I agree on sensing some kind of systemic collapse. It feels those with more resources are getting increasingly efficient at extracting wealth from those with fewer resources.
Every tool increases efficiency at the expense of labor, but when it was the power loom and sewing machine the unemployed seamstresses and weavers couldn't afford to buy one.
This time everyone gets a power loom, though. So... what happens to the value of woven goods? And if we apply this to all modern knowledge work, what happens to the overall economy?
I'd argue that the cost of today's "loom" is less affordable than ever before. Billions of dollars to build a new frontier model from scratch. We're just taking turns playing on someone else's loom.
I get the same feeling when thinking about fast food restaurants turning a profit and then usually there is some element I don’t understand like McDonalds land investment play that justifies weaker operational margins. It’s probably going to work out fine but we are too far removed to intuitively get why.
Sleep is one of the only things I’ve found can actually improve the tinnitus I’ve had for almost 3 years. Every other tactic I have is essentially avoiding making it worse.
Parent comment is right. I’ve used Lorazepam to treat tinnitus. It’s not worth it. In the long run it raises your base anxiety level. Currently I’m experimenting with Tizanidine.
It might not be worth it to you, it might be worth it to someone else.
I would still like to hear about this substitute that is both effective and can be used "all the time".
Tizanidine causes "dependence", too, by the way.
Funny you mention Tizanidine, because that is what I want to try as well for my MS-related muscle spasticity.
Alprazolam works, but I have been using it for years and it would be great to finally get off of them. It does not last long either, and longer acting benzos don't work for me for some reason. I tried diazepam, which was supposed to be just perfect, but it did not work at all. :(
In any case, hoping tizanidine will work for me, we will see.
Let me know if tizanidine works for your tinnitus though, my mom has been "suffering" from it for a long time now.
Rationally, you're correct. But emotionally, there's a lot of people who don't understand why someone would provide a free service without an ulterior motive. Gates talks about this a bit on the Trevor Noah podcast.
Anecdotally, this strongly mirrors my personal experience with long covid symptoms. I’m relatively young (32) but have noticed I don’t recover well in result to neurological injuries: loud noises which didn’t damage my hearing but left me with tinnitus, and a very mild concussion which has now taken the greater part of a year to stop feeling dizzy from.
What's neat is that this is a differential equation. If you kill 5% of instances each hour, the reduction in bad instances is proportional to the current number of instances.
Love it! I wonder if the team knew this explicitly or intuitively when they deployed the strategy.
> We created a rule in our central monitoring and alerting system to randomly kill a few instances every 15 minutes. Every killed instance would be replaced with a healthy, fresh one.
It doesn't look like they worked out the numbers ahead of the time.
With Bitcoin I feel like it’s different, since the hashing algorithm would only ever change during a fork. This is rare in that it only ever happens every few years.
With AI, we’re constantly training different models, which can’t be trained using asics. If we ever get to the point where we no longer need to train new models, then yeah, it will go the way of bitcoin.
> With Bitcoin I feel like it’s different, since the hashing algorithm would only ever change during a fork. This is rare in that it only ever happens every few years.
Wait what!? Did the Bitcoin hashing algorithm ever change?
