Well well how to turn tables..

> they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.

I do not get it. So what if they get there "first"? OpenAI will get there in 3-6 months, China will get there in a year or less. As seen with Opus/Fable.

That is why it is not a "List of things you can have tomorrow" but a "Luxury list".

When you have time, health and no stress - that is the luxury OP is talking about.

You don't even need to make more money if you have all those things. If you know your health is insured and you are healthy, you have a decent place where you can feel safe and sleep until late mornings and you do not have to worry about how much food costs - you basically live like a king.

These are rhetorical tricks. Mate I see what you mean, but honestly, the article was just the usual useless old man's talk. I'm glad he is posting on the internet, but it was a useless post.

Jobs will be a luxury soon, if they aren't already. Sure, dead-end jobs aren't a luxury, but they're basically life support - or rather to say existence support.

I live in a country with single-payer healthcare, which some Americans dream so much. If I don't have a job, I'm pretty much screwed - I won't have health insurance. I'm glad I'm healthy, not stupid and not lazy, but single-payer doesn't help that much with life luxuries as you think. To have a place to sleep and not have to worry you need a job - and unless you inherited that place you'll have to work hard for years without the luxuries the old chap talks about anyway. Those are just old man's useless ramblings. I'm sorry, but they are.

I love how comments that point the strong and proven connection of the OP to the Epstein islands are either dead, flagged or removed.

You might be on to something here.

That particular post went well past that, into both personal attack and racism. It was very properly flagged to death.

Man you are a real defender of the honour the wealthy elite.

I'll upgrade M3 Air only when Mx Pro/Ultra can run Opus level perf locally. Otherwise what's the point.

ASM is still used in some areas, such as:

1. function trampolines, such as in libraries like ATL (Microsoft's COM template library);

2. hand-optimized encoders/decoders for things like ffmpeg;

3. niche applications such as Ben Eater's 6502 breadboard computer (using a modified WozMon and Microsoft BASIC);

4. reading ASM output from C/C++ code in things like the GodBolt site for performance comparisons/analysis;

5. reverse engineering old DOS games;

6. people working on things like compilers (generating optimized assembly), JIT engines, or other code generation -- though this will typically be machine code, possibly with assembly instruction comments;

and other performance critical places where assembly can speed up that part of the code.

Absolutely, by 1% of developers. So analogy would be that those 1% would understand the code fully in the coming years.

ASM to a higher level language is a jump to a clearly defined higher level language through a deterministic compile step. The jump away to LLMs is something completely different.

Good. Competition is great for consumers.

Not good for us if it gets banned domestically because the US can't compete in a free market.

Free market was a tool, yet for you it is a venerated idol.

That's fine, US can export movies and alfalfa.

Who is "us"?

I guess US and European societies.

US consumer

Yeah I am not from US so this does not concern me.

That certainly couldn't be why they feel that threatened. But just think, using AI to build it will literally destroy Bambi's entire forest. Just that one prompt. Think about it.