PP's point has (mostly?) been addressed in
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20180386
Inputs that can be monopolized are manifestly _not_ the intangibles; price-taking is independent of their effect
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https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20180386
Inputs that can be monopolized are manifestly _not_ the intangibles; price-taking is independent of their effect
https://www.financialprofessionals.org/training-resources/re...
Q: The J-dip is where capital stock is just about to overtake investment growth, why should it lag the hype trough where presumably value overtakes interest ?
in commonwealth (seniors in everyday UK, HR and pedants otherwise) usage it rhymes with dumb, like you'd expect
Radcliff-cum-Chackmore
https://www.mitsui.com/solution/en/contents/solutions/circul...
>it produces CO2 and toxic substances when it is burned.
>his liberal father
Might be a stretch to imply that the Wilhelm II was a mediocre illiberal. HIM was (for a time) interested in protecting workers' rights. However great he was, Bismarck couldn't overpower a "mediocre" populist
https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarcki...
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/df7a5e0c-8004-40...
(from the electric Ferrari
http://www.roadandtrack.com/photos/g71401901/2028-ferrari-lu...)
-preemptive defence=best offence=plausibly not a school bully
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/you-go-to-war-with-the-pr...
>As the saying goes, you go to [HN] with the [question] you have. And you don’t want a good [problem] ruined [for want of data].
-kitsunehanmen is cool. "coolness" ~ "calm+wild". Isaac Newton with kh, masks inward looking cageyness under outward looking edginess
-enby may not be "approachable". Smiley Ben Franklin is not as cool as a Ben Franklin that threatens cougars just by _being_
Newton: pope=Antichrist
nobody: Newton=Antichrist
Otherwise they would
1. force humans to spend much more time on these decisions, and
2. Teach humans that the only way to save time on decision-making is to collaborate with other humans
I had a reply to your Asian take https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970518
It's not fully Confucianist like the others[0], Taoist ex-Minister Audrey Tang visualizes AI to be a glue, "a steering wheel rather than a hamster wheel"
https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3795
AI that addresses the "Golden Ticket mindset", sidestepping centralized agenda with decentralized agency.
In my own words,
Helps people work together to find ( not better solutions, but ) better problems
Maybe once the youth-driven TPP gets into power their TFR+TFP might overtake SK's
(gerontocrats of Taiwan are equally exploitative but fortuitously their tentacles don't reach into software :)
[0]the symbolisms on your flag suggests that it should be much more Taoist than it is tho?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-state-of-democracy-arou...
Bonus: https://old.reddit.com/r/imaginaryelections/comments/krvb1y/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Marxism
Which I feel is the "most complete take"
>Karl Marx... only criticizing the freedom in the great inequality of wealth and power.[3]
Confucianism is mostly CPC marketing; its gerontocratic heart really beats for Legalism, though some still hope for the "tail wagging the dog, peacefully", just like we'd want "civic individualism" (now represented by Mamdani?) to wag the genroto-corporatist dog in the US.
Regarding the pensions, it's not like national-level legislators are getting censured for supporting their raise.
I'm glad Taiwan's not tied to the DPP, because I'd rather support this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_People%27s_Party#Policy
Looks like it's projected to replace DPP after the boomers die off (peacefully)!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2024_T...
Sorry, it's just immoral to me to sow discord against CPC in an US-based geronto-corporatist forum. If you want we can continue this on a PRC youth-forum (where I'd think it would be immoral to cast aspersions on US :)
Regarding Taiwanese fix for liberalism, Audrey Tang (with Glen Weyl) is not wasting time:
https://newpublic.substack.com/p/how-taiwan-is-leading-the-w...
>As Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson famously argued, free democratic societies exist in a “narrow corridor” between social collapse and authoritarianism. From both sides, information technologies seem to be narrowing the corridor, squeezing the possibility of a free society.
She'll probably run under the TPP flag?
CPC are not so much banning the Qur'an as making it subservient to Confucianism (which is a liberalish ideology that human nature is basically wholesome and does not need to be benchmarked against a higher standard)
More "nuanced" criticism here (facts here may be triggering)
https://bitterwinter.org/china-promotes-a-confucianized-appr...
