niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

No more thesis

only hobby projects

Okay let's go home and do some fucking forecasting research or smth

more like Brain Tomasik amirite

List of citogenesis incidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents

@kaia

I didn't realise that the issue was hardness, not volume

I don't have experience with dog chewing toys

@get

@pseudoriemann

@kaia I assume chewing gum isn't enough?

@researchfairy

Holy shit

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/may/30/armstrade.weaponstechnology

@warmbeverageenjoyer
Interesting! I have a different experience, but I usually don't make physical things, perhaps that's the difference?

Is current LW discussion more civil/interesting than Usenet discussion

This would also explain why for many people the main source of meaning in their lives is their job: it's the only place they create.

Claim: It's well-known that in terms of long-term satisfaction, buying experiences>buying things, but probably the real hierarchy is making things≫buying experiences>buying things.

How about we bring back "methinks" instead of "imho"?

Sixths moths

@cosmiccitizen perfectly understandable to me 🐞

Asymmetric info has biggest relevance in one-shot high-cost purchases.

Jobs are not in that category very much: repeated medium-value transactions with high info content early on.

But one can make asymmetric info more important, e.g. by making it harder to quit/fire quickly.

Also the reason for focus on used cars as examples in asymmetric info teaching

Sila can just be to work on an assignment first thing in the morning, before meditation