@thebestestpie@dcwych@cateliseh ya it’s easily worth it lol grocery shopping is annoying and boring. plus those instacart guys are doing like 5 ppls shopping at once
i get prime fresh which I believe at this point is just robots packing fresh produce
@dcwych@thebestestpie@cateliseh fair enough bc i absolutely have found things that I find it gross when ppl do it
like paying guys to stand in line for the club or something lol
just saying it’s all pretty arbitrary
@deepfates@Rididelduol@telmudic tel is hinting at an inside joke that I unfortunately cannot explain due to racism but let it be known you’ll never see me in a polo while I’m still alive ,,,
@Duderichy price is not equilibriating back up to $1 despite the protocol destroying a lot of money supply
ppl will lose faith in the protocol working as a stablecoin
@prerationalist having a token attached to a protocol is not really zero sum tho
as ppl buy into the program you make money as a large holder of $TOKEN whether it’s relevant to the protocol or not. for example why do ppl buy $SUSHI
just think. someone that became a billionaire off the current defi boom will write a book 10 years from now praising himself as a contrarian and people will really believe it
@nickcammarata also im in the camp of befriending and recruiting confident fast talkers wherever possible but there are some who cross over into like unctuous territory when they’re too good at talking
@nikhillin_it@halvorz@DeadLiftCapital yeah it’s not about temporary refuge so much as it is about bootloading humanity onto another world and creating the impetus for further development
if today’s Mars colony moves up the timeline for terraforming by even 50 years it will have been worth it
@petergodofsky yeah bc Antarctica is boring lol
every kid knows the name of the first man on the moon. I have very little knowledge of the history of Antarctica
@halvorz@nikhillin_it@DeadLiftCapital people enjoy these galaxy brains like “what if taking logical steps towards the goal will move it further away” but it’s rarely like that
if the first one fails people will learn from it and do better next time
@halvorz@nikhillin_it@DeadLiftCapital doesn’t really seem fungible as you have to consider the demand side as well
Govts would be thrilled to get their people on Mars (as a general function of people at large would be thrilled to get to Mars), not sure you can cajole them into moving that funding around abstractly
@halvorz@nikhillin_it@DeadLiftCapital I meant thrilled to be there in the abstract (watching it on tv)
the actual “colonists” will have to be made of sturdier stuff
that being said it’s not for no reason every kid puts astronaut as #1 desired occupation
@sadazop@halvorz Elon/SpaceX are science marketers of the highest degree yea
it’s clear how everybody with even a mild interest in technology loves their public launches and dramatic landings and whatnot
If anybody can find the federal funds it’s them
@sadazop@halvorz it’s important to remember the whole project started as a literal meme - they were buying Russian missiles to send some dirt and plans to Mars for the photo value then realized they could maybe do it cheaper on their own
the Antarctica thing is cope … unless you manage to figure out hitherto unknown marketing strategies everybody wants to go to space and nobody wants to go to Antarctica
@halvorz@FahadMAlam@ded_ruckus@idontwa86202030@MattOsterndorf also in many ways the blimp city seems much worse demand side as well
what’re you gonna do for your EVAs go look at some sulfuric clouds? where’s the romantic appeal?
it could be at best a research lab but doesn’t have any of the draw of exploration imo
it’s amazing this has to be said but the primary point of space colony isn’t to move people off of earth or abandon earth wtf
earth will become a garden paradise
@aniiyengar@varunramg yeah cmon guys I shill Mars colonies for days and then make a mild comment that it won’t be that fun and everybody loses their mind …
@valueless_user@Mimi_Rose_01 sure but why bring these raw materials down to earth? only the refined goods need to come down after shedding all unused mass
@valueless_user@Mimi_Rose_01 yeah I mostly agree that it’s not economical but it’s the same as eg doing carbon taxation you know
environment concerns over efficiency
@PowerMacG4Cube there’s not just one solution you know there are many
when the number of variables is high you can pick an ok soln and iteratively refine it into a better one
do you realize the Mayans thought the sun would explode if they stopped child sacrificing for even a year but they never set up an “solar xrisk” committees
@Noahpinion ideology does make you smarter
on average picking up a highly evolved thoughtform will make you better off than going in raw
will also give you predictable blind spots
@Interrobang_2@Noahpinion humans together are smarter than humans alone - that much is obvious
so then a thoughtform that has been collaboratively constructed … ?
