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head/heart;
self/other;
polis/physis;
bits/atoms;
man/machine

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@vividvoid Wendell Berry

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@TylerAlterman This is poetic but I’m not convinced it’s meaningfully different from my formulation without more specificity

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@AsteraInstitute https://t.co/Dw8bcY1wYy

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The scientists are reinventing corporations from first principles

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The scientists are reinventing corporations from first principles

[Santiago M. @sanmking]

@AsteraInstitute Truly insightful finding.

For all those building AI research agents, this is by far a more interesting direction that the traditional hypothesis, experiment-automation pipeline.

Congratulations on the initiative!

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@gaby_goldberg The OG

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@kane Good interface to the human centric world. You can specialize individual tasks when necessary if robot speed becomes a bottleneck. Chances are something else will back up first.

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@zdrks @nickcammarata I agree, but I think it's because frankly Nick's meditation takes increasingly feel attached and performed.

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@apralky Most "artists" don't do all that much societally, and that's okay too. But in a very mad-men way, I find the elevation of the artist archetype super interesting. Was it sold to us? Is it fashionable to be interested in beauty more than "providing value" (which is reducible to $)?

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@apralky The "artist" archectype is an interesting version of this. But, it makes sense - truly successful artists (unbelievably rare) change our understanding of ourselves in profound ways. Another subset have an impact even if they aren't generational talents.

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@steady_drumbeat @NatTurnerBuddha Wanted to share this v reasonable thread here before realizing we started not from "rent control is good" but "NYCHA has to build all housing" which is several layers deeper in the nonsense-economic tiramisu than I want to dig my way out of. Well, FWIW: https://t.co/op1cNJURZx

[Frank Braconi @FrankBraconi]

I’ve long been one of the few economists who defended the appropriateness of well-designed rent regulation laws in NYC and other “superstar” cities with tight housing markets and that are subject to rapid changes in market rents in gentrifying neighborhoods.

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@steady_drumbeat @NatTurnerBuddha Price discovery is good, actually

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@cxgonzalez Similar but different: intellectualizers can sometimes lose their sense of lightness, humor, joy, silliness - after spending time nourishing my thinky side I think I'm getting a bit tired of it all. Sometimes you really just need to make dumb jokes, get drunk, and fuck around.

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@NatTurnerBuddha @steady_drumbeat Consolidation is not the same as a cartel. Please show me evidence that housing developers collude on development rates to maintain price levels. As far as I can tell NYC real estate developers compete ruthlessly with one another.

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@NatTurnerBuddha @steady_drumbeat 1. Housing is not really a commodity - houses are illiquid and non-fungible.

2. You are modeling all commodity markets as cartel driven markets, like OPEC. Competitive commodity markets reduce supply when price decreases below cost of production, which then increases prices.

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@NatTurnerBuddha @steady_drumbeat What's your evidence that this is how developers model investment decisions, instead of, you know, how every other business operates?

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@yashalevine You realize dooming is not just passive reflection, right? Culture is emergent. You manifest things when you talk like this. Is it just for clout? Disappointing.

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@NatTurnerBuddha @steady_drumbeat More efficient housing boosts induced demand both through cheaper units becoming available (eg. old stock that new residents can now afford - NYC is desirable) and through consumption of housing (when square footage is cheaper, people consume more of it).
https://t.co/Y8ESPAoTNe

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@steady_drumbeat @DerekPederson3 Some moderates were told not to focus on his politics, that policy is what matters, and that he was a secret moderate. The latter point aside, it turns out politics does matter.

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@_AashishReddy @apralky IMO the only way we have ever historically “aligned” to resolve a challenge as vast as this one was the formation of liberal democracy. That alignment is feeling tenuous these days, but it points to: the only way we align here is through politics, not just policy.

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@TylerAlterman Good luck, ideology sucks for policy but is very useful for politics.