BoxFour

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by BoxFour 1y ago
> Bad term. If I get employed as a quantitative trader on Jane Street after completing a philosophy major am I underemployed because I'm not writing papers on ontology? No, not by the common definition of underemployment. You'r
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by BoxFour 1y ago
The article touches on this only briefly at the end, but I wonder whether the popularity of tattoos is beginning to wane. After more than a decade of a cultural embrace of tattoos, we could be starting to see the fashionability of tattoos d
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by BoxFour 1y ago
> everyone agrees “overly” is wrong I mean, apparently not - this author alone takes Plato’s cave allegory at face value without spending even a moment to criticize it. > I think it’s a mischaracterization… It is not. Read Meno. Socra
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by BoxFour 1y ago
I don’t have a problem with having a good understanding of classics (liberal arts is a category that far encompasses more than just classical education, though). I do have a problem with blindly assuming Plato/other ancient philosopher
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Thanks, that is what I was thinking of.
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Meditations is particularly interesting because it’s clearly just Marcus Aurelius’s diary that was doubtfully ever meant to see the light of day. He spends a fair amount of it repeating mantras to himself over and over again, or even arguin
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by BoxFour 1y ago
This is a little meandering so just to focus on one part: Philosophy can be valuable, but applying the ideas meaningfully requires discernment. I’m thinking particularly about the popularity of “Meditations”, for example. Take Plato, for ex
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by BoxFour 1y ago
Also helps save Wikipedia if it gets shut down - which might happen!
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by BoxFour 1y ago
The perception shift is key. Getting fired for cause and trying to claim the moral high ground afterward often reads as sour grapes; Bitterness and/or incompetence being rationalized. Quitting, on the other hand, suggests principle and
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by BoxFour 2y ago
As with so many modern debates, it feels like people quickly choose a side and then work backward—rationalizing every argument from that perspective without much critical thought beyond maybe acknowledging some surface-level issues (yes, ph
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Intel announced the delay to the next presidential election year.. The next presidential election is in 2028, not 2030
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by BoxFour 2y ago
That doesn’t really change the point though. There might be longterm malnutrition problems if you’re solely eating eggs in mass quantities (since 20 eggs for a 50 kilo person would be hitting near your daily caloric intake just in eggs), bu
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Great! Let’s build the white collar prisons, then.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’m more than happy to start laying brick myself if it means holding the wealthy accountable by the legal system. This isn’t the strong argument you think it is.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Especially the wealthy and/or powerful, 100% yes.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
True, poor Al Capone!
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’m aware, and Al Capone was busted for taxes. I’m still content with his conviction and punishment.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’m not someone who wants prison purely as a punitive measure. I’d much rather the focus be on rehabilitation. But you’re making it sound like Elizabeth Holmes was accused of something relatively "harmless" like insider trading, r
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Guessing based on what I see: The act of simply pulling out your phone can break the moment. Kids tend to zero in on it immediately, making it the new center of their attention.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> I’m encouraged by people who talk about their AI setups using the same words that musicians use to talk about their guitar amps or pedalboards. This is a good sign. Obsessing over gear - not over purchasing gear exactly, but anything t
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> On top of that, mass media controls the narratives way too hard - just look how fast Luigi Mangione got out of the news. People say this a lot, but it seems just as likely to me that the media is simply reflecting what we care about. C
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Disclaimer: I have only extremely limited exposure to this topic (I worked in sports analytics, attached to a team, quite awhile ago), so take it all as heavy speculation: 1) It seems like there’s a natural resistance to change driven by lo
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by BoxFour 2y ago
The more likely and far more mundane outcome isn’t that LLM providers actively tip the scales, but rather that they just entrench existing winners. As others have pointed out, it's a flywheel: Popular library gains traction → LLMs are
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by BoxFour 2y ago
> wondering about why It’s likely a mix of several things: 1. Society’s fascination with “big crime”, especially fraud—figures like Frank Abagnale, Anna Delvey, Jordan Belfort, and obviously Holmes herself have all been turned into popul
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by BoxFour 2y ago
That’s definitely a big factor, and I’ve noticed a similar pattern with cafes or other locations. The office is just the most reliable “not at home” environment for getting work done for me—there’s no guilt about camping out all day, seatin
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’m someone who finds it hard to stay productive at home but has no trouble focusing in the office. Ala Atomic Habits, my home environment is set up to make my personal life easy. During the workday it’s way too easy to slip into leisure ac
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by BoxFour 2y ago
I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that 98% of that 9.7% (so 9.5 of the 9.7) comes from slashing profits to $0. Exec comp alone is just a rounding error by comparison.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Based on some quick napkin math from their 10-K for FY 2023, they could afford to spend about 7% more in claims (107% of their current payouts, that is). If you cut exec comp to $0 and profits to $0, it's more like 9.7%.
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by BoxFour 2y ago
Isn’t the story that Echo mostly exists because of Bezos? As in, it was his baby and wasn’t immediately discontinued because he wanted voice assistants to be a thing. Whether that’s still true in 2025 I’m not sure, but the chances of him
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by BoxFour 2y ago
My point is the idea that you can always “just ignore them” is pretty outdated advice from the early internet days. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just escalates disturbed people. No matter how much tolerance you have for annoying behav

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