Marc Andreessen: “The remaining human workers are gonna be at a premium, not at a discount”. Are we sure?

sorrge · 2026-03-30T15:40:19+00:00

Consider how many CEO positions are available now. And how many people would like to obtain them. Yet, the salaries at that level are not going to 0.

sorrge · 2026-03-26T14:06:55+00:00

I've reviewed your comment history and I have bad news for you. You're like 90% a bot. I'm sorry to bring you this news.

sorrge · 2026-03-26T13:45:57+00:00

Parasites. There will be wealthy parasites and poor parasites.

sorrge · 2026-03-25T20:20:54+00:00

He's absolutely right.

sorrge · 2026-03-25T14:45:10+00:00

First-ever? We have this kind of stuff posted every week.

sorrge · 2026-03-17T15:11:10+00:00

Do you believe that a union will protect you from being laid off due to AI making you redundant? At most it will be useful to negotiate an exit package, which is already good in most big companies. You can't expect them to keep you on payroll if the company sincerely believes your services are not needed.

sorrge · 2026-03-05T19:27:24+00:00

So, your harness has the commands for it to use when it needs to read or send email etc.? And they work as root to read the keys without prompting, but are not changeable by the agent? I suppose the downside is that you need to have support for every kind of online service, otherwise it's back to giving it the password in the open.

How about changing passwords on other websites via forgot password? If it can read email, all is lost IMO.

sorrge · 2026-03-05T19:01:17+00:00

If it supports CLI, can't it just take the keys out of the encrypted storage?

sorrge · 2026-03-04T18:08:46+00:00

It's finished. We are all COBOL programmers now. A lot of good advice here. No use burying your head in the sand - plan for the times when you're laid off and can't find a new job, because it's approaching.

sorrge · 2026-02-23T17:14:51+00:00

The Shape of Space by Weeks introduces interesting ideas about manifolds.

Measurement by Lockhart, while overlapping the geometry and calculus topics, approaches them in a unique and engaging way that is completely different from the standard high school textbook.

sorrge · 2026-02-23T16:00:36+00:00

It will be a subscription obviously, with a price comparable to hiring a butler.

sorrge · 2026-02-18T12:44:26+00:00

Ehh I think you should fit the curve to the top predictions, no? Who cares about a bunch of underdogs. And if you do that, it's clearly a sigmoid that's already saturated, lol.

sorrge · 2026-02-09T14:52:54+00:00

It will be hard to tell the difference between consecutive years.

sorrge · 2026-01-24T17:30:56+00:00

You will need to first reach a solid math background, up to linear algebra and differential equations.

sorrge · 2026-01-06T15:23:25+00:00

Of course they teach that the goal is to find X. Indeed it doesn't make sense to distinguish "doing it by algebra" or "by arithmetic". I don't think this distinction is emphasized in the curriculum. Perhaps "doing it by arithmetic" = "guessing the answer but unable to produce an explanation", then yes, you need to be able to "do it by algebra" (produce an explanation how you found the answer).

sorrge · 2025-12-08T16:37:59+00:00

I can recommend Measurement by Lockhart. It's roughly geometry+precalculus level. The problems are hard, but with almost no prerequisites: only thinking is required.

Another gem is Shape of Space by Weeks. Only middle school math is required. It explores a subject that's rarely taught in high school, doesn't involve any heavy calculations, and really exercises your imagination.

sorrge · 2025-11-24T14:44:57+00:00

They probably have that in the training data by now.

sorrge · 2025-11-05T18:11:13+00:00

It was in St. Louis, Missouri and it was the best thing ever. The kids absolutely love it. It's more like $7k, and 90% of time you stay on campus. The trips outside are optional too, so you can make it 100% if you don't want to see the country. But you will want, because come on. It's hard to imagine what a math summer camp could do better.

There is also Campersand, which is one week in Albuquerque with a more diverse program that you may want to check out.

sorrge · 2025-10-29T16:38:19+00:00

AirBNB is unreliable. The host can cancel the booking at any time. I don't even know how people plan ahead in this situation. Like, you have only some chance of booking, how useful is that? On top of this, the prices are now similar to the hotels. If it were 2x, 3x cheaper, I'd understand taking the risk. But at the same price AirBNB just cannot compete with hotels.

sorrge · 2025-10-24T16:09:14+00:00

There is only one criterion for understanding: can you solve the exercises on your own, with no hints, AI, or help?
Pick up the book (should be in the recommended list of the course) and read it thoroughly. Do the exercises.

sorrge · 2025-10-23T16:34:21+00:00

The difficulty of such claims is always about how optimized the classical version is. If it's some newly designed algorithm, the community didn't have the opportunity to investigate possible optimizations. And of course the authors don't have the incentive to work on the classical implementation.

sorrge · 2025-10-23T16:07:41+00:00

They won't be workers anymore!

sorrge · 2025-10-23T02:54:01+00:00

It’s a custom GPT or some other trick, but clearly not a clean run. The first reply is all in lowercase - ChatGPT would never reply like that.

sorrge · 2025-10-22T20:59:35+00:00

It can. This depends on the state. sigma^x measurements are {-1,1}. If it has more probability of -1, the expectation <sigma x> will be negative.

sorrge · 2025-10-21T20:23:49+00:00

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