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by creer 2y ago
I do miss the old "visible storage" Computer History Museum - where you could walk around and peek into so many great machines. The current version has been musee-ified to death. It might safer from flocks of school kids but a rea
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by creer 2y ago
yeah, this is one common claim about sprinkles - that the pattern can't be reproduced. Is that so true? Manually, sure, probably, perhaps. But if sprinkles signing is common enough, or the attacker has enough budget - and they do - the
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by creer 2y ago
They would still have to go a very very long way to get back to even pre-covid level. In the meantime: propaganda.
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by creer 2y ago
Pretty good illustration, thanks. You mention "passive investing" and imho that's a good answer if you want minimum involvement of either yourself or a manager (say because you don't trust them - and you shouldn't).
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by creer 2y ago
It will convince humanity that it would be safe running a generation ship of volunteers (it says it will guarantee their civil rights) and will then leave humanity behind while colonizing it's own section of the galaxy.
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by creer 2y ago
It will convince humanity that an AI is conscious and should have personhood and civil rights - same as other human classes which didnt for a while.
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by creer 2y ago
It will actively take part in the design and construction of its next, superior bunker. (See construction of embassies.)
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by creer 2y ago
To me, simulation and god go in similar directions in considering what's bigger and around us. But for simulation, it's in the sense of physics: in the sense of digging always deeper in understanding what we are truly made of. The
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by creer 2y ago
How could it not be intriguing? Revert all these questions and that's what makes it interesting. So, yeah clearly opinions differ! We might be way too early to be able to measure it - or not. It might have solid consequences on what we
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by creer 2y ago
I don't think so. Doubling money in 10 years, on average, is nothing extraordinary. It's a little sub-par. Far more in some 10 years, less in others, sure. But doubling in 10 years. So even a 50% inheritance tax, erm, "haircu
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by creer 2y ago
Exactly. "The rich" as a narrative is everywhere. While in financial terms, it is not all that difficult to keep wealth growing. To the point that in a hundred years - not all that long - any "new wealth" should turn int
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by creer 2y ago
It takes time and serious work to learn about investing beyond clichés. Past even the basic professional level which is entirely "mechanical" - grounded in practices, not in understanding. Meanwhile if one heir is headed to med sc
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by creer 2y ago
There are two ways, I feel. 1. Spend it. In some cases that might be a fair direction. It's easy to spend 1 million. It's very hard to spend 1 billion though. 2. Seriously learn about money and investing. Really it's not impo
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by creer 2y ago
Reddit has several fascinating glimpses in the mess that are (some) very wealthy and trust fund situations. Never clear which ones are somewhat fiction and which completely genuine but still interesting. In one of your threads, there is the
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by creer 2y ago
This is the entire premise in The missing billionaires - A guide to better financial decisions, Victor Haghani and James White, 2023. But this is an investing book, not sociology. They consider billionaires in the introduction and they poin
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by creer 2y ago
Based on Barron's claim that they (not Buffett directly but one of his people) accumulated this side stake mostly in 2016-2018, they got a 5.5x result on these shares roughly speaking. So selling half sounds fair as profit taking, from
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by creer 2y ago
Different people have different communication styles. It helps if we recognize that. As advice givers, and as advice receivers. Recognizing that difference exists is a huge step in understanding how this works. Don't worry, it will sti
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by creer 2y ago
The people with stake in the game (seniority, been together longer) can stick together and continue to drive what they think has worked for them (seniority). I haven't needed to mention skill or effort or initiative one bit here. While
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by creer 2y ago
They also don't hire anyone. They are not the ones who do the hiring. Airlines it seems - for a current example - have relinquished some hiring / firing authority to union rules.
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by creer 2y ago
Seems to me (most) unions and old-style corporations reward seniority because they are captured. (Roughly speaking) the old-timers stick together because they can and because there are old-timers. And few people get promoted because there i
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by creer 2y ago
It's certainly valuable to the law firms. And they only need shareholders as pieces on the game board, not core participants.
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by creer 2y ago
It's truly shocking how organizations do not bring the hammer on managers who outright try to game the metrics. At least never (?) make the claim that gaming the metrics will get you booted. There is a feeling that, within rather lax l
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by creer 2y ago
Yes, this does not fight bad passwords, it fights bullshit PR. An excellent thing.
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by creer 2y ago
There is a tendency to talk about "the poor" as an extreme case, and "the wealthy" as an extreme case. But in doing so you make the entire problem irrelevant. As you say, the extreme poor at that time does not write, and
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by creer 2y ago
If one of the lessons of LLMs was that much of "common sense" is covered in the written language corpus - that is, perhaps, basic human intelligence is covered by language. Then, should we expect less with mathematics where writte
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by creer 2y ago
Ohhh, I was wrong. Seems there are two categories where work made for hire applies. One is specifically for work made by an employee (with some constraints / definitions on that) for work made within their scope of employment. The othe
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by creer 2y ago
Consideration is generally money (but more generally and dangerously something actually received in exchange for giving away something else in the contract.) It can't be a binding contract if there is no exchange such as merely signing
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by creer 2y ago
Watch out for "work-for-hire doctrine" erm... assumptions. Last time I looked work-for-hire law only takes effect if there is explicit mention of the term "work-for-hire" in the contract, otherwise it's not "wo
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by creer 2y ago
We'll have to see about that. This claim was used before for the "baby bullet" service. What actually happened is a few trains each day skip a number of stations and so achieve quite a bit faster trip. ... When they are not d
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by creer 2y ago
I guess "it's not retaining if they end up not "using" it"? With "using" creatively defined elsewhere. None of these words means anything anymore.

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