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... An interesting challenge for this theory is that the government has two inflation indices, the CPI (calculated by the BLS) and the PCE price index (calculated by the BEA). The CPI, the one used for adjusting Social Security benefits, tends to come in higher than the PCE index. ...
... Personally I think the most likely story is that the BLS (slightly) changed its methodology in the 1990s because it thought the new methodology would more accurately capture the true inflation rate. ...
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... It takes a year or two to spin up the capacity, but it's not rocket science. These are also largely global industries, so they won't be constrained by US labor supply. ...
... It might take another year or two, especially for car companies waiting for computer chips. But they'll get there. And when they do we should see durables prices start to trend back down again. A bunch more charts that explain the economy here. https://t.co/gtVBWwesGH ...
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... I've been noting that we're currently seeing a surge in real house prices up to 2000s-bubble levels 1/ https://t.co/ukUAXznGpk But the 2000s bubble was geographically very uneven: prices surged in cities with strict zoning, but not in places where developers were free to sprawl => elastic housing ...
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... In popular media, there is often a connection drawn between the advent of awareness in artificial agents and those same agents simultaneously achieving human or superhuman level intelligence. ...
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... And I'm puzzled about the vehemence 1/ Let's stipulate two things. 1. Monopoly is a real issue and problem in the US economy. 2. It is not, however, a major reason for the acceleration of inflation in 2021, nor can a crackdown on monopoly do a lot to bring inflation down. ...
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... It explains so much about how the world has changed over the last generation or two. Interestingly in the last couple of years trends have been reversing after decades of steady divergence. I don't expect this to last. https://t.co/AvhvbkDp4w This is the most mysterious chart. ...
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... https://t.co/oaOKpGkvvd I wonder if what happened was that economists originally meant “money is more neutral in the long run than Keynesians thought in the 1960s” and over time that context has been forgotten. I can also believe that money is more long-run neutral in high inflation environments. ...
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... Where recent thoughts, user maps etc can be easily found. ...
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... Use cases: find other thoughts from the user. Alternative: a dedicated user page where other users can search for content authored by that user. ...
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... This is a parallel between what the mind net is trying to achieve - a place that contains factor graphs of thoughts. ...
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... The WWW connections work by pulling, one item can pull another one by having a hyperlink to it. But such a link is one-way: the reader of the linking item can easily go to the linked one but not the other way around. The mind net aim to make such links bi-directional. ...
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... Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. ...
... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...
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... This mental language is thought to be distinct from natural languages like English or Spanish, and it is believed to be the medium through which we think and process information. ...
... Instead, it is thought to be a universal language that is used by all humans to represent and process complex ideas. Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/ ...
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... A system that lets users record their inquiry thoughts/ideas as observations, hypotheses, and predictions (OH&P) can provide a new mode of communication and collaboration between users - they can structurally connect their atomic OH&P directly to other users' OH&P. ...
... ([This is challenging](https://www.themind.net/observations/4fcVuFGoTEa43ez-xhSAsg) when thoughts/ideas are organized in the usual narrative structure, such as books, lectures, and talks). ...
... Such a system that connects atomic ideas and thoughts between users might achieve a **digitalized collective mind**. Digitalized mind means all ideas/thoughts are digitalized, collective meaning that these ideas/thoughts are contributed by multiple users and digitally connected to each other. ...
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