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The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by zwnow »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

No OP is right. Everything is broken. Thinking your system isn't and its OPs issue is not sincere.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by icehawk »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

Actually, when I read this, it was obvious that this issue was an us problem and not just a me problem.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by Guthur »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

Well certainly, some of us are all in on psychopathic material accumulation and so of course in that case the only things that are broken are those that stand in your way, such as morality or society.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by xxs »

raincole wrote: post #27

The articles on this blog before 2025 never contained em-dashes. Not even a single one. And the articles from 2025 onward all use em-dashes. Curious, huh? > Each operates at a different mathematical order: linear, exponential, and systematic respectively. This was where I stop reading. "Systematic" mathematical order. Sure.

It has all the classics

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by root_axis »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

Seems like you've fixated on a detail about the title and have ignored the substance of the post. Whether or not some everyone agrees that "everything feels broken" doesn't really matter.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by pyrale »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

> The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it".

Sometimes collective action is required to fix an issue. Restricting people to individual action is depriving them of their freedom of association, a core enabler of democracy.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by trinsic2 »

jrflowers wrote: post #23
thrawa8387336 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing worse than the author claiming that is you asking for "data". Like what data? This is qualitative. And yes, Google killed one particular flavor of startup that paid its employees with smoke

It’s always kind of funny when people respond to a subjective opinion with “where’s the data?” because unless you’re responding with data it’s pretty much just a way of saying “I don’t like this”

Yeah, I noticed this too. It's a kind of response one would make if one felt threatened by the subject matter.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by atoav »

halayli wrote: post #19

When you read the title, "Why everything feels broken and what can we do", it is obvious op turned a me problem into an us problem. It's a common pitfall to take yourself out of the equation when you are about to make assertions without evidence to back them up. The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". you will end up writing a completely different post a…

Well yes, but you then deny people a collective position. Please consider that we live in a world where strong corporate actors massively profit from us not having a collective position. Shifting responsibility to the individual is one of their strongest tools in the toolbox to ensure problems do not get solved.

I think it is important from time to time to exit the world of individual responsibility ("What can I do to reach the moon") and enter the world of collecrive organization ("What can we do ro reach the moon?"). You probably understand why.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by xxs »

gtsop wrote: post #6

While the reasoning I believe to be utterly littered with weak arguments, I agree with the final conclusion/question of the author. But what the author isn't clearly saying is that he is describing a free market opposed to a planned economy, even if he doesn't specificly say that, that's the implication of the final question. And I am all for planned economy. I want to cooperate with my human fellows, not compete to…

> to be utterly littered with weak arguments

It's just AI generated, which is a shame to end up at the top of the site.

Re: The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken

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Post by Peteragain »

I liked the blog post. I try not to "game the system" and usually get all judgemental about people who do. Okay I am old fashioned. Putting on my Gordon Gecko hat ("greed is good"), of course, it is the disparity between system reaction times that enables gaming it. What system can one develop to get inside an adversary's OODA Loop (observe, orient, decide, and act). I like the idea that it's a (meta)system problem, it's about leverage.
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