Theme: Productivity

  • INNOVATION Most meaningful innovation that benefits mankind consists of decrease

    INNOVATION
    Most meaningful innovation that benefits mankind consists of decreases in the cost of energy, decreases in the cost of distance, decreases in the cost of cooperation, decreases in the cost of knowledge, and decreases in the cost of time and/or some combination of those decreases.

    This framing is important because it deprives us of the pretense of endless growth. Instead, we approach the minimum possible cost for the maximum possible return across all those dimensions of decreases.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-10-04 12:49:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1709551274599862272

  • In the seventies, when my neighbor discussed selecting which branch of engineeri

    In the seventies, when my neighbor discussed selecting which branch of engineering to choose in college, he had done some design work in aerospace and he said “We are about at the limits of what can be done so the age of innovation is over. So I’m not sure I should continue with…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-10-03 23:53:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1709355977294701040

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1709350552524517712

  • The value of his labor and the value of his risk. He obtains value for his labor

    The value of his labor and the value of his risk.
    He obtains value for his labor proportionate to his risk.
    The reason one is paid for labor is because he is not financing the risk, or the capital necessary to organize and produce the labor.

    All those who seek irresponsibility are the same. The means by which you engagine ingorance, bias, lying, cheating, fraud, propagandizing, social constsruction, stealing, and corruption is irrelevant.

    Reply addressees: @ChiefComptroll


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-30 16:37:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708159051278757888

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1708051059200110883

  • THORIUM REACTORS The tech is realistic and has widespread support. The tech is r

    THORIUM REACTORS
    The tech is realistic and has widespread support.
    The tech is really, really, expensive to design, develop, and produce.
    Thorium is about three times as abundant as plutonium – but this is misleading, since both are unconcentrated and thorium is a byproduct of the extraction of other rare earth minerals.
    They have figured out how to produce byproducts (waste) that is usable as plutoniam 232. (If I understand correctly) And they claim less waste produced.
    The principle benefit is many small safe durable reactors.
    In other words at present it’s an economic issue, while the scientific tech is probably close to viability, the resource extraction would requre expansion.

    Reply addressees: @Lord__Sousa


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-29 19:33:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707840961110298624

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707838904307482810

  • I think I mostly agree. I know if I was still doing design and architecture, I w

    I think I mostly agree.
    I know if I was still doing design and architecture, I would be able to stub out a LOT of the code with the AI. I mean, most of my career is interfacing between the user and data. And a lot of that work can be done by an AI.

    Sharing your post.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-28 16:28:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707432126981853533

    Reply addressees: @CloudByter

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707419458321453474

  • RT @NoahRevoy: Brining in immigrants from third world countries will not fix the

    RT @NoahRevoy: Brining in immigrants from third world countries will not fix the supposed labor shortage, it will actually make it worse.…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-28 08:07:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707306116151931196

  • Looks to me like they will solve the problem with logical reasoning. So if that’

    Looks to me like they will solve the problem with logical reasoning. So if that’s the case a lot of white collar workers are pretty useless. I mean, this thing event lets you query raw data and just … It’s amazing.

    Programming will be an insane occupation. The effect is…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-28 04:29:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707251202004598994

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1707250004107395219

  • ZOOM’s NEW ZOOM-IQ FEATURE (text summary) #Zoom’s new AI that records summaries

    ZOOM’s NEW ZOOM-IQ FEATURE
    (text summary)

    #Zoom’s new AI that records summaries of your meetings is ‘ok’. It’s not as good as the third party products whatsoever, but given that zoom is worried about Google’s introgression in the space, ZoomIQ is just a first step that needs work but that will improve.

    I’ve asked ChatGPT to summarize the ZoomIQ summary in under 5000 words (our meetings are content heavy), and the result is at least a fair list of the topics covered, even if the detail is overly general and not insightful.

    So for the time being we’ll stick with adding these summaries to our videos on YT.

    Note that our work is quite academic and dense, and impenetrable to the average audience, despite our use of humor and frequent failed attempts at humor, so we have dedicated but small audience of students who follow the work.

    I’m reluctant to share this Video content directly on XTwitter because while we hear placating words, the actions of the new CEO mimic the actions of the previous. And her most recent publications that suggest a return to previous suppression of uncomfortable truths, even when in neutral academic prose, and free of hostile intent.

