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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think an interesting issue is that the higher you are in a hierarchy the more rules don't apply. It's impossible to govern with rules because they are the source of rules themselves. Some rules transcend companies and are social
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I always thought that the problem was about changing culture. The existing culture is too elitist and male oriented. Which isn't a problem in itself. But these are gatekeeping mechanisms that are gatekeeping what may become the ONLY go
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
That's how people think...Creating models and theories via abstraction from personal experience and thoughts. All original ideas are projections in some way, requiring courage to put through into the world.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I have a theory that most people in the US are overpaid. However the overpayment is a strategy by management so that they themselves can be even more overpaid. This can be afforded because the overpaid people are locked into middle class li
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
College degrees used to be a signaling method. It was something rare and desirable. And like many rare and desirable things, the intrinsic value gets bolstered by a perceived value. The value and rarity drives commoditization, eventually ma
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's a bit if immaturity in the manifesto despite it being very rational and well-reason. In my mind, it's the immaturity of a rich kid who is very intelligent, having had the best teachers, and also well meaning and trying to
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Ugh, trying to fix marketing issues with more engineering....
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think an engineering based mindset of perfection creates brittle models that get stuck in local maximums. Reverse gravity and you can think of current AI as small cars getting stuck in pits. The desire to maximize leaves no room for the h
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Sanction based behavior is just another form a bullying. It's not much different than physical, psychological or social bullying. Similar to bullying, it doesn't work when the target can fight back. Sanction based actions just see
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I have a pet theory that there is some self indulgent delusion in not recognizing the real issue in order to preemptively take the high ground for an "I told you so." In many multiplayer games for example, I've seen many supp
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's a certain disconnect in that the author seems to require and at least want validation in terms of business success while selling himself as a 'true artist' interested only in making things. Here's something unint
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I wonder if a sacrifice is always necessary for certain types of improvement. (e.g. the titantic had to crash for safer boats, WWII had to happen for less war, etc...)
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A Ponzi scheme can provide necessary initial energy though. Many social networks for example gained initial energy by being something entirely different before pivoting. With cryptocurrencies this is driven by excess trust for the leaders i
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
If a blog network were driven by a contract that took away credibility tokens when enough fake-news tokens are amassed the token would have actual heft. Currently even a billion dislikes has no heft ad they can be ignored. Initial credibili
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
A large weakness people have is the necessity of a sense of safety before taking risks. A risk here is defined as a testing of a personal idea. 3rd party ideas necessarily are already vetted to some degree by reality because transportation
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I'm thinking block chains will be the start of that. Distributed non-forgetting memory systems that can influence reality via manipulation of virtual tokens that tie directly or indirectly to tokens in reality.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
What slack is to me is a disruption of the traditional methods of communication which often comes with a disruption of ideas of sacredness and profanity. There's always room for better tools but what I think Slack allows is leaving beh
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think that as initial capital requirements go down the only ideas that seek out VC investment are those that less validated. The VCs agree to invest in these "moonshots" that need to bleed for a few years maybe because there is
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
The overpricing is like a mattress topper. It's considered stable enough for short term investment at least. Especially the kind of investment that relies in volatility and mob psychology. It's entirely to gain value from a bubble
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Could this be broadened to say that those who have coping mechanisms for pain have less empathy for the pain of others? As an explanation why the well off seem to have less empathy for the less well off.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Not everyone is a well adjusted fully mature individual though. As an extreme example, imagine a child shooting a classmate without understanding what death actually is. From the child's perspective, the "bad" that that class
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Arguments over studies only work when both sides believe believe "science" to be the grant arbitrator of quality. They don't work particularly well when ramifications are complex and the results viewed as good or bad dependin
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Americans, for the most part desire sinecures. In fact they believe sinecures are a human right. This is because the US has been able to provide these types of jobs for the majority of the population for many generations. What is a sinecure
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I'm not sure the proportion, but there do exist certain people who are self destructive yet also self entitled. It's the state of mind that drives a person to gamble everything they own. Either the universe agrees with then and th
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's a term I'm playing around with "sinecure culture" that describes a society that is very well off compared to the rest of the world because of moats. The US due to WW2 weakening many other countries and HK because
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I'm having a lot of fun lately thinking about everything in cryptotokens: Everyone gets 3 basicMealTokens and 1 basicFun token. However, in SF, there are only sfMealTokens which require 20 basicMealTokens. In Vietnam, 1 vietnameseChick
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
One thing to realize is that at the higher levels, it's accepted that salary is basically a retainer. It's payment for the option to ask for work but not an obligation. This is truer the more "creative" or "strategi
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My belief is that the US freedom for curiosity is a side effect of being wealthy post WW2 relative to the other countries. The extraneous buffer allowed people to party through college and still make a living but is non-competitive when eve
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Don't be blind. Culture definitely provides tailwinds and headwinds in certain areas. Ignoring your attack on the strawman of 100% explanatory power the actual degree of effect may be very small but compounded over time. A simple examp
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
To borrow some momentum from modern pop culture via Bane from Batman. Japanese-american culture resisted the influence of darkness inflicted by the american culture that was consumed (temporarily) by the darkness. African American culture w

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