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When money is abundant, knowledge is the real wealth (2020)

by mustaphah on 10/7/25, 12:40 PM with 8 comments

• by hackingonempty on 10/7/25, 6:34 PM

  The major LLMs can pass the US medical licensing exam, and the Bar exam, and probably any other exam you throw at them. Lawsuits have revealed that they are trained on every book the companies could get their hands on, not just web pages.

  So knowledge per se is worth about $20 a month now.

  Hasn't that always been the case here on YC though? Ideas are a dime a dozen so the real value is in execution.

• by throwhuppla on 10/7/25, 3:30 PM

  People who write these sort of articles need to step away from the computer and go talk to someone. Who is this written for? Jeff Bezos? Because it’s not written for the $100k crowd. It has no real driving thesis and it’s using 8th grade debate class rhetoric.

• by lolive on 10/7/25, 3:49 PM

  Information has never been cheaper to reach. And information deluge has never been so expensive to circunvent.

• by pseudosaid on 10/7/25, 3:58 PM

  When knowledge is abundant, wisdom is the real understanding.