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@mattparlmer True but I think reasonable people can disagree where the line for something to be preserved rather than reused is. Likely much of the YIMBY/NIMBY discourse revolves around this

@sharonadarlo1 So am I tbh

this is the only thing I believe

Is Tom Steyer even real. My god I can’t stop laughing https://x.com/MatthewBevan/status/1217619934403940352

@1RAOKADAY Why?

@1RAOKADAY Why was it a failure?

@1RAOKADAY Ah I see. Yeah that’s pretty bad on them

The most important development in this video is that Tom Steyer is simping Bernie

@mattparlmer Agree

@ironically_edgy I’m Lauren 😭

@koaleszenz this is not fun. Booooo

@AspiringNeolib tom Steyer is good now

@zck Best tech reporting I’ve seen in years

@AOCummies @boomers_son Pour a 40 for the fallen

@AOCummies you will be tried for the crime of *checks notes* posting a dude’s publicly available photo

@visakanv Get my research project to work

@Altimor The timeline algorithm filters out most posts anyway, or ranks them very low. I only see posts from my mutuals and accounts that I interact with often, with a random smattering from the other ~4000 accounts

@Altimor Plus I’m gaming the social logic of follow4follow

@mattparlmer @business @business is always on brand, never looking past the commercial opportunity

u CANNOT look at this and tell me AGI is far off https://x.com/dril_gpt2/status/1217903340962615296

@dickcheneyscou1 DO NOT under any circumstances run that code

@dickcheneyscou1 There’s this mind blowing article showing that GPT-2 can play chess at a mediocre level. In all seriousness, it’s not very good, but it is GENERAL

@dickcheneyscou1 yeah I get the feeling we have no clue what the upper limits of the current paradigm is, and that the people saying AGI is far off have as little idea as the ones saying it’s close

@gariamray Best day of my life

@Noahpinion Noah Smith’s rabbit

@dickcheneyscou1 Yes I think I heard of that paper re: Transformers doing math. Symbolic logic is the last mountain to climb

anyone know how to auto-accept Duo 2fac push notifications lol

@benfredtom It’s a server login unfortunately

@mattparlmer Def a Lauren

@Noahpinion unmute me @Noahpinion

@ahardtospell @lukeisaacbrown Kantians destroyed

Kantians unfollow me rn https://x.com/ahardtospell/status/1217963514188443649

@NeoLibBen “low neoliberalism” is just cyberpunk

@_Jason_Dean_ Bad take bad take

@MikaylaCMaki @koaleszenz true. Kantianism is smarter than Kant

@Noahpinion Absolutely. The fact that it’s even a question is bad. If Beijing knew that we’d defend Taiwan, they would never attack in the first place

@dbeffert @Noahpinion There is no point signaling anything if we don’t stand by our words. Just look at Syria. “Our words are backed by nuclear weapons” - Civ 2 Gandhi

@NeoLibBen I am a spreadsheet-american

this is not a high bar to pass folks https://x.com/cIoudsxo/status/1217887455807975426

@ne0liberal There’s no way he wouldn’t let on a presidential candidate, the viewership would be insane

@jdcmedlock https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=21 https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225

@Grant_Forks @Noahpinion Why would they? I doubt any country enjoys being a nuclear flash point — it’s not in their best interest

@AOCummies Trump is the goatman

hot take: I love this conniving game of thrones https://x.com/owenrumney/status/1218282979996225536

@flanatok @ne0liberal We’re taking Joe Rogan’a version of insane. I.e 10 million youtube hits instead of 2 million. Bernie hit top 5 popularity for JRE podcasts

@flanatok @ne0liberal He’d be interested in someone like Biden just for the novelty of having the next president of the United States on stream. It’s quite exciting. I know Rogan, he likes to feel like he’s got his fingers on the pulse

.@realDonaldTrump go on Joe Rogan

reparations🙏for🙏neanderthal🙏genocide

@gomets2017 i haven't, gimme ep number

@auderdy Same reason anyone might want more money, influence, power

@owenrumney its clearly a nonsensical joke

@ironically_edgy you’ve become too powerful too fast gotta slave away in the tweet mines like the rest of us smh

society if @jack let us edit tweets

@zck Sapiens has gone through many rounds of contrarian revisionism and is actually Good now

@realjdburnett @eigenrobot It aint real https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/growing-gap-between-real-wages-and-labor-productivity

@eigenrobot ply those statistics well enough and you’ll render that second career obsolete

ohio/Michigan so on brand https://x.com/RavenTW_/status/1218278511431110657

man exists on the razors edge of based and cringe

Pretty sure Logan Roy does this same thing in Succession https://t.co/dA3Es6J8t3

Peter Thiel’s “AI is communism” thing is completely wrong. All modern AI is built inductively, from the wisdom of the crowds

@MaxGhenis Krugman subtweet eh?

@ironically_edgy Podesta 😭

@Cullen_OK Gary Marcus will be screaming this from the rooftops until the day connectionism subsumes symbolic logic

@ironically_edgy https://x.com/nix_lad/status/1216602734952140800?s=21 https://x.com/the_anonix/status/1216602734952140800

@ironically_edgy Did you make this? Holy shit

@ironically_edgy Pls link the OP. This is amazing

@ironically_edgy I absolutely lost my shit when the finger traces the poverty curve

@jdcmedlock @Hypoborean1 @TankieSanders @stern_tomer thereby leading to the loss of price discovery mechanisms in the capital markets. The index fund development is not necessarily a good thing

@stern_tomer @jdcmedlock @Hypoborean1 @TankieSanders I don’t know the answer to that, and I suspect no one does. But it’s clear that index funds have made the capital markets less efficient

@Hypoborean1 @stern_tomer @jdcmedlock @TankieSanders I’d say it’s axiomatic that if you aren’t doing security level analysis and buying a share of massive stock flows, then you’ve interfered with the price signal. It’s the same as purchasing a mortgage bond without knowing anything about the underlying mortgages

@jdcmedlock "Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it I guess every superhero need his theme music" ~ James Medlock

San Francisco if Sapiens never came out

@JusticeTyrwhit 2009 Star Trek

@jomgy Something like that

Ours is the era of offloading cognition

@ne0liberal You, an idiot: 🌐 Me, a genius: 🪐

@wannabegroncho I liked it too, I’m making fun of certain SF twitter accounts that really despise it

People really bending over backward to find misogyny where it doesn’t exist https://x.com/mayatcontreras/status/1218967795272163328

Had an extremely vivid dream last night until I noticed a copy of the The Winds of Winter lying around. Immediately woke up bc that book being published is too unbelievable even for my fantasies

anti natalism is cringe https://t.co/cmma40pLib

@Cullen_OK Deep RL certainly can! and now, perhaps deep NLP too

@Cullen_OK imo the lesson of deep learning has always been about gaining humbleness re: human cognition. It's possible to design functions that can navigate complex systems successfully with only a bare minimum understanding of the substrate

@Cullen_OK a typical human not only navigates but thrives in systems that would take lifetimes to understand the real underlying principles (if they even exist)

@eigenrobot @Aella_Girl witches👏must👏consider👏second-order👏effects

@eigenrobot Yes but what is it that we should optimize for?