@varunramg he also doesn’t market himself, does not do dramatic unveiling events, no social media etc
nothing racial involved he just doesn’t seek the limelight
otoh someone like balaji isn’t even a real business leader and yet commands an insane amount of headspace
do you know how easy it is to get likes with a us flag Avi? like candy from a baby — so easy that I had to switch to PRC flag to make it a challenge. still easy
@lisatomic5 activation energy, narrow specialization, etc.
i probably couldn't tell you how i'd go about making an electron app or something. im capable of building some pytorch models tho
@chaosprime@0xtujmrrr yeah I’ve been using it in a friendly way but we need something better
refraction is still shape terminology
best I’ve got is symbol manipulator
if twitter would simply get their OCR up and running as fb and google have then muted terms won’t show up in image posts either and I’ll never see politics on my blessed timeline again
@yhdistyminen I don’t know how you can even say something like this with a straight face
the former is decades of concerted effort from thousands of people moving Heaven and earth
the latter is a galaxy brain shitpost that 5 people have probably spent a month of their time on
@atroyn imo thats not the cultural perception
my best thermostat for this is just to listen to how joe rogan talks about him and his projects lol
its a level near reverence almost cringeworthy stuff
@__femb0t@bobpoekert@atroyn i mean cmon shes not a serf. she says uncharitable things about extremely powerful people they exchange some mean words and they come running back to her to do more interviews anyway. in a sense, that's how it should work
@PrinceVogel but I guess look at how logo and kantbot hit it off on twitter and started doing deeper work together
or how several ppl met their cofounders online & other things like that
online is the best lead generation you’ll ever get but needs to be followed up
@PrinceVogel Or Robin Hanson and EYud who wrote essays online, started “rationalism”, split up, and have ongoing debates that last decades. What else can you ask for?
@ollyrobot as far as the public infrastructure investments go i think a lot of can honestly be attributed to the visionary policymaking of al gore lmao
@ollyrobot amazon is almost *the* flagship company of not having any real thesis other than "the internet will be big and we should start selling things on it"
if anybody took it as seriously as them they would've launched their own online division or acquired one at the time
@ollyrobot whereas companies like google were started on more high minded abstract ideals "we want to unlock the worlds knowledge"
bezos in his interviews is like "i knew the internet was going to get big so i picked the retail category most likely to benefit from internet growth"
@aitch_bar@ollyrobot I don’t doubt Bezos is a great operator but he’s not a magician either
If people with existing retail supply chains realized the importance of the internet early on no upstart could’ve competed
@finnitejest lawyers - uphold service capitalism and thus enable technological growth
accountants - keep the books of technological companies and thus enable technological growth
doctors - well medicine is just technology
@halvorz why is it surprising? complexes should transfer lots of information via the evolutionary histories right, maybe almost as much as intramolecular contacts
are there actual warehouses or are people assuming this
eg last time everyone made a fuss about vaccine approval the production ramp and distribution channels came online way after the FDA decision https://x.com/ModeledBehavior/status/1470802364739301380
@jeff82874662 they’re much easier to make than say insulin but easy in the bio world is still rough when you need to make literal tons of output product
@Voidjumper you should think harder why people might want to build individualist solutions when california hasn’t managed to build any high speed rail for a decade despite $100b allocated to it. That number is a third the gdp of South Africa
@ctjlewis@Noahpinion@hifuncornsyrup@eigenrobot Yeah I remember it being fairly cringe
Why demand GREs when you can clearly just go look up the fact that Noah was in a top 10 econ grad school lol
@sheslostheplot I don’t think it’s super capitalistic at all considering the high level of government budget etc but ppl on the street will call it a capitalist shithole
>reading a nonfiction book that i agree with
boring, doesn’t challenge my assumptions
>reading a nonfiction book that i dont agree with
Boring, author is stupid
QED never read
@LudditeHacker@ollyrobot *well akshually* *pushes up glasses* theres actually 5-10 women in the launch facility with 1000s of men and thats why its not a monastery
@ollyrobot@LudditeHacker which is not to say there aren't women involved. the person in charge of building the first spacex launch site at vandenberg was a woman iirc