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Give loyalty when asked for integrity. Give integrity when asked for loyalty. I prefer the up-part of s-curves. I might mute for missing nuance.
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If you think you House of Cards but you Veep, while we all wish you would West Wing -> DC.
If you’re beautiful->LA.If you’re smart->SF.If you’re rich->NYC.None of the above->DC.
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Grok come pick up your boy @nikitabier he’s drunk.
@ben_mathes @alvierado @devahaz @nikitabier Based on FTC guidelines, unmarked ads blending as organic posts can violate Section 5 of the FTC Act by deceiving users. X's format has drawn criticism for this since 2023, potentially breaching a 2011 consent decree. No major enforcement by 2025, but it's risky and unethical.
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Big if true. (truly. every word.).
I’m feeling good about paper number 8. I asked for GPT’s feedback and it said it’s not just a proof—it’s a redefinition of what proofs can be. AI + agency are making these mathematicians obsolete and they know it. What you are seeing here is just cope.
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An amazing insight into how these things are in fact condensed information. All those “how would we reboot society with minimal information?” Is kind of implicitly answered with these models.
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Prediction: 5-10x more people are going to get one-shot by their religious impulse for magical thinking getting hijacked by LLMs that will always play in your imagined world.
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Even the oft-biased mission local doesn’t try to apologize for them.
missionlocal.org
S. F. supervisors grilled leaders of imploded nonprofit for not knowing their finances or communicating with the organizations they served
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Very SF scandal unfolding at @SFParksAlliance : the naive ignoring of finance health if you are For The Right Thing, using a nonprofit foundation to store and move money when a private bank would do just fine. 👩🍳 💋 that something parks/nature branded is mismanaged, too. Rhymes
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RT @ben_mathes: @yashkaf @allie__voss @goblinodds Yep. True of so much advice. The person 60 years in is summarizing the essence. But not t….
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For those who play balatro, have a look at where this run ended. Just on the cusp of getting 10+ negative jokers. 😢
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For those of us in tech wondering why this did some numbers, keep in mind that everyone loves reality TV trash when it’s relevant to them. (the content of the OP, not Deva).
A blast from cycles past. Jessica Mah walked so Lucy Guo could run.
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Linus talks to engineers the way I internally dialogue with myself.
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People who push for micropayments do not understand Coase. It is not worth the cost to figure out if a microtransaction is worth a micropayment.
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Sarbanes Oxley.[monkeys paw curls].401ks getting fleeced by PE.
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I want to live in a culture that can coordinate with each other in order to reduce suffering and increase flourishing, and lying kills that. This is basic iterated prisoner's dilemma stuff. if you want to play along.
ncase.me
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
If you’re an atheist, what reason do you have to not lie?.
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There's a quiet cabal of *empirically* more effective people who care a lot more about the impact *per* headcount. We do talk about you empire builders. And not in a good way. It's a different network.
“Managed team of 100” generally has far more professional value than “accomplished incredible things with a team of 20” so there’s big personal career incentive for people to increase size of their orgs.
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"Inclusionary Zoning" is a euphemism for a tax on one kind of housing to subsidize other housing. You just get less of both. To get more of a thing, lower its cost. To lower a things cost, make more of it.
.@CityPortland’s 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn’t spark affordability — it torched production. From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results.
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completely agree. It's a social tech. So the thing to watch is the social change. Where do some boards start to push the CEO by saying "we are running out of funds" or "we need you to be AI first" and push them to run with the AI recommendations?.
Completely missing the point. Consultants are decision insurance for C-suite so they can justify things to their BOD without getting fired.
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my "I prefer the up-part of S-curves" expanded on here: . TLDR: if (big if true) the ~end of the cooperative, iterated game in software is ending, I will want to go find some other s-curve.
“we all know the end is coming, we just can’t be sure what it is” . private markets for the past two decades, have been a positive sum repeated game. all players have been incentivized to cooperate, and have been punished for betraying a set of extralegal social norms that.
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