alt Hacker NewsI meant reference Toby Ord's work here. I think his framing of the performance/cost frontier hasn't gotten enough attention https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents
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fragmede • yesterday at 7:08 PM
That post doesn't address the human factor of cost, and I don't mean that in a good way. Even if AI costs more than a human, it's tireless, doesn't need holidays, is never going to have to go to HR for sexual harassment issues, won't show up hungover or need an advance to pay for a dying relative's surgery. It can be turned on and off with the flip of a switch. Hire 30 today, fire 25 of them next week. Spin another 5 up just before the trade show demo needs to go out and fire them with no remorse afterwards.
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Let's give that one a SCP* re-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778922
(* explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)