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gradschoolfail··on Veblen revised in the light of counter-snobbery (1951)
Malak (according to the most eric schmidtian translator:

1: whats the reality of this? 2: And for your onions

The various factions should coalesce into voting blocs, similar to the EC:

Uk fr us > 0

Cn pk> 1

Ru in > 2

Il > 3

For extra fun mix n match, eg pk+in, us+cn ru+uk, il+fr etc

Drones: no way current solar tech will allow attack drones that feed like birds on seed of sun. Thus limited is the duality of that tech..

stopgap is beaming tech agreed; wide collector not required (precision targeting of transmitting lasers/masers already quite mature?)

Sustainable pathways towards birdlike but nonicarean tech require parallel construction of contingencies like faraday motors/supercaps etc

gradschoolfail··on Veblen revised in the light of counter-snobbery (1951)
Lovely snacks that almost brought tears

To my biased eyes, Ellen ‘s weirdly

rational behavior smacks

of old moneyedom, Amidst the rustic shacks

gradschoolfail··on Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
Sleep deprivation might have led to {2->1}, but the almost iambic lines you 404’d on were borne of a restful sleep under fully endogenic (biochemical) influence. (Thats why you 404’d)

Nice you brought up the tensoring, my current work related (& pseudo AMP laced) investigations (thanx to your earlier hint) are cloyingly whispering: that Werner’s unitary designs should be reworked with bright eyed bushy tailism for cases t> X

gradschoolfail··on Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
Glad that helped! Sleeping on it, it was even more likely that NB was correctly quoted by the still unremembered English historian as having taken issue with Tacitus’ (cf the famous convo with Wieland) coverage of one or more of the emperors’ motivational techniques
gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
Im guessing Livy too, as i heard it from a professional (English) historian at least a decade ago..

All i remembered was that, whoever the poor writer was, had never waged (or even experienced?) war, but popularly quoted in those contexts

now that you mentioned it, i notice that English historians (of any day) can be a bit… sloppy in their scholarship compared to continentals

Thanks for delving!

gradschoolfail··on Veblen revised in the light of counter-snobbery (1951)
Okkk will get back to you on the references, +the below aka SCT, +solardrones

Rolfe was Veblens first wife, (didnt look up the genealogy, alas) — she provisioned him a retirement home on Sand Hill Road

There are a few academic papers on their relationship, so this century old gossip may still be relevant for science & sciencing!

gradschoolfail··on Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
Sounds about right?

EDIT: placeholder for thinking more about this in context of Acemoglu & Restrepo: according to them ai as pointed at science today will not lead to even midterm econ growth

“Why zero-to-one’s cannot be automated”

id=41839542, note that nongoverning glamour-chasing elite Swedes didnt accolade Acemoglu for the institution-agnostic (“weird”er?) parts of his work that we were recently interested in

Edit: on 2nd slightly sleep deprived thought, seems to me that its flipped: sciencing is conerned with the essential and mathsing is the data-to-code..

gradschoolfail··on Daron Acemoglu: Don't Believe the AI Hype
Unwalled here: https://archive.ph/1fYkJ

>… white, native-born women … are significantly more exposed, and will be negatively affected”

a reversal of a few decades worth of progress?

>… and capital will gain more than labor

Counter to your predictions for employers vs jobseekers?

gradschoolfail··on Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
Id have hoped that it isn’t much of any kind of argument, since sharp wits can be an indispensable aid to …

(pace Edward Gibbon — personally, via Feynman*!)

… leading by example (showing >>> telling)

( but also/and by swagger

   (Since wit, appropriately weaponized & singularly demo’d, is its own distinction?
   )
 )
NB hadnt experienced Eurovision, might have expanded his idea of swag..

* >But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous (quoted in TFLiP)

EDIT2: seems like NB had other ways to motivate his men (beside fear & swag)— according to that English historian “Livy” was smacked in this kind of context, but we’ll never know for sure now

EDIT: (material) baubles require a more or less centralized fount of honor (as republics ever had), transmission of (the clear products of) wit.. otoh, needs just… a market (of at least one)

gradschoolfail··on Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
This is why… “science” needs lions ever ready to deploy the quite never old ultraviolence of wit (echoing FWN?)?

