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Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

ramraj07 wrote: post #259
hombre_fatal wrote: post #243

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I don't think HN needs the top comment to be a vague attack on someone in response to a blog post that the comment doesn't even interact with.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

> Not everyone knows who geohot is

But I guess people can get pretty much to the same conclusion by reading any of the blog post, I had the same idea just by reading the title here

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Post by vincston »

mlrtime wrote: post #211
castral wrote: post #102

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Ah, well... TIL to not take anything geohot writes seriously in the future.

^Young readers: The mark of wisdom. Throw out all readings because you dislike one of them. I may do it too, but I don't think I'd actually ever write it down.

For me its more his attitude that puts me off. He might be intelligent, but his EQ doesnt seem that high. The condescending way he references the "malcolm in the middle"-episode "hot dumb girl" couldve been just the explaination of the "1 dollar = 1 million dollar".

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by red-iron-pine »

kotaKat wrote: post #200
peepee1982 wrote: post #174

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He never shook the name "Egohot" from the Playstation days and it's just continually reinforced every time he comes back out of the woodwork.

cracking stuff is like 50% ego! that's the point

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by myrmidon »

peepee1982 wrote: post #174

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Downvoted you, because:

1) You are not engaging with the content of the post at all. I would not mind if you actually articulated why you found this particular take so asinine/cringeworthy. But you don't.

2) You're unnecessarily uncharitable (the blog footer already reads "A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway"; there's no need to be so snarky).

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by pydry »

10xDev wrote: post #179

You will get laid off but you won't if you create value and you will create value if you don't care about money and it will go recursive but it won't go recursive because there are limits. It won't change anything but it will change everything. No one knows what he is actually saying (see comments) but at least he managed to compress the entire discourse on AI impact into a blog post.

>You will get laid off but you won't if you create value

From my experience this isnt in the slightest bit true.

The professional managerial class not only sucks at identifying who creates value, they often feel threatened by those who do and try to knock them down a peg, disenfranchise them or commoditize them somehow.

You might assume that that the profit incentive would override this tendency towards shredding economic value but it doesnt, because of the principal-agent problem. The PMC always prioritizes their power within the organization over the organization's maximization of profit.

At least half of the hype about AI is about trying to gaslight developers into believing that theyre now worthless so that they can be more easily exploited by the PMC.

It was the same thing back when outsourcing to Actual Indians was in fashion in the 2000s.

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

giwook wrote: post #296
zozbot234 wrote: post #280

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> They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. Why are we supposed to care about that? There was a time when "masks do not work" was very much the conventional wisdom.

Conventional for whom?

I might be misremembering, but I think the WHO claimed this at some point?

It was obvious nonsense, and did not comfort me as I watched an avoidable catastrophe become, day by day, an unavoidable one; politicians caring more about pacifying the populace with platitudes than about taking measures to render SARS-CoV-2 extinct in the wild – measures which would have been several orders of magnitude cheaper than the extended pandemic lockdowns, disabilities and trauma, loss of life, and now a new disabling endemic disease we're going to have to fight the hard way, for centuries, until it can finally go the way of smallpox.

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by petcat »

drcongo wrote: post #298
petcat wrote: post #275

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It's a distinction without a difference. Masks served to reduce the herd from spreading covid. Including other people giving it to you.

You do realise that surgeons don't wear those masks to stop them from catching something right?

> Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

You do realize that masks would help prevent you from getting covid if other people are wearing the masks, right?

The comment just talked about masks, not whether you are the one wearing the mask.

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by jatari »

zozbot234 wrote: post #280
ramraj07 wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone knows who geohot is and even if they do they may not see the url handle. They may (like me) think why is a glorified shower thought tweet on top of HN. They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. This could really make them decide not to even spend too much time thinking about the passage which in theory is profound for 10 seconds but no further. As much as ad hominem a…

> They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example. Why are we supposed to care about that? There was a time when "masks do not work" was very much the conventional wisdom.

There was literally never a time where mainstream medical advice was "masks do nothing".

Re: Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

mike_hearn wrote: post #226
deaux wrote: post #208

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Let's look at other wealthy countries with large economies. Germany, Japan, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Australia, South Korea, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan.. Which of these have trouble verifying identity reliably, to the extent that it would be a meaningful obstacle to UBI?

Even if governments were perfect at ID verification it wouldn't change the argument above, right? Being perfect at verifying UBI eligibility would require a large government infrastructure, just like today, so you can't claim that the U part makes it super cheap to administer. But no government is close to perfect. Here are some examples for your edification. The UK doesn't even know how many people are living there,…

>Here's a specific case where Italy didn't notice it should stop paying out a state pension (a form of UBI) for years after death, with the fraudster only getting busted when he tried to dress up as his own mother

I assume you want to stop the state pension as well then?

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