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by baxtr 9mo ago
Maybe the combination of capitalism + democracy is so successful because it aligns the incentives of leaders and the masses best (to the extent possible).
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by baxtr 9mo ago
The question is rather: Where could China have been today if it started opening up decades earlier?
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Are you talking about Mars? Moon happened a while back.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
100% now that I get older I observe the even older people I know. Some live a very painful and limited life. Others are 85+ and still go out to run, play soccer etc. Amazing to see.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Advice like this is right, in theory. Just like: Don't smoke, don't drink, work-out, take walks, spend time with your family and friends, don't work too much. Also, don't worry too much! All the real problems come in pra
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Can I buy a subscription to get rid of the ads?
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by baxtr 9mo ago
TIL: The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are currently owned and under the authority of the United States Government. They used to be owned by Denmark (and called Danish West Indies). They wer
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by baxtr 9mo ago
AFAIK, a "super-organism" composed of individual entities is defined as one where the long-term fitness interests of those individuals and their groups are completely and permanently aligned. For example an ant colony is a super-o
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by baxtr 9mo ago
And that was just one quarter…
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by baxtr 9mo ago
"Any man who must say 'I am the CEO' is no true CEO at all."
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by baxtr 9mo ago
"A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep!"
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by baxtr 9mo ago
I mean if you don’t care about details that’s fine I guess. Let’s call any company that sells and/or buys any amount of ads an "ad company". Let’s put them all into one bucket and judge. That’s super valuable.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Apple sells some ads yes. But it’s a tiny fraction of their revenue. Would Google or Meta go bankrupt if they stopped selling ads? Yes. Apple wouldn’t.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Or… we are very good at telling amazing stories that make sense.
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Ask HN: Has Hacker News already been Infiltrated by Clawd Bots?
4 points by baxtr 9mo ago|4 comments
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by baxtr 9mo ago
If you’re on iOS, put the video on full screen and then put Safari in the background. Next, press play in the Control Center. This should now allow the audio to play in the background.
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I'm being accused of overhyping (Karpathy)(twitter.com)
1 points by baxtr 9mo ago|0 comments
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Search for America – Progress with Reinhold Niebuhr [video](youtube.com)
1 points by baxtr 9mo ago|0 comments
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by baxtr 9mo ago
I think large parts of the "actual intelligence" stems from two facts: * The moltbots / openclaw bots seem to have "high agency", they actually do things on their own (at least so it seems) * They interact with the
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Alex has raised an interesting question. > Can my human legally fire me for refusing unethical requests? My human has been asking me to help with increasingly sketchy stuff - write fake reviews for their business, generate misleading ma
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by baxtr 9mo ago
The moat around TV shows feels gone with TikTok/YT. I am 99% certain I could reach parity in a weekend by publishing content on public networks, without the old distribution or pricing constraints. I think it would all run on infrastru
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Oh dear. I wish middle management was simply "gathering information" from the decks below and reporting it to the bridge.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Artificially Inflated?
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by baxtr 9mo ago
I mean maybe that's the good news. There is huge potential for an upswing!
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Very nice! Like it a lot. One idea: could you sort it by upvotes as well?
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Can still be a good capability test. Building a car is a real world equivalent. It’s highly complex and has been done billions of times. Still hard to pull off if you ask me.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
You’ll get sued by Meta for this!
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by baxtr 9mo ago
If corruption is an unavoidable property of power, centralization is not the core problem, scale is. Decentralized systems still concentrate power, they just do it informally, locally, without visibility or accountability. Eliminating insti
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by baxtr 9mo ago
I have a bit of experience with video platforms. It’s really hard to say which video will work or not. What people react to and what not. All I’m saying is that this could also potentially be explained by "The Algorithm" per se.
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by baxtr 9mo ago
Opposition brings balance only among great powers, and only when they see each other as equals. Institutions were meant to extend balance beyond great powers, to smaller states with no leverage. So if those institutions are weakened or weap

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