4er_transform

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by 4er_transform 12d ago
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.
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by 4er_transform 2mo ago
While technology has empowered governments, it’s also empowered the individual, and more importantly shifted the material dynamics to better align the incentives of governments with the people. Democracy followed material change, it didn’t
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by 4er_transform 2mo ago
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 methods, all the bette
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by 4er_transform 3mo ago
Gold Standard is probably a force that acts against inequality but the forces pushing inequality today are just much stronger. Technology that creates winner take all markets and incredible leverage with few people being one.
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by 4er_transform 3mo ago
Surprising how tech people on a tech forum are some of the biggest Luddites. Maybe it’s because the creative destruction is coming to your industry this time?
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by 4er_transform 3mo ago
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 their behalf
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by 4er_transform 4mo ago
Everything everywhere does this. All human progress has been making common and accessible the rare and expensive. Universities, online courses, textbooks, etc all exist to make economics as accessible as possible, there’s just a really tigh
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by 4er_transform 5mo ago
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 just stupid and it’s a
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by 4er_transform 6mo ago
If you’re wondering what is left when you have a swarm of generally intelligent agents working on your behalf and can do every task as well as a human, we already have the answer. That is the life of a CEO. Humans are left deciding the dire
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by 4er_transform 6mo ago
Yes it is. Kids grow up to run the world, a world I’m going to live in. I have a stake in that. This should be obvious if we take our civilization seriously.
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by 4er_transform 6mo ago
Yes of course. Unfortunately many of those decisions get distorted and captured by bad actors, creating a reasonable skepticism. If you care about solving climate change: instead of yelling at climate change denialist you should direct more
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by 4er_transform 6mo ago
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 doesn’t mean we shou
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by 4er_transform 6mo ago
Individualism taken to the insane. “How the next generation of your society is raised is none of your business”. Take some ownership
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by 4er_transform 7mo ago
Or make them part of the consequences. Give them skin in the game. “Let’s not use AI” is dumb and impossible
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by 4er_transform 7mo ago
“You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak.” If “I get exhausted that I have to check in on my coding agent while it does my job” isn’t weak, what is? This has to be satire.
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
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 needs to be properly u
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
Unions are rent-seeking behavior and that’s the problem. Voluntary unions are one thing, but the way unions are build today is requiring labor to participate and for businesses to buy from the union. Rent-seeking behavior of any kind holds
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
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
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
If I did, would it change your mind?
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
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 only good unions are th
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
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 factories became ope
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by 4er_transform 8mo ago
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.
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by 4er_transform 9mo ago
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 recognize that as a maladap
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by 4er_transform 9mo ago
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 thermodynamically productive a
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by 4er_transform 10mo ago
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.
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by 4er_transform 10mo ago
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
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by 4er_transform 10mo ago
In which periods in human history has that been possible? In the parts of the world with the highest birth rates is that possible?
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by 4er_transform 10mo ago
This looks more like a return to form than anything. The first ventures were funding voyages to a New World thousands of miles away, essentially a different planet as far as the people then were concerned. Venture capital for a new B2B appl