Patrick Berzai

Stories, Stats & Systems | Marketing, GTM & Ad Slinger | 📖 “Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History” due out later this year

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I started a @Substack today in the lead-up to ‘Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History.’

You can use it to see how the framework shows up in the everyday.

The goal is to make the underlying patterns visible.

Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

https://t.co/oMWiR6G5Wc

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@Geiger_Capital The UK lost the Second World War. Roosevelt took their Sterling Zine empire and converted into the dollar zone.

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@MichaelLaRosaDC @CBSNews @CBSNewsPress @60Minutes @bariweiss https://t.co/W1ZLZfnX7T

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Scott Pelley’s rant at his new boss (in front of a full staff) shows that he has mispriced his own value in a market that has repriced the value of his style of news.

https://t.co/pRVCvUA7bN

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@JoshHochschild It really should be analyzed as the output and input — language.

The difficulty with LLMs is the same difficulty with natural language — meaning decay and unsteady predicates (hallucinations). Nelson Goodman realized this in “Fact, Fiction and Forecast”

https://t.co/jJegiNEeUI

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@elladorn_ “Goodfellas” is an achievement.

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@pegobry_en That isn’t how the licensing tends to work.

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https://t.co/oZEuhbyXos

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Prices recently are out of control — they’re not just up, just literally out of consumer control.

So I coined the “Wooderson Effect” to help explain why as we get older, consumers seem to have less and less control over true pricing signals.

https://t.co/1iOhBQyPwr

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

I started a @Substack today in the lead-up to ‘Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History.’

You can use it to see how the framework shows up in the everyday.

The goal is to make the underlying patterns visible.

Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

https://t.co/oMWiR6G5Wc

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

This heuristic most aptly fits the relationship of the EU and US not as allies, but strategic rivals who are engaged in a fierce struggle since at least before DeGaulle’s Operation Vide-Gousset.

This masked the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria & Iran.

https://t.co/iNNE4ARirp

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

Prices recently are out of control — they’re not just up, just literally out of consumer control.

So I coined the “Wooderson Effect” to help explain why as we get older, consumers seem to have less and less control over true pricing signals.

https://t.co/1iOhBQyPwr

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@skill_of_life And that also describes the narcissistic discard.

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@exjon @bariweiss And here is the guy Pelley was yelling at.

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@BBGreatMoments I feel like that kick had to hurt.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

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@nikitabier @garrytan You are a head of product where independent journalists do this every day.

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@BBGreatMoments 1988 was a 4-1 Series. How could it have made the list? Gibson’s homer was in game 1.

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@martyrdison Sometimes it’s just avoidant attachment.

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@PYeerk Consistently bad takes.

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@jasonwhitlock Based on past trials I would do whatever I could to not be on this jury. You are likely putting your life in danger.

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@DisaffectedPod @kbean511 It’s anti-competence.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

— Harlan Ellison

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@DeryaTR_ But it doesn’t. LLMs (the main AI product) still relies on the oldest technology — natural language — for inputs and outputs.

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@PawnIntended @AuronMacintyre Quine’s is better.