Super_Jambo

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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
I would argue that centralization is inherent in most humans instincts. To put it another way, many people like having a leader. In fact people like leaders so much that exposed to a capricious and cruel world they'll invent imaginary
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
There is no way to fix advertising funded, it's the problem with facebook and google too. Advertising means the consumers aren't customers to be served but eyeballs to be harvested and served up.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Why would they do that? Thanks to network effects they have an effective monopoly & clearly they make more money from their current user hostile design.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Your original post put the blame for inequality on government intervention via money printing. Govt Inflation -> Inequality. If only we still had the gold standard then they couldn't cause inequality! This theory however is contradi
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
'Free' markets are fine there are a multitude of ways to avoid competition without regulatory oversight. From lying about weights & measures to monopolies. What capitalists fear is a competitive or perfect market. But you&#x27
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
This doesn't really stand up to the facts. Governments went off the gold standard far before 1971. By this logic the New Deal and WW2 government spending should've caused huge inequality through inflation. It seems far more about
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Lots of executives aren't judged on their final contribution to the bottom line but the size of their 'empire' or project 'successes' they can point to. There are also plenty of examples of work that is profitable t
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
"by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty" - Will Durant
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Have you read Phishing for Phools? The basic idea is that companies innovate in deception as well as efficiency. This is another way to explain bullshit jobs, obviously someone working to con their customers for their bosses will feel their
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
This was kind of the dream of the Semantic web. It's a fantasy though because it promotes competition and good customer outcomes and our system's main concern is moats and profit.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Does the North America plate losing Greenland's ice increase earthquake risk on the west coast then? Intuitively seems like it should... But then this is an article about how bad intuition is for complex problems.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
CERN has a bigger marketing budget than lots of little labs doing smaller scale stuff.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
They wanted high orders for the negotiation when getting a new restaurant signed up. "Hey in the last month we delivered X amount of your food! If we don't list you then you'll lose those sales."
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
If we made it our goal? If all our technological effort went into automating away drudgery? If all our persuasive marketing was not driving ever more consumption but making the simplest and cheapest lifestyle changes to improve our happines
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
If you banned ads in such a way as to stop the economically powerful funding disinformation it would. How do you fund the google replacement if you're not allowed to sell adverts? You'd have to charge people who want to use the se
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
"human psychology can't handle how good we've become at manipulating it." I'm curious if you think there's any way we can fix this.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Since we don't want the advertising industry to just evaporate over-night when we regulate it out of existence we can fund it collectively to solve this problem. Wall to wall advertising to help everyone live a better life as cheaply &
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
The Snowdon leaks made it clear that US and UK security services are still happy to use psychological manipulation on their own public. Never mind that we already knew this since COINTELPRO.
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
This would make sense if our markets were optimising for something useful other than how to extract wealth from workers & consumers whilst providing as little as possible in return. Practically everything on this site is about moats &am
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
Because the driver was given an impossible task in order to save money for the company. They were required to both fill in information on a tablet and monitor the car. It's not even clear that monitoring a semi-self driving car is even
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
Switch the limited liability companies from their current blacklist based regulation to whitelisting allowed behaviour. Focus this entirely on creating highly competitive markets & fostering innovation in technology, logistics and produ
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
This is a terribly sad comment on the structure of our society, people worried they might be making something pointless. And the solution is to make sure the people paying for it don't realize.
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
Would've been feasable if the CO2 industries actually had to pay for the externality of ruining the atmosphere though right?
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
It's common but if you look around the world the level of regulatory capture in the US is in no way normal. Blame the combination of a terrible voting system and relatively few representatives compared to the incredible prize of a slic
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
The problem with Facebook (and similar) isn't just that it's easy the problem is it's designed to be addictive in order to scrape data and sell adverts. It's a honey pot of whatever can be made by frighteningly dedicated
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
And yet all these newspapers owned by hugely wealthy individuals keep conflating the two! Weird isn't it? It's almost like there's an incentive for the media landscape to muddy the waters between well paid execs and the perso
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
This is why the problem cannot be solved without regulation of the market. Each individual actor is working in their best interest, but as a society it creates unimaginable amounts of waste.
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
make it a bit longer and have it vary the speed on the position of the swimmer...
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
All of the above should be prosecuted. If you want markets to be anywhere near efficient you're gonna have to force the capitalists into it. If we don't we'll eventually be back to kings.
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by Super_Jambo 7y ago
An unknown Police Office is in a super position of nice and law abiding or corrupt and malicious. If there's no real downside in assuming they are corrupt, you're much safer behaving as if they are.

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