DeepGradientAscent

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

In this comic, the owner is acting greedily to the point of heavily antagonizing their workers. Draconian exploitation of the workforce, reneging on previous agreements, and not adequately compensating them is irrational.

One of the fallacies with Rand's "moral objectivism" is the assumption that business owners will act rationally in their logical self interest in negotiations with their labor force and not out of spite, malice, sadism, racism, etc.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Then she got sick of it, emigrated and formed her own Iam14butthisisdeep philosophy.

No, you're being disingenuous. She formulated her philosophy moral objectivism from her experiences as a child.

This is what happened (from her wikipedia):

Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum on February 2, 1905, into a Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg in what was then the Russian Empire. She was the eldest of three daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum, a pharmacist, and Anna Borisovna (née Kaplan). She was 12 when the October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted her family's lives. Her father's pharmacy was nationalized, and the family fled to the city of Yevpatoria in Crimea, which was initially under the control of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. After graduating high school there in June 1921, she returned with her family to Petrograd (as Saint Petersburg was then named), where they faced desperate conditions, occasionally nearly starving.

When Russian universities were opened to women after the revolution, Rand was among the first to enroll at Petrograd State University. At 16, she began her studies in the department of social pedagogy, majoring in history. She was one of many bourgeois students purged from the university shortly before graduating. After complaints from a group of visiting foreign scientists, many purged students, including Rand, were reinstated. She completed her studies at the renamed Leningrad State University in October 1924. She then studied for a year at the State Technicum for Screen Arts in Leningrad. For an assignment, Rand wrote an essay about the Polish actress Pola Negri; it became her first published work. By this time, she had decided her professional surname for writing would be Rand, and she adopted the first name Ayn (pronounced /aɪn/).

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Socialism for me, lasseiz-fare capitalism for thee.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Rational self-interest of the owner demands fair and just compensation and consideration for their labor force. What's illustrated here is the owner conflating rational self-interest with naked avarice and greed.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖉 𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙

𝔄 𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩-𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔞, 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔡.

𝓚𝓪𝓻𝓵 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝔁

𝒰𝓃𝒹ℯ𝓇 𝓃ℴ 𝓅𝓇ℯ𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 𝓈𝒽ℴ𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓂𝓂𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝒷ℯ 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓇ℯ𝓃𝒹ℯ𝓇ℯ𝒹. 𝒜𝓃𝓎 𝒶𝓉𝓉ℯ𝓂𝓅𝓉 𝓉ℴ 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓇𝓂 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓌ℴ𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇𝓈 𝓈𝒽ℴ𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷ℯ 𝒻𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉ℯ𝒹, 𝒷𝓎 𝒻ℴ𝓇𝒸ℯ 𝒾𝒻 𝓃ℯ𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈𝒶𝓇𝓎.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Noted.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Nah.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

which is now loosing losing value

to everyone's detriment. Just because some guy's asset is loosing losing value

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

With nearly 900 BILLION dollars of CRE Mortgages coming due in 2024 alone a 5 % default rate has the banks taking losses of 45 Billion. By contrast at the height of the 2008 crisis the rate hit nearly 9%, which would put 2024 losses at over 80 Billion dollars. Then it happens all over again in 2025 when another 20% or so of CRE Mortgages come due!

How do I, a mentally-handicapped retail investor, short the ever-loving shit out of the CRE market? Can plebians like me even purchase credit default swaps?

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Ahhhhhhh...

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Make Do yourself a favor

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

The iPhone still defines the market.

Nah. It's part of it. A big part. But the audience here is probably not really Apple's iPhone audience.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

You don't need the "literally".

And, while I'm at it, others may be revisionists, you lack nuance.

At a surface level, you're correct the Android re-design in 2008 was primarily because of the arrival of the iPhone in '07. The reason for the re-design was the inclusion of a touch-screen in Apple's hardware spec. Apple was not the first company to introduce mobile computing handsets with touch screens; that honor goes to IBM.

Android was founded in 2003, and was looking to come into the digital camera market initially, before their acquisition by Google. Then they were looking to compete against Blackberry and Windows phones. UI design experiences have been playing off each other since the beginning.

Apple doesn't solely define the market, and people who work for them wouldn't assert that. They define their niche, which is the smarter business proposition.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Cool beans, dude.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

I would choose A with democratically regulated markets and complete co-op style ownership of the company.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Strictly define socialism. Now, strictly define capitalism.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

• Washington (Democratic government): $16.28
• California (Democratic government): $16.00
• Nevada (divided government): $12.00
• Idaho (Republican government): $7.25

Now factor in the cost of living in a "safe" area in those states with those wages. In 2024, it's not enough.

I agree, clearly, the Democrats are the better option for anyone but the billionaire class. However, I agree more with OP: Democrats can do better and not be so corporatist neo-lib.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Is it more or less a fantasy than the fantasy that every employer is able to pay the minimum wage?

If you need staff, but can't afford to pay them adequately, but also can't run it on your own, your business isn't viable, and you suck at math and pricing your goods and service(s).

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

I really don't think he deserves a free pass just because Reddit wasn't enshittifying while he was around, as it was in a growth phase.

You're critique of his moral rectitude is wrong.

Seriously, though:

What part(s) of speech should be limited beyond the laws (in the United States) we already have that limit it various ways?

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

"Society" is owed zero loyalty if the social contract of the governed is habitually broken.

DeepGradientAscent , 3 months ago

Had and have magnitudes of more problems with file management on iOS; it has improved a bit with a basic native file browser.

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

What is "sid"?

(I'm a Kubuntu normie.)

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

To an extent.

My professional ANN experience is with computer vision and object detection. A bit with image and sound GANs too.

LLMs that I've spent time training and experimenting with (and I argue GANs as a class of ANNs, in general) tend to "hallucinate" or "dream harder" after several tens of queries within the same instance.

But one can improve output "fidelity" based on constraint parameters on the user and inference self-check algorithms.

Addendum:

• ANN = artificial neural network (a class of algorithms in machine learning whose architecture resembles a mesh of intercommunicative neuron cells in nervous tissue)
• GAN = generative adversarial network (a categorical subset of ANNs
• LLM = large language model (a categorical subset of GANs)

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

"Not even a Hot Pocket?"

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

The data on a site like that is ridiculously valuable. Sooner or later someone may decide to give a marketing company contracted by a big pharma company just one little peak at some data.

In the Untitled States, that data is protected via several statutes, HIPAA being the most widely known and robust governance over such information.

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

Cucker Tarlson

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

O B E Y

DeepGradientAscent , 4 months ago

Masculinity and femininity are social constructs which ever change and ever differ based on subjective perception and what not, with no actual value or benefit to anyone's life.

I disagree.

Social constructs have value and utility.

In this case, masculine and feminine constructs have multi-billion dollar industries built around their perceived value, though their definitions are subjective and malleable. People put food on their table because of these social constructs. People make and write profound art and literature because of these social constructs.

DeepGradientAscent , 5 months ago

I would've thought that number would be higher. Surprised at only 15%!