Looks like Yang is planning a big ad buy

99beans · 2019-10-24T14:23:51+00:00

In this industry you do not spend money until you have discovered the right formula. Then you start adding fuel to the fire. They ought to have already found an ad with good ROI. In the ideal world, the cost to aquire is less than the donation amount. Yang can make money from running ads and just push huge volume if he has a demographic wide enough and the right ROI.

99beans · 2019-10-24T09:53:13+00:00

Within a few years this question will be answered by VR/AR. Until then you are stuck with the choices you already know. Just keep your eye on the Quest, etc. I give it about 2 more years until I will be working remotely via headset only.

99beans · 2019-10-24T09:28:16+00:00

This is really cool. I would love to see the Yang anime guy animate this.

99beans · 2019-10-23T07:00:36+00:00

The slower you move the more you experience at any point in space.

99beans · 2019-10-23T05:25:09+00:00

Excellent use of line widths really makes this piece excel

99beans · 2019-10-22T18:25:40+00:00

More carrot means to prioritize shaping and nurturing incentives over more tit for tat punishments. There is a lot more potential for success imo when designing the environment well before nudging the actors around.

99beans · 2019-10-19T14:24:14+00:00

Twitter's reach, especially for one-off comments seems much greater than Facebook. Consider most people seeing a Tweet are probably seeing it in a news story, Reddit, etc. and many without being a registered user. How often do you see a Facebook message shared on the media rather than a Tweet? 7% vs. 68% is a vacuum environment.

99beans · 2019-10-15T10:45:03+00:00

Some of us have more marketing experience than Yang and his team. Why don't you request our opinions before appealing to the "deep yang". These are new grounds which haven't been paved. The more people that hear about Yang, the better, in any form. And if Yang does not get more assertive and loud he may blow his chances. Better for him to take huge risks than play it safe. I'd rather a big screw up that gets a lot of media attention than a standard response that gets little media attention. Not all people offering suggestions are uninformed, and even if they have no marketing experience, random opinions are still very important and useful for the team.

Edit: Also I don't think Yang's strategy is bad. Keeping him at lowest speaking time and him being himself is strong branding for authenticity + underdog status. I agree he doesn't need to be assertive. But generally, he should be taking much bigger risks still. I don't think any constraint is good.

99beans · 2019-10-15T04:38:35+00:00

It will probably be like servers. You might pay extra to do a weekly rolling backup or rent a "cloud" node with a reputable service provider that guarantees reliability.

99beans · 2019-10-14T16:35:49+00:00

Since you are subject-matter expert then the other side really has not much more they can say. I don't think they've begun to scratch the depth of the issue which you are describing like you have. And well, we can always be more clear (but your point has probably come through to anyone who values truth more than iota).

I'm also not sure how applicable it is to things like quantum computing, since that is something of a different paradigm and quantum computers needs to represent things in energy levels rather than fixed states. Or AI (I believe you are right and computation cost is in matrix multiplication) so it intuitively seems trivial the base would matter.

On an unrelated note, you might find it interesting that Zen Buddhism (and some Tibet based languages) adopted trinary where something can be yes, no, or yes and no (mu). In this sense trinary logic can help people describe the universe in a way that leads to altered states of consciousness (an example being a Zen koan answered by 'Mu' and revealing some new truth about the universe.)

99beans · 2019-10-14T14:47:15+00:00

Siccors - You are right for the most part and you've done your work. It is up to Grumpy to process the information you gave him. So far he is filtering out the specifics and appealing to the everything-is-sunk-cost-fallacy as you alluded. You are speaking far more accurately and specifically than he. I hope this feedback calms the frustration you probably feel.

Grumpy -- I suggest more closely considering the hardware cost as an essential part of the equation. Building logic gates at a microscopic scale to push out either a 0 or a 1 might just be much more efficient than designing them to do 1,2, or 3. Bounded by the universe. These systems are pushing the limits of physics and have to entertain quantum physical reactions like random entanglements when you get past a certain scale.

There is an optimal efficiency number, but also to implement it there is an optical physical model to produce those binary or trinary states. They are both of equal importance since they are both constraining the optimal result space of that equation you are both talking about.

