[lostmsu]

You were a net loss for ~18y or even more and not many people were concerned.

[lou1306]

I was a net loss for quite longer than that. Nobody was concerned because I was surrounded by people who loved me.

[islandfox100]

A net loss on the order of dozens of thousands of dollars. And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.

[fragmede]

Conservative estimates in the United States puts it at $300,000 to raise a child from 0-18, including the cost of birth in the healthcare system. It goes up to $1 million for a HCOL area though.

[lostmsu]

> And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.

I take it you know your primary purpose.

[fridder]

I think it is rather disgusting to equate raising humans and training an LLM

[lostmsu]

This seems wrong to me on multiple different levels.

One, this conversation is about economy side of things.

And two, calling comparison between humans and LLMs disgusting when LLMs are borderline GAIs sounds very xenophobic. Did you see the thread about LLM-written fiction contest the other day? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782890