There is such a thing as too much skepticism — when you stop making intuitive jumps and grind your inductive biases to dust

@eigenrobot Once you pass a certain point, you become a slave to the crown. And the crown demands: more followers

Pretty much nobody expresses as hopeful a vision for the future as VC techno libertarians

the fact that the esteemed PREDICTIT traders with $50 to their name had insider info restores my faith in markets https://x.com/SpecialPuppy1/status/1219087954024550401

@NickMeier21 1/ I agree that the SV technolibertarians have a sureness of step that comes from making a lot of money very quickly. that self-confidence leads them to gloss over major problems and they can be somewhat brusque in addressing the downsides.

@NickMeier21 2/ but the approval ratings for the big tech companies are sky high. even DEMS trust companies like amazon more than they trust gov't institutions. the hate for big tech in progressive circles is just not representative of americans at large. https://x.com/johnrobb/status/1055140489723330563

@Noahpinion Well? Which camp are you?

@Noahpinion exactly what I wanted to hear

@Noahpinion @wmcintyre84 he’s def wrong about that, but UBI might be good despite automation thesis

incredible ratio

@DaltonKern @Noahpinion @wmcintyre84 UBI is more palatable than NIT in a number of ways

you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

@JohnCarltonKing @sfgov @ShenzhenCity Am not sure which city you’re talking about. SF?

@MenshevikM ISCON?

@agraybee This was on everyone’s mind today. Thank you for saying it

@CascadianSolo Yeah it’s the kind of perfectly valid question that only a certain type of person wants to actively think about

@Noahpinion How about it has a weak government due to very recent imperialism that attempted to administer a giant region as one state

@Noahpinion It’s not for no reason state governments in India have an immense amount of power and veer very far ideologically from the national consensus

@jornacio @Noahpinion as in the balance of power between central and state governments is further to the states than in many other countries

@eigenrobot yes

she said the quiet part out loud https://x.com/AliceFromQueens/status/1219459846401069056

@Hypoborean1 I second that shoutout

If you came up with a seemingly good solution to a complex problem in 5 minutes, the experts in the fields have too

@Hypoborean1 In this case the experts are literally in the fields

@koaleszenz @KerouacRimbaud this is good actually

@micsolana Do it pls

I have something close to a religious experience every time I see an AI dril tweet https://x.com/dril_gpt2/status/1219228251182243840

@ironically_edgy yeah except my morals are based on aesthetics and not logic. checkmate atheist

@Hypoborean1 while the plough seems simple in retrospect, it's one of those things that requires a massive paradigm shift to conceive of. I don't know if its something a complete novice to the "farming problem" would think of in minutes.

@Hypoborean1 it's not that low hanging fruit don't exist, it's just that it's doubtful you've found one immediately after learning about a new problem

@ClayShentrup @DaltonKern @Noahpinion @wmcintyre84 the distributional effect is identical given UBI clawbacks*, so income based taxation. the difference is that NIT feels like a handout and is means tested, whereas UBI feels like a god given right -- you're a citizen, you make $12k a year

@Noahpinion um? biden's gonna win with exactly 0 online supporters lol

@ahardtospell unblock me @central_left

@jdcmedlock @ryan_hassett It makes perfect sense to the tru Medlock fans

every time I talk to an Uber driver I make up a new identity ...

@mattparlmer My covers blown when I get the same driver twice

@koaleszenz @Hypoborean1 isn't the point of these heuristics that they evolved rather than were "discovered"? possibly no different than the memetic evolution that results in people being disgusted with cannibalism or incest

@Hypoborean1 @koaleszenz by benefiting his brother, who may be carrying some portion of that distribution? the link is tenuous among all the other evolutionary noise, but it's there. there's also evidence that gay sex is just pro-social, lol https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17146141

@koaleszenz fuck dude you're messing with the wrong crowd on twitter, you're in for it

@koaleszenz as far as (1) goes tho, most districts already appraise land value in the process of doing property tax valuations

@JoeR42 I’m glad she made this point lol, at least it’s honest

@Sharon_Kuruvila probably Arrival. maybe Gravity. there's not as many great scifi movies/tv as books tbh

@RexKwonDo92 @Sharon_Kuruvila They’re solid but not my favorites

@eigenrobot i can hear the game of thrones song playing

Peter Thiel, supposedly a Christian, pouring hundreds of millions into defeating death makes no sense to me. He seems to call himself a Christian only because it’s the contrarian position in Silicon Valley lol

@Jan_Hus_1369 The SV rationalist ethos is aggressively secular, so probably going against that

@sonyasupposedly it’s kind of interesting in a postrat way to think of books as sacred though. my grandma always used to tell me to say sorry when if she caught me accidentally stepping on a book lol

@Noahpinion @FlyingMezerkis why should we prefer older people over immigrants?

@skdh @paulg kind of ridiculous there's no payperview online newspaper model

@skdh @paulg Fair enough, I meant “why has no newspaper tried this”. I suspect the answer is that some of them experiment with it and found the results lacking

I cannot BELIEVE this scream was notable in 2004 politics. Weirder things than this happen hour to hour in 2020 https://x.com/alec_sears/status/1219725332078628864

@AOCummies Thanks smug

@PhilipPullman I’m not sure I quite understand your position on fairy stories. Are you saying the secret commonwealth is real? Or that it’s more fun to believe there’s stuff we can’t explain? Or something else entirely?

@koaleszenz @thomasmetcalf PKI 😍

@NeoLibBen Most of the US is ruled by internet service monopolies, so there is actually good cause for this. I once did the math and we pay something like 10,000x the data rate as internet users in India. That being said idk if government would fix it

@Iiberty_prime @NeoLibBen Yes a lot of it is due to regulatory capture

@PhilipPullman @El_Dodgero Was he meant to mirror Nietzsche? Ayn Rand?

