@LudditeHacker@zetalyrae yeah they’re trying everything as they should
but an efficient capital allocator wouldn’t build any of this if it wasn’t at least a good bet with the current knowledge
@digitalgnomead@MegaBasedChad im sure this is several layers below his actual attention but the ppl at stripe have to protect themselves by imagining the worst possible reaction
@ctjlewis let Joe and Bernie get some rest for gods sakes
best case is to retire them but
in third world countries they heavily use surrogates for political candidates including literal impersonators
need more of that
2 types of factorio players
1) me and @nickcammarata who have strictly banned central planning and make awful circuitous factories that nonetheless work
2) those who upload their finely honed blueprints to GitHub https://x.com/lexi_lambda/status/1293305360103682048
@__femb0t@cpp999x@chc40 i don’t think ive ever said this and even i was being an edgelord i certainly don’t believe it lol
anyone can tell following my account that im basically transhumanist and believe society will spend an increasing % of gdp on end of life care & extension (and that’s Good)
@storebrandguy@CHRdollarsign@mcluvyn@deepfates dont have the context on the deleted messages but
u nerds need to stop worrying and have more fun
crypto kiddies half our age are pulling scams on unimaginable scales
@storebrandguy@mcluvyn@deepfates if the sec is knocking on $roon coin holder's doors that means they are truly jobless and probably should be disbanded
@MegaBasedChad do you think mark z will get biographies written about him in the same way as jobs and musk? idts
frankly i think even he might become a footnote in history, much less the winklevii
@MegaBasedChad if you see what normies in the replies say to any facebook related news it's something along the lines of 'this started as a website to rank girls and get laid!'
kind of blackpilled on real history ever beating that narrative but who knows
@NoelSkum1 India
it’s a much bigger country where individual units operate more autonomously + lower education
can be a long time before you find out some fucked up shit is happening one ashram over
@arctanno@typecfemale@growing_daniel exactly
we are able to be funny because we mainline culture 12 hours a day
meanwhile elon is watching stephen colbert clips from 10 years ago and dying in his private jet
we complain about the crypto ecosystem a lot and how hard it is to use
but even with all this hurdles it's probably easier to work with than drawing up a "real" contract / fund structure to collectively buy a constitution
@thoughtomata thats interesting id imagine its better than most things for unit econ
seems like a straightforward scheduling problem for achieving maximum asset utilization of washers and driers
@typecfemale@storebrandguy well the strong abundance argument is that we really will keep getting richer and richer due to tech progress
the weak abundance argument is more like ppl are being “penny wise pound foolish” often. wasting valuable time/status/comfort/sanity to save money they don’t need
@typecfemale@storebrandguy my dad leaves the plastic wrapper on his tv and appliances and whatever else to protect the quality or whatever. but everyone that sees it probably thinks “wow what a poor/cheap fellow” and the cost of that is way higher than scratches on the microwave lol
@typecfemale@storebrandguy my dad would k*ll himself if he knew about my $60 haircuts but the value of looking good is literally astronomical. that’s really my only gripe with scarcity mfers
@storebrandguy@typecfemale not cunsooming as a manner of saving resources for the world feels a lot more virtuous to me than being among the richest people who have ever lived and being afraid to take an Uber or whatever
@Duderichy@typecfemale@storebrandguy ngl imo the value you lost from the community / connections / etc is multiples more than what you saved on room&board. I suppose it depends what college
@Duderichy@typecfemale@storebrandguy totally fair. I’d change a lot of what I did in college if I knew my expected lifetime earnings would be like this
you should not try to trade on an info advantage against wall street
you should not try to trade on a modeling advantage against wall street
you SHOULD trade on a high verbal iq narrative driven galaxy brain thesis that you developed after exegesis of twitter timeline for 5 yrs
people really simultaneously believe that
- it is impossible to find alpha competing against wall street
- all active fund managers underperform the S&P (??)
