alexashka

I just don't know why it would actually be true that everyone at the top is a villain

History.

Also, nobody said 'everyone' or 'villain'. How Paul Graham of you.

Now do factory farming. Just another room, right?

The free market fundamentally doesn't have a good response to this problem

Free markets don't exist.

The problem isn't what you think it is. It's Dunning-Kruger effect and 99% of the population is living it loud and proud.

The moment you realize most people's thinking is no better than a hallucinating LLM :)

Thank you. Before you said it, I didn't know what to do but now I know to compare and decide for myself what is useful and what isn't.

I hope my newfound way of life is not oversimpifying it to the extreme.

If you have a thing people want that you spent a decade making that isn't easily replicatable, the rest doesn't matter.

If you don't have that, the rest also doesn't matter. Unless you're obsessed with money, in which case, you are very confused and should not be guiding anybody to anything.

Guides regarding minutiae from lottery ticket winners are tiresome. I think anyone over 30 has learned what these 'guides' amount to from looking at Paul Graham.

Your post seems to assume anyone in power is acting in good faith and wants a fair system.

They have pressure to hire lawyers and consult them regarding swatting techniques. That only costs money and money is like blood to humans - you don't even think about it, whereas it is all mosq

Employee - Large organization.

Mosquito - Human.

You don't swat a mosquito out of fear, you swat it out of preventing a minor nuisance.

A whistleblower is a mosquito that's bitten a human. The most likely outcome is an imminent, violent swat, resulting in career destruction.

Fair. There's a free 1080p Nvidia Geforce NOW tier anyone can try to see if latency is an issue for them and the games they play.

One more data point - you're getting 1080p medium settings (for latest games) with a Steam Machine at ~1000$ upfront vs 4k max settings but 20-50ms added latency (for most people) for ~20$/mo without any longterm commitment.

That's where we're at. I'm in the 2000$ upfront to get max settings, minimal latency camp myself but I consider that to be a niche, luxury purchase category.

For comparison - cloud gaming such as Nvidia's Geforce NOW is at ~20$/mo for 4k resolution with a monthly subscription one can cancel anytime.

That's what, ~4-5 years of gaming on a superior GPU without the headaches of hardware failures or upfront cost of 1000$?

Yikes Valve. The only folks buying gaming PCs these days are people eeking out an advantage in competitive 3D shooters or folks unaware of how far cloud gaming has come.

I'm sure some slave owners were 'nice people'. Still slave owners, right?

But I treat my slaves better than everyone I know and I only have half a dozen! I don't only have slaves for profit!

Slave owners in the south were actually far more likely to be better people than today's landlords because they had far less choice but to compete with other people who engaged in slavery than landlords of today.

The 'only' strawman and the projections, oh my. 'Every accusation is a confession' remains true. 'Sucks to be them', 'inflicting them on the rest of us'. Gee, the person on the internet you know nothing about is 'inflicting harm' on society. Think of the landlord's feelings, they appear to be hurt! Look, he accused someone with an already high paying job who landlords in his free time of only caring about money! Only he said, does he not know that there can be multiple motivating factors? He said only fellas, only! I rest my case, only.

Yes I’m doing it for the money

Right, so not well meaning. You said well meaning. You're taking that back. Correct?

You're upset at someone maximizing money at your expense. You like it when you maximize money at someone else's expense just fine. Correct?

The world's smallest violin is playing.

Please no 'I'm providing a valuable service' argument. We've already established your only interest is money.

have a hatred for even well-meaning small landlords

In what way are you well meaning? You're only doing it for money.

The people not paying you rent are also only doing it for money.

Sucks when people behave like you, huh.

Many people's enjoyment stems from knowing they do less work for more money than the people they grew up around.

'Useful' is not even a thought that's ever entered their brain.

There is no 'we'. There are different values that value different things.

Slave values = sacrificing yourself is noble and good.

Aristocracy values = being born an aristocrat is noble and good.

Trader values = enriching oneself is noble and good.

Religious fundamentalist values = following the one and only book is good.

Little girl/consumer values = my emotions are good.

Etc.

Slave and religious values are being replaced by trader and little girl/consumer values.

Boys embody slave or trader values. Girls embody little girl/consumer values.