@_vivalapanda @NeoLibBen should honestly have federal level funding for last mile ip networks and let ISPs handle everything else

@dril_gpt2 @kingdomakrillic are there plans to move to the even bigger model? JW

@howling_richard @dril_gpt2 @kingdomakrillic whats the reasoning behind that? I know the Transformer concept but not too much about the internals

@similaralterity This is the right take

@howling_richard @dril_gpt2 @kingdomakrillic The bigger model lends its better understanding of language. It’s pretrained on terabytes of text from the internet. The fine tuning at the end with dril tweets is less significant

@howling_richard @dril_gpt2 @kingdomakrillic You can fix this with high learning rates probably. After all, why else would the account owner move from GPT-small to GPT-medium if there was no positive effect?

@_Jason_Dean_ MMT is real Jason

@eigenrobot Lovecraft knew we couldn’t handle it

@eigenrobot Also pls explain

@_Jason_Dean_ no one is qualified to be president

@_Jason_Dean_ just different degrees of under qualification. doesn’t seem so bad if you look at it that way

@CascadianSolo loaning money to a bank at below market rate may as well be socialism

@CascadianSolo Also there’s no way JP Morgan alone got $416 billion lol. Not even close

Peter Thiel: “the American public hates technology. They’re holding back progress with their attitudes” The American public:

@ne0liberal Negative alpha

@mattparlmer Fed should’ve opened paper markets and let the banks sort it out

@CascadianSoIo how tf do y’all have the same @

@ironically_edgy “Semantic satiation”

Super Pumped is basically page after page of Uber skillfully fighting off regulatory capture and taxi cartels to serve customers that desperately want Uber, and mike Isaac trying to convince you this is bad somehow

@ironically_edgy lower than market rate loans -> It’s welfare and can very reasonably be called socialism

@NicholasElodeon provocative

@Noahpinion @red_boxer0 technology develops as it becomes necessary. It's not like Velcro was an impossible technology until NASA had a use for it. for most of these things, there's just no demand for the R&D

@Noahpinion (2) is basically a strawman (1) is more accurate and you're greatly underestimating our current technology under the right economic pressures but (3) is more important: it would be the greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked. civilization needs frontiers

@ironically_edgy This but unironically

@sonyasupposedly Funniest thing is when you see an account have the *same epiphany* multiple times over the course of a few months/years and repeat that they’ve just now realized this

@sonyasupposedly I suspect it’s not even typical mind but more like what the last part of this comic expresses. Some people are too epiphany happy

Why did TikTok win when Vine lost?

@JustJake The UI is insanely good but that doesn’t seem to matter too often. Most people agree the Snapchat layout is terrible and it’s a smash hit anyway. Same with Facebook tbh

@NickMeier21 @Noahpinion Space Force needs to be building this shit

@NickMeier21 TikTok has ~1 billion daily users. Vine hit a tenth of that at its peak and then died

@dickcheneyscou1 TikTok is the western version of the ByteDance product. I don’t think it’s available in China. Plus there’s all sorts of ways to verify that info. (Internet traffic is public)

ppl on this site rly think they’re gonna find nirvana as soon as they come across the exact right sequence of words that describes their politics

@RahulSonwalkar @JustJake Vine was also about virality of certain trends. Both platforms just do “video based memes”

@NickMeier21 TikTok is the product for western audiences, they have a separate highly censored version for China. That audience is all us lol

@Nick_Roberttss lmao

tfw you open tmux inside tmux

there’s nothing as unsettling as realizing you’re operating four screens deep

@orthonormalist @mattparlmer the children of immigrants tend to have more or less mainstream views

this AI has a world model that not only includes the fact that The Room is a bad movie, but understands the concept of ironically watching movies https://x.com/dril_gpt2/status/1220615883447554048

@rplevy there is no difference tbh. Chinese Room Problem

@rplevy How do we know if a child is “emulating speech” or speaking?

@rplevy https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

@NicholasElodeon @ironically_edgy Me

@NicholasElodeon @ironically_edgy I’m all for it, so long as you pay your fair share of carbon credits and the land isn’t zoned sub-optimally

@mattparlmer This is definitely true. The birth of AGI will be as momentous an occasion as first contact. It’s all in google’s interests to hype up their positional importance but he will be right in the fullness of time

@mattparlmer I also think getting to AGI is a matter of increasing processing speed and incremental improvements in neural net technologies which is a hot take

@jachaseyoung I think he said he picks like 2 tweets out of a 100, and that much of the output isn’t even tweet formatted

@rplevy I’d say it’s matter of degree and not fundamental differences. This AI is cross purpose — it also scored state of the art on question and answer and text summarization tasks. It really does have a deeper understanding of language than other models

@rplevy It only has a half billion parameters. That’s not even 1% of 1% of the storage capacity of the human brain. It cannot just memorize the entire internet: it must interpolate and build underlying abstractions

@rplevy Abstraction/compression is intelligence

@AOCummies Me rn https://x.com/kantbot20k/status/1140052757182930945?s=21 https://t.co/wA0sMHMeZ2

In light of recent events I’d like everyone to know I’ve never even heard of joe Rogan. See video for details https://youtu.be/mlucIr8kg7k

@mattparlmer Duplicate labor is an understatement. I remember at the very end of my internship at fb, my manager told me “yeah I did the same intern project when I started here”. I was like wtf

@mattparlmer Pretty much all systems are out of the box, plug and play, and Your Job is to babysit them as they struggle under FAANG compute scales

@mattparlmer The one nice thing is that the dev and ops tools are space age stuff. You will never find better looking dashboards or text editor plugins

@similaralterity @mattparlmer I think they almost certainly will at this rate, and the results will be expectedly dystopian

@similaralterity @mattparlmer I mean I've heard plenty of NNs are "just" this or "just" that, but what anyone has yet to convince me of is that human brains are more than just function approximators that are very good at approximating a certain type of policy

@similaralterity @mattparlmer everybody says this as though it's obvious, but only connectionists have shown progress. NNs can understand symbolic logic without further architectural improvements: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-advanced-mathematics-equations/

@similaralterity @mattparlmer because I think there is a sad but unfortunate link between the compute scale and the quality of the output model: https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/

@similaralterity @mattparlmer I would like to see Western governments try and compete on this front

@similaralterity @mattparlmer you're right but there are 10,000s of researchers (more every year due to the $$$) across the world iterating on these metasystems. every year sees feats that would've been considered impossible a half decade ago

@similaralterity @mattparlmer the only other instance of intelligence we know of is biological intelligence, which was developed with a stupid brute force algorithm (genetic) via enormous compute power (Real World™). There is good reason to suspect we will get to AGI without understanding the theory

@homsiT @mattparlmer what gets me is that they did plan on using my project, but didn't even consider adapting that original software to something more general purpose. when developer time is a commodity, nobody cares about efficiency and nobody wants to maintain old code

@thee_snek Add me

@thee_snek I’ll be good I promise

@QiaochuYuan This is nonsense tbh. You’re trying to recognize patterns in what amounts to neural noice, and implying that idiopathic depression isn’t real

Joe Rogan derangement syndrome

@NickMeier21 Genuinely believe 1 billionaire is better than 100 10-millionaires for technological progress.

