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by ipnon 3y ago
Please ask yourself if robbery existed before the invention of corporations and liberal democracy in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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by ipnon 3y ago
It’s easy to deal with the crime in SF when you’re in Palo Alto!
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by ipnon 3y ago
It’s simply more expensive to deal with the public relations and legal consequences of organized retail crime than to deal with it itself. These are national or even multinational corporations. They will let the stores in dysfunctional citi
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by ipnon 3y ago
This is the average salary of all kinds of doctors in all parts of the United States. A relatively subpar doctor in South Dakota makes as much as a highly skilled engineer in one of the largest corporations in the world. Silicon Valley is n
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Books on Xi's Shelf(beijingchannel.substack.com)
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Genius of the Jet – The Invention of the Jet Engine: Frank Whittle [video](youtube.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
It is a compelling argument being made that unaligned AGI would act essentially as SBF did and does. Everything is an optimization problem. If you select the wrong criteria the system explodes but there is no guilt or shame to make correcti
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My economics podcast with Rick Rubin(marginalrevolution.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Everyone wants free speech for open society but nobody wants X, 4chan, bots, bullies or pundits! You have to hold your nose people. The price to pay is rabid disagreement, dangerous ideas, motivated influence, psychological warfare, public
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by ipnon 3y ago
My friend, you are clearly the more skilled economist between us.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Clothing manufacture is really only bottlenecked by labor. It’s one of the areas where if someone puts up the capital, and the factory is located in a city with low-cost labor, a profit will be turned. It’s a great example of what economist
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by ipnon 3y ago
LLMs are great at producing “free undergrads.” By that I mean it’s now easy to train a model that can produce textbook answers to textbook questions, that is well-defined solutions to well-defined problems. Modern LLMs will not be able to r
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by ipnon 3y ago
It is a sad fact that combat stress reaction and subsequent PTSD among veterans was only taken seriously once the US armed forces began to have more deaths by suicide than by combat. The disorder causes immense personal suffering in individ
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by ipnon 3y ago
Thank you for reminding me of the game “Unmanned”. You play a drone operator who must make impossible decisions. The burden takes a toll, it is well worth a play for anyone interested in this subject of combat stress reaction. http:/&
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The Black Mesa Incident – Archival Footage NBC (Reconstruction) [video](youtube.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Tokyo Just Works . It is inspiring to see a well-functioning civil society. Most emblematic of this is the trains that always arrive on time, are always clean, and rarely get delayed. There is still so much more potential to be had around
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Musk Has Launched a New American Space Industry in LA [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ipnon 3y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 3y ago
Thanks for this response. It sounds like such a good deal I am checking out the Norwegian universities now.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Does it ever make sense to do graduate school just to get by? If you’re desperate for work, does the stipend ever cover the cost of living, at least enough to spend all your time in the library?
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by ipnon 3y ago
“Information wants to be free.”
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by ipnon 3y ago
This bill seems so outdated. 5 years ago there were major outstanding ethical problems in regards to bias of models. Now every major AI company has dedicated alignment teams, and it’s pretty easy to check that the models reliably generate p
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Riding to Times Square with the GoTrax G6 Electric Scooter [video](youtube.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
One does not easily return to the work-spend-reproduce cycle after an afternoon-lifetime with the machine-elves, at least not without a pervasive sense of unease. Does any strongly held belief withstand a transformative experience? How many
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Japan's Bubble-Burst: The Party That Wasn't Supposed to End [video](youtube.com)
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Stripe Press – An Homage to Printed Works(buildingsomethingold.substack.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Read an introduction to economics textbooks. Use one from a popular MOOC syllabus. Cowen and Tabarrok is a great example. Once you can turn everything into a model and an equilibrium the biggest systems of the world become much clearer.
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Work from Home Works(marginalrevolution.com)
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Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport(techcrunch.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Python's simplicity and flexibility is what has allowed the language to reinvent itself for every new period of computing, while the paradigm- or bare-metal-bound languages have become relics. A good programming language is self-organi
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by ipnon 3y ago
Elixir is like a magic potion for network-bound applications, but most people aren't working on network-bound problems. It still has the elegance and consistency when you're writing a regular application. You just have to know the

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