    Those things that cause us conflict need the light of day so that we can resolve the conflicts and move on. I know Elon knows this but without legal protection from interference in marriage, employment, business, or services, it appears that the ‘suppression of resolution of conflicts by the suppression of discussion’ is very hard to reverse. Even though it’s prohibited under common law, until the age of social media, we didn’t have the legal need to restore that common law, to contemporary legislative code. (This is something our organization intends to pursue by class action and restore from common law to legislative code)

    So while we prefer the Twitter platform, now that we have long-form text, we are staying with Youtube and Odysee for videos where, as we are not seeking monetization, and only seeking to reach a dedicated adult, informed, and usually male audience, our work on the law and the so many taboos that need addressing in the law, that are otherwise impossible to discuss in social media without mouth-breathers seeking attention by offense seeking, find offense in even the science of the causes of our contemporary conflicts, and the mutually beneficial curese for those conflicts we have sought to produce for all. 😉

    Sorry. Had to stick that bit of truthful scarcastic wit in there for theraputic reasons. 😉

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-24 19:43:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1706031628420521984

  • The argument we’ve been making (internal and external to MSFT) since the first u

    The argument we’ve been making (internal and external to MSFT) since the first use of video cards for calculating weights in the early 00s, is that if AI produces the search results we want, there is no place for advertising, and that kills Google’s revenue stream.

    Google’s problem is finding a value prop if advertising isn’t it. MSFT can float search without advertising indefinitely, as it has a revenue source embedded in an unbreakable network effect.

    And google had the first mover advantage and sat on it for years, precisely because they understood what we had almost two decades ago.

    There is an obvious counter to MSFT revenue stream for both Google and Apple. Apple is riding on the iPhone and Google on ad revenue. But these are both vulnerable.

    While I’ve never had a problem getting access to MSFT senior staff, or doing major deals with there, it’s been impossible to work with google, because they’re more arrogant (overconfident) than MSFT in the 90s.

    We change when we have to. And given how lame Claude is vs ChatGPT, and the direction they’re taking with it to avoid doing what they ought to, even if it’s a threat to search, the future ought to be interesting.

    Right now, it’s rather fun watching the industry try to brute force the LLMs into something other than a UI for a bottom up AI. And while progress is impressive, they have to solve the logic and reasoning issue ,world model issue and adversarial competition issue. And that’s before we get to needling neuromorphic hardware to end the memory and training compute problems.

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @Scobleizer


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-23 20:38:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705683042612674560

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705678876058538362

  • That’s …. ridiculous. No you are not producing an equal product with equal tes

    That’s …. ridiculous. No you are not producing an equal product with equal testability with an equal outcome that producing equal consequences, and importantly equal externalities.

    In fact I am all but certain that if I sat your classes I would struggle to keep up with taking notes on your faults, and would produce at least one article per class that explained what you had misunderstood, misrepresented, and the consequential harms you had produced, just teaching something as trivial as literature.

    And I’m all but certain each argument would consist of something that hadn’t even occurred to you, because you lacked sufficient education in cognitive science, logic, economics, and law – and that’s without touching physics, – so you were in fact teaching ideology under cover of literature. Literature the profound meaning of which is almost certainly lost upon you – because if not you would easily explain how the message conveyed related the european group evolutionary strategy and how that strategy compared to the other surviving civilizations of the world.

    I know this because only someone who would make such a nonsense statement as your origional post, could do so if she was also teaching nonsense in her career, and practicing that nonsense in daily life – wholly unaware that it’s nothing but nonsense.

    Here is the important question: given we know there is zero durable value to everything other than the STEM+Law series, that warrants anything other than one year of study, (and even that among stem courses there are only two to four that require four years), and given that we know that education is a high cost substitute caused by nothing mre than the prohibition on IQ testing that’s all that employers require for hiring, and training by apprenticeship (doing) rather than the universally outdated nonsense they are taught in undergrad.

    And given that the endebtedness caused by wasting four years of income and career, four years of maximum intersexual relationship adaptability, delaying home ownership, delaying reproduction, and therefore producing the decline in reproduction cause almost entirely by childless women, who, because of that behavior, are not reproducing enough citizens to offset women’s consumption of seventy percdent of government services, nor ensuring there are is an economy to support them in old age, thus parasites on those that do produce families, and all while the present technolgical advancement will cause vast unemployment among white collar clericals causing what will now be called unskilled workers, whose income was only made possible for a brief period during the first three generations of democratized computing.

    Are you sure you even have the vaguest idea what you are talking about, and it’s consequences? Or are you another product of the postwar academy’s combination of the false promise of endless growth, the abandonment of responsibilty for the commons, the deprioritization of the family as capitalization between generations for the individual hyperconsumption of built up behavioral and physical capital without contributing to its replacement, and the mandatory indoctrination into social pseudoscience with the consequential devolutionary influencde not seen since the Christian destruction of the Roman ampire by the same means?

    Such prideful arrogance in such profound ignorance is revolting. You should never be permitted public speech, and even less so participating in the indoctrination of a generation, already the least competent, and most physically, emotionally and psychological unfit in our history.

    Fin.

    Reply addressees: @JessicaCalarco @epopppp


    Source date (UTC): 2023-09-22 23:23:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1705362287513448449

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1704894737172627659