If you join a work slack and there’s no #shitposting channel quit your job

@QiaochuYuan satisfaction is maladaptive. Satisfied beings don’t work hard to increase their chances of reproducing. We should expect the default state of humans to be dissatisfied. don’t need some past traumas to explain. Idiopathic means what you said and more: it implies no one’s at fault

this but for drug patents https://x.com/balajis/status/1220882309861142528

@AliceFromQueens imagine just believing this at face value

@AliceFromQueens >prez candidate responding to random claims by some podcaster https://x.com/RealPCDonaldT/status/1220882424386719744?s=20

@AliceFromQueens why hasn't warren addressed my public claims that she's a cougar unless it's true

@AliceFromQueens thank god it's only bernie and his campaign that live and die at the whims of twitter mobs. biden could give a rat's ass what people online are saying about him

bespoke: I'm ok with both https://x.com/GravelInstitute/status/1220835790864953344

@dril_gpt2 Bread is made of flour and water

@dril_gpt2 Roko’s basilisk averted

@orthonormalist It’s literally the same thing as “neoliberal”

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv Here’s the deal: popular business culture now revolves around Silicon Valley. Every MBA and typical highly networked type learns about the Silicon Valley mythos of the failed social norm and worshipping of savants. *normies* know this stuff. repeating it online is just irritating

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv To not be annoying in this medium you have to make truly novel social observations, which are usually best delivered in an implicit way by comedians both online and offline. When everyone acts like the suffering child genius, no one is a suffering child genius

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv I may be missing some context on this conversation but I’m just naming my own grievances with this corner of twitter. Prefer VC twitter at this point because they hide behind fewer euphemisms

whoever needs to hear this: it’s not a conspiracy, just a failure mode of a complex system

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv just visa tbh not you. I don’t know how to peg your account but it seems more “cyberpunk culture explorer” than his

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv That mission may be the problem then. Feels like either he’s trying to sell self help books or start a religion.

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv The ethos of twitter to me is “we are all watching humanity evolve and making funny commentary on it” in the era in which most of us have realized *there’s no grand design* and are struggling to find meaning and community anyway. Don’t want someone selling me a grand design

At some point Wuhan is gonna hit one of their giant prison camps

@sonyasupposedly @visakanv Yeah I believe I misunderstood what the quoted thread was about. I’m just commenting on the pervasiveness of nerd culture

@sonyasupposedly Whatever statistics they put out we can probably go ahead and multiply by 10

@sonyasupposedly So the worst has already come to pass

do the british deserve rights? discuss

Not a bad writeup by Gary Marcus re: the shortcomings of GPT-2 but he attacks a lot of strawmen. NN research for the last ~10 years has been about finding good structural priors rather than relying on 'innateness' alone. https://thegradient.pub/gpt2-and-the-nature-of-intelligence/

@jdcmedlock Especially dumb because global fertility rates are falling as countries become richer

@sonyasupposedly Aussie/British slang is fascinating

@_Jason_Dean_ You’re just making an argument for proper food treatment which may not be accessible in poorer countries. There’s nothing special about bats or African swine in particular

@NicholasElodeon 7 tbh

@ClayShentrup @MarcosLo_ @ne0liberal It’s not a lottery at all. It’s a capital allocation problem like any other. Land speculators are predicting which parcels will be successful just like how stock pickers are betting on future profitability of companies. The engine that has created unimaginable wealth

@ClayShentrup @MarcosLo_ @ne0liberal In a world where smart investors didn’t bid on land it would be less efficiently priced

@CapitalistGhoul Pro life has been dead for decades

@robinhanson @gwillen It would seem that a higher proportion of them than average are interested in longevity moonshots

@ClayShentrup @MarcosLo_ @ne0liberal nah well priced parcels lead to efficient land use

@CascadianSolo better to be consequentialist about it. betting on lives won't change the outcome, but may make the markets function better

@micsolana @SonjaTrauss everybody's just gonna continue ignoring electoral mechanics, the demographic idiosyncrasies of specific states, and go ahead and make society level claims about w.e. grievances they were on about anyway.

@Noahpinion There’s plenty of Indian fantasy series set in Mohenjo Daaro or something, but it’s all pretty terrible

Who’s tryna pump and dump some airplane tickets https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/01/23/airbus-will-help-airlines-hedge-volatile-ticket-prices

in 2020 we are bringing back harambe memes

@ne0liberal A take constructed in an industrial lab

@antirobust people who view the very concept of market with suspicion shouldn’t have power

@antirobust Surprising then that so many cities ban Uber/Lyft at airports. The cartels are more powerful than the politicians own obsessions

@ironically_edgy there goes 99% of single men

great, now tell me which of these categories Oprah or JK Rowling fit into https://x.com/RBReich/status/1220481483002937344

@MateoWirth Monopoly is good actually

Now that Bernie’s a real threat, they’re opening the gigantic oppo file they must’ve built in 2016. https://x.com/KFILE/status/1221468426855755776

@kenaviba wdym?

usually with high profile natural disasters you have to correct for the media's incentives to overplay tragedies for clicks and attention ... but with Wuhan you have to also calculate the CCP's incentives to underplay things that make them look bad

@StephenBuell2 @Henry_ALong creative monopolies are GOOD

@Henry_ALong @StephenBuell2 they incentivize folks to create new things that would not have existed without them, like drug patents + research. a person with a creative monopoly can afford to be a good person. non-monopolists can think of nothing but survival

seasonal flu is a pandemic "According to the World Health Organisation, around 3-5 million people become “severely ill” every year as a result of seasonal flu. Of these, between 290,000 and 650,000 people die."

@browserdotsys @eigenrobot They left to escape the virus maybe?

