Pandy Marino

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Five distinct qualities — energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement, and focus on a goal
The Right Kind of Stubborn
So in practice your energy and imagination and resilience and good judgement have to be directed toward some fairly specific goal. Not too specific, or you might miss a great discovery adjacent to what you're searching for, but not too general, or it won't work to motivate you
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The persistent are quite rational. They focus on expected value. It's this, not recklessness, that lets them work on things that are unlikely to succeed.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
Resilience means setbacks can't change your morale, not that they can't change your mind.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
resilience, good judgement, and a focus on some kind of goal.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
Which means the persistent must also be imaginative. To keep trying things, you have to keep thinking of things to try.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The further someone is toward the obstinate end of the continuum, the less likely they are to succeed in solving hard problems. [4]
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The persistent are much more attached to points high in the decision tree than to minor ones lower down, while the obstinate spray "don't give up" indiscriminately over the whole tree.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
They're never more engaged than when you disagree with them. Whereas the obstinate don't want to hear you. When you point out problems, their eyes glaze over, and their replies sound like ideologues talking about matters of doctrine.
The Right Kind of Stubborn
I've often walked away from a conversation thinking either "Wow, that guy is determined" or "Damn, that guy is stubborn,"
The Right Kind of Stubborn
The white man, already branded by the ravages of self-discipline, could compensate for his repressed self-hatred and inferiority complex by taking it out on the “savages”. Like “the woman”, indigenous people were deemed to be primitive halflings ranking in between animals and humans. It was Immanuel Kant’s keen conjecture that baboons could talk if they only wanted and didn’t speak because they feared being dragged off to labour.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
Most people didn’t voluntarily go over to production for anonymous markets and thereby to a general cash economy, but were forced to do so because the absolutist hunger for money led to the levy of pecuniary and ever-increasing taxes, replacing traditional payment in kind. It was not that people had to “earn money” for themselves, but for the militarised early modern firearm-state, its logistics, and its bureaucracy. This way the absurd end-in-itself of capital valorisation and thus of labour came into the world.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
It did not start with some “innocent” market expansion meant to increase “the wealth” of his or her majesty’s subjects, but with the insatiable hunger for money of the absolutist apparatus of state to finance the early modern military machinery. The development of urban merchant’s and financial capital beyond traditional trade relations only accelerated through this apparatus, which brought the whole society in a bureaucratic stranglehold for the first time in history. Only this way did money became a central social motive and the abstraction of labour a central social constraint without regar…
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
More and more labour has the good conscience on its side: The inclination for leisure is called “need of recovery” and begins to feel ashamed of itself. “It is just for the sake of health”, they defend themselves when caught at a country outing. It could happen to be in the near future that succumbing to a “vita contemplativa” (i.e. to go for a stroll together with friends to contemplate life) will lead to self-contempt and a guilty conscience.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
Mankind had to horribly mutilate itself to create its identical, functional, male self, and some of it has to be redone in everybody’s childhood
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
As the commodity-producing system gradually collapses at present, women are made responsible for survival in any respect, while the “masculine” world indulges in the prolongation of the categories of the labour society by means of simulation.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
The miserable bourgeois vision of a “compatibility of career and family” leaves completely untouched the separation of the spheres of the commodity-producing system and thereby preserves the structure of gender segregation.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
On the one hand, the advance of women into the sphere of labour has not led to their liberation, but subjected them to very same drill procedures for the labour idol as already suffered by men. On the other hand, as the systemic structure of “segregation” was left untouched, the separated sphere of “female labour” continued to exist extrinsic to what is officially deemed to be “labour”.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
t was no accident that the image of the somewhat primitive, instinct-driven, irrational, and emotional woman solidified only along with the image of the civilised, rational and self-restrained male workaholic and became a mass prejudice finally
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
The sphere of intimacy is an offshoot of the labour sphere, cut off and in its own meanwhile, but bound to the overriding common reference system. Without the social sphere of “female labour”, the labour society would actually never have worked. The “female sphere” is the implied precondition of the labour society and at the same time its specific result.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
It is a sphere that conveys the idea of femininity and comprises the various activities of everyday life which can only rarely be transformed into monetary remuneration: from cleaning, cooking, child rearing, and the care for the elderly, to the “labour of love” provided by the ideal housewife, who busies herself with “loving” care for her exhausted breadwinner and refuels his emptiness with well measured doses of emotion.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
