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by jmeister 4y ago
Twitter spaces live right now: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgLdenVjxL
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by jmeister 4y ago
There was no gate-keeping. Yann LeCun was doing neural networks in the late 80s.
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by jmeister 4y ago
+1
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by jmeister 4y ago
Twitter and Square wouldn’t have existed without Dorsey. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Prominent libertarians who opposed intervention: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2023/03/silicon-valley-ba... https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/163512097142539468... https:&#
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by jmeister 4y ago
Have you read Turchin? He defines the term rigorously to refer to a particular social-economic class
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by jmeister 4y ago
Useless maybe, but still new and constructive. The laptop class he derides is mostly nihilistic and destructive. At the absolute worst he facilitated the transfer of funds from wealthy investors to crypto programmers?
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by jmeister 4y ago
(2018)
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by jmeister 4y ago
>If you are a rich VC, how about just building twenty houses? There is no dearth of people wanting to build houses. They just cannot get permissions.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Sarcasm right? America has to import and litigate all of the world's problems? White Man's Burden?
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What Is the Longhouse?(firstthings.com)
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by jmeister 4y ago
Too bad. The state puts its thumb on the scale in every market. Others have commented on cars below. If the city wanted to encourage scooters it would have. In America people actually try to build a Bird. Elsewhere they just don't both
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by jmeister 4y ago
Not sudden https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-s... https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/google-as-fat-...
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by jmeister 4y ago
Thank you for your informative comments on this thread.
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by jmeister 4y ago
They can be a solution though. Low taxes can incentivize business to overlook the other problems that may take longer to solve.
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by jmeister 4y ago
>"should" investors demand the senior executives get pay cuts? Why? They just executed thousands of slaves, and there will be a massive drop in costs Why not? Investors are after every additional cent, and they don’t have speci
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by jmeister 4y ago
I’m saying it’s way easier than for a factory worker in 1823 or 1923 to raise money or gather machines. I’m not being cynical. I’d really like to see alternative governance structures to produce and sell software. Co-ops are an example.
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by jmeister 4y ago
In finance, law, and medicine, the workers are the product roughly. Anyway this debate about being 1000x more valuable is pointless. It does not matter what any individual thinks about their worth. We've all agreed(#) on this system(
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by jmeister 4y ago
It’s an expository article and a personal reminiscence. You can look away if you aren’t interested.
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by jmeister 4y ago
Does Time’s readership have any clue about Effective Altruism?
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by jmeister 4y ago
Or simply, he’s been promising this feature(search his feed) forever, and has now gotten around to shipping it.
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by jmeister 4y ago
"Free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/statu
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by jmeister 4y ago
This article has a good investigation of the various ways the employees had their thumbs on the scale. >Other journalists have speculated that ChatGPT is biased due to the politically leaning of “Established sources”, such as academia an
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by jmeister 4y ago
Exactly. A counter culture needs some room to take risks. You can’t do that with the Damocles’ sword of visibility/virality hanging over you 24x7. The other comment about being offline is right. You’ll find some cool pseudonymous writ
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by jmeister 4y ago
Who cares if the developers get rich? Do you(and the rest of society) get what you want? “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. W
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by jmeister 4y ago
The opposing case: >..the incentives of a managerial class are not the same as the incentives of the lone entrepreneur. They have different timelines, risk profiles, and diversification/skin in the game. The managerial class is ofte
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by jmeister 4y ago
Thanks. Very interesting to see effective labor organization at work.
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by jmeister 4y ago
What’s this doing on the front page? Slow news day(night)!
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by jmeister 4y ago
It is not pulled out of thin air. It's Stanford/Hoover, if they have access to the mean they have access to the median, probably more fine grained data too.
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by jmeister 4y ago
No it's just about skew. https://openstax.org/books/introductory-business-statistics/...

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