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There's a shitty version of this already, which is welfare paid out per child. This has obvious virtues, but my friend is a section 8 landlord and has many stories over the years of this benefit being exploited as a kind of "career" which I think is not holding with the spirit of the thing.
Not a thing you can say in polite company. The prevalence of it I don't know, though, so maybe it's rare in absolute terms.
Anyway, interesting comparison to Hanson's scheme.
Most interesting data set in the world, I think. Will be v interesting to see how he exploits it going forward. Grok 3 is already the best model to talk to in a bunch of ways.
Each time you attack a bad idea, you are feeding the very monster you are trying to destroy.
This is sort of true, but it's missing such an important thing that it might as well be false.
The missed thing is that most people don't really give a shit about destroying monsters, whatever they may say about the matter. When people dunk on the cowardly and hated enemy, they're not striking a blow for justice, they're getting a crack rush off the moral superiority that envelopes them like god's love.
That joy, combined with the points they earn from their own tribe, overwhelms by two orders of magnitude any instinct toward truth-seeking.
"Hell for the ideas you deplore is silence. Have the discipline to give it to them.”
They will never find themselves in that hell because the ones who could send them there can't bear the separate hell of doing without them.
100 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 26 Mar \ parent \ on: What's one of your more controversial opinions? AskSN
No, you’re mostly just as retarded as everyone else. Maybe even more because now you think you’re right about way more things where normies would actually be humble enough to admit they don’t know and don‘t care.
This is the best and most succinct expression of what I believe that I've ever encountered.
It's a good point. I solved wallet issues and don't think about it anymore. My pain points are around long-term use and value, which are probably not representative.
Would love a version of this story from Argentina in the early 2000s. Anyone know anything, even if it's not principally about that?
Meaning: figuring out collaboration + learning is a good strategy in any era? If so, I didn't have it in mind, but agree that it's true historically.
Btw, v interesting to intersect this idea w/ the idea of evergreen-ness.
It's an interesting start. This seems like one of the things where a lot of bottom-up efforts like the one you just described will give insights and point the way to larger compositions. Most people are so thoroughly trapped by the existing paradigms that they'll never figure it out (look at LLM chat interfaces as the most stunning example), so it requires a different kind of mind[s] to get there probably.
The intermingling idea seems very promising as an insight-generating tool. The "comment reputation" idea @k00b introduced the other week is a cool building block.
The skill of collaboration with machines is, IMO, the most important skill. The idea that you can know nothing at all about the domain, and that AI will do it all and do it well, is an illusion. It will stay an illusion, and if it doesn't, it will mean that humanity has serious, serious problems, at which point choice of career will be irrelevant.
In my own experience, figuring out what it takes to collaborate, and to learn, is a deep, deep well. It's giant alpha waiting for people.
37 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 23 Mar \ parent \ on: How the fuck is XRP worth anything? AskSN
Do you guys have spicy Thanksgivings? I'd pay some sats to be an audience for that one. You should put him on your podcast ;)
30 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury OP 23 Mar \ parent \ on: How the fuck is XRP worth anything? AskSN
Very similar to my own origin story. I try to tell myself that understanding stuff pays off, but then I think of all the years I thought btc was nonsense. Sigh.
32 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury OP 23 Mar \ parent \ on: How the fuck is XRP worth anything? AskSN
Oh boy. I guess the good news is that, looking at the chart, depending on when exactly your BIL sold and bought he could be in the money?
My friend knows I'm into btc and was asking me about XRP recently and I told her that XRP had no reason to exist and was a scam; she pulled up the chart. I made the usual objections, but it did give me pause.
Thus my quest to understand if this is just the usual world gone mad, or if there is some actual nugget of real-ness to the thing.