. The disciples of the labour religion have always preached that a human being, according to its supposed nature, is an “animal laborans” (working creature/animal). Such an “animal” actually only assumes the quality of being a human by subjecting matter to his will and in realising himself in his products, as once did Prometheus.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
What remains is the common ground of a merciless dogma: Labour is the natural destiny of human beings.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
The pluralist post-war democracies
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
Socialists and conservatives, democrats and fascists fought each other to the death, but despite all deadly hatred, they always paid homage to the labour idol together
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
On the other hand, they are deeply convinced that a human being that has no job is not a human being at all
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
“The role model for the future is the individual as the entrepreneur of his own labour power, being provident and solely responsible for all his own life”
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
Only those who belong to the smirking brotherhood of globalisation winners are awarded the quality of being a human.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
a society devoted to the irrational abstraction of labour is inevitably doomed to develop a tendency for social apartheid.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
One country after the other gets broken under the wheel of economic totalitarianism, thereby giving evidence for the one and only “truth”: The country has violated the so-called “laws of the market economy”
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
The gloomy meta-message of such incentives cannot be misunderstood: Those who fail in finding favour in the eyes of the “labour idol” have to take the blame, can be written off and pushed away.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
However, whoever is not able to sell his or her labour power in this society is considered to be “superfluous” and will be disposed of on the social waste dump.
Manifesto against Labour | Krisis
. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete | WIRED
"All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them."
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete | WIRED
It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete | WIRED
It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete | WIRED
It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete | WIRED
It is true that the current computer-security dogma around, for example, introducing online voting is simply "don't", but if we want to expand the role of voting-like mechanisms, including more advanced forms such as quadratic voting and quadratic finance, to more roles, we have no choice but to confront the challenge head-on, try really hard, and hopefully succeed at making something secure enough, for at least some use cases.
On Collusion
Perhaps the simplest way to get around this is to either use a trusted party that runs the computation and only publishes results (along with zero knowledge proofs proving the results, so the trusted party is trusted only for privacy, not integrity), or decentralize the same functionality through multi-party computation.
On Collusion
These systems could be augmented if desired using the "futarchy" mechanic described above: if someone makes a claim that someone is a unique human, and someone else disagrees, and both sides are willing to put down a bond to litigate the issue, the system can call together a judgement panel to determine who is right.
On Collusion
Rather, the kind of "identity" we are talking about here is some kind of robust multifactorial set of claims that an actor identified by some set of messages actually is a unique individual.
On Collusion
both centralized systems and decentralized systems are facing the same fundamental problem, which is that the "marketplace of ideas" (and of public goods more generally) is very far from an "efficient market" in the sense that economists normally use the term, and this leads to both underproduction of public goods even in "peacetime" but also vulnerability to active attacks.
On Collusion
which is that the "marketplace of ideas" (and of public goods more generally) is very far from an "efficient market" in the sense that economists normally use the term,
On Collusion
Any mechanism that can help genuinely under-coordinated parties coordinate will, without the right safeguards, also help already coordinated parties (such as many accounts controlled by the same person) over-coordinate, extracting money from the system.
On Collusion
If one tries to preserve the property of a game being identity-free, building a system where identities don't matter and only coins do, there is an impossible tradeoff between either failing to incentivize legitimate public goods or over-subsidizing plutocracy.
On Collusion
The way futarchy mechanisms, in their most general form, work is that they make "voting" not just an expression of opinion, but also a prediction, with a reward for making predictions that are true and a penalty for making predictions that are false.
On Collusion
There are two ways to get around this issue. The first is to try to restrict ourselves to the class of games that are "identity-free" and "collusion-safe", so where we do not need to worry about either bribes or identities. The second is to try to attack the identity and collusion resistance problems directly, and actually solve them well enough that we can implement non-collusion-safe games with the richer properties that they offer.
On Collusion
This fact, the instability of majority games under cooperative game theory, is arguably highly underrated as a simplified general mathematical model of why there may well be no "end of history" in politics and no system that proves fully satisfactory; I personally believe it's much more useful than the more famous Arrow's theorem, for example.
On Collusion
But in the version of game theory that allows for the possibility of coalitions working together, called cooperative game theory, there are large classes of games that do not have any stable outcome that a coalition cannot profitably deviate from.
On Collusion