alt Hacker NewsHow many times have you done each of the following?
- write a well-received book, write a best-seller
- come up with a new company idea, Run that company
- actually have a decent conversation, maybe someday talk somebody out of suicide effectively
- come up with its own ideas or theories that nobody else has presented
- understand the stock market well enough to trade better than an index fund
I just picked the first few from the top of the list. The average human has probably not done any of them.
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Verdex • yesterday at 10:49 PM
I couldn't do any of those, but then ~$10k of education later I was able to accomplish one of those things.
I think LLMs are really impressive, but I suspect that we might have overpaid just a bit.
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Ordinary people do these things all the time. There are new companies made every day, new books top the charts every week/month/year, same for music. People have decent conversations every day. Ordinary people sometimes do have to talk someone out of suicide.
Yes, average humans are not beating the stock market. But the average human is a bit better than you give credit to.