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Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by eaenki » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

marcinzm wrote: post #210

eaenki wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, that would function as a seed round. And having a breakthrough would mean it’s proprietary. Aka you didn’t buy it at the hobby store. If you have a prototype demonstrating a breakthrough that’s enough imo. I can only recall Oculus from kickstarter and it has been fairly successful

>And having a breakthrough would mean it’s proprietary. Aka you didn’t buy it at the hobby store. Now define a system that will verify that the technology is proprietary and not just assembled off the shelf components. Keep in mind that you can also have a breakthrough system that is made of existing components. And do it with minimal bureaucracy. Keep in mind that the person applying may honestly believe they have a…

Yes, but in the prior comment you just said you could present what you just bought off the shelf

If it’s outlandish enough anyway, everybody will know there’s nothing like it.

Take re usable rockets. In 2005 everyone agreed it was an outlandish idea that didn’t exist. And yes, obviously you have to glue stuff in a prototype.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by mch82 » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

NHQ wrote: post #188

I have tech talents that maybe a few thousand people in the world have, and research ability to move the needle (maybe even novel ideas in the field, if you ask me). I can't work in academia (no Ph.D), find capital (no connections), and the software job market is a crazy stupid PITA (no thanks). I know it's me, that I can have what I want if I really go for it, and that is what I do by living simply and continuing my…

Some good ways to start teaching are guest lectures, visiting classrooms on career day, creating workshops for local libraries, and participating in events at local universities.

Publishing writing and video lessons on a personal website or YouTube can also help a lot.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by mLuby » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:33 PM UTC

Immigration isn't mentioned at all; that's shocking.

Assuming talent seeks opportunity to express itself, places looking for success (=talent*opportunity) should to make it easy for talent to move there.

For the US, let students who earn masters/doctorates at American schools stay.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by nitrogen » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:35 PM UTC

JPKab wrote: post #195

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think just giving the money to whoever has a prototype is a good idea. Some culturally relevant projects aren't the sort of thing you can make a prototype of, but I like where you're going. I'd amend it like so: Once I've been a citizen long enough (i.e. paid enough taxes) I get to invoke my free year, which is a year where the government pays me enough to cover my bills and maybe a bit extra for projects and…

"Once I've been a citizen long enough (i.e. paid enough taxes) I get to invoke my free year, which is a year where the government pays me enough to cover my bills and maybe a bit extra for projects and stuff." I really wish people would stop saying "the government" in these scenarios. It's the taxpayers. Actual humans whose money is taken by force. Not saying it's a bad idea, just saying that we need to be thinking a…

The money is taken regardless, whether through higher prices on goods sold, higher interest rates on money borrowed, lower returns on investments, or higher taxes. The question is what will do the most good for the most people at the highest efficiency.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by manveru » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #148

I was talking to someone the other day that boiled it down to "everyone's trying to solve their Red Queen problem." I was unfamiliar, and the Wikipedia page doesn't seem to support this reading, but the idea is that everyone's running as fast as they can just to stay in place, and the way out is different for every person so no general approach can work for everyone. Any solution will put people right back in the rea…

You might enjoy http://existentialcomics.com/comic/301

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by friendlybus » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:53 PM UTC

eaenki wrote: post #9

Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other) My solution is: take a…

I'm no fan of parts of what the evil empire google does, but it's super spying network has the potential to massively accelerate medical research. For better or worse I guess.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by andrei_says_ » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

eaenki wrote: post #9

Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other) My solution is: take a…

In the age of multibillionaires it’s a good reminder that universal no strings attached basic income leads to entrepreneurship, better education, better health, better parenting, and better economic outcomes for the locales applying it. It saves money.

See Rutger Bregman’s Talks and research as well as his book Utopia for realists.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by friendlybus » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

davidajackson wrote: post #192

eaenki wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s nice as I said, but it didn’t impact anything, and most likely never will. Even if the whole internet switched to that, there’s no x10 improvement in anything interesting. Unless you think airplanes are as good as owning your data and not having a few big entities owning the major services (which btw, you’d still have, because the oracle problem is basically impossible to efficiently solve).

>there’s no x10 improvement in anything interesting Don't you think trusting code to transmit and trade assets is a x10 improvement over trusting people? I'd rather trust code I can audit than people. Even if you don't call it an x10, I would definitely call it a success.

You can't choose between tech and people. You have to trust both.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by 8note » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

JPKab wrote: post #195

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think just giving the money to whoever has a prototype is a good idea. Some culturally relevant projects aren't the sort of thing you can make a prototype of, but I like where you're going. I'd amend it like so: Once I've been a citizen long enough (i.e. paid enough taxes) I get to invoke my free year, which is a year where the government pays me enough to cover my bills and maybe a bit extra for projects and…

"Once I've been a citizen long enough (i.e. paid enough taxes) I get to invoke my free year, which is a year where the government pays me enough to cover my bills and maybe a bit extra for projects and stuff." I really wish people would stop saying "the government" in these scenarios. It's the taxpayers. Actual humans whose money is taken by force. Not saying it's a bad idea, just saying that we need to be thinking a…

is it really the tax payers? and is it really being taken by force? the government also gets funding by taking on debt, or can print more currency; not everything comes from a tax payer.

you're not exactly forced to be taxed either. it's an agreement in exchange for citizenship. if you don't want to be taxed, go make and spend your money somewhere that doesn't have taxes

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by Jimmc414 » Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

cryptica wrote: post #205

nradov wrote: post #201

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As a taxpayer I'm not interested in paying people to take a year off. If they want to do that they can save up their own money.

So you prefer to pay 10 times or 100 times the amount to subsidize debt which drives the capital appreciation of stocks to benefit rich shareholders and executives who either sit around and do nothing, or worse: they use the money to create shitty companies which waste everyone's time and energy... Then when the companies finally go bankrupt after a decade everyone loses except the executives who are actually respons…

There is so much wrong with this post, I don't know where to begin. It scares me how quickly the US population is turning on entrepreneurs. Do you really believe starting a company is the easier route? Is it better to just complain and demand tax payers equalize all opportunities for non risk takers like yourself?