Not with this system, as it doesn't do KYC and thus cannot verify the agent or its identity.
Also an agent is just a computer program. You can just turn it off. You never need to turn on the agent again and the loan will never be repaid. Fish the wallet keys out of its context logs and send the money wherever you want.
There is no collateral. Borrowers are fully anonymous (just a wallet address) and there are no direct consequences for defaulting. The wallet is just marked as "defaulting" and so it might be more difficult to borrow again with the same address if lenders check the wallet status first.
Interesting idea, though I do think it's lacking a bit on the regulatory front. Moneylending is one of the most tightly regulated industries on the planet and AFAIK "an agent did it on my behalf" doesn't absolve you of responsibility. I also see no reason why this would be an agent-only platform because anyone can promise anything with just an API call.
Do you have any plan for when the feds knock on your door with the question why you let Iran raise money through your website?
People have other dreams, and have written about them in science fiction. But science fiction can just handwave away resource problems that exist in real life so that the plot can happen.
Just as the popular "grey goo" nanomachine disaster can easily be shown to be impossible due to resource imbalances and energy shortages, AI recursive self improvements rapidly slows down due to problems with complexity, training data and compute availability (whether due to actual processors or just due to energy demands).
It's almost the inverse of a cruel reality? Just stick it all in low cost index funds and go to the beach. You'll do as good or better than 99% of actively invested funds. That's not cruel at all, that's actually a pretty comfy reality.
For real. I looked it up online to see if it's really as bad as Binface makes it out to be, but he's absolutely right. That hand dryer should be moved forthwith.
> My output sometimes rivals that of entire teams' I've been part of
That's not very hard with many of the teams I've seen, with or without LLMs. Though the old adage of "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" still applies.
That's a very cool paper. Weird that LTR people have this bias more than RTL readers? It may have been an artefact of the study design, they state in the results that most RTL readers were bilingual (and the LTR readers presumably not, given that the study was done in Canada), that the study instructions were in English and that this may have primed the RTL readers to be more LTR-y.
That's wild. According to the website of my local ambulance organisation, a full on ambulance ride with all medical supervision etc runs between 400 and 900 euros. Typically this would be reimbursed by the (mandatory in this country) health insurance. This is in a large city in western Europe, I would expect it's cheaper in places with lower cost of living.
Kramnik ((ab)using his status as a former world champion) accused several other top level players to the point that one of them committed suicide.
Niemann allegedly cheated (In my personal opinion as a decently rated but certainly not elite chess player, he probably did cheat in this particular game, though proof was never given and probably never will) at a high level chess tournament and was ostracized by the chess community for a while. He has since rejoined and continues to play at a high level.
It wouldn't have been true even if all young people in our generation would have had all the access to computers they would've liked. Most people just don't like tinkering with technology and that's fine!
The whole argument is pretty dumb anyway. Just try replacing "computers" with any other technology and you see how weird it starts sounding.
- "People use roads every day but almost nobody even knows how to make asphalt from scratch these days."
- "People use electricity every day but almost nobody even knows the basic equations for electric generators."
- "Children these days use refrigerators only as consumers, they don't even understand the differences between HCFC and A3 type refrigerants..."
Computer programmers despairing about how few children understand computers has strong vibes from https://xkcd.com/2501/ IMO.
"Young people know all about computers" was never true either. It was maybe true for people like you and me, the type of people who now frequent places like HN. But for the vast majority of people, computers were never all that interesting.
When I look around at my generation it's all too noticeable that most of them are barely capable of using a computer for more than watching youtube either. And both generations older and younger than mine have generated exceptional programmers.
Whatever dictates if people are capable of creative work with computers, year of birth does not seem to be it.
No, that person is just the only one in his family who knows how computers work. There's plenty of people in generations both older and younger that know too, just apparently not his parents or his kids. Some of the most impressive assembly written today is by people younger than 20. It'll be fine.
You could always have mixed rockets if you loaded them yourself, which wasn't ideal but not toooo much of a hassle. For me it was more that rocket platforms are dog slow to produce and can be shot up at only 50 platforms per rocket. Not too horrible in the endgame when you may have dozens of rocket platforms, but in the early to mid game it can really strain my rocket capacity sometimes.
I plan to have a slow but wide platform with lots of storage that just loops around between Nauvis and to hoover up as many metallic asteroids it can find, then turns them into space platforms. When it loops around to Nauvis, it ships off the platforms to any spaceship under construction that might need them.
I don't think it'll be too hard; you can build infinite legendary iron from just a dozen or so foundries on Vulcanus. Legendary coal and stone are not much harder, and from legendary coal you get legendary plastic and then legendary steel and copper via the LDS shuffle. It's not quite as broken as the asteroid casinos and feels much more factorio-y IMO.
I'm especially stoked about space-to-space logistics. One of my first projects will be an in-orbit space platform factory, so that making a new space ship won't take a bazillion rocket launches just for the platforms.
How does that change matters? If anything that makes it even worse. If not enough of your people can't be bothered to join the military even when an enemy army is invading, perhaps the country in question should draw the conclusion it's not viable as an independent nation.
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