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We lost our industrial commons.

The funny thing is Amazon is awful compared to what Alibaba and JD provide to their customers in China. IYKYK

The communists in China actively tried to replace old virtue (it was barely alive in China pre-revolution anyway) with new virtue. New virtue was hollow, shallow, empty and fake.

The way of excellence and The Troubles

Everything goes back to plain text. Would be kind of nice.

How does scaffolding work with these local models? Skills, commands, rules, etc. do they all work similarly? (It’s probably obvious but I haven’t delved into local LLMs yet.)

We used to build those infrastructure projects.

Or they can’t make chips with decent yields.

Check out the book Maxims for Thinking Analytically. Then read Power vs. Force by David Hawkins to get the other side. Even better skip both and read Iain McGilchrist’s new 3000 page 2 volume work: The Matter With Things.

We aren’t even looking at the same planet that we’re living on.

So low margin high volume versus lower volume high margin? Anyone have ideas where to look for data on that? Or what a decent proxy could be?

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The reason for a CBDC are new features. Money that can be programmed to only be used in certain ways, with certain groups, or at certain times, e.g. expiring money. It’s more nudging power for our unelected technocrat dear leaders. Imagine the possibilities!