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20 May 2025 18h00

Plain survival always takes precedence over protecting your ego. If you are a normal person that is.

20 May 2025

American Economy Griftocracy Special Interest Value Extraction Schemes

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20 May 2025 2h58

The unfortunate fact of the matter is that most of American economy functions as a griftocracy. Whole industries and sectors of economy have been captured by special interest groups and their value extraction schemes. THIS is the main reason why we are $37T in debt. Not the

20 May 2025

CryptoPunks Dataset Now Available on Kaggle Platform

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19 May 2025 19h09

CryptoPunks on #kaggle via @KaggleDatasets

Historical AI Doomsday Predictions Have Consistently Proven Wrong

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19 May 2025 17h26

These are the same kinds of shoddy, lazy, considerations that we've had many times before with resources, overpopulation, nuclear energy, particle colliders, biotechnology, GMOs, climate change, etc. And historically, EVERY SINGLE TIME the doomers were COMPLETELY wrong.

US economy driven by extraction and grift over innovation

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19 May 2025 17h13

Too much of the US economic activity revolves around wealth *extraction* and naked grift. This is far bigger problem than anything else that features in the daily headlines.

External drivers of change in regulated tech industries

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19 May 2025 15h32

Having worked in tech for years, and in several highly regulated industries (consumer credit for instance), I've long ago given up on any hope that those industries can be changed from *within*. hence my focus on the external drivers of change now.

AI Assistants for Home Insurance Renewal Tasks

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19 May 2025 15h08

Recently we had to deal with the hassle of renewing our home insurance. The whole experience made me wish that we already had AI assistants that would be able to deal with it on our own behalf. I wrote a blog post about it. Link in the first comment.