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It goes back way before AI. Leadership is a real thing but I've rarely seen manager exhibit it. If we are to use it at all, it should have to be earned.

I've lived in cities not quite as bad as this (one of my earliest memories is my Dad pulling the family to the floor during a drive by right across the street), but the main thing …

IMO many of my coworkers are in a state of unreality that seems related to AI usage. There's a kind of religious faith that these tools can't fail, only be failed. I use them too, …

IMO we need to stop referring to our bosses as "leadership" as a matter of course. It's just blatant propaganda.

This is called "marginal utility of money" and is IMO the reason wealth redistribution is at minimum rational to the point that it doesn't disincentize needed growth. In this light…

I wonder if this will incentivize pushing compute back toward the user instead of in big centralized facilities, sonething like a repeat of the PC revolution. Or will it just incen…

I'm genuinely unsure why those was posted in response to my comment. Did you mean to reply elsewhere?

Fear of nuclear war was useful for midcentury US elites because it could be transmuted into fear of Communism. Since 1991 it just isn't as useful for that purpose, so the culture i…

I remember hearing it from a Boy Scout leader but about George Washington's axe.

HR will also not protect you "if heads start to roll". They're there to protect the company.

If some nut job ordered assassination of 1000 PRC officials tomorrow, the world would be plunged into apocalyptic, possibly nuclear, war. It's maybe the worst possible way to handl…

It's really more that the (narrow, academic, theoretical) Laffer curve provided cover for the Reagan admin to cut taxes in the ways their backers wanted, but this is admittedly unp…

A race track is a normal business trying to make money, so its operators rationally fold rather than almost certainly losing money even if they win in court. An AI (or crypto minin…

Would you quit your job in order to be a gig delivery driver? If not, why not?

Per the formulation in my post, that puts you in the misanthrope/right winger category, but presumably you are asking because in this case you don't feel that's right as some kind …

I had honestly forgotten about reason #1 as I haven't heard anyone mentioning the service when leaving a tip in decades. IMO that's dying boomer behavior. Everyone understands that…

"Ye cannot serve God and mammon"

This is true only in the trivial sense that one can't process a payment for less than a penny.

I -- just some working stiff in flyover country, USA -- can buy African stocks from my phone while on the shitter at work. Until quite recently, if I wanted to invest in a meaningf…

(IANA scholar, but I play one on the internet.) No, Weber is not the current state-of-the-art, but you can see how was a bit suspicious (given the evidence that Weber was working w…

There have historically been obstacles and countervailing forces preventing accumulation to get to the point it is now. The classical example is labor organizing, which has been de…

Why not?

Re-concentrating fertilizer from runoff sounds like an energy-intensive activity. Why wouldn't cheap wind power make it easier?

I personally love the Quake 1 sky textures. It's possible to have a stylized sky in a game that looks good.

Yeah I mean Marx himself lived in a world where the aristocracy was still a going concern. Still, management is fundamentally aligned with ownership. If anything, the dynamic you'r…