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It’s a fine title. It’s descriptive and honest. It doesn’t read as click bait/scam. Click bait would be, “Passive income guaranteed in publishing,” which would make a (false) promi…

True, but the reason there was so much demand to live in the metaverse is that the real world was so odious.

This. And VC doesn’t help much, because as soon as you take the money you are in a race to become the next overpowered, uninspiring behemoth, only with less resources and a low cha…

It’s worse than that, even, because it’s believed there are no Fermat primes at all after 65,537. It’s one of the few cases of a conjecture being (with very high probability) 100 p…

This is all true, but the result of social media is that people feel like they’re getting social fulfillment despite, in most cases, getting anything of value. So people are irrita…

Prime numbers are interesting in this regard not for the notional reason (low Kolmogorov complexity) but because if their high “randomness.” They are not patterned so much as they …

I think it’s hilarious that they went and changed their name to their worst idea. The term “metaverse” comes from Snow Crash , which is a dystopia. They would know this if they act…

TED is also a laundry for the wealthy. It’s a knock-off of Davos (also PR, because the WEF itself doesn’t have power) that isn’t overtly evil, and it’s also more accessible, insofa…

Walled gardens are unfortunately the future of the internet. The public web is full of bots and adversarial content. Worse, anything you contribute in good faith can be used agains…

This is about right. They want every podunk town to remember that the smartest or most impressive kid in 10 years went (finishing is optional) and they don’t really want more “stri…

The lack of them is probably more harmful than the content is helpful. But I do think they move readers who are on the fence about what to buy. It takes a long time investment to l…

The good and bad news is that publishing’s social proof is about to lose 98 percent of its value once NLP gets to the point of having as much predictive value as publishing’s signa…

The disease of blurbs is not that anyone consciously takes them seriously, but the fact that not having them has become a black mark. People are used to chatty book covers. This is…

It works first and second order. First order, every number is equally (un)likely and there is no harm in choosing yesterday’s number, because it is nevertheless no more unlikely to…

The downturn is hitting all companies and all jobs. It’s bad out there. What’s perverse, and not being discussed enough, is that this is an engineered recession. Rather than admit …

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Being a data scientist is what I imagine being a lawyer is for idealists who go into the profession. They think there is an underlying reality that holds bad actors to account—for …

AI companies seem to be in a paradoxical space where they need the optics of being open even if it goes against their business interests.

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I’d look into the Kelly criterion to get more color on this.

The US is a low trust society, because of all the poverty. You really notice the difference if you travel to Europe. It turns out that having half of the population be economically…