This is the end, my friend.

I was close to retirement anyway. There isn't going to be another generation of people with the skills I have outside of hobbyists. They're just not needed anymore.

My first year tuition was $1500 CAD in 1994.

By the time I had graduated it was up to $4000 or so. I think it's $8-9k now. Decent school, not elite, but engineering is still altruistic and it doesn't matter that much if you're skilled.

Bought me labor mobility to USA and would be worth doing at 10x the cost.

There are few circumstances where a liberal studies degree is going to give you a return of any kind.. and the library is free.

Reality denier. Your reality?

You sound communist.

The broader trend is that there is a self segregation taking place. I moved to Texas. I love it here. You can be a communist in California and enjoy it there.

The market will sort it out.

A better question is should humans do any job that a computer can do better. Do you want your kids to be customer service reps?

These are big questions and we're going to have to answer them before we are ready.

The role of the AI factories is to train expert models that will be used on CoT inference pipelines perhaps on the edge or in collaboration with it.

Hang on. It's going to get wierd.

At least in my direct experinece, I've not been surprised by any of the cuts made that I see. AI is a likely excuse, but you'll find direct attribution from official sources scarce.

Most of these cuts are performance based. Companies are getting lean, and if you're not going to lean in or are in core business adjacent roles, you're on the block.

These things are related.

Make up a mental model when you will reject the doom predictions. We aren't going to stop producing CO2. It isn't thermodynamically possible. Yet the disasters don't materialize.

When will South Florida be under the ocean? If it isn't in 20 years, would you reconsider the rhetoric? 50?

Something to think about.

If you haven't, go for a drive in a Waymo. Or check out the most recent Tesla FSD software.

It is obvious that this is going to replace human drivers in a lot of applications and roles.

AI is real. Welcome to the terrifying future.

Shall not be infringed.

You want gun laws, change the second amendment, good luck with that, for good reason.

Freedom isn't free.

It can do this. You need to look at agents.

You have to give them the keys.. but they will drive.

I assure you, this is very real. I am literally in the middle of it.

The answer can be found in dating apps. Most women compete for a small percentage of men. They'd rather share than date down, and women no longer require getting married to survive.

Now do fertility rates by political leaning.

Sounds like cope.

The next 18 months will bring wonders and horrors, the timeline is open but the conclusion is the same.

Intelligence will be commoditized.

Nobody wants to wear shit on their face or have another device to charge.

Money down the drain, but itâ(TM)ll be funny to watch again.

The answer to this is simple and has been around for decades.

Prof gives a topic. You are instructed to show up able to write a paper on that topic without notes.

Papers are then collected and graded.

Simplest is easiest.

I have bought Bitcoin every week since 2015.

I am not angry. I am very rich.

It is still early.

Cheers