Half a goon and half a god

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’ve read a couple of his books, and he’s been developing a theory of human intelligence with the express goal of creating true AGI. His Thousand Brains book espouses a theory I find just about credible and, perhaps eventually, actionable.

    It’s all to do with cortical columns working in parallel on a pseudo-voting type of system. If at some point he says “we know how to make AGI now, but we’re going to need really good GPUs”, I will find that credible based on having read his work.





  • The market’s chronic convulsive disorder is, imo, an inefficient pricing problem. Price discovery doesn’t really exist, most of the trading volume is “off-exchange” and market makers have severe unchecked moral hazards in how they do business.

    The underlying value of publicly traded companies simply does not change as fast as this. Regardless of what you might say about the speed at which the market reacts to new information. In a world where the media openly and solely serves the interests of billionaires and a small outfit like Wall Street On Parade is routinely censored on socials, there’s no reason to believe anything you’re ever told by the news about any moves in the market.


  • I’m not sure how it would even make sense to have globally centralised bottling.

    Luckily Wikipedia keeps a page on this, and I see there are almost twenty bottling plants in the US alone. Another industry blogger breathlessly reports that coke has 900+ bottling and syrup plants across the globe.

    To your point I’m sure some glass bottles get shipped internationally, but it doesn’t appear to be their M.O. They keep a few syrup plants across the globe and many bottling plants and distribution partners who work more locally, so the weight of their shipping media for the beverage is likely to be fairly well optimised.

    Switching to glass across the globe would be a task for local bottlers and distributors, and although it might pose some challenges it’d be worth it imo