Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer
@JHochderffer
AI, robotics, economics, trading, metaphysics, love and freedom
The death of human labor is highly exaggerated. Yes, Universal Basic Welfare is coming. AGI will bring an explosion of wealth and productivity, but scarcity will remain. There will always be a scarcity of energy to do the work, a scarcity of the materials from which things are…
Practice not forming strong opinions about anything unless you really need to.
Science and math are more objective and easier to evaluate. History and English involve more memorization, and any actual insights beyond memorization would be subjective and difficult to disprove in any reasonable timeframe (for example, Marxism).
i hate the fact that math and science smart students are considered smarter than english and history smart students
You cannot tax your way to prosperity
The UK is losing 16,500 millionaires in 2025. Capital gains tax hikes—up 20% to 80% over prior rates—backfired spectacularly. Tax receipts fell 18% year-over-year. Europe, take note: you can’t tax your way to prosperity…you can only chase it away. #UK #TaxFlight #CapitalGains
The knowledge is imbedded in the patterns. The knowledge is in our language structure built up over thousands of years.
I cant get over the fact that so many engineers still dont grok the fundamentals of what an LLM is. Repeat after me: its just pattern matching, it doesnt "know" anything
Unions had a place 100 years ago. Now, they are obsolete and impede progress.
The anti-things getting better coalition is revving its engines
It's Friday, and I'm already lamenting that the weekend is almost over.
I have 2 friends that work at Tesla. Both have Teslas. Neither have tried FSD even once.
Elon Musk says only 50% of Tesla owners have used FSD. The rest haven’t tried it once. What can Tesla do differently to market FSD? There is still so much work to do.
Personal-use FSD should be very inexpensive. Commercial-use FSD should be a much more expensive license
It seems silly to try and focus on raising revenue instead of getting as many people as possible addicted to FSD. I think every new Tesla sold should get a year of FSD free. Use it to sell cars.
Economic development is the most, perhaps the only, effective form of altruism
Excessive taxation is counterproductive, and i would argue taxes above 50% is a form of slavery. But taxation itself is not theft. People who make that argument lose the argument.
My home is paid off. My wife & I allegedly own it FREE & CLEAR. But today we got a bill for property taxes. If we don't pay it, ARMED MEN will come & take it from us & then cage me until I pay them MY MONEY. So do I own it? Am I really free? I already pay 35% income tax +…
I actually had ramen and wine last night
Normal Tesla shareholder dinner day before earnings #tsla
Concerning but not surprising
New Anthropic Research: “Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute” We found cases where longer reasoning leads to lower accuracy. Our findings suggest that naïve scaling of test-time compute may inadvertently reinforce problematic reasoning patterns. 🧵
Believing that homeless people just need homes is like believing anorexic girls just need food.
Colbert has a natural talent. He can be very funny. Its too bad he's just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. Unwatchable 90% of the time.
Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, and Jon Stewart are set to appear on tonight’s episode of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ to show solidarity, @LateNightercom reports.
You will be given responsibilities to the degree that you are responsible
Every day is a new opportunity to choose your own adventure
A good CEO is worth 100,000x the lowest paid worker at any given company.
Stop looking for “jobs”. Create your own opportunities.
Like the call to land people on the Moon in the 1960s, Mars is just beyond our immediate abilities. An obtainable goal that requires a stretch. That stretch in the 60s advanced our technology by decades in a few short years. The Apollo project inspired millions, and…
What's the rush to escape planet Earth? It will take 4 billion years for the sun to start expanding & becoming a danger to earth. Homo sapiens have only existed for 300,000 years. We have 4,000,000,000 years left to work out how to start a colony on Mars.
With every new AI model release, the idea of AI taking all human jobs appears more and more hyperbolic.