sarker
ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
ketman hetman
4hr ago
I vibed a map of zip codes filterable by demographics, test scores, distance to the nearest big city, etc. Some interesting findings which I hope might be a basis for an effort post if I could just get around to it.
sarker
ketman hetman
7hr ago
human effort has intrinsic value, connecting with other humans has intrinsic value, the total historical and social context of an artwork has intrinsic value, etc
Come now. I'm confident it would take me, who has two left hands, at least ten times as much effort to paint or carve a great work compared to a great artist. Does the work become more valuable because it's hard for me? No, nobody cares. As long as there's some minimum effort involved, this seems to satisfy that requirement. How low is the minimum? Presumably it's arbitrarily set somewhere above "repeated workshopping of an image with an AI" and somewhere below "tape a banana to a wall". The astute reader may notice that the latter is plausibly less than the former.
The rest might work as arguments against art generated entirely autonomously with zero or minimal human input, but clearly fall apart if the prompter has a vision that he uses the AI to realize. Or do you think that AI art has no historical and social context? Surely you of all people would agree that you can't do anything entirely outside of your context.
sarker
ketman hetman
7hr ago
A complete protein is one that has all essential amino acids in reasonable supply.
Are you mostly eating bread? No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no buckwheat or quinoa?
sarker
ketman hetman
8hr ago
But it's telling that we're not hearing the secular fears of getting raped and murdered by a tinder date.
What does it tell us? I expect you're more likely to die in a car crash on the way to a tinder date than to be murdered by your date.
sarker
ketman hetman
8hr ago
Are you not eating complete proteins? Even vegans get plenty of lysine from soy.
sarker
ketman hetman
3d ago
Okay. I exaggerated. In reality, NSW and Victoria residents (over half the country) were only permitted to be within 5km of home (unless the Melbourne night curfews were in effect).
sarker
ketman hetman
4d ago
Also to, beat a dead horse, closing schools is not confining kids to their rooms. At least in the US. It's not enough that people in Australia were under house arrest, we must pretend that was the case everywhere.
sarker
ketman hetman
4d ago
He's buying when a drop is forthcoming, and failing to buy at a price that's the lowest it will ever be.
This isn't true - he's buying at the bottom between every pair of ATHs.
The point isn't that this is the best you can do with perfect information - the point is that even if you time each trough perfectly you still usually lose to DCA. More complicated strategies can beat DCA, but they are even harder to get right.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
The Lies of Locke Lamora. The writing smacks of the fedora, if you catch my drift - but the plot is engaging enough to keep me interested.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Unfortunately the cream of the crop of the people reading SSC in 2012 or whatever was probably sharper than the smartest people who followed our chud forum across three (?) exoduses.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
That only reinforces my point - that people don't much care about this.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
The key thing is he’s not always buying after a 14% 1 month rally.
Sure. But he's buying at the trough between each ATH. "You can do better with perfect information if you trade more often" is not a rebuttal - in real life you don't have perfect information and having to make more perfect trades to beat DCA is harder than the outlined strategy.
Jane St literally recruited off of this forum so I assume there are some lingerers.
How? When?
Whatever that guy is selling is obviously false.
Should be easy to show why and score a black eye on Big Dollar Cost Averaging.
I think it’s because he’s also not selling the rip.
Timing both the peak and the trough is significantly harder than timing just the trough though.
Also noticed he doesn’t seem to pay interests to cash balances.
True, but he's looking at S&P valuation corrected for inflation so I think that's implicitly assuming that cash reserves keep their real value.
Jane St made 17b last quarter. This place is filled with those types.
I don't think even this august forum is "filled with" some of the smartest people in the country. Also note that Jane Street employees 3500 people working together to make that money rather than lone forum posters. The odds are... Not great, even if you are a genius.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
I'm going to wait for a correction
You could be waiting years
Nothing I like more for being bearish than hearing markets will never go down.
You must have a talent for hearing that, since that's not what the guy said!
It's extremely difficult to beat DCA by buying the dip.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
We still allowed the government to impose vaccination as the cost of leaving the house
I must have missed this part of the pandemic response.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Even the NYT is telling people not to worry unless they were aboard the Hondius, flew with someone who was aboard the Hondius, or live among rodents.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Chesterton is probably what you are looking for, though he's not pulpy.
sarker
ketman hetman
6d ago
I don't see a lot of object-level opinion overlap between darwin and magicalkittycat. One example: Darwin was constantly pushing idpol and I haven't seen that from magicalkittycat.
sarker
ketman hetman
6d ago
I just want a braindead "roll the dice" shuffle. Yeah, it might result in some tracks playing twice in a surprisingly short window, but you can do a lot worse (repeating sequences of 20 tracks) and you can't easily do a lot better in my view.
sarker
ketman hetman
7d ago
I find the "discover weekly" recommendations not bad, and "release radar " sometimes has something I want to hear. Totally agree that radio is dogshit though.
Until recently the shuffle algorithm was also totally fucked and would get stuck in loops - literally play e.g. 20 songs, then go back and play those same 20 again. I don't know what the fuck kind of shuffle algorithm could result in that, but it rinsed several tracks so bad I can't listen to them anymore.
Now they are trying to push Spotify as a video platform so sometimes I open the app and see some ridiculous TDS thumbnail. I'd probably jump ship if there was another platform with good music recommendation algorithms. I don't know what the eight thousand Spotify employees are doing all day, but I'm not sure it's making my life better.
sarker
ketman hetman
7d ago
Among ten thousand dimensions of the latent space, there's always one along which the user can be glazed.
sarker
ketman hetman
7d ago
A sufficiently advanced intelligence can glaze without direct sycophancy.
sarker
ketman hetman
7d ago
It's remarkable that he somehow didn't mention that the transients were almost entirely in patches of the sky corresponding to areas outside of earth's shadow at geostationary orbit at a crazy level of significance. That is sufficient to completely dismiss any discussion of plate contamination as far as I can see.
I'm counting that as part of the effort, naturally.
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