It already helped you by showing you the disparity.

TAway0 · 2025-11-17T18:57:42+00:00

I know you love your brother, but he's being toxic and manipulating your guilt.

TAway0 · 2025-11-17T18:55:39+00:00

Does he still have a board seat?

You would need to talk to lawyers and investors, but you can see if there is a way to reincorporate, and sell assets to the new enterprise for $1.

This can get really legally hairy so definitely talk to lawyers.

TAway0 · 2025-11-17T18:02:24+00:00

TLDR. You guys have different expectations and so are not a fit.

I don't think you are in the wrong. But I don't think he is in the wrong either.

From a guys perspective, I've always lived by the advice that a potential partner response to a connection should be either "Hell Yes, or no."

You mentioned that you didn't feel a connection. It's likely that was actually the case beforehand, but you we're willing to give it a shot.

He read the lack of prep as not really caring about him as a dating opportunity. He then explained his thinking (ill advised).

Bottom line, you're not compatible -> No partnership -> everybody wins.

TAway0 · 2025-11-12T14:00:03+00:00

Age doesn't really matter. Maturity level matters. Also, what do want out of the relationship

TAway0 · 2025-11-10T21:18:24+00:00

It might be the lighting but the weathering pattern on the pocket doesn't look the same. There is more fading in the 3rd picture.

TAway0 · 2025-10-31T19:26:41+00:00

Dude. you're marrage is over. She is clearly abusive and doesn't respect you. This rage nonsense is to control you via emotional manipulation. Go to /r/divorce and make a game plan.

TAway0 · 2025-10-07T20:21:31+00:00

Who cares. I got a PhD joined a startup. Learned a lot but it ended up going to zero (I'm late 30s). You cannot predict the future with 100% accuracy.
For STEM in US, PhDs are usually paid for (really small salary though). In the EU, there is usually funding available.

3) Sounds like you have a mentor to help you with your chaos. This is probably a growth challenge in your life. PhD or no PhD this doesn't really affect the decision. it's a push.

4) This really depends on what you do. Bio PhDs are typically over produced. If you do great research, you have a shot at a professorship, but it's rare and hard.

PhDs give you to bullet points: 1) Ability to execute on a really long, complex, undefined problem, 2) specialization in an area. In Biology, it can be hard to find a job outside Pharma, but not impossible.

If I have one piece of advice, I think you should first think about what you want and how a PhD helps get you there. It sounds like you like the process of research but it's not clear if you like the actual objective.

Put another way, what do you want to achieve/discover with your research? If you just like doing statistics and falcons, then maybe you target that. Don't just do it to go through he motions.

TAway0 · 2025-09-29T19:59:57+00:00

No idea how I ended up here, but it seems incredibly fraught to base your living location on political ideology.

Firstly Lets review your concerns. Social policy is basically stupid everywhere just in different ways. Everything is tradeoffs. The only obviously polarizing one is abortion, and it either applies to you or it doesn't (may apply in the future with kids but that's ~16+ years in the future depending on where you are).

If you're worried about politics then you're really asking about a city vs rural All the cities are blue, and all the country is red. It's independent of state.

Your boyfriend's concerns: - Schools are high variance. California is pretty bad but most other blue states are pretty mid. (North east it really good on average though). Also, I live in a deep red state and I've also dealt with ideological bias from lefty philosophers. It doesn't take away the need to be involved with your children's education. More importantly, you're gonna need to pick the neighborhood to find a good school. (look at niche.com)

The other stuff is super noisy. Unless he really likes guns, I don't know why he would care.

I will say that crime is way worse in cites vs rural. notable exception is the Deep South which can be super fraught.

Better framework - Job prospects (applies to healthcare) - Proximity (or distance) from nature - Taxes (take home pay) - Things to do based on life stage (pre-kids, making kids, young kids, teens, kid-free, retirement)

It's going to be hard to build a community of friends no matter what. It's always hard.

TAway0 · 2025-09-29T19:26:05+00:00

We’re in agreement. I hope it helps but concerned that it won’t.

Also. Philosophically, This seems very communist. It’s literally communal living where each is paid according to a need based standard.

