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Yea, that's his point. The gold standard neither prevents nor encourages inequality, except inasmuch as it limits policy flexibility (which, similarly, could be used to promote or …

NAL, but have worked in this. Griggs is a bit more complicated than that, and its progeny modify application anyway. The TLDR is that arbitrary tests are permissible if there's no …

How long would it take an aggressive company to expand production capacity? I always thought it takes a few years, at minimum, for even established players to stand up new fabs

Sure, but the key word here is "was" The industry is so naturally prone to oversupply that the only stable equilibrium is undersupply. Aggressive expansion kicks off a price war, w…

Again - maybe? The credential was certainly something - a more easily understood distillation of the of connections and status that got you there. But that's not exactly profession…

Maybe? Elite colleges have been around a lot longer than the professional credentialism of the last 20 years, no?

Maybe - to your point, if we think of happiness as like “living one’s own purpose fully”, then yes, it does very directly. But I was referring to happiness more generally as enjoym…

Expanding this thought... UChicago should be pretty uniquely positioned to address the problem of AI writ large. They already require a full year of each philosophy, literature, an…

I can tell you with 100% certainty this is just how UChicago students write

Over a decade ago, my orientation at UChicago included the traditional "Aims of Education" address. They packed the whole first-year class into the chapel to explain, at length, th…

This... can't be a signal of strength. There's a fine line between being agile and being erratic. AI investment makes total sense as a proximal explanation. Minimize debt by trimmi…

I think it's more like a restaurant offering both candy and burgers. When candy sales outpace burgers, they're naturally going to invest more in candy. Eventually, they start to co…

There has actually been a friends-only feed on FB for years. Timelines -> Friends filters everything down. The problem? Nobody I care about posts anymore. The "flywheel" is broken.…

Never confuse loyalty to a person with loyalty to an employer. I have found loyalty to managers - when reciprocated - is the most valuable currency I have. It's led to both rewardi…

I would love to be a junior right now. I would just hate becoming a senior, after having been a junior right now.

Yea but "we waste the greatest minds of our generation on global economic information symmetry" just doesn't scratch the same itch

OODA loop is just a catchy acronym for the scientific method. Gather data, make hypotheses, choose one to test, actually test it; repeat.

If it makes you feel better, I’ve heard similar advice to manage executives

The whole thing with social media is network effects though. The added friction of a VPN, though small, is just so much larger than "click download, open app"

I mean, it was a ban when China did it to Facebook, no?

We have that. Welcome to the World Wide Web. We all walked into the walled gardens and went "ooh, looks mighty nice in here!"

Maybe. Network effects are strong, though. I wonder how much losing access to the US market sets back TT's financial & competitive positions

Most folks who I know who made a large career change did one of two things: - Hard shift: quit their job, went to grad school, and started over. - Soft shift: got an adjacent job w…

Tik Tok said they'll fully shut down. They'd rather go dark now than have a slowly-degrading experience, since users won't be able to update the apps.