[and not awards or nobel prizes: “A good sciencing is its own reward” - not Faora-Ul]

(EP,wrong era, similar to HRV?)

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
EES might have seemed a fox but now he’s been mostly just living the life, so i’d wager he’d been always a lion albeit with a fox skin as the situations required..

A lot of (human) capital destruction happened “under his watch” possibly too; yesterday i found in my acorn stash an old html document from Hal Varian, “markets for information goods” which should provide a good framing story for that (im guessing that the nomenclature ICE is just fortunate)

“Lone” (子連れ) whiskered canid here.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5LmAo4tmT4

Erm, i (mostly) missed the flagged post, maybe rehash some of that stuff here?

EE’D’S always wondered if the moniker was inspired by “Lehnsmann” (aka UvH)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23980317

gradschoolfail··on Is the attack helicopter dead?
Hmm not sure what kind of solar panels you might be thinking about. GaAs from which supplier?
gradschoolfail··on Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping
id=41773172

I’d rate this guy as a drone pro, maybe like you (sig portion of networth invested/day2day ops involvement?)

(The design issues which i referred to was precisly this kind of intertwining with supply demand.. what kind of blasted solar panels is he talking about sota GaAs barely make the cut atm)

so how do you rate my assessment of drone tech up till 3-5 yrs ahead. How foxy was it :)

L: 1965 soyuzmultfilm of cobra v. cub ( & lone “fox”)

Btw, re p=1537 2014 was obviously a date, slightly curious y you’d clarify :)

gradschoolfail··on Veblen revised in the light of counter-snobbery (1951)
To be fair to Veblen, he seemed — nit begrudgingly - to have married into the classes, so he must have written about countersig somewhere

[& you might even want to check that Cicero didnt precede Galois by more than a full millennia?]

(guessing the Rolfes were such)

[also, a Lesser Edwardian age of lit 1944-1948?]

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
Ill need you to disambiguate EES,DG (DanG?) ..

NB1 designori, writing off Laplace as a chancellor was fox skin (see below)

DJT designori, but much less certainty, fox wearing lion skin badly, or with help of stims?

PG: from video, designori, from writings, fox, so maybe fox wearing a lion skin? (havent considered his encounters with wolves and traps)

DanG no idea, slight maybe of fox wearing lion skin (from interviews)

Another measure: warmth/intellect affectations, so if inferred from writings=propganda (uh modulo that french isnt my Ln) old boney is one hell of a fox, or lion wearing fox skin..

Theres also the Mahatma: designori imho certainly, if he said=he meant

live like youll die tomorrow,]l[earn like youll live forever

Sorry about the Xenophon, brainfatulence, as it was. So id encourge you to point out any egregious goalpost shifting above & below

Our Lord of the Masses, yes (designori, probably, as a guess from the 2nd hand ads and not from any scholarship whatsoever)

El Cid, no idea, too far back, but from what you just said , designori but no idea of what wearing what skin

(If youd like i would have to even put some bars on my responses)

Veblen: most likely fox, unless we surface something in Ellen’s papers?

Bw limited, so answering the shallower q’s because the discourse seems like it jumped in depth

gradschoolfail··on Who died and left the US $7B?
Morally speaking, is ((profit<->negative externality) <-> (speculation<->liquidity provision)) a tautology i could get any of u curious about?

It motivates a search for the mystical beast: Marxist financier (not the pastry?)

(Not to mention elucidates the boney/HF-inspired principle of intertwining* (wrt scaling — CENDEC, decentralizing by centralizing — marxist-financing-in-itself))

*https://archive.is/FxHSl

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40603483

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
Forsooth, That was a gem!! That is, i still dont know whether youd be happy to steer clear from invoking violence when discoursing economic approaches to moral issues…

Mongoose vs (king) cobra, thats a pairing from asia i could be curious about..

[I note another horseshoe-like effect where foxes mporp lions, realtime, get themselves confused..]

Anabasis is _the_ counterexample i’d like to have remembered.. fully vulpine Commanding Officer

(I mentioned assassinationtargetstateofmind because… inferred internal states tend to be insanely effective when identifying .. familiars?)