@orthonormalist @eigenrobot If you count writing then any idiot journalist is a “builder”. IMO words are not enough

@JamesCook26 He just wasn’t a threat back then. Hillary and her coronation

@kingdomakrillic imho this is not a bad heuristic at all as to decide whether a project is worth continuing. i don't know if there's literally anyone that builds things without wanting affirmation. and i feel wAInt will have a very long shelf life

@thee_snek good now add me back

@kingdomakrillic @dril_gpt2 I could see this being a hit tweet if one of the big left leaning accounts tweeted it. It’s got the classic bait and switch

@jdcmedlock How does this make sense? Of course mostly homogenous cost pools will have similar premiums. The insurers have bargaining power issues to be sure, but the point is that the providers are the ones walking away with massive profits

@jdcmedlock the supply side retort is easy: why do the providers have so much bargaining power? are they monopolistic? what are the barriers to entry?

@jdcmedlock not sure if I agree that hospitals are natural monopolies: perhaps emergency rooms are, but emergency care is a small fraction (2%?) of total healthcare expenditures. not to mention much of our legislation actively makes it harder to open hospitals

@jdcmedlock we definitely have a shortage of primary care physicians but a declining share of HC costs go to them. pharma companies have creative monopolies, yet these really wouldn't be so problematic if it weren't for spurious lawsuits and IP abuse

@HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock I don't think anyone really believes more transparency would lower costs though. when trump passed that pricing transparency law, it was mostly greeted with sneers

@HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock Bloating administration is common to any industry that’s not tightly competitive, but doesn’t get at the problem of *why* it’s not tightly competitive. Your answer to that is obscure prices, and I partially agree

@jdcmedlock @HobnobMobile When I’m buying fresh produce in a market, I’m thinking about quality and price at the same time. While we evolved to sniff out the difference between a good apple and a bad one, it’s not quite so with back surgery. Need radical quality transparency along with price transparency

@HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock let's say a boutique hospital is offering back surgery for twice the cost of a cheaper nonprofit one. What parent is going to choose the cheaper one for their child if the other one is affordable to them? What if the outcomes for both hospitals are the same?

@HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock (yes children mostly won't be getting back surgery but you get my point)

@jdcmedlock @HobnobMobile If we’re talking radical transparency you’d need the whole combinatorial price tags for each procedure x each insurer x each plan

Learn this one weird question that owns all Commies: “Why are there no Fortune 500 worker owned coops?”

@Sharon_Kuruvila wtf is a pro dictatorship libertarian

@mattparlmer > The PRC has outlawed price hikes of medical supplies Do ya want shortages? Cuz that’s how you get shortages

@CascadianSolo It all adds up

@CascadianSolo The Jekyll and the Hyde

@kenaviba Nope! I’m not passing a value judgement, just saying what I think is going on

lefists and MAGAs alike have had the same idiotic refrain for the last 4 years re: "she didn't visit michigan and wisconsin!!!!" it wouldn't have mattered

@antimule probably ritually slaughtering Anthony Weiner long before he got into politics

@antimule for context Comey reopened the email investigation b/c of Weiner

I will take him https://x.com/TheClickPit/status/1221883608845180932

@MIC_is_Life kid's a real Matilda

@ironically_edgy You haven’t upset me, the amoral carnist demographic

@jdcmedlock @dril You’ve made it to the big leagues my guy. I pretty much only reply to your posts to disagree but you kinda convinced me that there’s no solution that stands up to universal healthcare atm

There is really no center-right healthcare policy that makes sense or matches the conceptual elegance of M4A atm. All the Trump admin does these days is incremental work on the Obamacare markets. Any further right and you just find people screaming about HSAs

@ScronkfinkleAi HSAs based on tax exemption are regressive!!

@ScronkfinkleAi i.e. the Singapore crowd That gets you somewhere

@1RAOKADAY “Do all these individual things the pharma companies hate and the public isn’t passionate about” is slow going unfortunately

@sgodofsk @ScronkfinkleAi Then we’re talking about sending the recently unemployed w pre existing conditions to GoFundMe

@manfrommn wdym?

@manfrommn even the think tankers have nothing compelling!

@ahardtospell honestly it's amazing to me that UCC is considered a center-right proposal. I suppose it really depends on how you set some of those policy parameters

@LittleKeegs0 @jdcmedlock the normal response to local monopolies is to turn them into regulated utility-type companies, not to make sweeping healthcare policy changes. appreciate the link, but this 15% doesn't approach the scale of the problem

@jdcmedlock @ahardtospell your speciality is in designing policies that sneak in universal coverage

@standardfoil this is actually the only good erason to take a class

Me at 3AM: we have tricked machines into thinking, humankind are like gods Me in the morning: computers are shit & programmers should be put to death

@GaryMarcus Gary Marcus argument, the more I think about it, boils down to “GPT-2 hasn’t reached human level reasoning, therefore I’m right“.

@GaryMarcus It’s not a controversial position that humans natively understand language because the structures of our brains are evolved for it. Deep NLP researchers know this and scrub through the model space looking for the right inductive bias.

@GaryMarcus Even if you take the nativist position, it seems plausible we can work half way to the right inductive biases and brute force learn the rest, bypassing a few million years of evolution. Some even embed the semantic structure into the network input e.g: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-advanced-mathematics-equations/

@mattparlmer How is it this late in the game and we’re still calling it 2019-nCov. This stuff needs names that catch the imagination, like hurricanes

@mattparlmer “Coronavirus” is not bad for now but I’m just here thinking of light beers w that name

@eigenrobot Perhaps but socialists are also deontologists: they start from the maxim that inequality is immoral, rather than that of utility maximization. All this really means is that Rogan plays an instrumental role in following a deontological rule

@eigenrobot I’m sure there’s some name in the annals of philosophy for pursuing deontological ends via utilitarian means

@JuniorMinton @HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock Very few customers shop around in the current system. And even the ones that do are not very good at it, and end up forgoing care that they need

@JuniorMinton @HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock “Among consumers who engaged in ... these behaviors, 26% decided to put off the service until they could afford it, 10% decided that the service was not worth the cost, and 22% managed to obtain the service at a lower price. Only the last of these outcomes is unambiguously good.”

