Professional managerial class, or, “Who in America will always win a race to get through a ten page web application where the URL and start time are published in a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.”
@patio11
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AI Accessibility Ethics and Coordination Risks in Large Systems
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(Because the shape of this is understandable by non-specialist, because they would be morally offended because could see themselves actually using the thing, because the larger graphs are administered by people who are much more capable of coordinating codes of silence, etc.)
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Small Bureaucratic Incentives Create Disproportionate Conflict
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Every tiny graft is administered by someone who cares about the tiny graft *a great deal*, because the continued quiet administration of the graft guarantees their salary and pension. Ironically this makes the tiny grafts more likely to be sites of contention than larger grafts.
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Market Pricing and Access Substitutes in AI Systems
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4) There exist close substitutes to the thing provided by the market at market prices, in effectively unlimited quantity, which do not need to prioritize by either PMC brainsweat or timestamps. They’re prioritized in the traditional capitalist fashion: ability to pay.
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Abundance, Not Allocation: True Solution to Scarcity
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3) There is no cure for scarcity but abundance. Everything else merely allocates scarcity. Any thought about the fairness of the allocation strategy which is not “Or we could simply choose to make more of the thing” will not achieve fairness.
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Grant Selection Criteria and Racial Demographics in American Institutions
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I’m left pondering some conflicting thoughts, which I will muse about out loud: 1) Ordering one’s beneficiaries by ability to present as American PMC while explicitly asking them about their racial background so that you can qualify for grants: as American as apple pie, in 2023.
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Underpricing in-demand products creates scarcity challenges
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Now if you intentionally underprice something which is in demand, some people who want the thing will not get the thing, right? That is inevitable. In a variation on Those Who Know Know, we were advised by a friend of the family to be at our computers at precisely 9 AM.
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Banking Appetite: Strategic Deal-Making and Risk Tolerance Dynamics
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“Appetite?” At any given time, for business and strategic reasons, some banks are more willing than others to cut attractive deals on pricing for various services, to stretch regarding their compliance/risk tolerance, etc etc. Sometimes a useful thing to know.
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AI Agents Negotiating Bank Terms Better Than Humans
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“Really? What’s a thing that person would do?” Negotiate pricing, account opening, and allowed activities. “But banks don’t negotiate pricing/account opening/allowed activities?” Skill issue, as the kids say.
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Banking Skills as Legitimate Career in Fintech
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Note that you can get paid, legitimately, for being good at banking. Large fintech companies, as one example, need to be extremely sophisticated with respect to how they deal with their banks. That’s a skill you can hire for, like you could hire for someone skilled at AWS.