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Ah yes, let's price the world out of the real estate market and then use insanely powerful AI models to systematically mock the living conditions of the poors.

The point is creating failed businesses is legal and tax deductible.

Let's gather authors of 15 different world languages together in a room and see if they can collaboratively write a short story. Surely their inability to do so will prove their inadequacy in their native language. /s

Simplicity brings us closer to truth — Occam's razor has underpinned the development of our species for centuries. It's enterprise, empire, and capital that feed off of complexity.

We're entering a period of human history where engineers and businesspeople drive academic discourse, rather than scientists or philosophers. The result is intellectual chicken scratch like this article.

Doesn't sound like you're in the gutter champ

Still cheaper than the Baltimore Bridge

Not surprised. This summer I had a conversation with a senior staffer at OpenAI who had smoke coming from his ears due to Sam's incompetence. Contrary to his public image, he doesn't have the skillset of a CEO. He was a failed founder who was hired to head YC because he's smart and likeable. He was in a similar role at AI - a brainy media mouthpiece. Real work being done by senior staff. OpenAI's massive scale-up requires a new leadership style.

Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but the authors seem preoccupied with airing their own frustration with the views of Deepak Chopra. Using such an author as a data source is distracting because he writes about a sort of spiritual thinking that - based on the tone of the article - the authors presumably do not practice themselves.

I would be interested to expand the author's definition of bullshit to account for instances where the 'bullshitee' has insufficient knowledge about a topic. In the same way a true statement about theoretical physics would be indistinguishable from bullshit to anyone not trained in the subject.

I found this paper close to touching on a method for understanding truthiness in generated text, but falling short into comedy.

The human experience is an embodied one, it is not just information processing

Appreciated this. Hey everyone, it's just some art, relax :]

The interactive piece on Dürer found hyperlinked in the article was an awesome read.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-se...

In my opinion, the implied framework of morality is bit too simplistic to arrive at a meaningful answer. Good and Bad are not objective outcomes that can be 'caused' by OKRs. Why not try to recognize the inherent balance of good / bad in all things and then focus on being a better person?

Advertising: Bad to advertise lies, good to advertise truth E-commerce: Bad to sell consumption, good to sell solution Crypto: Bad for the environment, good for personal empowerment Finance: Bad for irresponsible spenders, good for people with low assets relative to cashflow Drugs, gambling, etc: Bad for the long run, good for the short run.

Even God, a construction meant to represent pure goodness, is bad to half of yall

Things are always changing. In the early days it wasn’t possible to record music so it made sense to monetize indirectly. When it became possible to actually record music it was hard to distribute it until radio. Later the digital revolution made recording and distributing music so easy it collapsed the market value of recordings. Today, decentralized networks are the next technology poised to shape society and it seems that those who can create digital assets are leveraged to succeed

This makes a lot more sense when you consider that the vast, vast majority of accumulated wealth over the last 100 years is corporate wealth.

To depoliticize ... I would interpret this statistic as an indication of the correlation between wealth and corporate stock ownership, which is almost tautological. If you own or help run a public company you are probably very rich.

And even in the hypothetical case where more of the "90%" are benefiting from stock ownership than ever, this statistic will always simply highlight the reality that running or owning a business makes you money.

I'm in a similar situation; the company I worked at was acquired a couple of months before the pandemic. The sale gave me enough money to retire a few times over, 2 days after my 30th birthday. I initially went through a long period of guilt. I've tried angel investing, impact investing, doing hackathons, applying to fellowships and launching side-projects. I've realized that a lot of the skills I've gained in the last decade were built around generating money. Yet my happiness and fulfillment skills were under-developed.

The most absurd part of it all is how little happiness I got from all that money. Meaning and purpose are things you have to make up. If you can find happiness in a day job, in some ways you're better off than the aimless millionaire.

I'm lucky that I have a huge passion in music and have been focusing more on that lately. It's definitely weird for me to work on something without a direct financial incentive. Yet there are many people in the world, rich or poor, living for purposes outside money.

I haven't really had too many people to talk about this with. But it feels good to share a bit. DMs open to those in similar boats

It's a treatment, not a cure

What a harrowing read.

This seems like an amazing company

So that Israel can draw its own borders without the criticism of 'international treaties' or 'human rights'

This is awesome! Love the solution to responsiveness, that's really clever.

This feels like a lazy feature ... why? Who does it serve? How does it make clubhouse better?

Part of the "trap" is implicit assumption of the subject / object distinction, which we are stuck with so long as we use language to think and communicate. But all human expression is generated from an initial non-verbal intention. So I think "trying to do good" is actually fundamentally important, because it's the precursor to good things happening

Bitcoin isn't a collectible, because Bitcoin isn't unique or rare, it's infinitely divisible, and highly liquid. However, like a mint-condition beanie-baby, the value of Bitcoin is highly debatable. While most people would agree there is some non-zero value of having a distributed and decentralized currency, without a historical basis for valuation, justifying the price is difficult. It's better to think about crypto as an independent asset class with its own dynamics that are probably correlated to the balance of power between private and public interests. Ask yourself: in the long run, and globally, does the value of decentralized currency system increase or decrease relative to our current inflation-based monetary system?

I feel talking about DAUs is a little deceptive for enterprise software given that 'users' are essentially forced to not only use their employer's software stack, but use it daily

I liked this. It can be read as a very timely articulation of the age-old human obsession with platonic ideals. The quest for 'the seamless flow of information' is so much like the quest for true democracy, spiritual enlightenment, immortality, a unified scientific theory, artificial consciousness, transcendence before it... In the end we always re-discover that our noble ambitions don't free us from our mortal and earth-bound bodies, and that makes us feel sad. We're not gods after all, we're monkeys who managed to self-evolve the hair off of our bodies and are, for the present moment, transfixed by programmable glowing rectangles ... Importantly, this failure to be anything more is what reconnects us to ourselves. Albert Camus comes to mind:

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

enter ... the human condition

Kind of like the de-facto response when approached by a stranger in a large city, regardless of their intention

Jeez the clickbait at the bottom gave me eye cancer. Really goes to show how much the advertising model is failing the journalism industry

Given that there's a strong correlation between race and poverty in the US (via racism) and a strong correlation between poverty and infection rate which, it seems to mean poverty is a greater indicator than genetics. After all the genetic factor only comes into play after exposure, while poverty increases the likelyhood of exposure

Just a reminder how much Vice sucks

Peter’s theory is the result of the hard work of a modern, living, and well-respected scientist rather than a bunch of dead dead Central American dudes whom hippies like to talk about while taking heavy psychedelic drugs

Yeah they're dead because they were fucking slaughtered by the same forces at play in today's "violence"

I'm by no means an economist, but I think the same. I understand inflation to be the shifting reference point of purchasing power per unit of currency. So without an increase in pay for the lower class in the U.S., it actually prevents prices from moving up.