Which is in some ways very unsurprising: if you’re producing at least as much value as a mid-seniority AppAmaGooBookSoft engineer and you work for ten years, yeah, that should be the expected outcome.
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Software Entrepreneurs’ Long-Term Success: MicroConf Speaker Wealth Analysis
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The tail of outcomes among people I met over the years doing software is very long, but indicatively if one looks at e.g. attendees at speaker’s dinner at MicroConf in like 2012, yeah, about half are multi-millionaires.
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Government Research Funding Structure and Academic Resource Allocation
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Government money pays for *research* not education.
Research money goes to pay for PhD students' stipends, postdoc salaries, summer salaries for professors, equipment, supplies, travel (to scientific conferences), and research facilities provided by the university (through what's -
Africa Bitcoin Institute launches research think tank for policy
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Excited to see the launch of @AfriBitInst (Africa Bitcoin Institute) a think tank that provides research, analysis, and policy recommendations specifically for Africans.
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AI Production Consumption Ratio Expected to Increase Significantly
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could definitely see it; we might see the production : consumption ratio lift a lot as a result of gen ai, bullish!
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API pricing strategy: loss leader to lock-in developers?
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So is the goal to lose money in the short-term, get developers using their APIs, and then right the prices once software companies are dependent?
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Anthropic CEO warns of white-collar job losses from AI
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Anthropic CEO @DarioAmodei sees a white-collar bloodbath unfolding as #AI impacts.
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AGI Ascension: Humanity’s Path to Economic Supremacy
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[ α‑AGI Ascension ] Humanity’s Structured Rise to Economic Supremacy via Strategic AGI Mastery α‑AGI Insight — Beyond Human Foresight – Where human foresight reaches its limits, α‑AGI Insight sees beyond. Humanity stands at the precipice of history’s most
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Algorithms Optimizing Dopamine Hits Cut Out Creators
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I think it's even more dystopian than that. Did it deliver the dopamine hit or not? Algorithms will optimize (as they already are) to deliver a dopamine hit. If algorithms can cut out the middleman (the creator), they will.
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Credit Scoring Systems and Algorithmic Decision-Making Impact
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Given that credit reports are routinely pulled for renting and somewhat less routinely pulled for employment and insurance underwriting, because almost everything correlates, I can understand why someone might think they’re being aggressed upon by having a number scoring them…