Viewing profile — psi75

Is it that unbelievable that its role in a years-long effort to destroy a good man's reputation, as well as in a coverup of that effort, has made your organization disliked by more…

Crowdfunding only works if you have a preexisting platform. Otherwise, it's just going to embarrass you. It's not zero-risk either, because if you start a Kickstarter and it fails,…

At that level, definitely not in it for the money. At the C level though I got the sense that there was supreme respect for the cultural role of publishers - but it was a narrow se…

Yep, and how so many publishers want your own platform stats. I know people with large insta followings getting book deals purely because they can market their own books and cost p…

There are tiers of what it means to "get published". If you want your book to get a decent editor and maybe get a print run in the three or four digits, you don't have to deal with…

The present reality is that all publishers have been reduced to vanity press, and they don't realize it yet. In theory, publishers provide a real service, because self-publishing w…

Entitlement is a weird concept, especially since it is now used as a pejorative only to connote false senses of entitlement (i.e., when people believe they are owed things but have…

They're immigrating from countries whose victimization by capitalism is complete to one that still has a (shrinking, per Davos protocol) middle class. Life under 21st-century Ameri…

Overqualified.

The problem is that programmers answer to idiots, but nevertheless those idiots have certain reptilian sensibilities in which they exceed us, and a consequence of this is that they…

It's not that consumer debt "helps to fuel" the economy; consumer debt is the only reason the economy hasn't collapsed in on itself already. Henry Ford wasn't a good person. He was…

"Overextrapolation" isn't a word.

This is true. There is no evidence that we're on track for a state in which money is meaningless. Rather, the evidence is strong that we're on track for one in which money represen…

Housing is (along with healthcare in the US) a big part of why most people in the so-called "rich world" are in fact dismally poor, only one missed paycheck or turn of bad luck awa…

You're proposing a false dichotomy: that we either go back to an agrarian lifestyle or accept the status quo. Technology is a good thing. Industry is a good thing. We can keep them…

This. Corporations are great at imposing mean-spirited personal accountability (i.e., if you're perceived to have fucked up, you get fucked) but that doesn't actually solve problem…

The speculation was that we'd all have to become artists or poets, since, obviously creative work would be out of the reach of AI. It's debatable--it goes back to Barthes's "death …

I started looking into this in the 2010s, and the evidence suggests that we're going to see everything humans do as subordinates face a 6-12% annual wage decline starting about now…

When I have a project I'm really exited about working on I'm productive and it feels great, when it's something I have to do for the business but I don't love the project, I'm slow…

Unfortunately, the only way to prevent hierarchy is to create a limited hierarchy (this is the purpose of constitutions) a priori; hierarchically naive organizations fail on this a…

Academia remains an option even if you don't get into a top-10 ML school, if your research is good. Granted, it's tougher to get published and cited, because you're less likely to …