Microsoft fired the knowledge economy with PPT and are now shutting it down with ChatGPT

I doubt anybody is colonising anyone anymore . Everybody has enough domestic shit going on.

But I do feel it has been a good partnership overall as India was coming out of the shadows and US was and still is the most inviting place.

I already have the feeling that people in the U.S. are sorted by ethnicity, even if they are “white.”

My wife’s family is Italian and my relatives there are so typecast it seems like a parody. Men work in construction or own pizza restaurants. The women work as hairdressers or schoolteachers.

My own family is French Canadian and Polish and the fraction of my cohort who are cops or first responders (even the girls!) is a little scary. (My uncle rose high as a bureaucrat in a city government and it helped that he married into an Irish family which might have been low status overall but was higher status than where he came from.)

People from other ethnic groups might think their only options are college professor or reporter for a prestigious newspaper and when they bomb out of that their parents might have more respect for them being a notorious conspiracy Youtuber than if they got one of the above jobs.

East asians frequently get it drilled into them from preschool that they are a nobody if they don’t get a professional degree, etc.

“Anti-racists. struggle to get to the bottom of “systemic racism” but look closer you see not every white has the same “white privilege” and anyone who tries to go outside the tracks of their family history will find all sort of mysterious ways that they don’t fit in, things go wrong, etc.

It is all a mockery of competence, equity, etc. so when i see a new “typecast” is catching on I think that’s automatically a bad thing.

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) made its way into Lazard’s analysis and showed a potential for some wind and solar power projects to have an effective $0/MWh LCOE price.

agree :)))

Indians only need Co-pilot

And employment numbers are at an all time high. Just came back from Bangalore

Economics is also an underlying hidden reason behind everything. Making friends requires a lot of bandwidth. You cannot create them over a coffee or wine, it would be a multiple touch point event over 6-12 months. In low trust environments the cost of friendship goes up.

When you have to work 100 hrs a work to meet your expenses can you take out 20 hrs for friends. then another 20 for family, another 20 for kid. and then 1000 for your wife.

Inflation makes you work harder for the same amount. When everybody is working harder they don't have time. Also because they are not doing many things outside of work what will they talk about.

Rich people still find it pretty ease to make friends. The parallel processing of earning money, family and friends is really hard and eventually will take your stress higher levels than lower.

This is the only comment that's half-way realistic. This intentional relationship stuff seems better tuned to the successful or the childless.

Well put

Random Selection will lead to better hiring not just diversity than current hiring practices at companies. Yes it is that broken.

Randomness still has probability at play while current hiring processes mostly rely on luck

Twitter wants to introduce everything without solving fundamental distribution problems. The constraint writing is what is powerful about Twitter but now also wants to have a voice and blogs. They really need to be bought out and injected with intelligence

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell

“Technological progress steadily shifts the line between the knowable and the unknowable in the direction of Cassandra’s powers. Advances in genomic analyses and biomarker research will put more and more people into situations where they have to decide whether they want to know future health issues.” Gerd Gigerrenzer