TIL: billionaires have multiple residences. This is new to me. The problem is, if you plan to leave in the event of collapse or unrest, your plans may be spoiled if you haven't already left.
> billionaires have multiple residences. This is new to me.
This has been known for years.
> your plans may be spoiled if you haven't already left.
Not necessarily. The Epstein Class does not have to travel via standard airports/trains/busses like everyone else. They take hired private transportation (sometimes they also own the transport vehicle as well, as in owning the plane they are using to fly away to Argentina when something goes south).
They also have hired hands who are tasked with advising them about such a need, so they can "get away" just ahead of the actual issue occurring.
Of course, for a full societal collapse, while they might "get away" to their Argentine (or other) palace, unless they have enough land (and can find the labor) to farm their own food, they will eventually grow very hungry just like everyone else who depends upon the rest of "society" producing the food they consume daily.
Edit to add: In addition, there's little lost from their perspective to be extra paranoid and "jet off to their Argentine palace (or wherever theirs is)" at the slightest hint of any trouble. The cost to do so, to them, is essentially "pocket change" at their level, and their perceived benefits of already being "away" should the paranoid hint turn out to be true would far outweigh any costs to them to do so.
Even with AI, to try to replicate this on my own would take me a really long time, maybe impossible. Despite the use of AI,it would be a huge undertaking , such as having to come up with the blueprint and procedure for classifying the shells, setting up all of the environments, setting up repository, understanding the math, writing it up, coding the tool, etc.
This should allay fears that AI will render people jobless or automate everything.
He is a profound believer in the absolute freedom of the individual, provided that specific individual is him, and perhaps three of his closest friends.
many of these leading AI companies are operating at large losses and subsidizing users with VC money. Profitability will entail having to impose greater limits and raising prices, so this will reduce to some degree the value proposition of AI compared to humans.
I have seen the opposite argument, such as kids having too much autonomy in so far as social media usage .Or just go on Instagram and you will see tons of examples of young adults taking steroids and other stuff. I'm sure the parents are aware of this, but meh.
Maybe this is obvious, but more selective admissions = smarter students= higher grades? if everyone is taking AP/enrichment courses and at the top of their class in high school, higher grades should not be surprise.
Right, but is there no room for discrimination near the top?
If 60% of people are getting a "full A" are they all truly equally capable? Clearly not, right?
Especially for less structured things like essays. Imagine reading your friends paper and finding issues with it that are left wholly unaddressed and then finding out they got an A just like you.
Consider AP. Sure, everyone taking an AP test is more academically engaged than those who don't, but why would that ever indicate that 60% of AP testers get 5s? In fact, looking at last years results, most tests seem to have populations centered around 3, with only a few (or maybe just the CompSci one) having populations where 5 is the most common.
The whole scale's wonky anyway. My sister worked extremely hard to be first in her class, and I made almost no effort to drop out and get my GED before my class graduated because my state didn't allow early graduation. We both know which of us is more intelligent and which is the harder worker, but our grades don't tell the story.
This deck probably costs as much as a down-payment on a home...MTG prices have really inflated over the past 2 decades ,especially for limited edition sets
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