@__femb0t@small_nuts yeah the thing with the AOC titan honestly isn’t bad at all
the undertone of the thing seems to be about killing refugees (which is far worse) but I’m not sure
@chairsign lol you’re not gonna believe me but I just searched blank pdf and took the first thing
but yeah I was probably subconsciously remembering this
@varunramg@jeff82874662 how is that a stunt lol, I get paid in my company’s options and so do you
unless this is some galaxy brain joke about Tesla stonks being fake
@jeff82874662@seconds_0@liminal_warmth correct but for example if it’s true “governance” then the shareholders can vote to “govern” that the money from sale should be disbursed back to them
the way to bridge the gap between DAO world and legal system world in the short term and maybe long term is to have consequences for the intermediaries on both sides of the system if they renege
eg yeah the DAO is “advisory” as far as the legal system is concerned but maybe you can ban all the principals from all future transactions for ex if they don’t fulfill the DAO’s consensus anyway
requires decentralized rep systems and persistent identity tho
@antoniogm was just saying in a group chat how you’re the hunter s thompson of tech writers (active participant in the madness as a method of documenting it) and someone coined the phrase Gonzo Autism
@ded_ruckus yeah but there’s no way to stake collateral even a small fraction of what they’ve raised or it would be prohibitive for everyone except the richest
the better liked the tech industry is the less powerful it will become
at all levels high technology is driven by a near religious fervor to make science fiction real and religious fervor thrives on "knowing secrets". if everyone agrees then theres no secret and no zealotry
@pjsempe you need some of that influx to temper the most extremist instincts of the zealots
like the roman elite tempered christianity by joining and turning it away from 'mob doomsday cult'
@deepfates nah even with the reputation pretty much 90% of applicants can't do the job and there are plenty of false positives that get past the screen and aren't up to caliber too
@deepfates i do think the component where they make you jump through hoops to see if you're high executive function enough is real tho
like you're about to spend a large part of your time wrangling a giant bureaucracy to get what you want; the interview prep is a small sampler of this
@prerationalist@deepfates fair enough tbh
i did grind a bit the first time around (2 weeks ish) but i have no way of knowing the counterfactual whether i would've done fine
@Mousr8@prerationalist@deepfates the thing is though with the advent of leetcode there has been difficulty creep in the whiteboard problems
lot of the classic questions have been phased out
so now it's like kind of tablestakes to study up a bit
the definition of the phrase IYI is when i tried to flex my GRE score on here and ended up including my full address and social security number in the score report screenshot🥲
@Cererean@RokoMijic@alth0u how can it be useless when it's already bore so much fruit? we're clearly doing something right already
and why do you assume that EM fields would be an unrecoverable error? seems like you want the ai research paradigm to fail and are reasoning backwards from that
@Hellachans it will just behave like SPY or anything else in a downturn but thats not important
its value as a currency is tangential to its value in organizing an alternative semi-legal economy lol
@alth0u - joined early stage startup
- maxed out robinhood margin
- degenerate LEAP gambling
- hold so little cash i probably have overdraft risk
- all of these things are cope b/c i didn't just buy a house
@Hellachans@woke_alt not sure what you mean because this is just an easily verifiable fact
the feds know all about the dark net markets and yet i can still buy cocaine online without too much hassle
entry level take: too many ppl are working computer technology and not enough in the world of atoms, leading to a great stagnation
big brain take: miracle of miracles that we discovered computer technology when we did, else there would've been ~zero gdp growth in the last 30 yrs
@krishnanrohit that makes zero sense lmao
bc i believe theres a high nonzero chance of AI foom i should become a doomer and take on lots of debt? you could say this of any potential catastrophe
@reachtarunhere@shiraeis@MegaBasedChad theres not really any such thing as top of ones class in US unis im just making up a harder flex for shira's sake
@krishnanrohit not really this is a bad defn of alpha
there are plenty of cases where people know things but aren’t able to act on it due to market structure
@krishnanrohit say for example I knew some startup was trash because it’s tech doesn’t work - there is no way for me to act on this info because i can’t short private equities
@krishnanrohit i think for example theres short term threat of total disaster from both AI and climate. im not gonna change my time preference at all. i'm fairly confident humans will overcome both - that doesn't mean the risk doesn't exist
@gbrl_dick@jeff82874662 real talk homeostatic principle suggests that nothing we do will make people much sadder or happier except maybe some nick C techno buddhist magic shit to
@eigenrobot the greatest effect of this will be that it’s hard to run good talent discovery programs of poor students
that being said the well groomed aristocracy will still keep going to the UC schools and many of them are pretty smart
@Hellachans@woke_alt you prolly don’t know the history of this — they’ve taken down several including the extremely high profile Silk Road & the infamous arrest of its founder Ross Ulbricht
but over time the scope and scale of DNM operations has only gone up
@Hellachans@woke_alt where the original Silk Road had a few thousand listings at best and was already moving billions in market volume
there are now several that post 50k+ listings & likely $10b+ in drug volume
cat and mouse game where the feds appear to be losing
@chimericCreati1@eigenrobot “not hard to prep for”? it’s just an aptitude test most of the research shows at best a few points of improvement from studying
regarding wireheading. it certainly seems like an unexamined assumption that happy people spend all their time doing nothing in a vat. it’s a good first metaphor bc that’s how eg fentanyl works but unclear if there are other viable interventions
@reconfigurthing they still have to pay back the debts as best as possible
declaring bankruptcy -> business is stripped for parts, sold, and capital reimbursed to lenders
@lastcontrarian agreed but it’s not adversarial - the point of these orgs has always been to deploy capital to promising private companies to build useful stuff for them
difference is how verticalized SpaceX has been
@lastcontrarian tldr nasa is not sitting around killing young space companies
the problem has always been technological - if someone brilliant enough comes along to sell a good product to them they’ll happily buy it
@lastcontrarian feel the same way about FDA as well - they mostly guard dog pharmas from spitting out bottom of the barrel drugs that have an effect size in the fifth decimal place
one area where it seems government is truly the enemy is the FAA where it concerns commercial aviation