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by netcan 5y ago
cheeky jab at the competition
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by netcan 5y ago
It;s true that selection bias is a factor, and the way GPT-3 is distributed tends to aggravates that. Also, this is a human impersonator. It's not surprising that we find it personable and interesting. We find ceramic dolls personable
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by netcan 5y ago
Again, I don't disagree with you... just think reality makes it messy. Pivoting via "scrap & salvage" is pretty tough for a startup. The tech behind whatsapp was evidently good, but the IP behind a messaging app is probab
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by netcan 5y ago
Maybe. I'm not saying that philosophy is bad, just that reality is complicated. " Scrap the project and move on " works in some contexts, not others. The way startups/products actually work, often, is evolutionary. If yo
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by netcan 5y ago
I agree, but this assumes you actually know what you are building. This isn't usually the case for a startup. I'm sure whatsapp wanted a million users, but they didn't originally know that would happen. If whatsapp later tu
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by netcan 5y ago
For all sorts of reasons, good and bad. One is that the future is unknown. Your goal might be to keep the product simple and scale to 1bn users, but you don't really know if it will play out like this. Maybe you plateau at 1m users wit
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by netcan 5y ago
Not an example of the same thing, really. Nails don't need to be that hard. They're typically made from thin mild steel. If it's hard enough to be used as cutlery, demo it like every knife gets demoed. Slice up some tomatoes,
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by netcan 5y ago
As I said, I think in the current context of a handful of eco villages, evictions are probably very rare. Admissions OTOH, aren't rare. Meanwhile, this also corresponds to reality. In places where planned communities of various sorts e
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by netcan 5y ago
Re: agree on a layer of abstraction; the ur-problem^ of governance; abstracting the mechanisms with principles Those can be important. I think in a modern context these will probably exist, because we're already familiar with charters,
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by netcan 5y ago
There are actual, real discrimination implications to self governing communities. Forced eviction isn't likely to be the problem, but selective admission is. That said, reactions here are pretty hyperbolic... jumping to a very extreme
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by netcan 5y ago
I know quite a few people who grew up on a kibbutz, Israeli communes that were formed mostly in the early 20th century. Most of them "privatized" in the last generation. They were quite successful. One of the bigger modern example
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by netcan 5y ago
To those of us (most of us) from a liberal background, I think governance of these kinds can be confusing. We look for legible rulesets and interrogate them with " what happens if. " At a second level, we look for legible dynamics
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by netcan 5y ago
> The possibility for authoritarian attitudes seems high. Possibly, but I don't think you can point to an "aha!" clause and come to a conclusion. These things aren't deterministic. A village like this isn't stric
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by netcan 5y ago
IMO, everyone comes into this discussion with some sort of anchoring, and build up from that. IMO, it's way to cumbersome to think in terms of right, left and bias. What's the observable difference between a world where "righ
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by netcan 5y ago
I think this is the type of question we're left with, usually, after analysing the behaviour of any ranking/amplification algorithm. The reductive conclusion is either "right wing tweets are more engaging" or "the a
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by netcan 5y ago
>>This is not about proprietary code (owning the code), anymore, but about owning the platform and making people use it. FOSS, early on created a whole bunch of concepts and ideology that was very useful for framing the issue. Back th
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by netcan 5y ago
Well... this is a contested topic, I suppose. I'm on the total opposite side of the debate. IMO, the IPO should never have been granted in the first place. Moderna and others had their risks covered, their opportunities guaranteed, exc
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by netcan 5y ago
It's painful how much of this is "on schedule" to achieve circa 2000s doomsayer's dystopia. Make gateways to the internet, they become gates. Whether it's advertising/monetisation policies, getting suddenly bu
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by netcan 5y ago
IDk if journalism was better in the past. People in the best definitely thought it was bad too. I'm talking about the way we even structure the question today. There's no expectation of neutrality, and trying to appear neutral w
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by netcan 5y ago
So... certainly a concern of the zeitgeist. In the current era, I think we've lost confidence and taste for balanced narratives, neutral depictions and such. Journalism is storytelling. Every headline, choice of picture or example is a
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by netcan 5y ago
FWIW, David Graeber was vocally and loyally with you on this. This isn't a book about the consensus, it's more of a deconstructionist vibe. The paradigms in the crosshairs tend to be the 19th century, modernist, "thought expe
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by netcan 5y ago
This is a good point but... Innovation without disruption tends to get underlooked, being less dramatic. Think of the old auto companies over the years. They start off making tractor-like cars. They survive through the cars-as-fashion eras,
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by netcan 5y ago
The differences between web2 disruption and web3 disruption strategy games is like the difference between robin hood and bladerunner. Google went public @ $20bn and the papers were full of stories about Googlers getting filthy rich. Now b
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't disagree. If you have bad search, and search is a primary feature, then your ux sucks. I just don't think "just use google" is a viable alternative to making search good. If you're making an online store, se
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by netcan 5y ago
This is true in principle, but in practice, the use of 3rd party search has died down over the last decade. This is not the phenomenon of a superior way winning out. Either search is not an important feature, and a suboptimal, DIY implement
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by netcan 5y ago
There's an onion article in there somewhere. Honestly, giving a money grubbing printer a credit card and ordering powers might make a decent analogy to parts of the supply chain issues at large.
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by netcan 5y ago
Something very dystopian about these kinds of stories. Wringing the market like a wet mop. A limping business model for a piece of home equipment built on low quality, adware and gimmicky nonsense. .. winning the race to the bottom. Ultimat
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by netcan 5y ago
People have a tendency to view advertising as ineffective on them. " I never click ads. " Mostly this is true. Most ads people see don't make them do anything. People see a lot of ads though. Meanwhile, it's a marketing
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by netcan 5y ago
Perhaps, though this is probably hard given airports, take off slots and such. Sometimes the backup plan is occasional failure. Resiliency is expensive. We don't tend to own up to our decisions when we (companies, individuals, etc.) op
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by netcan 5y ago
I got hammered making this point re: Apple and the Dutch case about their payment system, but I suppose I'll make it again. The whole premis here seems naive. Of course Amazon is anticompetitive within their own ecosystem. If course it

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