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Post by tivert »

jerf wrote: post #183
tivert wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Taco Bell won the franchise war and is the only restaurant remaining. When I saw that movie when I was small, I thought that was literally Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Burger King, et al fighting with tanks, etc. Taco Bell emerged victorious after a bloody struggle.

This is where headcanon [1] can be a lot of fun. Just accept that they really did fight a war. It's not like it doesn't particularly fit the milieu... [1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-were-watching...

I'm pretty sure my idea was literally a mash-up of Phantom 2040 "resource wars" with Demolition man "franchise wars."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_2040

> It is the year 2040, all environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars from the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecosystem balance of an Earth once teeming with life.

The first part of this episode is near identical to my mental picture of the "franchise wars:"

https://youtu.be/Kg8bPDGmhnU?si=MhzsBy83h8yTi6Ux&t=59

I'm surprised how easy it was for me to figure this out and find confirmation.

Re: 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation

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Post by ars »

brokenmachine wrote: post #319
ars wrote: post #240

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So you're saying that if I'm rich and I want to speed I hire a driver with no money and quietly cover the fine for him? I've always wondered about this loophole in that system.

That's a ridiculous loophole to wonder about... but if it happens at scale and becomes a problem, then they could write another clause into the law.

Really? If I were rich, and in a hurry (as opposed to speeding for the thrill) it's exactly what I would do.

How would you word this clause without people saying "I just hired him, I didn't tell him to speed"?

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Post by immibis »

nox101 wrote: post #245
pksebben wrote: post #153

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I'll offer a slight adjustment; "Finance in general encourages risky behavior". It is an industry explicitly dealing in moving and dealing in risk. We periodically become very aware of this. See financial news in 1893, 1901, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1920, 1937, 1949, 1953, 1961, 1970, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2011, and so on and so on. It's almost as if a zero-sum, value neutral industry controlling the bul…

What part is zero-sum?

The part of the world economy that moves value from one person to another, without creating any value, is zero-sum.

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Post by npoc »

hartator wrote: post #290
npoc wrote: post #285

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You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value. Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

> You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value. If you think about it, the "economic" value is just the market trying to discover what everyone value in life. > Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life. Finding a cure for cancer will be infinite value and most peop…

That's only demand.

Economic value = supply / demand.

Do you value air?

It's worthless. I wouldn't buy a litre of air for even a penny. But put me at the bottom of the sea, out of oxygen (i.e. no supply), and I'd give you everything I have for it.

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Post by npoc »

grues-dinner wrote: post #293
npoc wrote: post #285

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You're confusing things that you value in life with things with economic value. Also you don't seem to see that something that stores your economic value better than anything else (the "infinite" outcome) would be of great value to your life.

You could also see it as economic value is commonly extremely divorced from any useful human measure of value. Enough money to feed the world is "made" and "lost" though market oscillations that aren't really based in any practical reality. Like Tesla being worth more than the rest of the next 35 car companies, say. Or just one of the several apps that calls a cab being worth the GDP of Kenya. Or the value of Bitcoin…

Economic value is entirely rooted in life on the ground, but it is simply the demand part of the equation.

Its equal to demand (in £) divided by supply (kg/gallon/BTC etc).

Market oscillations are all based in practical reality, but if they don't make sense, you're just not aware of their cause. For example, multiple traders around the world simultaneously buying /selling with high leverage according to obscure technical analysis of the price chart.

What distorts everything is that the value of what we measure economic value in is itself devalued by 50% every decade through supply inflation. Economic value over time != price over time.

https://imgur.com/a/1ljSLgA

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Post by TeMPOraL »

_yb2s wrote: post #286
TeMPOraL wrote: post #281

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For better or worse, "eugenics" at this point is basically a cultural repulsion field surrounding most of practical aspects of genetics. You dare to even suggest there are measurable genetic differences between people, and someone will shout "eugenics", rounding any conversation down to "yeah nazis said the same thing".

I suspect your idea of “practical aspects of genetics” includes ideas about how people different from you shouldn’t be allowed reproduce, and very little about things like researching the function of a newly discovered microbial enzyme.

Not really. It does, however, include ideas such as "perhaps we should learn to correct genetic diseases directly in the reproductive cells", which is a rounding error away from someone saying something like you just did.

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Post by DandyDev »

ars wrote: post #322
brokenmachine wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a ridiculous loophole to wonder about... but if it happens at scale and becomes a problem, then they could write another clause into the law.

Really? If I were rich, and in a hurry (as opposed to speeding for the thrill) it's exactly what I would do. How would you word this clause without people saying "I just hired him, I didn't tell him to speed"?

If you hire someone to so a job for you, you are accountable. Unless they bring their own car and accept liability.

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Post by ternnoburn »

fwip wrote: post #179
recursive wrote: post #86

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Weird, when I saw it, it was equating poverty with low access to education and corresponding outcomes.

The intro of the movie makes it pretty clear that their premise is "IQ is heritable, and stupid people have more kids." It's not a coincidence that the "high IQ" couple is portrayed as wealthy and the "low IQ" people are shown as poor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q

Thank you. It's astonishing to me how few people remember the text of this movie -- it is so clearly saying dumb people are breeding, smart people are not.

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Post by grues-dinner »

npoc wrote: post #325
grues-dinner wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could also see it as economic value is commonly extremely divorced from any useful human measure of value. Enough money to feed the world is "made" and "lost" though market oscillations that aren't really based in any practical reality. Like Tesla being worth more than the rest of the next 35 car companies, say. Or just one of the several apps that calls a cab being worth the GDP of Kenya. Or the value of Bitcoin…

Economic value is entirely rooted in life on the ground, but it is simply the demand part of the equation. Its equal to demand (in £) divided by supply (kg/gallon/BTC etc). Market oscillations are all based in practical reality, but if they don't make sense, you're just not aware of their cause. For example, multiple traders around the world simultaneously buying /selling with high leverage according to obscure techn…

I mean this is what all the textbooks say, but it's cold comfort to people who want bread, clean water, a roof and a warm bed rather than some economist-approved funny money on a graph somewhere.

Everyone's been told to trust the system, the market knows best. At this rate, I don't think they will continue to do indefinitely.

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Post by privacyking »

tim333 wrote: post #195
daveguy wrote: post #190

Just a friendly heads up. Anyone who wants to avoid Twitter, since it has become so toxic, can use the domain xcancel.com in place of twitter.com or x.com. like so: https://xcancel.com/3blue1brown/status/1876291319955398799 This links to independent Nitter to provide a full thread.

That doesn't have the reply from ChainPatrol: Hello! This was a false positive in our systems at @ChainPatrol . We are retracting the takedown request, and will conduct a full post-mortem to ensure this does not happen again. We have been combatting a huge volume of fake YouTube videos that are attempting to steal user funds. Unfortunately, in our mission to protect users from scams, false positives (very) occasional…

Neither does the x.com link if you connect via well-known VPNs.
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