There is, is just different capital for those companies (debt, growth equity, angels, grants) and less attention. There’s far more of these types of companies too.
Who cares about reading? Take a step back - humans don’t exist to read, reading is a tool, a means to an end. It’s to transmit information from one to another. If we can do that with more information-dense, less lossy…
It’s reminiscent of Dune: - Small devoted religious sect seeds messiah myths in the distant land for generations, so that in their time of need, they can tap of this devotion from “the people in the south” to fight on…
No VC makes an investment off the star count. It’s a signal to identify opportunities in the noise. Once surfaced, there’s other signals to filter if an initial conversation is even worth it. Assuming everyone else is…
Actually I think a lot of climate change denialism has more to do with the “…and so we have to do X to solve it” part of climate change. It’s “climate change activism” that turns people off. Climate change is real. That…
Individualism taken to the insane. “How the next generation of your society is raised is none of your business”. Take some ownership
Or make them part of the consequences. Give them skin in the game. “Let’s not use AI” is dumb and impossible
What is well-being to you? You’re right: all things should serve humanity, including markets. Rent-seeking behavior of any kind, including unions, including business engaged in rent-seeking, are anti-human. Well-being…
Who cares about capitalism? It’s a label. What matters is eliminating rent-seeking behavior. Unions are rent-seeking. Business cartels/groups are also rent seeking. Abolish them all
If I did, would it change your mind?
Unions are everywhere and always a market distortion. Using political power to pull wealth into your union that would otherwise spread to the rest of society via competition (in labor and capital markets) is bad. The…
Honestly this sounds like a Luddite mindset (and I mean that descriptively, not to be insulting). This mindset holds us back. You can imagine the artisans who made shirts saying the exact same thing as the first textile…
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People are animals like any other. That’s not a slight. Managers respond to incentives much like dogs do too, and so do execs, and board members, and every human.
You have to look a level deeper. Life has always been productive, it’s the only way you maintain negative entropy and thus life itself. If you found a species that stopped being biologically productive, you would…
If your alternative meaning of life is harnessing as many feel good chemicals in your brain as possible, that’s an objectively pointless existence If we’re all just particles and fields, we might as well be as…
NFTs from first principles looked like a bad idea even then. They solved 0 problems. When a technology solves 0 problems, it’s doomed to fail.
Also: democracy, capitalism/the global economy, your HOA, a tribe, etc etc Even a weather system is a kind of computational process and “intelligent” in a way
There is, is just different capital for those companies (debt, growth equity, angels, grants) and less attention. There’s far more of these types of companies too.
Who cares about reading? Take a step back - humans don’t exist to read, reading is a tool, a means to an end. It’s to transmit information from one to another. If we can do that with more information-dense, less lossy…
It’s reminiscent of Dune: - Small devoted religious sect seeds messiah myths in the distant land for generations, so that in their time of need, they can tap of this devotion from “the people in the south” to fight on…
No VC makes an investment off the star count. It’s a signal to identify opportunities in the noise. Once surfaced, there’s other signals to filter if an initial conversation is even worth it. Assuming everyone else is…
Actually I think a lot of climate change denialism has more to do with the “…and so we have to do X to solve it” part of climate change. It’s “climate change activism” that turns people off. Climate change is real. That…
Individualism taken to the insane. “How the next generation of your society is raised is none of your business”. Take some ownership
Or make them part of the consequences. Give them skin in the game. “Let’s not use AI” is dumb and impossible
What is well-being to you? You’re right: all things should serve humanity, including markets. Rent-seeking behavior of any kind, including unions, including business engaged in rent-seeking, are anti-human. Well-being…
Who cares about capitalism? It’s a label. What matters is eliminating rent-seeking behavior. Unions are rent-seeking. Business cartels/groups are also rent seeking. Abolish them all
If I did, would it change your mind?
Unions are everywhere and always a market distortion. Using political power to pull wealth into your union that would otherwise spread to the rest of society via competition (in labor and capital markets) is bad. The…
Honestly this sounds like a Luddite mindset (and I mean that descriptively, not to be insulting). This mindset holds us back. You can imagine the artisans who made shirts saying the exact same thing as the first textile…
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People are animals like any other. That’s not a slight. Managers respond to incentives much like dogs do too, and so do execs, and board members, and every human.
You have to look a level deeper. Life has always been productive, it’s the only way you maintain negative entropy and thus life itself. If you found a species that stopped being biologically productive, you would…
If your alternative meaning of life is harnessing as many feel good chemicals in your brain as possible, that’s an objectively pointless existence If we’re all just particles and fields, we might as well be as…
NFTs from first principles looked like a bad idea even then. They solved 0 problems. When a technology solves 0 problems, it’s doomed to fail.
Also: democracy, capitalism/the global economy, your HOA, a tribe, etc etc Even a weather system is a kind of computational process and “intelligent” in a way