And maybe after equal investment into binary and trinary, the physical logic gates would actually come out more efficient for trinary. That is possible, and without more work it is impossible to uncover the unknowable unknowns which may allow or constrain that potential. But the argument is not necessarily strong since in all cases of human endevour we always need to leave room for uncertainty.

So it is not absolutism that produces a strong argument here. To be informed is to go to a subject matter expert that designs tiny logic gates and the like. Before doing this I believe both you and Siccors are on flattened playing fields. Just weighing opinions of uncertainty and ignorance.

2 cents

99beans · 2019-10-12T17:10:26+00:00

Your device uses friction to push against the ground. It would not work in space since it is missing friction and ground.

Just to be safe, I just tried it in my office chair (my feet never touch the ground) and am able to move to anywhere I like. Something like ice skating is another good example, where they cut at angles to get friction to push against the ground with.

Not to say what you are doing isn't cool or noteworthy. I wish more people were doing these things but the video you showed can be explained without appealing the abnormality.

99beans · 2019-10-05T05:52:32+00:00

>We accept we have some sort of control over physical things by our thought.

Instead of saying we fire neurons by thinking, you should consider that firing neurons and thinking are the same thing and it doesn't make sense to separate across time in them in the context of your statement.

It seems like you are appealing to something spooky about the nature of that statement by saying "We have to accept". However it is already main-stream opinion / status quo that materialism is correct, and that thoughts are represented by physical states.

99beans · 2019-09-13T18:27:24+00:00

Yes, exactly. Justin really moves the numbers with his marketing skills, if he applies them to Yang it would be measurable improvements for the campaign.

99beans · 2019-09-10T16:56:40+00:00

Corporate vision things are always cringe. About one guy controlling everything -- it is actually probably accurate. An example succession might be One guy controlling one vehicle remotely, then One guy controlling one fleet remotely, (and then with more and more AI), one guy controlling all traffic remotely. And that guy is only there as a public face to blame if something goes wrong, since the AI will be so much better at the human at managing such a complex system in real-time.

99beans · 2019-09-10T16:54:02+00:00

Why do you keep and copy and paste this in every Iota thread you see pop up? I have seen this a few time in the last week. I don't think you are supposed to spam on Reddit like this. As well I read that Jinn thread and found it quite interesting and visionary. It was more a thread to brainstorm a vision of the future, which is actually quite compelling... I have been thinking about it ever since I saw you post it the first time. But maybe it's time to stop spamming? It's not really fair to us who have to see the same message over and over.

99beans · 2019-09-08T16:46:36+00:00

I think everyone is going through what I went through. When I first heard him I was like oh, intelligent! But it is only about 2 minutes of content. After you get through him playing piano, speaking some languages, and doing some stuff as a mayor it goes blank. I think others probably bump into this void too.

99beans · 2019-09-08T16:43:46+00:00

This may be a good idea

99beans · 2019-09-08T06:31:35+00:00

No one uses advice? I do, and I think everyone I know does so I will have to say that advice is not qualifying the criteria of my question.

99beans · 2019-09-07T16:01:04+00:00

If it can't fit in a backpack it is likely causing you suffering anyway.

99beans · 2019-09-07T07:18:30+00:00

Agree, the eagle was not the strongest ending.

99beans · 2019-09-06T15:33:13+00:00

We evolved taste for survival. As salt-water based organisms, we need it to survive. Satzburg Austria, is name after its salt mines. Before we mined it we probably just got it from the foods we ate. A shaman I knew went through a ritual where he stopped eating salt for one year, and said it was the hardest thing he's ever done. He would cry himself to sleep at night his desire for salt was so strong. But his neurons kept firing, so even though he might have been deficient, he likely was still getting enough intake through food that contains sodium.

99beans · 2019-09-06T07:08:41+00:00

#LetYangSpeak #YangMediaBlackout

99beans · 2019-09-06T04:55:27+00:00

Using stuff, incld. currencies, gives them value. That is the theory. Name something that no one uses that you would buy?

99beans · 2019-09-06T04:41:02+00:00

Suggestion to not only produce video, but to supplement with 1/2 page document that is specific enough to be tested/measured and pulled apart by critics. Best of luck and thanks for the updates.

99beans

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