Boys go to war, girls are little princesses. Ballet/women's pro sports are a niche for the few women who embody slave values. Most embody little girl/consumer values.

Money is just numbers.

If we didn't have food, you'd have a point. If factories weren't churning out more stuff than anyone knows what to do with - you'd have a point.

All this is is a bunch of incompetent, spoiled idiots in positions of power that will sooner or later have to make room for people who know what they're doing.

Nobody in this globalized economy is interested in things no longer working - even the incompetent idiots. All that has to happen is 60+ year old retards who thought they were going to move up the power ladder because 'seniority' will need to go fuck off and play golf and their children will need to go fuck off and work in lower middle management.

That's all.

Of course they spend billions every year telling you otherwise. Their other big lie is that we can't tax anyone or do anything because 'they will just leave' or 'China' or 'USSR' or 'terrorism' or some other bullshit. It's all bullshit, it's been bullshit and it will continue to be bullshit until you turn your brain on for 2 minutes and realize it's either retards in charge or not - the rest is talk.

Stupid people never have the appetite or ability to 'tackle' anything. It's their defining characteristic.

It's not more complex than stupid people in charge, stupid results follow. Smart people with integrity in charge, good things follow.

AI changes nothing.

Starting a successful startup is the most common way to become a billionaire, so in effect I've spent the last 21 years training people to become billionaires

He actually thinks he trained people to become billionaires.

I like how he thinks everyone else is an idiot - look, if you make a thing bigger many times - it grow big, reaaaal biiig! Take out your calculator, look, number go biiig!

You can ask for whatever you like - nobody's listening.

There is no 'we'. 99%+ of people view the world as a zero sum game where for me to win, somebody has to lose and if I don't do whatever it takes, somebody else will and then I lose, therefore I have no morals or principles or virtues and anyone who does is a liar or a fool.

Everything is a bad faith act, everyone is a selfish bad faith actor and I shouldn't feel bad about being one because everyone else who isn't a fool is too.

This tragically wrong but intuitively correct worldview and much more was explained by Plato long, long ago and just about no one understood any of it. At least the text survived and people with 140+ IQ and an iota of decency can read it and be at peace knowing they're not crazy or foolish.

'No real reason' is the 2026 version of 'they hate our freedom'.

What's the point of arguing with any of this.

It's like someone arguing that cheese isn't real

I agree with your first statement (any being you) because of your second statement.

We share about 99% of our DNA with chimps.

Whatever we're doing that isn't what they're doing is not normal.

False statements require no explanation.

They know because of the algorithm:

Hear a thing and store it and the associated vibe - yay/nay.

Step 2:

Mindlessly repeat stored information and vibe when it feels appropriate.

Step 3:

Wait for somebody else to do the work of refuting/verifying your info + vibe.

Step 4:

Go to step 1.

When you realize this is what all people are doing almost all of the time (and many, all of the time), you are liberated.

Coping from what?

From not having the thing you hope for or believe in.

I want a cookie.

I'm going to get a cookie. No believe, no hope.

I may not get a cookie. Oh no. I'm stressed. How do I deal with the stress? I hope I get a cookie. I believe I'm going to get a cookie. That's a coping mechanism.

All that work to kick a ball into a net.

Nobody looks at this species and goes hm, rational and reasonable :)

I always believed that my work speaks for itself and transcends beyond my limited time on this cosmic experience

Any statement preceded by the word 'believe' is a coping mechanism.

This notion of immortality was just a small intangible bonus I hoped for when I jumped into grad school

Any statement preceded by the word 'hope' is a coping mechanism.

AI is making me feel less worthy

Worth comes from understanding, not achievement.

A single mutli-millionaire guy is not going to be impressed by a woman who works 50 hrs a week and makes $400k

Sure he's impressed.

People date/marry people from their caste/social circle. You want your partner to fit smoothly into your existing life which means having a similar upbringing and career trajectory.

The work vs take care of needs is a false dichotomy. The person that'll 'take care of your needs' is the person you are on the same page with - assuming you're looking for a long term partnership, rather than the equivalent of a prostitute.

My whole point is that this is entirely subjective

No.

This 'entirely subjective' perspective only makes sense from a certain kind of human. I call them below 130 IQ human personally.