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I don't want to throw out this idea but I think the much more obvious answer is people being sedentary and terrible sleep. Boys that are playing video games instead of running around outdoors. Playing video games until 3 am one night, waking up for school with 5 hours of sleep, then drinking massive amounts of energy drinks or other stimulants to stay awake.

From what I understand, things like testosterone just amplify what already exists.

The president controls the DoJ. Are you saying that the president is not a politician?

It's hilarious that SBF is going to get put into jail by politicians that he donated hundreds of millions to. And funny enough, the fact that he donated money to them in such a high profile way means that they will likely slam the book on him harder just to "prove" there is no backdoor dealing.

I was diagnosed with ADHD and was prescribed vyvanse. The first day I took it it was an extremely intense calm feeling. I had a design doc I had been mulling over for weeks but for some ungodly reason was unable to actually put onto paper. When the drug kicked in I was fully alert and all the uncomfortable feelings that had prevented me from actually doing what I needed to do went away. The doc was written in 3 hours.

I will say, it definitely brings you above baseline in ability to concentrate, even with adhd. I was basically unable to do any deep work because of random 30 minute meetings interspersed throughout the day. With vyvanse I can basically leave a meeting and within 5 minutes of it finishing be in the zone working on a different task.

I'm on week 3 now and the intense calmness has faded but my ability to do tasks and focus remains to a certain extent.

So their cost basis was $150mm. What was the highest valuation FTX was marked at? I'm curious what the real change in value was for this fund.

So every time I sell something on craigslist I need to worry about being drawn into some kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare because someone might claim I didn't fulfill my end of the bargain? Got it, I'll just throw out my old stuff going forward.

Why doesn't the government just do their job and catch and prosecute criminals?

> I wouldn't build killing tools casually despite having, as most engineers here do

No, most engineers here are perfectly fine building highly addictive apps that are only slightly removed from slot machines and targeting them at children.

> The concept itself is not novel

Actually building it is very novel.

> It's explosive charges strapped to an helmet with a detonator

That is triggered when you lose a video game.

> the form is not particularly appealing or interesting

Given the amount of engagement and discussion it's generating I think you are clearly wrong.

Has this product been released?

All those people that retired with their nice homes because of historically high asset prices that lost close to 50% of their net worth in the past year or two might need to consider downsizing. Especially once property taxes on their newly inflated home values kick in.

How about journalists just report the truth?

No, I don't. Every contract has two parties. Elon did not want to go through with the contract, the other party forced them to abide by the agreement (Twitter's shareholders, which funnily enough, many of Twitter's employees are counted among).

Everyone knew what selling twitter to elon meant for the employees and the company. There were rumors of mass layoffs weeks ago. It was forced through still anyway.

So in addition to Elon, everyone that cashed out of twitter is responsible for what's happening to the company now and all the employees that allowed the company to become fat and bloated are responsible too.

It's interesting how you all are bringing up the law and contracts but simultaneously moaning about how cruel he is for firing everyone.

He OWNS the company.

> Actions have consequences which is a basic thing that it seems some people have a really hard time understanding.

Yes, this is what happens when you choose to be an employee of a company someone else owns. You are at their mercy. That's the deal.

So you are Elon and have some shitty company that is burning $200m or more a year. Are you all saying he should keep paying these overpaid yuppies to do nothing but come into work 3 hours late and drink matcha lattes? Even if he was feeling generous, don't you think there are more deserving people of that charity?

No. Not even semantically correct. If he didn't want to do something and the other party in the negotiation used the legal system to make him do it he was forced by someone else to do it.

Anyway, it's beside the point. Elon OWNS twitter. Do you all understand what ownership means? Like how you own a phone? If he wants to smash his new toy into the ground and break it that's his prerogative. Employees need to stop deluding themselves that any part of a business belongs to them because they were part of the process in creating it. The salary you are paid is the price for control of everything you contribute to a company.

If you hate that idea, much like I do myself, you should start your own business.