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
E1R (leonine heart and stomach) would be a fox too, before and/or after Tilbury?, same as E2R ? Or does being an assassin’s target count

(Somehow i feel you will not downgrade the discourse towards metaphorical threats to life, as in

https://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html)

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
Now, (and i’m still partial to keeping the lion-fox defos close to where they have always been*) would these people who attack moral issues with economic tools be lions or foxes? Its not that lions do not fear death, but that they fear lack of impact (ie positive externalities) more than death

I posit to thee that lion-fox is a spectrum (and not even very bimodal). where would you place the (napo)leon, sama, dang, and PG? I’d say closer to the lion, because while they keep tactical details close to their chest, their hearts are worn elsewhere.

*The historical [& natural] lions (with an epsilon of fox?) appears to employ camouflage, and if i may say so, enjoy subterfuge, by necessity? What the fiducial lion values, or respect (loyalty,unpredictability), are in their subordinates [as well as themselves]. Same for standard foxes ([intellectual]prowess,legibility).. i’d add that sibboleth consists of dropping something on their paws Y, where Y is something like an accusation of hypocrisy (& not dishonourabilitiness) watching their L0 (cache) ejaculation

Since my gallic quotemining skills are inadequate, bonaparte appeared to have said

X does not understand men like I do

Q: who was X? Cicero, Livy or Plutarch?

>just because… he says he can read [dead] people https://archive.is/www.economist.com/business/2024/10/03/wha...

gradschoolfail··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
Did you mean 421? It’s embarrassingly peripheral for now to say that this empirical index (as well as _lambda) is related to “entropy”, or even more shamefully, “sophistication”. Why india not perm, as romer says, population size <-/-> human capital, uk has veto o’er hollywood (only a brit can order hollywood to GTFO) & hollywood has the mandate o heaven, bollywood not (yet) a substitute.

For we need a workable modern definition of lion & fox (the 2 forms of human capital) to cover all the cases. we agree that designori are humans who can switch modes or engage both simultaneously?

[Pants were intended to be a gadget to help foxes adopt a (intellectual) lion mode, or vice versa]

  Lion: embraces externalities/expediencies, values unpredictability & loyalty

  Fox:  rationalizes away externalities, seeks truth, values legibility, respects prowess
(Seems too simple to classify preferred heuristics as DAGs or even poker strats)

[another possible triad is {lion,fox,externality}, so that wolves & traps can be shoved under that last bit]

[you observe that i tried to combine Jacobs & Rao explicitly, Boyd & Nietzsche implicitly]

Concerning historical rhymes, nakamoto “chef marinetti” sakamoto prescribes decentralization, while sam “nielsbohr” altman prescribes AI?

gradschoolfail··on Math from Three to Seven
Venece in macao, piazza san marco is the best known one, right

I see. Fox and lion signify opposing virtues for me, and vices for thee, therefore designori should be vicinal/virtuous (wrt Pareto optimality)

Scrap that, everything is soviet save the attire, the lone vixen+cub mere pirates serving the soviet navy (note that HQ may well be refurbished Hotel Class underwater, ideal for refining cocaine, antagonists referencing to the americanized black widows, K-19 “Hiroshima”

gradschoolfail··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
What is your personal take on the smuggling of budgie smugglers? is it fraudulent?

Central bank: HN had a bit to say on MF’s thermostat, id=4915751, rayiner on pubgoods 4915946

psmith pants-mongering on JW Central Banking 101 (very likely that one o both psmiths econometrician, btw):

>On twitter you can see our real rulers humiliating themselves

[meanwhile on HN…]

On immigration i submit that it is morally wrong to avail foreigners of the capital destructive tools of the geographic rome of our times (which some, ahem, poets identify as carthage of Moloch)

gradschoolfail··on Math from Three to Seven
Opening song is a nanban fave.. Jasmine Flower reminds one of soviet themes, everything in the vid is in fact quite soviet vorland culture? (including the nonrussian idioms, lionizing the (dubbie headed?) aquiline), just need to redraw the eyes/skin/apparel, insert appropriate song (Nanbans perhaps otoh prefer dogs think poodles, faux sansouci)

