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For the protocol symposium unconference next Friday, I’m torn between a session on the idea of hardened commons I’ve been brewing, and one on kits and configurations (thinking of the world in Lego like ways). Help me pick. https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/14831
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Happiness is a choice, not a consequence. And once you choose it, you get to enjoy a burst of murder-suicidal anger at the world not supporting your choice every few weeks.
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To what extent is the meaning crisis a function of insufficient risk in people’s lives? Ie a Fukuyama “Last Man” syndrome?
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Resharing to Lego
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Remote control technic car from knock-off kit. Again a significant error in the instructions. There’s been at least 1 in leach of the last few builds.
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Even in well-attended zoom meetings, the presence of AI notetaker bots, even just 1-2 really hurts the vibe. If it’s more than 20% bots the meeting is ruined. Like party pooper types who show up to parties but sit there glumly without being social. Either show up or don’t. Don’t send a zombie notetaker.
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I'll be talking about this figjam mind map of 2 years of summer of protocols in about 30 minutes...
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Almost cracked the air fryer chip protocol
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This is hilarious 😂
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Association of Ambiguous Assasins. The new AAA
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😂 not wrong
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Sometimes I think about how vast and deep industries have emerged, to solve difficult technical problems, involving the most advanced tech to have ever existed, primarily to allow me to create and distribute “content” to people who never asked for it Then I don’t feel so bad about having wasted much of my life doing this. It must be important if so many of you much more capable and serious people devote your life to enabling it, right?
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Post-AI jobs will really be more like species
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Three ways to get unstuck Stretch or shrink the goal Lower or raise the bar Protocolize or deprotocolize
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Theres finally an engineer at the yop rather than an accountant, but unclear that much has changed https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/business/boeing-workers-strike/index.html
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Yep
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Until this housing cycle and trying and failing to buy a house for a year so far, I didn’t truly appreciate how and why high interest rates slow growth. It’s not so much the cost of financial capital as the freezing of sunk non-financial capital. High interest means you can’t easily sell and rebuy elsewhere so you freeze in place. More generally you can’t redeploy existing existing capital in even equivalent ways if rivalrous good are involved, forget novel ways. Contrary to my expectations as a free agent, lining up a mortgage hasn’t been the problem. And I’m perhaps foolishly even willing to pay the interest rate and take a chance on future refinancing. But the supply-side freeze is much more real. Interest rates coming down even dramatically is not enough. It has to reach parity with locked in interest rates to unfreeze rivalrous asset classes. I’m interested in seeing how much capital is frozen at what “temperatures” as understood via locked in interest rates.
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First attempt at a Korean/japanese style rolled omelette not great but ok this morning. Otoh I made a great chapters salad yesterday.
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I’m now obsessed with the Slav-potato nexus https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeofBoris/comments/rm32sr/most_slav_and_least_slav_countries_based_on/
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This would be a very funny outcome
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