theincompetencetheorist
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theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
'heavily tax the productive parts and redistribute to the now-unemployable'
It is only a semantic difference of ceasing the means of production to distribute it equitably to the proletariat.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Conservatives struggle for lack of counter-argument.
And cybersyns failure was because of a CIA plot not that plan economies never work even if you have fantastic automation.
I'll undelete my comment and I was in a slightly bad mood as I wrote it. But the wording is important, by my own accord. i.e. my productivity is improving for work and so on I just don't use my free time to make myself more produtive(I have hobbies that doesn't involve work, like sitting here and commenting occasionally). Well the reason is because of the concept the market for lemons. There is a simple description of it but the most succint way of explaining it is that information asymmetry leads that things priced lower in the market because the buyer can't valuate it properly. There is also a nasty effect that information assymetry is used to suppress your wage and turning a blind eye to information that would give a reason to price it accurately. It is the direct and local effect why my choice of trying to have a life outside of work like most people. I just discovered that I was priced the same as the guy that produced fast and sloppy work and was considered "more productive" even though the error accumulation made our productivity equal. This was almost two decades ago I came to the conclusion. An ambitious former colleague of mine came with a story last month: a performance review of "exceed expectation" didn't lead to a wage increase because there wasn't "development potential". This is constant and reinforcing my belief that I made the right choice 20 years ago.
And even looking at the macro economic perspective. No one is getting their fair share of productivity increases since the 1970:s ... the numbers are clear regular wage workers has hade a smaller real wage growth compared to the increase of productivity.. And that gap has been compensated with easy cheap credit deregulated to the point of threatening a systemic collapse 2008 - 2009. And as soon as people caught on to this the protests were derailed by a culture war.
Edit: lets add another source that is not clearly left-leaning : https://www.oecd.org/economy/decoupling-of-wages-from-productivity/
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
I know close to nothing about econ,
The day I learned how the economy worked is the day I stopped improving my productivity by my own accord. The economic system is thoroughly rigged. With luck and grit you can escape but if you are unlucky none of your hard work will matter. I just stopped playing the game and do as I'm told instead.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
In my mind the defining moment when woke burst on to the scene was Occupy Wall Street when the likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver still made fun of the woke ideas that were implemented there. And if you look at those three, they are beholden to ESG ratings of their paymasters and they aren't making fun of it anymore. Just a little anecdote there to do a comparison to the paper!
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Well the big problem with the whole Piracy discussion is to transcend the discussion around ethics and get to the discussion of how much democracy we are willing to sacrifice in protection of Disneys profits... Personally I don't mind the concept of Intellectual Property but if the enforcement of that concept means that I can't have a private encrypted conversation online under the guise of I might be sharing a copy of digital work that someone should be profiting off, then we are going to have a problem!
The whole notion of that my internet connections should be disconnected if it is probable that I engage in piracy shows up in a "free trade agreement" like ACTA is not because Lars Ulrich is a greedy whiny bitch, it is to protect corporate profits of media companies like Disney and Warner. No thanks.
The most worrying thing is the convergence of people that are interested in disallowing private encrypted telecommunication guise of that I might be a kiddie fiddler(EU:s suggested chat control) or subverting US interests online(The Restrict Act). They are essentially reheating the piracy arguments with really morally reprehensible people in hopes of disallowing the plebs of discussing in private on Signal that might be a threat to the Elites power. But hey that Bud Light controversy was awfully conveniently timed to distract the Zeitgeist around Restrict Act.
Note to the reader: I don't have time to write better since I'm pressed for time hopefully I'll get time to give good replies.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Don't try to force yourself to read them if you aren't enjoying it. Maybe it is something in the old writing style that doesn't agree with you. I remember when Dan Brown was all the rage and I really wanted to like the books but... I only managed read Digital Fortress to completion and I hated it. There are so many other books and authors out there to read. I might be getting back into reading the Three Body Problem trilogy again, I needed a break after the first book since it gave me a bit of existential angst.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
This is the kind of sophistry one would expect from random online arguments, and I'm sure you can identity similar instances even in this very forum.
Because it is from random online arguments that they learned it from and apply it to academic discourse. My personal belief: It marks the end for the US hegemony as an academic power and there is little chance to undo it. My prediction: this will leak into other sciences and cause Lysenkoism 2.0 with mass causalities.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Well my tinfoil hat days are over now. Now I only believe in incompetence theories(as per my new online persona) with a heavy dose of corruption. But a big part why I'm trying to be less involved is because I'm not American. Conservatives boycotting piss-water is not worthy my time and I'm trying(fairly unsuccessfully since I'm aware of it) to stop in caring about it. My only goal here is to adjust my worldview towards something more accurate, testing it and/or share my findings hoping that someone else might find them useful.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
With my fasting of culture war topics have given me a little distance and reinforcement that a big part of the culture war is just the elites talking down on us plebs and the plebs going "what do you mean that you don't know what a woman is?"!
It could very well be that a part of the Hollywood "wokeness" is wresting away controll of profitable IP:s or kill them off while trying. Hollywood accounting tricks are well known and it is prominent in other creative industries like the recording industry. But then there is also an aspect of Hollywood wokeness is just old fashioned nepotism and using woke shibboleths to signal being part of the group. A while ago read an article (which for some reason google is not finding, suspicius) that analyzed the ties of woke Hollywood writers on Twitter with their public interactions on there. No surpise that they all knew each other and went to the same colleges and so on.
