eli_gottlieb

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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
When I aim to accomplish something, to destroy some institution, I tend to favor the direct way, because it relies on fewer intermediate points of failure than the indirect way.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
This is the policy I was always told to exercise about cold emails, both those I receive and those I send. Someone seems to have spent weeks reading your books and papers before emailing to meet with you? Make time for that guy. Someone
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
> “competition” won’t improve it or control it because there is always a supply side shortage of provision. Why is there always a supply-side shortage?
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by eli_gottlieb 5mo ago
> the taxes are credited with reducing the residential vacancy rate to 0.49% Isn't that really, really low and a driver of rent rises?
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by eli_gottlieb 5mo ago
Yes, collective punishment of the smaller collective who can self-police (cops, no pun intended) rather than the larger collective who can't (citizens and taxpayers at large).
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by eli_gottlieb 5mo ago
This is going to be horribly embarrassing when it turns out that AI can only outcompete human labor in some roles. https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers
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by eli_gottlieb 5mo ago
They Live was a product of its time. We live in our time, so instead we've got Sorry to Bother You .
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by eli_gottlieb 5mo ago
Embracing? Get older? This is just how my parents raised me.
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
Fell For It Again Award
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
That has nothing to do with Trump's trade policies w.r.t Canada, though.
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
As the kids say: skill issue!
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
Ok, let's make it Congress and everyone working an elected position or political appointment in the executive branch as well. All good!
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
Look man I'm just telling you about my own life. I feel more independent when I have a smaller space and less stuff that's easier to account for or move around.
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
Because they're the ones doing it and they have the power? Sorta inevitable outcome of markets in everything, really.
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
> I don't understand how any human in good faith could look at Iran's government and say they are the evil regime, Well mainly by having Iranian friends who tell us their government is an evil regime, and when we try to insist
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by eli_gottlieb 6mo ago
But buying a lot of tacky stuff isn't independence in any meaningful way. It's just choosing a lifestyle with a larger dependency surface.
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by eli_gottlieb 7mo ago
> I say again — why would investors trust him if his only track record is losing investor money? Because they look at a serial fraudster and see themselves in him.
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by eli_gottlieb 7mo ago
What are the substantive safety or environmental objections to the project that TerraPower is bypassing by allegedly bribing the government?
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
Libertarianism is just privatized authoritarianism.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> Isn't it more a cultural issue though? No. Culture is downstream of institutions.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
Horses couldn't revolt.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
What's the difference in predictions made between a theory of elite overproduction vs one of proletarianization?
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> Yet we do not pay poll taxes today. We are not getting lynched in the streets. We are not being directly racially discriminated from employment. No thanks to the present government, who post about deporting slightly less than 1/3
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
But I think in this case an aging population can hold down the official unemployment rate, even when there are no new jobs outside services for the aged.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> "Perhaps", he speculated, "Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable ... weirdness." I think, reading this today, it p
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> Because I believe it can be supported and be shown to be objectively correct. Then that's not an opinion, it's a proposition aiming at fact, and you should back it up rather than restating it loudly and more slowly when asked
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
I'm working on evaluating and documenting my application of a deep equilibrium model with a recurrent neural network as an inference encoder in a Poisson variational autoencoder.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> What percentage of people currently living off of welfare are doing meaningful work? Most of them, since the vast majority of "welfare" programs exclusively assist people who are in work.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
> Bubbles are a desirable feature of the American experiment. No they're not. You don't get to decide what other people desire.
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by eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
Oh man you're not gonna like how we all treat you after internalizing that kinda talk.

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