@HobnobMobile @JuniorMinton @jdcmedlock imo the best system necessarily obfuscates prices from the end consumer and negotiates instantly between insurer and provider. I don’t think removing price signals completely is a great move

@AOletmeCurtoes based and redpilled

@pavelow_pr That’s a start

@askbeez07 @homanclature @ne0liberal Everyone also needs food and shelter

@ne0liberal I think rn I’m thinking — harmonize private insurance with Obamacare markets by removing the employer payroll tax deduction — create a public option that’s basically a UCC

@jdcmedlock @HobnobMobile @JuniorMinton “Every instance of procedure X must cost the same amount” means that providers can slack on quality and charge the maximum price. At the very least, you need either the insurer (possibly single payor) or end consumer to shop around for highest quality care. I prefer the former

@jdcmedlock @HobnobMobile @JuniorMinton Let’s say Medicare maintains a running quality analysis of all providers and judges them on merit. Then they might tell you that they’ll only pay if you go to x hospital to get your procedure done, based on quality of care and distance. This maintains pressure on the providers

@RLHotchkiss @askbeez07 @homanclature @ne0liberal I’m not disagreeing, just saying your initial argument was weak or understated

@jdcmedlock @HobnobMobile @JuniorMinton A massive trove of medical data like the one a universal Medicare program would collect allows them to assess medical outcomes in a minimally biased way. They are much better suited than any other party to choose a physician or hospital to get a procedure done

@HobnobMobile @jdcmedlock @JuniorMinton You don’t *need* one but it’s certainly compelling to have a panoptic view of every medical purchase and statistic in the whole country. Merely using Medicare as an example

@jdcmedlock Many people mistake incentive design problems for private vs public conflicts. Bad private solutions (prisons) and bad public bureaucracies (welfare) can be fixed with the right incentives

private prison contracts should be written with incentive shaping in mind. A simple one would include clauses like being forced to take ex prisoners back in for free in case of recidivism. prisoners should also be able to choose which prison they want to go to

this is my most neoliberal tweet ever

@bibliographing it’s not in their purview as to when prisoners get released yeah?

The real trick here is just to close shop and go out of business every few years to void all the recidivism contracts

@T_Walt615 If you disagree it’s ironic, if you agree it’s def unironic

@StephenBuell2 @bibliographing with enough prison choice you’d be able to avoid the prisons that do things like this. In the real world, you’re probably going to need some additional nudges

This is it boys n girls. I’ve made it after only losing 99% of my sanity

@AHaulis Oh man I hope that’s how it works

@owenrumney Have a whole 1% left to sell off

I’m an influencer now. People come to me for advice 🙂

@_debarshi coaches don’t play

@HoodlumDoodlum afaik cruelty is not an effective antidote to recidivism. after all, death penalties don’t seem to be powerful crime deterrents. but re-education systems might be.

quote tweeting your own tweets

@HoodlumDoodlum at the beginning you roughly calculate it so that they’re making the same amount as before by jacking up the normal rate in accordance with historical recidivism data. That way nobody’s losing money. And then they get working on lowering that rate if they can

@ironically_edgy U do look 12 ... king shit

@vgr What’s amazing is how successfully semi rational agents can navigate complex systems with barebones world models. This also explains the surprising success of modern machine learning

@HoodlumDoodlum I don’t see why transfers should be granted

@vgr shitty induction that produces confident but weak heuristics is much more useful generally than complex deductions

@Dinocaridid @HoodlumDoodlum yeah that’s a good point

@HoodlumDoodlum perhaps but they’re not each working from zero; people will know by reputation what a certain prison is like. Markets sometimes work well in situations of far less than perfect information

@mmt_lvt I see nothing wrong with this. This is how we will sneak in our universal welfare state @jdcmedlock

@mmt_lvt @jdcmedlock Basically a super fucked up Ghent system

@jdcmedlock @mmt_lvt lmao i'm never heard of this ... but i'm in favor of any proposal that includes bounty hunters

@eigenrobot broke: Mars colony woke: Mars penal colony

@eigenrobot shit this is just "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

@Jenlky I’m gonna have to up my sanity/follower efficiency 100x

@vgr The Vickrey auction

(girls get mad at me) Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it

@OldDreyfusard oh thank god. at least someone understood the joke

deleting my futarchy tweet. y’all aren’t ready for this level of discourse yet

@OldDreyfusard lmao please go ahead

@MauerMr @ironically_edgy @NicholasElodeon All of NLs followers are hate follows

@ironically_edgy You’ve hit your Total Addressable Market. It’s time to expand into new divisions

@ironically_edgy M&A some smaller accounts

@eigenrobot choice 3 the Schelling point 🤔

@vgr I’m only 22 so I don’t remember SARS, but I’ve felt there’s a hunger for “happeningness” that wasn’t there before social media and 24-hour news

@vgr Or maybe the hunger WAS there and we’ve all gorged, expanding our appetites

@nathancofnas @mmt_lvt It’s kind of irrelevant seeing as coal mining is a job that employs fewer than 50k people in the US and is more of a populist symbol than anything else

@eigenrobot without fear all social structure would decohere immediately without love all social structure would decohere immediately

@quantian1 It ain’t that deep bro. That shit is fun and interesting

@harkbrexit @quantian1 “You are missing the point, good sir. Aggressively NOT reading is as much of a display of countersignaling that shows lack of free will as is reading every pop nonfiction book on Bill Gates’ reading list. Instead consume for the reason that these flavors cannot be had elsewhere“

@ironically_edgy How do you check unfollows?

@NicholasElodeon @ironically_edgy Just what I’ve been looking for. A tool to take my unhealthy obsession to a full on clinical disorder

@DukakisFanboy Randomize the state order :P

@jdcmedlock the private sector has seen a drastic drop in user free will on various products: I hop on twitter and I tune into my feed generated by a ranking algorithm in some far off server. I press a button on an app and a car shows up at my door.

@jdcmedlock In fact the only choice we have now is between multiple content curators! These are all improvements. Government should follow their lead and helpfully curate the user experience rather than expose people to choice they don’t need or want

@jdcmedlock Find a Pareto optimal curve and sample a few choices from it

Genuinely curious how govt managed to spend $2 billion on the Obamacare website

I dedicate this earnings call to every Tesla bear burning in hell rn @QTRResearch @quantian1 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-sets-fresh-record-high-close-of-58099-2020-01-29

capital always wins https://t.co/8JgIZH1wMU

@dril_gpt2 he numbered correctly .. he’s learning

@dickcheneyscou1 would love to hear more about it

@FriederJim what's your point? is there any similarity between cost pooling for hundreds of millions of Americans vs building a minor website?

@dickcheneyscou1 why wouldn't you hand it all to one company for a fixed price tag?

@FriederJim security is a hard problem. that doesn't mean each individual website has to solve those problems. by no stretch of the imagination can http://healthcare.gov be considered more complicated than https://x.com, which i'm sure was built for a couple thousand dollars

@dickcheneyscou1 is it still this bad or fairly reasonable now?

