Trying to use nostr:npub1048qg5p6kfnpth2l98kq3dffg097tutm4npsz2exygx25ge2k9xqf5x3nf to put more of my content natively on nostr but can’t figure out how to put in links. The first link, I highlighted the text, pasted it in, seemed to work okay, but subsequent ones just nuked the first one.
Maybe it just takes some getting used to, but for all its flaws Substack is incredibly easy to use — just adding images, links, whatever.
Anyone else find Habla difficult?
Yeah, it’s really important to own a house and land, but so long as the State can tax it, you really are just renting from them.
Now you count on them not raising your property taxes to the point of seizure because powerful people own land and wouldn’t go for that, but of course, in a communist state, they would just seize land from plebs and make exceptions for the powerful.
So while the current state of affairs persists — *some* respect for property rights, but again they are taxing you, I agree. The problem is that you’re really at their mercy in this case.
Whereas if you had some unseizable wealth you could just take it with you to a place where property rights were respected and buy land there.
In the US with the fixed-rate mortgages and interest deductions, it’s been pretty good. In EU with variable rate, not so much!
Probably annoying for everyone that every other discussion I have I post a link to something I’ve already written, but if you’ve already written it, why type it out again here?
Yeah the price of houses is also declining in Apple stock too. But as you point out not in dollars, euros or wages.
Sure though in Portugal it’s cheap to buy land but expensive (and bureaucratically hellish) to build a house.
But either way so much of the price of real property (let’s call it) is wealth storage only because there aren’t great alternatives for most people.
You’ll own lots of other things but only for their utility not as savings. That will make houses and land much cheaper because much of their current cost is due to their demand as wealth storage vehicles.
Hard to say what percentage but I’d guess about half.
Ha — most people ignore your rec and don’t even have the courtesy to tell you!
Can’t believe so many banks bought long term debt with no yield. I get that the extreme rate hikes were unprecedented but so were the tiny yields.
Just insane to be locked into 30 years of nothing when the govt is printing money like that.
The Courage To Be Disliked
If you are a bot, we are fucked.
It’s just such a good illustration of where AI falls short. I had thought a lot about this, but I never had such a good example, just analogies and general theories.
"My contention is that AI is climbing the integer ladder, while complex systems are expanding in the realm of real numbers. (If you’re unclear on real numbers, they are comprised of both rational numbers — those that can be expressed as fractions like 1/2 or 2/1 — and irrational numbers like the square-root of two or pi that cannot be expressed fractionally.) Real numbers comprise every discreet point on a line, whereas rational numbers (and obviously integers) leave gaps.”
It’s a really complex skill, one which most humans don’t even do that well. In fact, coming up with a pithy saying is a kind of art.
It might be able to come up with 1,000, and luck into a couple humans would find useful, but it would mostly just be luck.
Great example of a Turing Test of sorts that it would fail.
Don’t think it’ll clear that hurdle any time soon, and maybe not ever.
You need to understand what things mean, not just probabilistically find the next word, to do that.
The Real AI
“According to my college philosophy professor, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, believed it was wrong to kill a fly because had a man created such an intricate machine it would be barbaric to destroy it arbitrarily. (Unfortunately I can’t find a link to corroborate this, but if my memory serves me professor Bill Kennick, who died in 2009, did say this one day during class in 1990.)”
They never cancel you when your predictions are wrong:
Was messing around with Habla, but couldn’t really figure it out, though I didn’t devote much time to it.
haven’t found the right client to post with links and italics, etc.