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by walleeee 4y ago
Ok, can you help me understand? Are you saying direct stimulus is not a big factor in the recent inflation? If not, what is? And would you say it's a good thing for the circulation you describe to float free of productive activity? I w
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by walleeee 4y ago
Aren't these points orthogonal? Yes, money flows when it's not parked somewhere, but when a lot of people use extra cash for unproductive speculation it tends to make current or future recessions worse. What is needed is deliberat
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by walleeee 4y ago
ok, I see maybe one relevant factor is proximity to a nation's power centers or governing bodies, i.e. a company might be judged more or less "American" or "Chinese" not on the basis of its staff's diversity bu
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by walleeee 4y ago
that's a big and messy bag of worms and given the contextual ambiguity I'm having a hard time agreeing or disagreeing with any conviction, although I do agree American identity is in many of its deployments a pretty empty concept
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by walleeee 4y ago
Can you help me understand the point you're making with regard to my original comment?
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by walleeee 4y ago
an American clone would presumably not be built by a Chinese company
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by walleeee 4y ago
An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is not much better than TikTok itself imo, all things considered There are deeper and farther-reaching issues here than competition between nation-states for information supremacy Effects of regul
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by walleeee 4y ago
Seriously, a single person making less than that can live comfortably nearly anywhere in the US if they keep expenses reasonable, especially if it's remote and they have no need for a car
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by walleeee 4y ago
not only is it multi-tier, it's circular: FB/Google/etc marketing depts eat the same dogfood when it's served back to them hence stuff like this https://www.memo.co (note the Google endorsement if you scroll
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by walleeee 4y ago
Sure, guess I should say *modern European, or perhaps English Bacon, Grosseteste, etc
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by walleeee 4y ago
there's an argument monasteries gave birth to the modern European scientific tradition too
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by walleeee 4y ago
I definitely agree there are upsides. I had a Twitter for a while and found a ton of interesting articles, informative accounts, etc. I've learned a ton from YouTube. Sure, some TikTok videos can be helpful. But the idea that the media
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by walleeee 4y ago
Yep, me too!
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by walleeee 4y ago
phones are on a different level than fiction or radio or arguably even cannabis imo you can do something else while you listen to the radio or smoke pot (e.g., clean your house, hang out with friends or family, with weed you can even read o
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by walleeee 4y ago
Which condition do you figure is the weakest link?
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by walleeee 4y ago
Any of this could easily be wrong and I'm by no means an historian or political theorist but I'm in the middle of a book called Absolutism and its Discontents and it's made me a little hesitant to draw too many parallels betw
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by walleeee 4y ago
> Might we see the nation-state get replaced by a web of competing mercenaries, each of which effectively serves as a protection racket for their customers? How do you envision the deprecation of the nuclear-armed nation state unfolding
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by walleeee 4y ago
Good point. I imagine people will self-modify substantially in VR though. If we have high resolution VR it seems likely we'll be able to alter our voices and change our virtual bodies at will. And if video games and Twitter and even IR
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by walleeee 4y ago
I suspect Steve Ballmer's motives to trash the iPhone in 2010 were rather unlike those leading some of us to doubt the desirability of Meta's VR ambitions in 2022
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by walleeee 4y ago
I was privy to something while I still had a twitter account: a certain group of people, mostly anon or semi-anon accounts, having been brought into contact by some combination of algorithm, self-selection and serendipity, many of whom seem
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by walleeee 4y ago
I really like this way of thinking about it- if we can't imagine different futures, we won't create them!
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by walleeee 4y ago
agreed!
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by walleeee 4y ago
AR/VR skepticism is an attempt to influence the tech landscape and imo the most compelling dismissals are not made on grounds of irrelevance or lack of application but principled judgements about how we want to interact with the worl
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by walleeee 4y ago
we threw away vacuum tubes and replaced them with semiconductors this made computers more reliable were the vacuum tube monstrosities not computers?
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by walleeee 4y ago
> Useful software today beats perfect software tomorrow. this isn't a natural law, it's a product of social incentives and amenable (if perhaps difficult) to change > A better tactic is to pick one very specific area you th
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by walleeee 4y ago
good points, and even when software is open source and standards exist, incentives may not be there to use them or build anything to last in the commons, so you get every lab writing its own toolkit and science gateway or data portal to pub
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by walleeee 4y ago
contextualizing a point is just as legitimate as responding to it directly and this particular comment is relevant perhaps some people will always grow complacent but you could just as easily make an essentialist argument about the corporat
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by walleeee 4y ago
> there just doesn't seem to be any other reliable way for people in our generation to make a living I suspect this may be exaggerated, in that there is still demand in other career paths, they just aren't as appealing for vari
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by walleeee 4y ago
in creatures like us and in artificial devices fashioned after our nervous systems, yes, it seems necessary, agreed the jury is still out on multiple realizability, though
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by walleeee 4y ago
modern neuroscience demonstrates very well that correlating self report and behavior with electrical signals in the brain is so far not sufficient to understand sentience either

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