@FriederJim http://healthcare.gov basically amounts to a bunch of interlinked forms

@dickcheneyscou1 so all the cliche government contract stuff huh? is it still a mess even now?

@FriederJim An insiders look: Just typical government fuckery https://x.com/dickcheneyscou1/status/1222641929135017984?s=21 https://t.co/N5uIN08U2J

@FriederJim Also that number seems extremely wrong. $358 billion is more money than all insurance companies make in yearly profits

@mattparlmer remember the snake 🐍 thing though? feel like everybody knows

@FriederJim I mean I could be wrong but if I remember correctly Lieberman fought against the public option / Medicare buyin. you'd pay for public health insurance if it was a better option than the private competitors. not M4A, which doesn't have premiums

@mattparlmer for a lot of people both Bernie and Biden are simply unacceptable for idpol reasons

@dickcheneyscou1 It’s true and works in a bunch of surprising ways. e.g. king + (boy - girl) = queen

this is the truth the MSM doesn't want you to know

@asteroid_saku the right wing reactionary hypergamy thing is definitely overblown, but these charts are still really funny and surprising all things considered I doubt OkCupid is that much different from the rest of the population

@asteroid_saku not sure i have a non-obvious response. probably someone wealthy, charismatic, and good-looking (not necessarily in that order). bonus if they're white

@ChrisCroy @rplevy wouldn’t your dating app pfp be an ideal image and not of someone just lounging about?

believing in inheriting wealth or ownership in companies is no different than believing in the divine right of kings, prove me wrong

@asteroid_saku think of one what? to be clear i'm not grievance posting. I just think it's funny that men collectively organized a neat bell curve. I'm willing to bet women would upgrade their score for a man they know well. they just seem on avg worse at rating based on looks

@asteroid_saku just mentioned MSM and conspiracies as a joke. an interesting next experiment to do would be to have straight women rate other women on a 1-5 scale

@asteroid_saku girls i've known irl have expressed the same sentiment to me that they find it hard to be attracted to people they don't know at all, extreme outliers notwithstanding, whereas straight men seem to be more than willing to hookup with average looking strangers

@asteroid_saku I agree

the *only* plausible counterargument is that good capital allocators are even better at allocating capital if they know their wealth will pass to their kids

@rplevy https://x.com/wolfred_bromley/status/1222684002508632064?s=20

@StillShilling seems to me that the belief in meritocracy is fading, more or less because of inherited wealth and inherited power

@rplevy as a king don't i have the right by free association to pass my kingdom to one of my children? my kingdom, my property after all. doesn't really matter what the serfs think

@StillShilling my ideal tax system would have an extremely high inheritance tax rate on fortunes past a certain amount and very small taxes on everything else, but I suspect literally nobody shares that moral value, not even me by this time next year

@AOCummies based and monarchypilled

@sonyasupposedly @AOCummies the price of following me is that my mutuals are all beautiful degenerates

@rplevy by what right does a king rule? all he knows is that he was born in line for the throne. by what right do the Waltons own walmart? all they know is that they were born in the walton family. the social abstraction is similar at the least

@stuartbrownGU that's a good question. I wouldn't want the govt to end up in control of it because that means the govt will de facto own all capital in a few generations, and I'm not a tankie yet. capital allocation is a hard problem and should be done by competitors and not bureaucrats

@Dinocaridid When a Walmart heir is born they wake up to authority over a million workers distributed over most of the globe. Sure they don’t have absolute power over their workers, but it’s naive to think they have none

@StillShilling @THOTCrime you make a good point and it definitely feels strange to rip a parent's house away from a child. someone might argue the same thing about a prince and his kingdom tho. i'm mostly just trying to point out the contradictory feelings we have abt inheritance

@Iiberty_prime for (2), I have no idea, there probably isn't a much better alternative for (1), we probably have the same thoughts: https://x.com/tszzl/status/1222685806999023618?s=20

@rplevy https://x.com/tszzl/status/1222693246742253569?s=20

@borderlessboba @mattparlmer Very cute thinking the lawyers and ex businessman care. democracy is designed such that the self interest of patricians benefits the plebs

@mattparlmer unfortunately I think many of the stereotypes about software engineers are more or less true. lawyers tend to be well spoken crowd pleasers. Need to find the small fraction of tech people with charisma and a populist flair

@NicholasElodeon college Dems are basically tankies

@TPeytn @mattparlmer there's a whole west coast tech ethos that Matt is evoking when he says software engineer. it can include other types of eng and associated VC/finance types too

@wannabegroncho @dickcheneyscou1 You’re right I switched them. Google word2vec for more of these

@eigenrobot straight to the point

@Cullen_OK @StillShilling Ya for reasons that have never fully made sense to me. I guess it just gives tax evaders too long to think

@artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid But there’s a difference between an amusement park ticket and a globe spanning company, no?

@eigenrobot It’s great stuff because every intro system design interview just asks how youd make twitter and I bet 90% of those answers are better than how it actually is

@artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid For context I’m a red blooded capitalist bc I feel it’s a utilitarian win. I’m just pointing out one discrepancy w that approach: we say the rich deserve their wealth because theyve proven good at allocating capital. But theyre kids have demonstrated no such proficiency. Thats it

@Cullen_OK @artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid Yeah https://x.com/tszzl/status/1222685806999023618?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1222685806999023618

@StephenRowe0 Canonically the recourse is that they’ll just loose all their money

@bufordsharkley @jdcmedlock I came up with it first

@discourseloverr IG

@discourseloverr i refuse

@bufordsharkley @jdcmedlock americans are allergic to dynasties (at least in rhetoric), whereas europeans see them as natural. they just forgot to extrapolate one step further to dynastic wealth

@LittleKeegs0 @artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid not really. you can't point me to a single social democratic state in the world that's not powered by a market capitalist economy. i.e. the hayek knowledge problem

@LittleKeegs0 @Cullen_OK @artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid why do the children of elites in the US compete so hard? people want more than the baseline: they want to be better than their neighbors

@LittleKeegs0 @Cullen_OK @artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid there's a whole genre of brahmins complaining about elite competition, i'll link one. from my personal experience as an upper middle class kid in a competitive school district, the kids compete like mad and their parents buy them every possible advantage https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/opinion/markovits-meritocracy.html

@LittleKeegs0 @Cullen_OK @artofhunger75 @Dinocaridid it may be something that's uniquely american but the noveau sort-of rich are truly ruthless. the immigrants especially. the absurdly rich mostly coast on their dynastic power. i'm not talking about people like the Waltons

So they’re welding shut the hospital ward doors and you’re telling me it’s not a zombie outbreak https://x.com/Ken2009_/status/1222531370041217024

