AmericanEconomicThinkTank

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CB radio still exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always question those who are the "teachers"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly laibility and insurance. Partly (and only for some companies) a way to help keep you tied to the company while showing they are invested in you for longer term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What will the next age of innovative art culture create?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive seen a big resurgence in real folk art. Especially something quality and handmade, though the “millenial grey” ubiquity does still hold reign, right alongside the favoritism towards “corpo grey” safety in design styles.

  Must say though, many are opening up to real style and confidence in their purchases, of course that might be more blowback against mass manufactured goods too.

  Source: Spent a year specializing in my own pearl line until I got my ass kicked by corpo sales lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You really sure you’re okay good buddy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact in financial circles its a popular one. Especially given the old money aboard happened to be big in banking and wouldve opposed major central banking laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wanted to go dowm that route of thinking then careful application of money toward long-term political movements would yield better results.

  Luckily thats totally in the real of science fiction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally yes there is TONS of theories and methods relating to forecasting and prediction. Its a very interesting field.

  What was the link to? Cant seem to work for me.

  Oh and just fyi AI models as most know them only run through outout as highest likely to be following a given chain, all based on trained data. The closest you can get to real “math” would be training a model to context strip metadata from an input, to very specific output, use that to input data into a database, have an actual program do the math or call relevant statistics, peform the calc then give the output. Buuuuut that is pretty much not done at all by anyone beyond custom written systems for specific use cases, and any forward facing companies having AI models arent much doing that, the output is a fluke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For normally stolen pieces, melted down and the gems refit.

  This? Probably sitting in some 1%'ers private collection so they can play dress-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clothes, accesories, cologne, actual makeup, skin cream.

  Of course and the most important: confidence and genuine joy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re worried about any economic downturn, you can very well diversify into even larger economic areas if you’d so please. How you do so is of course up to your own discression, given you can look towards different sectors, vectors of investment, and even geographic areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American public transit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually quite the improvement. I remember back when I had the lovely choice between an actual hourly train that would take you within a literal days walk of your destination with the entire route having the constant risk of you being run over, the local bus route which requried switching three busses even to leave town, with another 5 or 6 easily to reach close walking distance to where you’d be going the next town over, or the good old fashioned route of just driving there which took a good hour and a half if you were going anywhere important and had the added bonus of constant risk of being run off the road from our local drivers.

  To be fair these days it’s a lot better, the bus route only takes three swaps at worst, and the bus drivers only ocasionally start driving like they are formula 1 racers on their way to take a pit stop in the middle of goddamn nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda like that other guy, once I ripped my cd collection to digital, just didn’t even get into streaming.

  Still make mixtapes the old fashioned way for my partner (corny lol I know) and I buy the occasional remaster at a local thrift shop, or the old baked out hippie running a music / instrument shop.

  It’s an honest joy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say absolutely in the general sense nost people, and the salesmen, frame them in.

  When I was invited to assist with the GDC development, I got a chance to partner with a few AI developers and see the development process firsthand, try my hand at it myself, and get my hands on a few low parameter models for my own personal use. It’s really interesting just how capable some models are in their specific use-cases. However, even high param. models easily become useless at the drop of a hat.

  I found the best case, one that’s rarely done mind you, is integrate the model into a program that has the ability to call a known database. With a properly trained model to format output in both natural language and use a given database for context calls, and concrete information, the qualitative performance leaps ahead by bounds. Problem is, that requires so much customization it pretty much ends up being something a capable hobbyist would do, it’s just not economically sound for a business to adopt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Few of my personal favorites: “I’m disappointed in you” “You don’t have to be your parents you know” “Is this what you do with your free time?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for Palantir⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the old metrics?

  Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.

  The Department of Defense War hasn’t passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.

  Of course they’re going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It’s the only thing they’re actually able to do, and barely competently at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern internet for you.

  It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best part: the better names in the alt os and device scenes don’t sell in us markets.

  Unless you do the legwork of flashing your own device, most of us are out of luck.

  I just love a good market stranglehold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  brookings.edu/…/how-to-combat-fake-news-and-disin…

  dhs.gov/…/phase_ii_-_combatting_targeted_disinfor…

  www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation

  Easy points to start with. Generally, keeping a neutral view on something new, and striving to maintain a trust but verify attitude is your absolute best bet. The more you understand global politics, especially current agendas of various nations, political groups, etc. can help to discern one bias or another. In general, giving yourself room and time to properly process any information you encounter, and especially destress yourself, makes a huge difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually help train for combating disinformation and the such, I could forward you a few docs if you’re interested in the read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Writing takes a HELL of a long time to start getting good, usually a million words or so, and that’s not guaranteed success. Physics, as others have mentioned takes mathematics to a high level, have you looked at other aspects of sciences and math if you at least enjoy it?

  If you’d like to get some career guidance, I do alot of training and mentorship pro-bono, drop me a message might be able to help a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else experienced these psychological changes after eating meat?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao you okay good buddy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand why he’d like the concept, he can’t think for himself afterall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of great reccomendations here, highly reccomend looking into a sleep study or rework schedule like other folks are reccomending. Aside from that keeping a regimented schedule is always helpful, especially with reducing screen and bright light use near periods of rest.

  Besides physiological stuff, reducing stress helps, learning what helps you personally sleep and wake up better and integrating that into you habits can help tons. I’ve found being able to even spend a short few minutes to properly reflect on the day can help change my mindset makes a difference.