How about instead of getting angry with the heuristics of _fellow liberals_, thus shilling for the deaths of essentially apolitical billions, we get angry with our liberal selves for not being able to see how to fix the fundamental issues with liberalism-- itself not immune to cultlike thought patterns
Start by studying the work of Karp, ex-student of Habermas, you may learn something about yourself :)
The political content of the respective education systems is different though. What one observes is, Chinese seem unwilling to criticize the government, but Americans seem to be unable to filter out misinformation. In the US, church or other "civic institutions" are conduits for divergent narratives; imagine the French Catholic church but much more fragmented or independent.
It also depends on the time period. As China modernizes it has become less repressive to the average citizen-- though probably still as repressive to dissidents. Rural versus urban divide exists too, just like in the US. (Modern Vendee?) What were the religious background of the people you talked to? PCC is terrified of cults which spread alternative politics under the guise of spirituality. For historical reasons. You will notice that mainstream Islam is fine.
In any event, when wars happen due to decisions taken by government, civilians take the bulk of the damage. It is not a noble thing to speak on the side of violent foreign policy, especially when its couched in the language of "liberation" or "security"
The more sophisticated equilibrium to compare with the Japanese is the Swiss: it seems that the reason Swiss max(quirkiness) is significantly less that JP's is that CH has been optimising for skepticism of Karens ("pride" is maybe the key metric to look at, if we care to do a 3-agent strong-link weak-link analysis)
As SF (city and literary genre) become less like the frontier, the individual-community tradeoff is going to look more like the Dutch-- all the commercialised quirkiness does is make you groan, the way rbanffy's kids make him (if he has any)!
Btw, 2-way Protecting Power Mandate is a terrestrial image of the Mandate of Heaven, imho
https://www.swisscommunity.org/en/news-media/swiss-revue/art...
(I read the above as OSA propaganda :)
Eg between minimally viable narcissists and individuals who are merely or quietly nonconformist
After the Flip it was more clear that the pachyderm hides behind "sincere deviance" (long before Nixon-Kissinger; I'll dig that up later) but the asinid hides behind "sacrificial (thusiatic) normativity".
"Let's be honest our brutality helps everyone, including ourselves."
VS
"I struggle to say it out loud, but you suffer just like us"
>As one West Texas tenant farmer wrote, ‘We must work together to help our brethren see the light. Give us Socialism and the religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’
Thus an internal values-flip happened in the R-elite.. were there philosophy manuals that made this legible (besides Ayn R's)
That line (between your other values?) was uproarious; I apologise for not u*voting it, partially because I couldn't vocalise my peculiar fetish att (+ "gnarliness-pornstar" doesn't sound nearly as enticing as "AI-affordability-pornstar" X)
In terms of food options too
they are a reliable anti-signal
As an example of the last one, I just learnt about an ISO standard.. )
YMMV depending on how much the network knows [it doesn't know] about you ofc ;)
(but he is not a member of "the Physics community" so their expectations won't mean anything to him?)
Contrast with the SV-aligned execs-turned-thought-leaders from decades ago that used to claim that it is not in the cultural DNA of Japan to innovate. They don't say that now, but they still look to Japan for inspiration as Steve Jobs used to do before it got fashionable
Today, Japan has a diverse economy but one could argue in good faith that its the lack of financial innovation that's holding them back
(Lack of raw resources very much a red herring-- as ever, something that the almost perennially rightwing Japanese government has never gotten less OCD about)
Another "mesocosm": Hollywood is _quietly_ looking East for "cultural innovation", bc the studio system "knows" that not even Korea can catch up. Is bigtech this certain? Do they have to MJGA before MAGA?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821166
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Dang and maybe all the mods are probably enby because they
are open to the necessity of psychopathy without necessarily excusing it
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I'm still trying to work out how "cosmic narcissism" reframes this problem
>"99.9%"
I despise "centrist-moderation" just like any other guy but maybe "entrepreneurial dignity" is not 100% of something but 65\pm1% homeownership
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-europes-homeownershi...
https://youtu.be/KOiDWGs4JE4?t=28s
wHNston
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP2013504542A5/ja
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/biomedical-researchers-l...
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/absentee-owner.asp
Think about what allows the toxic management company to thrive, eg, by becoming the principal (part of it is an identity problem I pointed to in sibling comment)
The garden hose example is a good faith scenario but maybe it still feels icky to you because they arent the "genuine inventors" :)
How are they going to prove that? Put up a diff tree of their improvements?
That's an example of tripartite problem (innovators/IP-arbitrageurs/commercializers) that's easy to oversimplify to a bipartite one (NPE vs "practicians") by inadequate notation