I fear this post's argument incorrectly assumes that the cap on insurance provides as 20% percent of revenue is the limiting factor on insurance company profits. In fact, it mentions cases where insurance company profits are below the cap! Their interest is not obviously to grow healthcare spending. So I'm not sure to what extent they truly endeavor to deny care so as to increase profit in the long run, and not just smooth a turbulent market.
Imo this depends on whether the limiting factor is demand or production.
If it's production capacity, then if in a year they're able to get TSMC to make them twice as many chips, they could likely increase their growth rate?
I'd be sweating if I were any of TSMCs other customers right now and trying to renew my contract. Idk what the ratio is in size between an H100 and an M3, but I doubt it's anywhere near proportional to how much nvidia is willing to offer TSMC.
I like the recent work you've been doing Ed, but I think stylistically you can improve by seeing the truth in some of these criticisms. Your analysis can use a stronger systemic account of both the external cultural and market forces at work and even more so of the internal dynamics within large firms. It can also be more cutting by being concise --- avoid repeating yourself and non-substantive elaboration, especially in an emotional tone, which can be fatiguing. This will help you keep me as an audience member.
> First is that they can have agents check the cited source and verify whether the source backs up what's said to a reasonable degree.
This is a hard and tmk unsolved NLP/IR problem, and data access is an issue.
> Second opportunity is fitting in things only found in other language Wikis that either be incorporated into the english one or help introduce new articles.
This has been attempted via machine translation in the past, and it failed because you need native speakers to verify and correct the translations and this wasn't the sort of work that people were jumping to volunteer to do.
I speak multiple languages. It'd be fun to be given a link saying "this article has content present that is not in the English version" and see if I can update either of the articles using what's in the other copy. But I'm not going to go read wikipedia articles in two languages to find them.
This is exactly right and is one (among many) reasons that reliance on cosine similarities in my field (computational social science) is so problematic. The curvature of the manifold must be accounted for in measuring distances. Other measures based on optimal transport are more theoretically sound, but are computationally expensive.
This review is enlightening in describing Graeber's break from conventional anarchism in the Dawn of Everything. Early Graeber tries to make the best possible case for critiques of power structures that characterize our modern world or underpin its legitimacy --- critiques derived from or harmonious with those in conventional anarchist thought. I disagree with the author's interpretation of The Dawn of Everything as evidence of Graeber shifting toward liberalism.
The Dawn of Everything is actually a significant contribution to anarchist thought (though it may be fair to call it post-anarchism) because anarchism struggles to theorize and build alternative institutions that can sustain and protect an anarchist society from domination by external powers. Graeber's earlier idea of prefigurative politics provides a partial solution because one can experiment with anarchistic institutions within a capitalistic / statist society.
The Dawn of Everything implicitly addresses the limitations of prefigurative politics, which are obvious in practice. Prefigurative institutions that are not short-lived or small-scale are rare and typically grow their own ideosyncratic power structures e.g., the tyranny of structurlessness or Wikipedia. Although not approaching a "state" such structures make anarchists uncomfortable especially when they reproduce hierarchies from the broader society.
The Dawn of Everything teaches us not to equate domination with the state or necessarily with hierarchies either. The posted review takes issue with how late Graeber rejects the concept of the state. But this rejection in no way lets the state off the hook. The Dawn of Everything is unequivocally critical of the state and seeks to understand how the state stabilized and persisted as a world-dominating organizational mode. It pursues this ambitious, (and I think unaccomplished) goal by describing a wide range of early societies and demonstrating that some were violently coercive without state-like institutions (e.g., north american slavers) and that others were peaceful and egalitarian but had institutions that other work associates with violent coercion or state emergence (e.g., cities or agriculture). Then, by analyzing the stability of these societies and how they worked it tries to piece together a theory of decomposed types of coercive power. As the reviewer points out, this decomposition isn't that theoretically satisfying. There could be other ways than the three types of power, and some of the arguments around this part of the book in particular seem to stretch the evidence.
That said, it is useful for anarchists to recognize that just because a power structure or hierarchy emerge within a political project or organization that it is a failure. Opposition to the state and domination more broadly doesn't require commitment to design principles like leaderlessness or flat organizing structures. The book's most important contribution is to show that human societies have already explored a vast design space of political institutions in our history.
Anarchism has always been a "liberal" philosophy --- indeed the most extreme form of liberalism. Any state-socialist or communist will say this. It opposes the state because the state extended the scale and reach of coercive structures like conscription, taxation, and private property far beyond their pre-modern limits.
Yet the state is losing power to international governmental organizations on one hand and international corporations on another and so it is incredibly useful to think about ranges of better possible futures instead of doubling down on tried and tired commitments to ideological purity with a movement that was most significant and non-academic 130 years ago when the modern state was still contested in much of the world. Anarchism is stale but post-anarchism, like the Dawn of Everything, is essential.
Yes. It is time for laid off seniors to take these exit packages and incubate the next generation. Be ready to draw financing when rates fall in Q3 of 2024.
Don’t be so sure about that… rates will fall sharply in a recession, otherwise inflation will run hot (see today’s print!) Rates market prices in the average outcome, but the distribution isn’t uniform nor Gaussian.
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