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I get all that, it’s a fun philosophical widget to ponder over. But out here in the real world it has value to me because I can sell it for more than I paid. I’ve taken profits and…

I don’t care what you say it’s worth, I care what people willing to buy it will pay.

My crypto is still worth more than I paid for it.

Monks understand that sentience is not connected to language and reasoning. “You are not your thoughts, you are the observer” language and reasoning are just the mechanism we use t…

We were making too much stuff. Banks decided we needed to buy less stuff so they made less money. Now the leftover stuff will sit because we won’t make enough money for ourselves t…

It seems so strange, you’d think there’d be no shortage of problems to go around.

Great example of how the market doesn’t really care about the how, just the what.

My comment maybe came off as a criticism for academics but I was speaking from experience with my own struggle disentangling my ego from academia. I still wanted to think of myself…

I did the same thing. It wasn’t conscious, it was more that they lived in a completely different world from where I went. We couldn’t really relate as much anymore. Like we now had…

It’s definitely partially academia that does this. When you are a grad student you are paid so poorly and worked so hard it is difficult to build a substantial identity outside of …

It’s not that they weren’t paying attention. It’s more that academics egos can’t handle the loss to their identity of not being an academic anymore.

Return on capital for flipping bits has been much higher than physical. SWEs are paid far more than material scientists and I think the latter is much harder.

Astounding the lengths people will go to avoid having to provide a real good or service.

Tech work doesn’t feel like something you can have a life long career in. It’s stressful and there’s ageism. Tech workers are mentally amortizing their productive tech life-span ov…

In a bull market it’s too hard to tell if you are a genius or taking a random walk on a rising tide. Most think they are the former.

I wish this applied to fire trucks. I’ve been woken up too many times by a fire truck blasting their horn at 2am when there’s no traffic in the street, waking up 200+ people in the…

Dude, you ok? That’s a lot of hate to be carrying around all the time, can’t be all that fun.

You should not lower your standards, rather adjust them to the context. Know when high standards are appropriate and when you should lower your standards. Sounds like this Amazon a…

Try volunteering to teach some college courses on an entry level technical subject. It'll help develop some empathy for why not everyone can code. For me it was physics. I was opti…

Central anything + smart home = miserable experience. If my router is having a sketchy connection I should never be blocked from turning my lights on, or have one random light in a…

If we discover room temperature superconductors this might be in the cards. Lots of exotic stuff becomes possible then but no one knows if it’s possible to have room temperature su…

When I was in neuroscience I came to the same conclusion. People just keep trying new ways to do information processing which is really easy and fun. Solving the biology and materi…

Did they fix strings?