And then a million private equity, venture capitalists, management consultants, and other aspiring grifters cried out in terror. Hopefully they stay silenced.
You’re right and wrong: today’s economy is often negative sum from total utility perspective. It hurts society and the person but it helps Mark Suckerberg and Scam Altman and the private equity firms. It’s positive sum…
or, you know, lobbying and oligarchy. great at changing outcomes even when the folks agree.
Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, it is clear that the US needs privacy enshrined in the Constitution. For example, it is absurd to imagine a state government trying to distinguish between an abortion and a…
https://archive.ph/DqPNZ
> How can technology be used to make our society freer and more equal, and to augment human agency rather than diminish it? The past 20 years of surveillance capitalism and the general deployment of technology against…
META should pay a 20B fine for this one.
This is absurd. You're just asking for reasonable control over data that ostensibly belongs to you. Moreover, this minimum functionality was resolved years ago with RSS. That you'd be willing to pay so much reflects how…
By law, the English king could do what he pleased to. Somehow most folks still think the American Revolution was just.
Public transit and public places will continue to decline in cleanliness and quality for as long as the rich suck resources out of local municipalities. They do the same things with public schools (pulling educated…
This is not true. If a king has all the money, then whatever the king wants is what society builds. The use of resources by tech companies to build self-driving cars uses resources for things that might otherwise have…
One of the authors of the linked article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617) is a computer scientist not an economist. Just bc something is published in arxiv economics does not make it written by an economist.
I'll take "A waste of the world's resources for $200k, Alex" *600k, sorry
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Stop thinking about taxes as a way to fund the government. Money in the long run can buy anything, including political influence. There are no regulations that can effectively preclude this. (And empirically, America…
Yeah maybe we should just stop doing that and invest in public transit infrastructure instead.
Rankings not all consistent: - private military 6 but defense 39; - surveillance tech 7, data brokers 9, but facial recognition 14, social media 17, advertising 34; - polluters 3 but coal 26, oil 30, mining 37; - scam 5…
By making jokes about the physiognomy, we encourage future applications of eugenics to avoid this unappealing one. This is the right choice as long as the market votes in favor of this post. There, I used Andreeson's…
I personally think this is stupid (e.g., the new interface for selecting functions). The interface on original 84 was better. I still have mine from 15 years ago. I still use it.
the US can't build bullet trains because they'd serve the average person and there's no money in serving the average person
"and i also wrote this using claude" -- can we just include that at this point?
Idk but the analogies in the piece strike as AI generated. I don't think the new yorker is using AI to write pieces, so maybe the author has just been ingesting too much slop
"full extent of the information...including any IP masking services" This suggests that Google aggregates derived information based on how a user uses Google (i.e. VPN info). The fact that derived info was also…
My entire point is that the failures you point out in public transportation are due at root to the wealth inequality: Wealth inequality produces a negative feedback loop that destroys public infrastructure. Rich people…
I searched for original OpenAI mission statement. This hackernews comment came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367824#34370925 > OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to…
And then a million private equity, venture capitalists, management consultants, and other aspiring grifters cried out in terror. Hopefully they stay silenced.
You’re right and wrong: today’s economy is often negative sum from total utility perspective. It hurts society and the person but it helps Mark Suckerberg and Scam Altman and the private equity firms. It’s positive sum…
or, you know, lobbying and oligarchy. great at changing outcomes even when the folks agree.
Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, it is clear that the US needs privacy enshrined in the Constitution. For example, it is absurd to imagine a state government trying to distinguish between an abortion and a…
https://archive.ph/DqPNZ
> How can technology be used to make our society freer and more equal, and to augment human agency rather than diminish it? The past 20 years of surveillance capitalism and the general deployment of technology against…
META should pay a 20B fine for this one.
This is absurd. You're just asking for reasonable control over data that ostensibly belongs to you. Moreover, this minimum functionality was resolved years ago with RSS. That you'd be willing to pay so much reflects how…
By law, the English king could do what he pleased to. Somehow most folks still think the American Revolution was just.
Public transit and public places will continue to decline in cleanliness and quality for as long as the rich suck resources out of local municipalities. They do the same things with public schools (pulling educated…
This is not true. If a king has all the money, then whatever the king wants is what society builds. The use of resources by tech companies to build self-driving cars uses resources for things that might otherwise have…
One of the authors of the linked article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617) is a computer scientist not an economist. Just bc something is published in arxiv economics does not make it written by an economist.
I'll take "A waste of the world's resources for $200k, Alex" *600k, sorry
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Stop thinking about taxes as a way to fund the government. Money in the long run can buy anything, including political influence. There are no regulations that can effectively preclude this. (And empirically, America…
Yeah maybe we should just stop doing that and invest in public transit infrastructure instead.
Rankings not all consistent: - private military 6 but defense 39; - surveillance tech 7, data brokers 9, but facial recognition 14, social media 17, advertising 34; - polluters 3 but coal 26, oil 30, mining 37; - scam 5…
By making jokes about the physiognomy, we encourage future applications of eugenics to avoid this unappealing one. This is the right choice as long as the market votes in favor of this post. There, I used Andreeson's…
I personally think this is stupid (e.g., the new interface for selecting functions). The interface on original 84 was better. I still have mine from 15 years ago. I still use it.
the US can't build bullet trains because they'd serve the average person and there's no money in serving the average person
"and i also wrote this using claude" -- can we just include that at this point?
Idk but the analogies in the piece strike as AI generated. I don't think the new yorker is using AI to write pieces, so maybe the author has just been ingesting too much slop
"full extent of the information...including any IP masking services" This suggests that Google aggregates derived information based on how a user uses Google (i.e. VPN info). The fact that derived info was also…
My entire point is that the failures you point out in public transportation are due at root to the wealth inequality: Wealth inequality produces a negative feedback loop that destroys public infrastructure. Rich people…
I searched for original OpenAI mission statement. This hackernews comment came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367824#34370925 > OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to…