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by elvinyung 8y ago
Interestingly, if Scott Alexander is right, behavioral economics stopped being en vogue a few years ago. From Slate Star Codex's review of The Black Swan [1]: > All of them continue to do great object-level work in their respectiv
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by elvinyung 8y ago
What about something like Patreon? There probably needs to be a social and cultural shift (i.e. not just technology) to make micropayment "marketplaces" for creators and content actually viable, but I would actually reasonably bet
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Sorry, have you read the book? (Not trying to be be condescending, actually curious.) I'm pretty sure it has everything to do with it, and more. The book even addresses arguments that such over-specialization is necessary : > In ot
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by elvinyung 8y ago
For anyone interested in this topic, I highly suggest the book Bullshit Jobs , which is basically a very in-depth (but entertaining!) ethnography of such over-specialized jobs.
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Moloch isn't just the tragedy of the commons. It's a generalization of it that applies to many more classes of decentralized behavior.
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sorry :P
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Thanks for the suggestion, done!
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I totally agree. But I meant that using that argument as a blanket statement about blockchains ignores all of the questions around problems like data governance that these new decentralized technologies are raising.
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Yeah! Using Notion as a publishing method seemed like the natural choice to me. It's basically zero effort to share my notes in a nice presentable way.
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Oh wow, thanks so much for linking this story! I was actually thinking of it as I was writing the post, but I couldn't remember the title.
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Yet Another Rant About Blockchains(notion.so)
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Gah, sorry, fixed -- thanks!
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But salaried work also needs things like a university degree (mostly). What I'm worried about isn't so much that there will always (or for the foreseeable future) be "skilled" and "unskilled" buckets of labor,
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Yes, exactly. It almost feels like secure salaried positions were actually the abnormal deviation in history, a small island of stability caused by a temporary surge of social democratic politics in the post-Great Depression era.
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Well, sure, but I think there's something to be cautious about here. The legend goes that the Romans never found an economically useful application for the steam engine (the aeolipile invented by Heron of Alexandria) because they alrea
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I meant something like "fraction of the employee's time spent on what the employer considers to be productive/useful work". Contrast it with a typical salaried job. In such a position, people basically get paid to take b
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Interesting. I've only vaguely interacted with Lazzarato's work through Hardt and Negri. I'm guessing the book builds on what Deleuze says about the society of control, e.g. "Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in deb
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It specifically isn't about that. The idea is that these projects aim to make more and more kinds of manual work fungible and exchangeable by breaking them down into small enough subtasks. Each of these elementary tasks get commoditi
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I have a pet theory that goes one step further. In Discipline and Punish , Foucault talks about how in the early modern era, the actions of subordinate individuals (workers, students, soldiers, etc.) became increasingly regimented through
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I thought a lot of the agoric computing folks turned to cryptocurrency-related stuff recently? (Sorry, haven't been following this much lately)
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He also played a nontrivial role in the development of Xanadu. The 1995 Wired article on it figures him prominently: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
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Yet Another Rant About Blockchains(notion.so)
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I think this is true for a lot of poststructuralist thought, the most popular which have generally been subsumed into the cultural consciousness (e.g. Deleuze's rhizome becomes what we know as the distributed network). But I think it&#
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My theory here is really sloppy, but in this topic I think there are two concepts worth examining: * Baudrillard's ideas on the hyperreality , which is basically a simulation that doesn't actually relate to any underlying reality
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Thanks for the suggestion! I've also been simultaneously reading You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier, and The Efficiency Paradox by Edward Tenner, both of which seem to be pretty good reads so far.
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The marketplace of ideas idealism is interesting. It seems to crop up every now and then as the aspirational model for how ideas should propagate especially with technological mediation. But I'm not sure how valid it is, given that the
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I don't think that cryptocurrencies are the future, but I do think that patronage-based crowdfinance platforms (like Patreon) serve as a guide for where we should be heading, culturally.
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I was really excited to try this, but then I realized it wasn't on Android :(
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But I think that precisely misses the point. Yes, orthodox academic economics focuses very deeply on the psychology of decision making, but it doesn't focus very broadly on all the other things I mentioned. I love the work of Kahneman
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There's a very large body of work in fields like critical economic geography (as an extremely introductory and nonrepresentative example, [1][2]) that discuss the affective, pluralistic dimensions to global and local economies, of whic

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