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You mean how they've tiered out basic-economy from regular-economy and economy-plus? In a way, I suppose that's right--I'll pay extra for earlier boarding privileges so I can guarantee bin space.
We were just talking about this in the context of the labor market, with probable implications regarding nepotism and credentialism: #1422410
I honestly wonder if technology has made the matching function too thick.
For example, in a standard job market matching model, a thicker matching function is always better because you can select from a greater pool of applicants.
But the model doesn't account for the cost of evaluating applicants. If you have too many applicants, your standard methods for sorting through them may start breaking down.
Maybe things are moving earlier because on the job-seeker side, it's what they feel like they have to do to stand out from the crowd.
On the employer side, if they can get a good enough pool of interns early, it reduces the need for them to do costly sorting of a greater universe of applicants (even if some in that greater pool would be better)
I'm not sure what the difference between his proposal and AssumeUTXO is.
But using LLM slop to make your case is pretty dumb.
how did you go to Oxford and not know "conniption"? Seems like a perfectly common word used by the English gentleman/gentlelady
If the only people who work in finance are people who have pursued that goal single-mindedly since they were 16, the pool will be less diverse, and maybe less fun.
Less wise, too, would be my guess.
The economic forces which are driving the rat race earlier into peoples' lives would be an interesting one to explore. I'm not sure I fully understand it deeply.
At the surface level, it feels like a prisoner's dilemma. (I gotta get my kids these high powered internships early because otherwise they'll fall behind.) But that still doesn't explain, what changed? between now and 30 years ago?
2025 was the first year I got paid in bitcoin by an employer
Are you talking about SN?
Sometimes I feel like SN is the only place people who use bitcoin as a MOE congregate.
What about Gen Z women though? Pretty sure I've seen some stats showing that the worldview divide between men and women is stronger in Gen Z than any other generation. Or something along those lines.
computer wife sounds interesting. how do I get one?
You should ask him, "Why are you so convinced that saturated fats caused heart disease?" Ask him for the direct line of evidence that he thinks he believes in. If he knows, then you get educated. (Even if he's wrong, at least you know why he believes what he believes.) If he doesn't know, which is also quite likely, then (hopefully) he realizes that his belief is entirely grounded on what others have told him, and not on any direct evidence that he's seen himself.
Interesting epilogue. Leaves me with a lot of questions.
- Did the those traders end up destitute, in jail, or committing suicide because Sorkin cherry picked who to focus on for the epilogue? Or was it more widespread?
- If it was widespread, then I wonder if people back then at least felt that cosmic justice was served, unlike in 2008 when everyone got bailouts
- I'm surprised Sorkin refers to the election of Roosevelt and Churchill as the "real, underappreciated tragedy coming out of 1929". What's his angle there? I thought most normies liked those two guys.
How did you ultimately decide not to move forward with the idea?
I was kinda interested in seeing some metrics about it, like the accuracy rate you could get on identifying slop/spam.
Ah, I actually mean it literally, as in I suspect companies are already trying to inject training biases into the LLMs by various means. I have no evidence to back it up, of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's already happening.