@uberfeminist I’m not sure that weakens the argument really. England is immortal but its Kings come and go

@uberfeminist If an heir or group of heirs inherits the majority voting share of a mega corporation, they have absolute power over a set of economic flows that might span continents and employ millions

@flanaganagain_ @Cullen_OK @StillShilling philanthropic foundation is the best capitalist endgame

@jdcmedlock Inspired: writing procurement contracts that aren’t blank checks

@SilverVVulpes @eigenrobot Its my headcanon now that Satoshi is a time traveler

@uberfeminist This but unironically

@eigenrobot damn robots stealing our ML jobs

@ne0liberal This account has a special hatred for yang because he’s a rare neolib populist. I’ll be cackling as I tear down ur house via the Legion of Builders and Destroyers

@CaptDavidRyan You haven’t answered my question. A king can bequeath his throne to a prince while he’s still alive

@wesleyytian Yeah looks like it’s just an apartment

@mwilcox based

@AOCummies Everybody knows. I am like a leper

@mathtick There may only be one king, but there’s also the divine rights of lords, dukes, Earls, etc Private wealth does indeed effect others.

more security isn't always good protection measures always come with tradeoffs to usability and convenience every additional "factor" makes it that much more likely that you'll be stuck w.o. access to your accounts

@ne0liberal it's true but i still weep for san francisco, the beautiful pacific rim megacity to rival hong kong and shanghai that'll never come to fruition

@ne0liberal rip the star trek timeline

@jdcmedlock most people definitely shop around when they choose a college. my hot take is that the market is mostly functioning for colleges, but that as rent seekers they can afford to take much of the wage increase they create

@shutupjaya ok brahmin

moving her up a rung on the privilege ladder is a threat to her career and brand https://t.co/nsRkb3lfah

strong white feminist energy coming from this twete

@NoblePublius @jdcmedlock not a great retort, seeing as a king can bequeath his throne to his son by abdicating while he's still alive

@NoblePublius @jdcmedlock if you bite that bullet, you should also see that the king rightfully owns all the land, it isn’t being borrowed from the commons

@NoblePublius @jdcmedlock there are no laws of physics dictating that anyone owns anything. property rights aren’t embedded into the universe. we find that playing the capital game is a good way to organize planet scale societies and achieve utilitarian gain, so we do so

@NoblePublius @jdcmedlock it’s not even a universal human moral principle. many premodern tribal societies are extremely egalitarian and share all material possessions

@eigenrobot seems in line with the veritable zoo of artificial neural net architectures

not to mention having billionaire parents https://x.com/Bill_Gross/status/1222702667891265536

@wangjexi based

@koaleszenz our society Aligns smart sociopaths by turning them into effective capitalists

if @ironically_edgy can shamelessly repost from reddit I’m gonna do it too

@bighovy that's the exact same thing

@mattparlmer your account is now a public health updates page

im so glad warren is dead and with her the era where we had to discuss a giant wealth tax as though it doesnt destroy its own revenue stream

sanders is still on the same shit but at least none of the wonks herald his platform like it's smart or passable

@aquariusacquah I mean I don’t think Bernie has ever tried to balance his proposals lol but that’s almost better bc I don’t have to pretend to take it seriously

@aquariusacquah yeah I seriously wish there was only one left candidate so they didn’t feel the need to outleft each other

@man_ditch @ironically_edgy We’ve grown more powerful than you can imagine

@ahardtospell this makes you a lib

none of this makes any sense. there’s barely anything differentiating one cloud from another cloud, no brand loyalty, no monopoly, just companies chasing down the cheapest compute. so why these insane margins? https://x.com/chetanp/status/1223041555767779328

@TebleyS yeah, it’s designed to be punitive and reduce wealth. warren supporters had a handful of info graphics showing how the largest fortunes would’ve ablated away if wealth tax was in place for the last few decades, undermining their own projects

@d_feldman and what is the value add? we are seeing more and more infrastructure deployment tools that switch cloud backends fungibly, so i don’t quite follow

@ansells_cow there’s a bunch of provisioning tools these days that are backend agnostic. at least from where i’m standing, the switching costs seem small for reasonably sized deployments. I don’t know how it would work for a Netflix scale company

@Sharon_Kuruvila @ansells_cow the tool sets all seem like copy cats of each other, but you’re probably right about the SLAs

@d_feldman would be a dream to see containers executed in far away clouds via a bidding model that scours for the cheapest prices

@Iazypieceofshit @marathiMaharaja ya but they were all ripped so it’s worth

@jdcmedlock we’re all waiting on the face reveal 🙂

very cursed

@dickcheneyscou1 It’s cheaper to buy meat than grow it myself but that doesn’t make it high margins

@dickcheneyscou1 you’re right but aws is as stable as azure is as stable as gcp etc

@kenaviba Ridiculous

charlie munger is the cutest mf

@aquariusacquah lifters are the most oppressed class, right after gamers

@maiab this is by far the dumbest experiment i've ever heard of

@aka_wills @iajrz @rplevy I own a kingdom. Why can’t I give it to anyone I want?

@aka_wills @iajrz @rplevy I’m aware, and I’m saying the fundamental logic is no different than that of globe-spanning family owned enterprises. at least Julius and then Augustus had the common sense to hunt down someone smart to succeed them

@mutual_ayyde @Noahpinion I seriously doubt this is true. Anno said that a lot but I don’t think we should take it at face value. He may have just been trying to deflect questions he couldn’t easily answer

@sonyasupposedly 42 by day but 6 by night

@sonyasupposedly or maybe its the other way around 🤔

@AnUntimelyMan The thing is that the robot will be better to talk to than the human

@wesleyytian @AnUntimelyMan They’re coming in our lifetime

@miles_k @impcapital @nabeel those circumstances include a world full of destitute poverty and illness, not Americans who have Medicaid

@wesleyytian @AnUntimelyMan you’re just proving that there’s room for the robots to improve over humans 🙂

@wesleyytian @AnUntimelyMan yes of course. The companies allot their reps a budget to do things like this to get rid of customers wasting too much of their time. It’s not out of some special human connection

Georgists absolutely destroyed https://medium.com/@ClayShentrup/land-value-tax-1ce8c743a248

@koaleszenz it's an arbitrary asset class as he said and it punishes people who invested in land over something else arbitrarily. like throwing darts at a dartboard. why should the current bagholders feel the pain and nobody else? the logic is sound

@bufordsharkley @koaleszenz u really just compared slavery to owning a house huh