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Almost anyone with no skills except they can talk to people and arrange/organize deals is liable to make someone else rich, and might be well-off if they can figure out how to get a slice of the pie.
For example, in Acts 20:16 it notes how Paul was trying to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost. Now this was around 55 AD.
Apparently anyone in US/Canada can just ask for a farm and practically get one at this point. Either via USDA / private loans or indie farmers giving you great lease-to-own terms because you don't look like a corporate billionaire. Urban rent is so darn expensive now that some of y'all can probably get rich just by farm squatting and having a good time.
(Seriously thinking about solo farming in real life now. Not that it would really be solo because of all the animals.)
PS: Always hide the best meme in endnote 14 so your fellow meme scientists know exactly where to find the real discovery.
Seems like a nice way to have some weird dreams while probably improving my health (high dose B vitamins seem to do great things for mental disorder and the only apparent downside is colorful piss and possibly turning into a cherry).
For people who don't do vita-drugs, there's always tea, coffee, chocolate, and matcha.
[Mental image of a college lecture half-filled with sleeping robots.]
It's called...
Dollar General AI
</joke>
I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on the order of over $1000/hour while sitting on a bench or walking on a trail. It can be done in short bursts once you get the hang of it.
Then once you have some financial freedom in a few hours of successful work (not the first few hours), you can sell other people designs for clubhouses and build them all over the world and pay people to show up to club meetings (because sadly that is the only way).
Modern workplaces are a lot like clubhouses because everyone is friends there, but they suck because you have to be there all day. If you could just show up to any workplace for a few hours here and there whenever you wanted, the world would be a better place. Some days you could be a dishwasher, other days you could be a bulldozer operator or dig in the mines. I like to try new jobs.
That's my business idea, thanks.
Personal notes: A waterproof mini-notepad.
Personal notes I don't care about: Sticky notes.
Movie scripts, math problems, and complex functional diagrams: A full-size sheet of paper taken from the nearest printer.
This comment sent from my Sticky Pad 5.
I'm not necessarily saying we shouldn't domesticate raccoons, but we have to be really careful about what animals are allowed to pilot submarines. It's a serious issue!
And between this and some Whisper benchmarks on data center GPUs I worked out this formula approximation using the two most significant features:
stable_diffusions_per_minute ~= memory_clock_mhz x CUDA_cores / 424000
Of course it works out to RTX 4090, RTX 4080, RTX 3090 TI / 3090 beating everything else on speed by a pretty large margin. But not as much as the actual tests indicate. The main use of this test is that it indicates that most of the recent but older GPUs would have to sell for a pretty good bargain to justify buying them over the new stuff.
A Beautiful Mind
It's certainly an appropriate description. I've lived in the suburbs for thirty something years and have never made a single friend there. Travel requires a car, and there's no place interesting you can get to without a car. The optimal strategy for life is therefore to pass the threshold of depression and insanity and become a computer-addicted robot who derives pleasure only from typing on the comments section of the internet.
I've been thinking of ways to fix the problem but there's no bandage for removing the cars and redesigning the whole thing. I've thought of structures a clever person might be able to build to attract socialization, and I'm sure almost all of them are against zoning laws.
Anton's Syndrome: Excerpt from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538155/ : Though the patient is blind, he will behave and talk as if he has normal vision. Attention is aroused; however, when the patient is found to collide with pieces of furniture, to fall over objects, and to experience difficulty in finding his way around. They may try to walk through a wall or a closed door on their way from one room to another. Suspicion is still further alerted when they begin to describe people and objects around them who do not exist. Mental confusion may also be seen. Patients with ABS may give excuses for their blindness. They may explain that their inability to see is because of the lack of proper lighting, and they may try their best to prove that they are not blind, thereby putting themselves in danger.
One of the earliest descriptions of this syndrome is found in Seneca's "Moral Letters to Lucilius".
2. Would be nice to see some well-organized search engines / web indexes that stay up to date and don't suck. Searching for a lot of stuff on google is like asking, "Please show me generic business site articles."