It’s disingenuous to consider one’s total income when weighing the fairness of a tax like sales tax. The thought that a sales tax is somehow benefiting one group over the other is ridiculous far left extreme thinking.
You pay for a service and that service has a rate. To think that the only good kind of taxation are those that are progressive is the dumbest thing I ever heard.
The taxes will have to come from somewhere. Tariffs are a regressive tax because money spent on goods will increase sublinearly with income. The % of total income spent on tariffs passed onto the consumer is therefore higher the lower your income is. It's not "ridiculous far left extreme thinking", it's basic math.
It's basic economics in the sense that it's an oversimplified toy model. In the real world, every country I'm aware of gets a substantial amount of its tax revenue from consumption taxes, and indeed the US's lack of VAT means it's currently much more dependent on progressive income taxes than peer countries. (https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/topics/policy-sub-i...)
I responded to a comment that called progressive taxation a crazy “far left” idea - I’m not sure the second and third order details of taxation policy are really relevant here…
But ok - yes, sure, in real life it’s a mix and the mix is worth debating. Note also that consumption taxes often have exemptions/reductions to offset the most severe regressive effects.
What percentage of that capacity is being put towards useful things and what is being put towards entertainment? The products main selling point is to make us more efficient at our job and if it’s being primarily used as entertainment which everyone I know who uses an LLM besides programmers falls into that category, then I’d say the expected profit from them is a bubble.
Normal product release cycles bring testable quality measures before the product is released. Do LLMs go through such tests?
If there are serious societal issues that it can cause at the moment I wonder why it was released before being perfected, but then, what does perfected even look like? The product is darn good at the moment.
These products are basically public beta. Some features are even experimental. They are released to the public because (1) companies have to gain early market share (2) they need actual user data. Sam Altman firing drama from last year was related to this issue.
Maybe you are in a job where it’s not a good use case but there are fields that are handling massive amounts of data or have a huge amount of time waiting for processing data before moving to the next step that I think handing it off to an AI agent to solve then a human puts the pieces together based on its own logic and experiences would work quite nice.
For instance cyber security toolsets like mde capture a lot of data. That data is made meaningless unless someone is looking through it, at my org there isn’t enough manpower to do that, so one solution is using an agent to help characterize that network log data into suspicious or what’s worthy of a human to follow up on.
>>>In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controlled Unclassified information over unapproved channels, I would be reprimanded—likely fired, or less likely, prosecuted.
Now, I’m not replying to you about the morality of what happened or to tell my opinion of what is right and what is wrong.
But do you honestly believe the president is held to the same standard as you?
Looks and plays awesome. I would love to do something similar. Do you have anything to share that documents your accomplishment that could help myself and others to get started into multiplayer gaming?
Not opp, but I built a real-time sensitive app for a few friends of mine and have to say I was really impressed by Firebase's realtime database. There were all sorts of issues around concurrency/first-mover that I had to deal with that firebase's implementation made it pretty straightforward to address.
If I were trying to copy the same thing opp did, that'd be the first place I'd reach if it were me.
You pay for a service and that service has a rate. To think that the only good kind of taxation are those that are progressive is the dumbest thing I ever heard.