so if you bullshit enough you get a reputation for it, you can immunize yourself from accountability for what might otherwise be defamatory lies, because hey, everybody knows that you bullshit. doesn’t seem like the best incentive to embed in a legal regime.
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this is your brain. this is your brain on ketamine. as prescribed by a psychiatrist legitimately for depression never taken as lines i swear.
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in a cockney accent, we are all just skiing here.
there are days and especially nights when i don’t see the point of seeing the point.
the policy you propose, if it were implemented badly, would not succeed. therefore it is naive and counterproductive ever to try it.
when you are affluent, you value choice. when you are hungry, you value food.
(i suspect that’s got to be a both-and rather than an either-or.)
sure. for the railroads, they invented a government agency, regulated prices, required pricing to be nondiscriminatory. they did a good job, before they undid it. see washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/29/t...
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i don’t know. the problems of railroads and the problems of tech are pretty similar. network effects and high capital mean Econ 101 style competition is insufficient, and states need to more affirmatively structure competitive industries.
if we have to argue whether a firm has a monopoly or not, the industry is too consolidated.
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good question! there’d be trial and error. recency would be a discriminator — older accounts are more likely authentic. accounts that only retweet. i might want to generate samples of nonretweet posts, to judge whether they seem meaningful for LLM extrapolation. some hashtags + phrases in profiles.
continuing on the fake accounts theme… i’ve been in early-social-media followback-nearly-anyone mode. i suspect i’ll want to recurate my follows, in a somewhat automated way. i presume the technical openness of bluesky renders that possible, but i’ve much to learn pointers gratefully appreciated!
the last few days i’ve seen sudden, relentless follower growth. which is wonderful, if each follower represents the account of a human. the relentlessness, though, and some regularities in profiles (“a blue dot in a red [noun]”) make me wonder whether automated influence brigades have joined us.
the way interest rate policy works is to impose a tax on the nonrich paid to the rich. nonrich spend their marginal dollar bidding up the price of goods+services. the rich bank their marginal dollar, so such a tax can be disinflationary, if new money to the rich (Federal interest) doesn’t overwhelm
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good point.
why is the cast of characters so small, that we have to recycle this particular villain? it’s hard not to gotta-hand-it-to-them a bit on “US elites”, given how the same disappointments and mediocrities reinvent themselves in one another’s company where “new blood” or “merit” might otherwise appear.
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(it’s even worse when you read the story. Dershowitz. Barr. a “dream team” of (in)famous hacks.)
a blog is kind of an old-person word for like a generic substack, right?
@nickchk.bsky.social i’ll try to take a look!