Yes I'm sure that's what AOC meant too but it's not much of an explanation. Who are you to decide what people deserve or earn? And if you're going to decide that perhaps you'd like to provide a better justification, one that doesn't just boil down to "a billion is really really a lot of money".

> one that doesn't just boil down to "a billion is really really a lot of money".

Why? That's the point. It's too much damn money for one person to realistically earn. We all know how long a day is and how fast a human being can think, move, how much suffering they can tolerate, etc. It is an intuitive truth.

There is no conceivable formulation of physical and mental actions a human could perform, regardless of outcome, that could possibly justify that level of wealth relative to the average levels of compensation for other workers in society.

you're right to point out AOC is not the arbiter of truth and justice, and has no right to point out that stealing is bad

I didn't know model merging like that was possible. (Obviously possible from a pure software standpoint but I'm surprised it's effective)

As another poster above linked, it’s been shown to be effective since 2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482

it works because Nex N2 is also a derivative of the original base Qwen model. If it was two completely unrelated models it wouldn't work.

Even merging models with themselves as shown here in the post how they got to the top of hugging face with two gpus

Even if you're "stuck" at 1, a person with a reasonably high salary can buy equity in the public stock market and start capturing exponential growth. And if they can outperform the market by even ~5% that can really add up[0]. Not to billionaire status but maybe it's okay to not be a billionaire.

[0] Big "if" obviously but so is a 15% monthly growth rate in revenue.

Put the robinhood app on your phone and start investing in stocks for less than $100.

Did you build wealth that way? $100 fund and stock trading?

I started investing in stocks at my first job at Boeing, on an entry level salary.

That's not the question.

Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the supply constraint?

Engineering always involves trade-offs. The right architecture for the military in Iraq might not be the right architecture for sharing cookie recipes with your family

True but supply chain attacks are real. A good security plan needs multiple layers, this seems like a good one to include.

In my experience the accuracy was fine but actually reading the output was so annoying I removed it.

Had a little luck with having it do an impression of the Star Trek computer, although at the cost of having it try to insert star-trek themed hallucinations like warp engine status.

What's your definition of "required". I usually don't tip ride share drivers

you should

Why? It's much better if people's salaries are predictable and not dependent on random guilt-induced tips.

No, tipping encourages wage suppression and the wealth gap. Pay your workers a sensible wage instead, stop the games.

Why?

America in a nutshell. We won't do anything about mass shooting events besides hold up deployment of a life saving technology.

Engineering should be exactly as rigorous as the task requires. Anything more is wasteful.