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by cal_dent 9mo ago
FWIW I think you're already doing the thing. That's it. But I'd suggest trying not to care too much about optimisation. It's unnecessary in my view because it implicit puts goals & outcomes as the end, when it's
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
I'd echo this. There does feel like some wide resignation (more so with younger people <35 if I can generalise a bit) that we're too far gone everyone being closed off. But I've generally found that there is no real resolv
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Completely. That was the thing about the winter fuel allowance. It was largely a nothing burger and yet they couldn’t allow them to get it through. You could see almost immediately after they pulled back, what little confidence and ability
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
While I sympathise and agree with the point, it’s easiest to blame political parties but the electorate are also to blame. They simply want to have their cake and eat it too. Plenty of times post-GFC where parties have tried or proposed muc
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
> Today, the majority of the world’s population is online, and memes are often the only cultural language shared by all users in a community I've always wondered how sure of this are we actually? Particularly now in the age of easy
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
shelter and food is not freely provided for the majority and a non-insignificant proportion of people are managing I'd say. Yes, it's hyperbole, it literally will not get rid of all the problems but the ethos of the view is being
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
just go to a park mate. an open field. an empty car park. everyone can find a place to sit or stop. no one has taken that away from you
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by cal_dent 9mo ago
Me too. I heard this phrase at maybe too young and age and took it completely literally, so it clouds my judgement of it a bit, but I still cannot shake the view that it is 100% on the money. The brain wants to "solve" your issue
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
But that implicitly assumes all jobs are comparable financially. Sure there’ll always be jobs to do but x number of web devs or whatever is not the same as x numbers of nursing home care workers. Also in terms of extra money and spending,
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Cant remember who said it now but it was a riff on science & experiment with one of the point being when you've put a theory together after having a bunch of ideas, you want to ensure that when explaining what the theory fits, its
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Neil Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death(web.archive.org)
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided.... Should the losers grow skep
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I'd tend to disagree on the point around housing. I'd be surprised if there isnt a non-insignificant # of households who would happily move to lower cost of living areas (rent/house price wise) or areas with more nature perha
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
God, the world is a beautiful place more often than not. Easy to forget sometimes but stuff like this is a balm
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
You're in for a treat. Its one of my all time favs. Very contemplative about man, nature, the search for meeting and really the whole emotional spectrum of a lived life. Won the Nobel prize for literature in the 1920s and still holds u
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
There is a digression early in Knut Hamsun's novel Growth of the Soil, where for a paragraph or two he goes on about how great potatoes are and also mentions the same thing about man needing just potatoes and milk. It's an incredi
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks_(investor)
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
All you'll get is Jevon's paradox this and horses that, while continue to fundamentally undersell the potential upending of a not insignificant part of labour market. FWIW, the only optimism I have is that humanity seemingly alway
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
That's a pretty significant way to make money though. I do think at this stage the best analogy is the offshore call centres. Yes, the excess in the market is likely because of misunderstanding about what LLMs can actually do and how
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
i also wonder about p/e ratio comparisons over time because our world view of what long term economic growth is going forward is less now that it was then. That is always subtly implicit when we think about p/e ratio. So what&#x27
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
he clearly states he doesn't understand the topic. But you don't need to understand to explore the ramifications which is what he's done here and it's an insightful & fairly even-handed take on it. It does feel like
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I think this gives an excellent framework for how to think of this. Is it a bubble? Who knows is a perfectly valid answer. I do think there’s something quite ironic that one of the frequent criticisms of LLMs are that they can’t really say
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Or find ways to create jobs in places 3 hours away and distribute the population better like we used to do, in addition to trying to increase build out rates
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Yes, excellent idea. Let’s do that too
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Yes, same. We also had oral exams for particular subjects where you essentially had a discussion with a teacher or panel of teachers on a particular topic. All of that will eventually come back. I don't see how that doesnt come back as
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Society is going to big on IRL communication and activity in my view. It's sort of like office work, anyone who has ever worked in large corporations can spot a faker a mile off. Some people who can wax lyrical nothingness in meetings
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
I don't necessarily think this as it is will "work" but I'm all for someone at least trying to do something. Yes, there are a bunch of externalities and potential second order effects that don't sit well with me but
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Fence sitting. Neither sexy or glamorous but honestly is the rational view to take right now. It's not going to be that popular because it sort of, unkindly, says nothing but imo that's the nuance of the moment. Hard to disagree t
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Exactly this. There's something about housing which causes so many people to think its an easy thing to solve by just building more and that's not actually true
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by cal_dent 10mo ago
Good luck trying to mass build in this financial and fiscal environment. Governments could cut as much red tape as they'd like now to stimulate housebuilding and the market will still continue to build higher priced homes because that&

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