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Hindenburg Research is shutting down 
What they did was mostly research companies committing crimes like fraud, release public reports and short sell those companies. They’ve also submitted whistle blower reports to the government. They were helping provide the capitalist rule of law.
Notably, the company only existed because a lawyer they couldn’t afford helped them early on. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to deal with 3 early lawsuits. If you point out that companies are breaking laws, they will sue you, and it will be hard for you to survive those bad faith lawsuits.
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This is a detailed video exposing a plagiarist. It does comparisons between creator’s video and the plagiarist’s video. It also shows two other creators that the same guy also plagiarized. It talks about how he previously plagiarized aggressively enough to be copyright striked. It talks about how he targets smaller channels he thinks he can bully, but doesn’t do this to larger channels. It talks about how it’s OK to build on someone else’s idea and add new stuff, but not to just copy the same idea, copy their script, and not add any improvements. It talks about how this kind of behavior can make a lot of money: it lets you make videos a lot faster and they can get enough views to bring in thousands of dollars. It talks about how plagiarism makes bad videos: to avoid more copyright strikes, he started making some changes such as leaving out a few parts of the script he thought weren’t necessary, which were explanations that were actually pretty important for things to make sense.
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(I didn’t fact check this.)
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I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the camera wasn’t being used. That seems like a really inconvenient form of data. I didn’t actually think that cameras were being used before though.
Microphones though, I’d be surprised. My phone is listening out for me to say “hi siri”. So there is some kind of keyword listening going on. Listening out for other keywords at all times doesn’t seem that implausible to me. It doesn’t have to be literally recording everything to then be processed later. Does it make sense for Apple to be allowing other apps and websites to listen to me? I don’t know, it doesn’t seem like it. But maybe?
I wasn’t surprised that this sort of tracking was going on. I’m concerned about this stuff and read a book which was partially about how they could correlate stuff and figuring things out with machine learning and AI. I suspect that LLMs are at a level where companies can ask them to analyze data like long texts which would be too time consuming for humans.
Listening to keywords seems plausible to me. They can record like 5 seconds of time, log any keywords and then discard it. I don’t think they would store the audio which would take too much space.
I find it very impressive how he recovered from such a horrible and unjust childhood.
I would read book on what kinds of societies creates what kinds of gods/religions. Recommendations would be appreciated.
I think there would also be causation the other way, so what kinds of religious ideas a society holds will impact how the society works. There are direct ways that happens but there should also be subtle, important and surprising ways too.
Peikoff’s The DIM Hypothesis analyzes the effects ideas have on society. I only listened to it in the background but I liked it. I like history with lots of philosophical interpretation. I’m reading The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton in which I particularly like the first couple of chapters for this reason.
Yes. And using Islam! Religions aren’t all bad! And we don’t need perfect tools to make progress!
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I think I read that. I really enjoyed her book titled Mythology and I’d be interested in recommendations for other good mythology books (particularly Greek but a variety of other types are fine too). I read some One Thousand and One Arabian Nights which was OK. See also Curiosity – Popper Ignores Hamilton
It’s not exactly the same but I recommend this if you haven’t read it Amazon.com: The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment: 9780415237307: Karl Popper, Arne F. Peterson, Jorgen Mejer: Books
That blog post is the reason why I found her book. I’ve also read Greek Ways because of that blog. I also liked that book.
I’ve read lots of your blog posts. When I was lurking I would sometimes habitually scroll your list of posts to find interesting things. I’ve also read stuff multiple times.
I have that one too. I started reading that and the The Iliad but stopped for some reason.
I bought it recently. I’ve read your recommended chapters in Conjectures and Refutations. I would’ve read more Popper stuff if already if I didn’t have the mindset that I should comment on things and post them here. I also would’ve read more of your CF articles in my lurking period for the same reason. Eventually I read almost everything by Rand before I joined the forum though.
I think it’s still holding me back that I think I have to do heavy analysis the first time I read important philosophy stuff. Perhaps I should just read things one time without doing analysis if I feel like it.
A long term project of mine is to read high level stuff of every major culture in history. I’m particularly interesting in knowing the ideas of cultures so I would read stuff like One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Do you have good world history books recommendations? Peikoff’s recommendations are hard to get and expensive. I’ll read the W.W. Norton publication, Western Civilizations at least. I would like some rest of the world stuff too.
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My general mindset is that high quantity is good if the quality is enough for making progress. That’s better than trying to get progress from low quantity using super high quality, which is too hard and paralyzing.
I’ve done tons of speed reading without trying to do a lot of analysis or writing. Books can be reread if important. Or sometimes I am rereading. Do a lot of what’s easy and you can and will do lots of. If you want to do some higher effort activities – and there are certainly good reasons to do some of that – don’t stop doing the easier stuff too.
This is related to my attitude to writing. I’d usually rather write about a topic multiple times than do a lot of editing. I think it’s better practice and actually works better. I’ve written a lot of essays and discussion messages and the quality of my fast, easy writing has improved every year. I think a lot of beginners write something bad then spend a lot of time trying to fix it with editing. I like to have something that’s already pretty good before I edit it, and I don’t edit the majority of my writing.
In life, we have to think about lots of things. We don’t have time to go in depth on most of them. So that’s a reason to want good first drafts, not rely on heavy editing.
First drafts with lots of errors indicate thinking errors. I think it’s important to make fewer errors and try to solve some of those problems so they don’t keep reoccurring, not just try to fix the errors in editing then make them again next time you write.
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