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I wonder if it's PROVEN that AI does a better job than a person what people will choose.

Like if I could send a radiology scan to a doctor who has a 75% chance of identifying cancer or AI who has 95% chance?


Planes have been able to take off, fly to a destination, and land, entirely autonomously, for some decades now. Many people know this. I know this.

But most of us would still refuse to board a plane that didn’t have a human pilot.


Very good point.


There's two versions of this.

One where the robots/AI do all the work and the world shares the results of this new found productivity and we all live happily in a post scarcity world.

The other is that movie Elysium.


At the moment I find ChatGPT really useful for answering questions that I have. It's like a faster google. And it can generate code really well but still needs a human intervention I've found to ensure the code is correct.

However, that being said, it's still in it's infancy. It's interesting the potential.


Been there. It's very expensive and crowded but it's really nice being like 15 minutes from some of the nicest hiking trails in the country.


I live in Boulder. It's certainly expensive, although more reasonable than some of the other popular tech cities. I honestly don't think of it as crowded though. There's tourist spots to avoid, but plenty of open space for all.


I found it crowded. I guess it depends on where you're coming from.

On weekends, It takes 3 hours to make (what should be) a 1 hour drive at 5AM going to the mountain to ski, very difficult to find parking at most trailheads, camping spots are pretty much swamped on the peak to peak...etc. etc.

But I guess if you're coming from L.A. or somewhere that kind of traffic isn't too bad lol

And that's not all Boulder traffic, I'm sure there's a lot of Denver and surrounding city population crush, was just miserable on the weekends I found.


Oh yeah, definitely not disputing the I-70 traffic on weekends, it's bad!


>and crowded

Oh yes, with the 5 story limit of the height of the buildings - and a year over year growth of 1%.

Super crowded.


Hence super expensive.

I don't know why our city council and planning boards waste so much time on "affordable housing" when it's clearly not fixable.

The economics don't make sense to have a highly desirable place to live with a highly constrained housing supply and also make it affordable. The affordable housing plans here basically boil down to a lottery.


>The affordable housing plans here basically boil down to a lottery.

They don't "basically", Section 8 housing is literally a lottery.

https://boulderhousing.org/


Wouldn't 5 story limit's on buildings just make it feel more crowded by constraining the growth?


I don't follow. "It feels crowded because not everyone can live there?".


It feels crowded because instead of being able to increase density vertically the density has to be increased horizontally.


The CAGR is 0.1%, 0.6%, or 0.4%, over 10, 20, or 30 years respectively.


CAGR is misleading because it tracks population when what is more important is household growth. Household size has fallen from 2.63 in 1993 to 2.51 today, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but means you need 5% more houses to hold the same number of people.


Yes, and there is a general misunderstanding, mostly a willful misunderstanding among older, established homeowners, of the fact that you need to build more housing just to keep the population the same, especially when older people are squatting on empty family-sized homes.


The city and county GIS is exceptional. Backpacking and camping permits are egalitarian, but you need to plan months or years ahead.


The GIS has been really helpful when we've had close by fires too


What don't you like about a project needing dependencies?


There is a belief that risk of vulnerabilities introduced by insecure package ecosystems goes up with the number of dependencies.

For example, a study on this was recently conducted for PyPI. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11021


But it's inside the Docker container so even if a dependency was compromised it's in a separate userspace and chrooted so unless theres a docker zero day it should be pretty secure still it seems like.

An updated Docker environment is pretty secure I think.


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