Its standard mandarin, but spoken not by a mandarin (nonrhotic, but also not taiwanese/shanghainese elite, ie most likely nanban, exiled from the mainland south coast, macao is a good port of call)

id=41670593 <— alephnerd, you can imagine soviet folkways imported via the KR

Anime studio is in HK, but signage in the anime is inconsistent. ( there was one Taichung ad?))

p=… refers to Aaronson’s blog.

gradschoolfail··on Math from Three to Seven
[1] Mendeleev was the One, didnt see any monumental arches in the vid but the final victors appear to be 南蛮

[2] Elysium

prefix all with glass, append some with hole, claim nothing?

gradschoolfail··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
As to Rao-fox-lion quadrantology.. how to classify pear AI problem? (We can say nang et al were barbarians promoted to founders but that is cheap*. Otoh 1 o the more interesting facts from that case is some partners attempting to empirically price their social media marketing thesis)

JPsmith on JCScott Against the Grain has another take on Rao, proweird being the barbarians trading with the State

Tfound the crucial clause on pants from the Psmith-on-Stripe-Clueless that you pointed at

*>derives much of [][] moral and affective sympathies from the claim that [][] is smarter and better and more efficient [s/_/effective] than anybody else

Insert insider,expert,Feynman,YC,lion,officer,peer,etc

& Whatever is the Other’s (prole,designor,founder,funder,clueless,loser,customer,peer)’s fave metric!

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
We know that the eternal electron is not Wheelers teddy (he didnt seem exhibitionistic, like CK), so perhaps we shall look elsewhere..

Solarimpulse. Yes! For design reasons, it wouldnt suffice just to replace the pilots with autopilots..

Somehow. Suspect that RN leant on the smugglers..

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
>With its Etruscan leonine heads, the façade is the symbol of the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines. It is said, in fact, that the scion of the Guelph Buondelmonte family, who owned towers on Borgo Santi Apostoli, was about to marry a member of the Ghibelline family Amedei when he fell in love with a girl from the Donati family.

https://archive.ph/5Ki96

(Good to know that the tuscans lionized the etruscans, not romans?)

Sigfox: JvN/Takesaki

1)Implosion scheme of Manhattan P: Neddermeyer was the fox, Oppenheimer the lion

2)type III_lambda: tomita was the fox, connes was the lion

Q: dynamic ginis should correspond to Pareto’s pagliaccetto (Note: Edwardian design)

Update: with hindsight, we know that the bell ineqs were Einstein’s CamiKnickers, and now i’m trying on Feynman’s :)

https://archive.ph/toGkK

Credit for these links to chatgpt?

Update2: Aaronson is a known exhibitionist (>diaperhedron) but check out post-flamewar (2014+) comments at p=1537

gradschoolfail··on Math from Three to Seven
Moldbug.. i was going to point you at Marinetti, to see if he might provoke the same reactions.. (inconsistent viber, fraternized with Fascists, but really into educating the masses?)

Flies vs mosquitoes: flies are sometimes presented as a source of harmless comedy (maggots as medicine), but genocide (latinate vibes?) is acceptable for mosquitoes.

gradschoolfail··on Solving the Maker-Taker Problem
Id expect the interesting surface is the one between club and the other general cases (esp. the set of externalities, antigoods so to speak)

Furthermore i suspect, part of the shame lies in realizing that thermodynamics may “work” neither in practice, nor in theory, so designori, nominatively, might be tempted to pursue both at the same time.

So Houthis could charitably be helping us price (empirically) the very public externality called “currentday drone tech” — which for abbreviated sakes cant even autonomously harness energy transienting the earths habitable zone

REDIT0: not sure but if HNFp=YC intertidal zone, theyd be worried about superior phishing tech exhausting the (intertidal) phishstocks without their knowledge.. you might have to ask dang where the littoral/intertidal boundaries are

USN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_zone#/media/File:Litt...

gradschoolfail··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
Below the waterline? (Waistline if less charitable)

Ah havent read this article yet but anticipating “insider” as a more distinguishing term than “experts” should cover their edge cases

(Which secrets are shameful to share vs merely uh inconvenient, e.g. for waistline, depends on how you draw the party lines, some do it at type ii “zahlungsfaehig” vs “proleten” as nsdap apparently another eg, for waterline)

[do you have a fictional character for each of sigfox & lion?]

So, where is the line for YC?

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