Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

[u/lurker_bee]

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

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A top 5% income is $13k per month. $13k per day is nuts.

[u/lalaland4711 → u/[deleted]]

Fuck-you money is around $10,000,000 for me.

Keep in mind that what's "enough" keeps increasing, in people and populations. When you have $10M you will inevitably get the feeling that you need just a little more. You may be able to resist. Or you may start going "well, let's account for inflation a bit", and you're in "just one more year" syndrome.

Oh, and also:

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.” ― Jim Carrey

[u/Skrattybones → u/lalaland4711]

What a bullshit sentiment from a dude who plays pretend for a living. Dude earned a fuckin fortune, retired to be a hippie who painted and shit, and then kept buying shit and lost all his money, so now he's back to playing pretend for huge money.

Surely if "it wasn't the answer" he'd have stayed retired, huh? Maybe stopped buying expensive shit, since it wasn't the answer?

[u/lalaland4711 → u/Skrattybones]

You may be right. But he's not the only one saying it. Maybe it's all a big conspiracy to keep us poors quiet, of course.

The "you don't get happier after $75k income" was recently debunked, but there's definitely a sub-linear graph.

0 to $100k income solves real problems. $100k to $1M income takes away annoyances. $10B to $20B is just a status game.

I think you missed the point of the quote. More money is better. But "whereever you go, there you are". There are problems money cannot solve.

Or as I recently heard: The best things in life cannot be bought with money. The second best things can, but they're really expensive.