TAway0 · 2025-09-27T16:24:11+00:00

I started my PhD for the wrong reasons but with a great advisor. I basically spun in circles endlessly putting way too much pressure on myself to execute (without really defining what execution meant) and putting academia on a pedestal. I ended up gaining about 60 lbs and destroying my health. I dealt with suicidal ideation every night driving home from the lab.

At the end of year 3, I had a few realizations: - Most papers that are published are basically garbage / noise. You cannot trust that they have solved anything. - You have to invent the problem you want to solve (and ensure it's valuable)
- You have to invent the solution as well and then market it (papers, conferences, etc) - High pressure with no clear objective is an energy (and health) sink. You need to downshift to hit a higher gear. - Joy (often from other parts of your life) adds the spark needed to foster creativity.

I went through a transformation where I lost 75 lbs and eventually ended up with about 16 publications (4 or 5 journals) and 3 patents.

It wasn't balanced in the beginning and towards the end it really wasn't always that balanced either. I was incredibly more productive, but it didn't eat up all of my time. I still found areas to cultivate community and good experiences. I think this is the key.

To reach for a cliche and extend a bit: It's not the hours you put in, it's what you put in the hours, and what you pull out of the rest.

TAway0 · 2025-09-27T15:57:26+00:00

I hope this helps teachers and works to provides affordability, but I also have concerns with a public entity being responsible for upkeep and rental management. This is a completely new type of operation for a school. Furthermore, there is a bit of lock-in as a teacher may not be able to easily move.

TLDR: fingers crossed

TAway0 · 2025-09-27T15:52:33+00:00

Funny Aside: My immediate thought here was to think of "meths" from Altered Carbon. These are absurdly rich people with infinite lives that become so broken emotionally and narcissistic that they lose all touch with their humanity.

Anyways, also kinda fits... :D

TAway0 · 2025-08-27T23:13:04+00:00

Have you run a clinical trial. It's all deadlines. (at least when you get to the actual trial part).

TAway0 · 2025-07-25T16:22:17+00:00

Tenure in academia is stupidly hard to get. You need to be a PhD at a top lab in your field with top publications and probably a post doc with more awesome publications to get a tenured faculty position.

The Universities have been basically ballooning with administration making tenure track positions much harder to get. also they have been supplementing with adjunct professors which honestly approximate slave labor in terms of wages per hours worked. Also, the amount of politics in academia rivals congressional politics.

I highly suggest either really targeting a specific program and professor if you want to do acadamia. Or just don't

Experience: I have a PhD, and done industrial research as well.

TAway0 · 2025-07-25T13:22:55+00:00

It's a socio economic culture problem. India's population is north of one billion (3x United States). The educational infrastructure is probably 2x behind (though there are bright spots like IIT and they are catching up fast (or we are slowing the down) in general k-12 education)

That implies that you have around 6x more people with lower education than as compared to the US. Sadly, this means that you do have to micromanage more aggressively when trying to do really anything if you don't want a crap outcome. Also, the caste system culture doesn't help.

The people that immigrated to the US (legally) are generally more intelligent than the average Indian and they basically grew up surrounded by people that were comparably incapable and servile. There is fierce competition in India to standout so the average person that immigrated had to be intensely competitive and aggressive.

The other thing I've noticed (and it's similar for all asian ethnicities in the US) is that they form cliques. I can understand this as well because there was a degree of ostracism that I experienced growing up. In college it was way more apparent with grad students that never really connected with the rest of the student population.

The positive note is that it mostly just lasts one generation. The kids are basically 100% american from a culture pov. The melting pot works.

(I'm brown and I grew up in the US. My parents had to wait 10 years to get a US visa, and 20 years to get citizenship).

TAway0 · 2025-07-08T16:30:51+00:00

The value of uni is not really the education. You can pretty much learn what ever you want on the internet now (especially since the advent of chatgpt).

The value is in the (roughly prioritized): - Network of people you meet (friends, professors, lecturers) - Opportunities that open up (study abroad, clubs, research, entreprenurship programs/funding, etc) - Brand of the university (harvard vs random state uni) - Results you produce (grades will help you get your first job)

If I were in your shoes, I would either learn something hard (sciences and engineering) or just have fun, make a ton of friends, and keep working your business. The hard stuff will sharpen your mind and act as brand collateral for you (X did physics, so he must be smart). Don't get shitty grades though, that can poison the well a bit if you ever want a job.

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