That's not how that's supposed to work! Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very…
Yup. I'm extremely unconvinced that a non-distributionary constraint (ex: limiting the money supply one way or another, i.e. the gold standard, bitcoin, etc.) fixes a distributionary problem. You know what would fix a…
Here's my prediction: Trump eventually crumbles, but is replaced by an equally (but differently) inept establishment Democrat figure. Conversations about inequality and wealth taxation in the West continue to be…
And Trump was elected with the support and influence of the very cadre of oligarchs running much of silicon valley: Elon Musk, Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey, etc., etc. Elon Musk (not Trump) is actively still weaponizing…
The fact that America has yet to figure out the importance of soft power (and TRUST in particular) in the AI/information age is mind boggling to me. The CLOUD act, FISA rulings, the Snowden leaks, and now the aggressive…
US government: "Bad Anthropic! Not patriotic enough. AI is only for American "citizens" (who we are actively trying to reduce/restrict to people we like)." Anthropic: "Oh... American access only, you say? I'm sorry, we…
I think we need functional visual programming. It seems to me like referential transparency and pure functional composition would be a much cleaner way to visually compose functions into larger functions (and eventually…
That sounds like an argument that someone with an unusual amount of wealth and power might make to downplay the unusual amount of responsibility that wealth and power confers on them. In today's economy power and wealth…
Or maybe we should question whether structuring society such that the only way to be rewarded is by making rich people even richer was really the best plan? Seems to me like we should reward people for achieving…
That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works. Needs are food, housing, and safety. Anything beyond that is not a need, it is a want. We're not giving everyone everything they need, and an increasingly…
The concept only makes sense for physical objects. The problem are the definitions of "piracy", "robbery", "theft", etc. There's two ways you could reasonably define them: by the loss, or by the gain. From a simple…
Blockchain refers specifically to a linked-list-like data structure which utilizes cryptographic hashes at each node to store an authentication of the tail of the list on each head (node). If you have a similar…
The idea that those who are falling through the cracks in the system is because they aren't working hard enough is crap. Thanks to the "golden age" you correctly say we live in, automation and globalisation have…
There's an enormous difference between a physical object, which has inherent scarcity; and information, which does not. We strongly enforce property rights on physical objects because since they are scarce, theft is…
Not true! We have no personal need for control over our information, as the utter lack of legal protections for personal privacy and personal information collection make abundantly clear. And works? Are you kidding me?…
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/progressive-rec...
Inflation is just the beginning - I've been trying to ramp up on the relevant economics and I'm developing a picture of what's happening. Focusing on prices I think is a mistake, the issue is beliefs/trust/future…
That's not how that's supposed to work! Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very…
Yup. I'm extremely unconvinced that a non-distributionary constraint (ex: limiting the money supply one way or another, i.e. the gold standard, bitcoin, etc.) fixes a distributionary problem. You know what would fix a…
Here's my prediction: Trump eventually crumbles, but is replaced by an equally (but differently) inept establishment Democrat figure. Conversations about inequality and wealth taxation in the West continue to be…
And Trump was elected with the support and influence of the very cadre of oligarchs running much of silicon valley: Elon Musk, Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey, etc., etc. Elon Musk (not Trump) is actively still weaponizing…
The fact that America has yet to figure out the importance of soft power (and TRUST in particular) in the AI/information age is mind boggling to me. The CLOUD act, FISA rulings, the Snowden leaks, and now the aggressive…
US government: "Bad Anthropic! Not patriotic enough. AI is only for American "citizens" (who we are actively trying to reduce/restrict to people we like)." Anthropic: "Oh... American access only, you say? I'm sorry, we…
I think we need functional visual programming. It seems to me like referential transparency and pure functional composition would be a much cleaner way to visually compose functions into larger functions (and eventually…
That sounds like an argument that someone with an unusual amount of wealth and power might make to downplay the unusual amount of responsibility that wealth and power confers on them. In today's economy power and wealth…
Or maybe we should question whether structuring society such that the only way to be rewarded is by making rich people even richer was really the best plan? Seems to me like we should reward people for achieving…
That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works. Needs are food, housing, and safety. Anything beyond that is not a need, it is a want. We're not giving everyone everything they need, and an increasingly…
The concept only makes sense for physical objects. The problem are the definitions of "piracy", "robbery", "theft", etc. There's two ways you could reasonably define them: by the loss, or by the gain. From a simple…
Blockchain refers specifically to a linked-list-like data structure which utilizes cryptographic hashes at each node to store an authentication of the tail of the list on each head (node). If you have a similar…
The idea that those who are falling through the cracks in the system is because they aren't working hard enough is crap. Thanks to the "golden age" you correctly say we live in, automation and globalisation have…
There's an enormous difference between a physical object, which has inherent scarcity; and information, which does not. We strongly enforce property rights on physical objects because since they are scarce, theft is…
Not true! We have no personal need for control over our information, as the utter lack of legal protections for personal privacy and personal information collection make abundantly clear. And works? Are you kidding me?…
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/progressive-rec...
Inflation is just the beginning - I've been trying to ramp up on the relevant economics and I'm developing a picture of what's happening. Focusing on prices I think is a mistake, the issue is beliefs/trust/future…