yann2

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by yann2 5y ago
>working for Disney or Pixar pales in comparison to how much $ Facebook,apple, netflix and amazon, I dont think you know too many creative people. Artists i.e. people with an imagination, are much more capable of finding routes out of co
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by yann2 5y ago
> Don’t put the future in jeopardy just to indulge in some frivolous nostalgia Well the future for most people isnt too exciting. And most people have no clue what to do about it. Telling them to stay away from facebook, sex, food, alcoh
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by yann2 5y ago
Insane. Thanks for posting!
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by yann2 5y ago
If you really dont know why - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_seeking
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by yann2 5y ago
What happens if I study cockroaches? Chinese cockroaches to be specific. Am I allowed to post cartoons about them? What about bears?
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by yann2 5y ago
Strengths and weakness only matter in the context of a problem. If surviving in a desert is the problem a cactus wins. But that strength has no value when the problem cbanges. It becomes a weakness. A cactus cannot turn into a coconut tree
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by yann2 5y ago
Well more than public thinkers and conspiracy theorists which there is no dearth off, what is missing are people who are consistent nuisance to the powers that be. Not in TV studios or the twttersphere. But on the ground. The powers thats b
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by yann2 5y ago
The robots in fb exec staff are programmed to ask for forgiveness over permission when they are in empire defense mode. Letters wont change that programming.
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Ok go read about Gandhi now.
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Social Medication I believe
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You aren't stating why you want to be CEO. Thats should be the starting point. If you are planning to raise funds to scale (which usually translates to scaling marketing and sales teams) then expect investors to pile on pressure to hir
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by yann2 5y ago
Dude are you saying what comes out of the mind, of say a H. R. Giger, and the rest of the chimp troupe have overlap because they share the same hardware?
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Chocolate, Cheese and Wine.
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It works when you do stuff for them :) I had no idea what a good mentor was cause the type of people the orgs assign are doing it out of obligation or want an obedient slave and its a crap shoot whether personalities and needs match up. The
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+1 No accident that part of the world produced Herge and Mobieus and inspired Miyazaki.
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Has nothing to do with the needs of the Chinese ppl. Its just about survival. Once you accumulate enough wealth and/or power unintended consequences just keep increasing. They never decrease. And the 6 inch chimp brain everyone has do
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by yann2 5y ago
Have you heard of Bounded Rationality? There is an upper bound on what the chimp brain can do. No big diff with a group of chimps. There is always an upper bound. Pretending there is no bound leads to a big trap. Its like telling second gra
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>most Italian words have emphasis on the second-to-last syllable Good I like to drag out my 'Thats amoooooooooooooore' as much as possible :)
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by yann2 5y ago
I dont worry. I have seen these cycles with IBM and Microsoft. And they all blow up eventually because the unintended consequences keep increasing. So Google has got itself locked into that same trajectory for a long time now. "Feature
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These are like iterations towards solving Info Asymmetry problems. The politicians under pressure are always going to come up with a bunch of hacks cause there are no great solutions. You in 10th grade dont take advantage of the knowledge g
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by yann2 5y ago
Why is accountability so primitive in 2021? As dumb as it might sound, I feel the US still has a big share of honest good people, compared to what I have seen abroad. Sad to watch.
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Niall Ferguson's Square and the Tower - power is all about your network. Wealth can most definately buy you a network quick, but those networks are more fragile than established entrenched ones.
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I use the NoScript addon on Firefox and auto filter out all IPs that end up on Steven Black's Host list - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts That takes care of a significant chunk of the ever increasing pollutio
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Here is facebooks "targetting attributes" - https://assets.wordstream.com/s3fs-public/styles/simple_imag...
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Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz would be a much better option.
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Look up the Explore-Exploit paradox. Its much more about the personality types in the population than it is about outdated labels such as scientist or artist. There are scientists who behave like artists and artists who behave like scienti
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People have all kinds of things going on in their lives that effect these decisions. And I wouldnt look at "success" just on sign up numbers. Its more about what values the org is broadcasting and prioritizing.
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How is the pheromone gradient maintained in the termite hill?
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Outcomes are weird and unpredictable though. This is not exactly Kermit Roosevelt Jr we are talking about.
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Heres a better intro - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

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