Ok, so he signed the contract. Decided not to buy it because it was a massively overvalued money pit but they forced him anyway.

So now he is supposed to keep dumping money into the burning dumpster fire that is twitter?

He didn't want to buy it.

The free monopoly money that is somehow worth more than the european monopoly money.

When the CEO is the majority shareholder of a company it's a different calculus. Shareholders and the board are the two entities that can hold CEOs accountable. If they are one and the same nobody can hold the CEO accountable except customers via boycott.

People own companies. Just like people own tvs, computers, phones. Do you ever go to someone and say "hey, are you using your phone in the way that's best for humanity?"

> Most people are happy being mere millionaires than billionaires

It's not about money. Creating a new technology or business is like giving birth and if you are based in China, Xi and his friends can come and rip the baby out of your crib. It doesn't matter how successful or high profile you are, some communist party leader can and will rape you, figuratively and literally (See Peng Shuai).

I highly doubt racism was invented.

The lure of access to the Chinese market has been used and western leaders now realize it's a lie. The one sided cooperation with China is wisely being ended, if the Chinese government wants any technology or resource going forward it will have to be completely grown from within. But here's the kicker, why would any Chinese citizen go and start a company? All it means is you have a massive target on your back for one of the political elite to swoop in and take what you've built. Why would you work towards building a massive company like Jack Ma did when the reward is being tortured and disappeared when you step slightly out of line?

So the best and most ambitious minds in China will go into politics or leave the country.

Throw in the coming demographic collapse I think China's peak is behind us.

More interesting idea if you can set it up:

Got an offer from big tech? If your background checks out, immediately get offers from other startups for the same role.

Maximize pain for mediocre speed and money?

Are you trying to critique the use of simplified models for analyzing systems in general?

> Now what? That's not "growth", that's a chair

If somebody finds use from the chair that was growth, if it sits unused it was waste. Something of value was created from a bunch of useless pieces of wood and metal.

> How many times can you pull that trick? Eventually you'll reach the economically optimum configuration for those planks of wood.

Really? There is an economic optimum for the most valuable configuration of materials? This also ignores that while growth is occurring other things are being created which will impact the supposed equilibrium state that exists for wood and nails that will change what the most valuable configuration of those materials will be.

Anyway, let's go away from wood and nails. What about ink and paper. Or just words? Or just thoughts? What is the economic value of the observation the F = ma? Newton probably created infinite economic value by putting the observation that F=ma to paper.

I don't see the point of your statement. Economic growth can happen even if the population remains constant (or even shrinks but that would be a headwind to overall economic growth and at that point it might be more instructive to look at gdp per capita).

Your claim is that growth is bound by the law of thermodynamics because of human labor?

Is your claim that growth in human population is required for economic growth?

Ok, I'll do another proof by contradiction using the chair analogy:

The carpenter uses the materials that would have been used to build 100 chairs to build a boat. That boat is then used to transport goods up and down a river. The economic value of that boat is greater than the 100 chairs but the carpenter has not done more work and they have not used more materials.

If all the human carpenters switch from creating chairs to creating boats you can get economic growth without using more materials or labor.

The labor is a small fixed cost. Depending on what is done with the labor the leverage is potentially infinite (eg. many internet business that earn a million or more per year for every employee they have hired).

Growth can happen by getting the same labor to do something more valuable (maybe building houses instead of chairs?)

> an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to finite planetary boundaries

This is a stupid premise. People illiterate in both physics and economics seem to think that economic growth is bound by the laws of thermodynamics.

This is easily proven false by contradiction:

Let's say you have a few 2x4s and nails, by rearranging them into a chair you've created economic value. No extra raw materials were required to get from the planks of wood to the chair but value was created anyway. Find a better use for the wood and nails than a chair and we have economic growth.

> I really hope you have read what I said before commenting.

The comment was about specific individuals being targeted. Are there any reports of Facebook targeting specific individuals?