There is a difference between hypothesis/theory put forward in the book that it is something inherent in our current monetary system where cheap credit makes people and organizations less careful how they budget it and the policy prescriptions of changes in the monetary system. You can derive value of from framework the book provides for what we the consequences are for an inflationary monetary system and an explanation what we are currently seeing. It looks like unprofitable initiatives within corporations has been fueled by cheap credit and when it recently disappeared we then the unprofitable ventures are being pressured. You don't have to believe the solutions in the book to enjoy the bit of predictive power it provides. Edit: "A little predictive power" I mean that you can see that somethings wont last but can't see which is the first domino to fall or by how much which requires a bit more thought and knowledge. Case in point is renewable energy, the expansion has been fueled by cheap credit but energy prices has been keeping up with the interest rates so they aren't being pressured as much by this crisis.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Well the FED didn't create wokeness but the conditions is because of their actions. You are touching upon the idea that Austrian Economists call misallocation of capital. You can read about it in The Skyscraper Curse.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
The reason I introduced it has nothing do with overcrowding, it is the observed results of behavior change when they where given everything that they ever could want. Some populations just exploded and then collapsed because overemphasis of a single behavior like eating, because infant rats aren't taken care of. So I use it as an analogy of modern life where we have everything to make us comfortable but some people have adopted behaviors which doesn't take society forward, like pushing junk science on potential existential risks.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
For me more likely there is an overcrowding in the AI-safety where you have libertarians and wokies trying to panic with different implausible scenarios.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
A part of the problem is that some of the AI safety crowd are the victims of the Behavioral_sink. Leading way to comfortable lives that they even claim that 'words are violence'. It was 'safety' concerns that shutdown the Stanfords public Alpaca demo. They are stuck in a local maxima for their likes and retweets, claiming that FN Meka isn't allowed to rap about police violence because it isn't a lived experience, or that virtual Seinfeld jokes are harmful to the trans community. But the biggest danger is what they are themselves trapped in.... the behavioral sink and that more people will be stuck in digital quicksand because of AI.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
She just simply follows the science? So what part of that IPCC report says that climate change stole her childhood?
I haven't listened to the whole conversation but what I've heard and seen I have question. When did Autistic Catastrophizing become accepted by the mainstream? We got Greta Thunberg and now we have the "Big Yud" getting his opinion in the Time.
How do I become mainstream with my Catastrophizing that the combination of attention grabbing AI that subvert our lives with knowledge of behavioral psychology and the combination with generative AI giving us personalized content just massaging our brains just right? Imagine people trapped in a pleasure cube just watching personal generated colors and sounds that only has meaning to them....
It is Slacktivism because they gloss over the fact that they have suffered for their beliefs, that the replacement of words does something for inclusivity. It is reified in their existence. It is being treated as if it is a thing, but the reason for it is forgotten if it is not admitted why they do it. And thus the action has no reason to exist if it is a ritual without cause.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
I linked to their public post-mortem. Reddit is the den of scum and villainy alongside to Twitter when it comes to Social Justice Slacktivism. Chances on getting the company to publicly admit that the cause is an otiose language change that had a bigger impact on their lives than the actual change has on purported victims of that particular word, are nil, null, zilch, nada...
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
On a side note, I hope you used a plugin to overwrite your comments with something else before deletion, I believe most scrapers and internal archives keep deleted comments.
I really don't care that there is a record still available. I just wanted to make it unavailable for myself so I don't get sucked back in. I tried to quit Reddit before but I ended up coming back, so I did the nuclear option of destroying all of it to have no reason to return. There is nothing in those comments that would come back and haunt me from an archive.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Well it is not driving me insane if I occasionally see things like this. I know how futile it is to argue with people that don't have to take the consequences of their activism that they aren't changing a word but an interface. It will have downstream consequences and possibly with bigger impact than knocking Reddit offline for a period. They are simply impervious for such arguments.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Recently I've tried to stay away from the culture war topics just for my personal sanity. It is a part of me not trying to be 'Terminally Online' so I've even given up on using Reddit(killed my user after bulk deleting all my comments) too so I wasn't aware that they had an outage recently. So they posted a post-mortem of the outage. As it turns out it is a casualty of the Culture War.
The nodeSelector and peerSelector for the route reflectors target the label
node-role.kubernetes.io/master. In the 1.20 series, Kubernetes changed its terminology from “master” to “control-plane.” And in 1.24, they removed references to “master,” even from running clusters. This is the cause of our outage. Kubernetes node labels.
The "master eradication activism" is the cause not Kubernetes node labels.
theincompetencetheorist
2yr ago
Isn't the point of representative democracy to get an agent that is informed politically on your behalf? This is the simplest idea ever, since it takes a bunch of time, energy and resources to be informed you pay money(taxes) to a person to represent you and you keep informed of what (s)he does and if that truly represents you. If it doesn't you communicate with that person that you think it is wrong... and if they don't listen you don't vote for them next time.
It looks naive when you try to put it succintly. But that is the problem with the modern political landscape, that everything is corrupt to the core including the people that are supposed to expose the corruption.
Well the 'wall of text' essentially says that we can economically plan ourselves out of the crisis of unemployment caused by automation. The thing the 'wall of text' is claiming that those who read e.g. Hayek don't have an argument against doing planning. So the podcaster in question wrote https://mises.org/wire/socialism-calculation-problem-not-knowledge-problem-0 which is the core of it their spoken argument extended to the claim that we can use AI to solve the calculation problem of planning resource allocation. Talking an hour about it is not being to come up with an argument against it.
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