bertmuir

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by bertmuir 10d ago
You say "keep competing"... the hyper agile frontier labs and Google/MSFT are practically one and the same via circular financing arrangements. Competition on the frontier is kinda a farce, what matters is who comes out of th
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by bertmuir 18d ago
I'll take that wager! Before you look at any real statistics, how does $1000 sound?
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by bertmuir 19d ago
Marketing didn't do this, as pointed out earlier, it's the ML academics and researchers coining these unscientific terms and explanations. I'd expect it in social sciences - where functionalist explanation are often appropria
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by bertmuir 19d ago
Furthermore - there are more than enough novels that grip you immediately, to spend your whole life reading them and avoiding the rest. "The rest" tend to come in two categories. Books I lack some experience for to be gripped by -
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by bertmuir 23d ago
The term is an anthropomorphised pseudoexplanation for what it actually refers to. It's akin to calling genetic mutation "the forces of evolution", or price negotiation "the invisible hand of the market". We do that
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by bertmuir 23d ago
Whether carrying cost is higher or lower depends on the taxation LVT is substituting and the counterfactual utilisation of the land. In practice it is usually lower in rural and suburban and highly developed urban areas and (where substitu
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by bertmuir 24d ago
You may be confusing LVT with property transfer tax? LVT is a tax on ownership of land - driving down land value, not up. In practice it disincentivises investment in land (rent-seeking and speculative land hoarding) while incentivising lan