diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-15-may-2024/index.md b/content/journal/dispatch-15-may-2024/index.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
---
title: "Dispatch #15 (May 2024)"
-date: 2024-05-06T21:05:37-04:00
+date: 2024-05-07T23:17:00-04:00
draft: false
tags:
- dispatch
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ references:
url: https://www.viget.com/articles/stackstash-taking-bookish-musings-to-the-next-level/
date: 2024-04-17T20:44:52Z
file: www-viget-com-szerfi.txt
+- title: "Lofi Chord Progressions: 11 Ways to Build Nostalgic Lo-Fi Chords [Free MIDI Pack]"
+ url: https://blog.landr.com/lofi-chord-progressions/
+ date: 2024-05-08T02:39:44Z
+ file: blog-landr-com-e4mwah.txt
- title: "The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids - The Atlantic"
url: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/parenting-anxiety-happiness-children/677960/
date: 2024-04-17T20:38:00Z
@@ -29,21 +33,18 @@ references:
url: https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto
date: 2024-05-07T01:04:07Z
file: defector-com-cfiovt.txt
+- title: "On giant piles of cash, and their origins - by Dave Karpf"
+ url: https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their
+ date: 2024-05-08T03:04:13Z
+ file: davekarpf-substack-com-yferui.txt
+
---
-* Lisbon
- * E-bikes
- * Benfica
- * Playlist[^1]
-* Pointless Week
- * https://stackstash.site/
- * Laravel
- * https://www.viget.com/articles/stackstash-taking-bookish-musings-to-the-next-level/
-* Death Cab / Postal Service
-* The Simple Secret Formula
- * https://blog.landr.com/lofi-chord-progressions/
-* iPad music
- * https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/1ci0jcr/comment/l26rjp1/
+Big news, friends: we're expecting a second kid in June. To celebrate, Claire and I headed to Lisbon for a long weekend. Highlights included the castles in Sintra (especially [Quinta da Regaliera][1]), biking in [Cascais][2], and attending a [Benfica][3] match. We missed our Nevie, but she had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa, and it was nice to be able to stay out past 7pm.
+
+[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinta_da_Regaleira
+[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascais
+[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L._Benfica
@@ -53,36 +54,77 @@ references:
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+While we were over there, I was pretty diligent about using [Shazam][4] whenever a song caught my ear and saving everything into Apple Notes. When I got back, I compiled all the tracks into a playlist[^1] that's been on repeat ever since. It's a pretty neat way to create a memento that's unique to me and that doesn't cost anything or take up any space, and is something I'll plan to repeat on future trips.
+
+[4]: https://www.shazam.com/
+
+I took part in Viget's annual Pointless Week hackathon, building a [tool to surface book recommendations][5] based on messages in our `#books` Slack channel. We used [Laravel][6] to build the backend, something I'd heard good things about but have never used -- it was easy to pick up and fun to work with. We also used an LLM to analyze the messages and pull title / author / sentiment. Some of the results were very impressive, some were hot nonsense (it frequently matched generic messages to _The Great Gatsby_ or _Gone with the Wind_).
+
+[5]: https://www.viget.com/articles/stackstash-taking-bookish-musings-to-the-next-level/
+[6]: https://laravel.com/
+
+For our quarterly company event, I made this track with a bunch of samples I pulled from our Google Meet archive:
+
+Probably funnier if you've ever attended one of these events, but I think it holds up pretty well musically. Credit where it's due, I pulled that Fm11/Ebmaj9 chord progression straight from this [Lofi Chord Progressions][7] article (the shaker's all me though).
+
+[7]: https://blog.landr.com/lofi-chord-progressions/
+
+A [comment on Reddit][8] sent me down a little bit of an iPad music rabbit hole, and now I've got my Circuit Tracks driving two software synths on the iPad (digging [Neo-Soul Keys][9] and [Minimoog Model D][10]) in addition to the two built-in ones. It's a tight little setup for travel, and I can even run a MIDI controller into it for more direct control of the synths.
+
+[8]: https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/1ci0jcr/comment/l26rjp1/
+[9]: https://gospelmusicians.com/products/neo-soul-keys-studio-2
+[10]: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/minimoog-model-d-synthesizer-app
+
+Claire and I are both big fans of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service. They're on a tour for the 20th anniversaries of _Transatlaticism_ and _Give Up_ (man what a year 2003 must have been for Ben Gibbard) and we got tickets for the Raleigh show. They played both albums straight through. It was awesome, though when they finished _Give Up_ and we were waiting for the encore, it sure made me wish Postal Service had ever made another record -- we just heard their entire catalogue.
+
This month:
-* Adventure:
-* Project:
-* Skill:
+* Adventure: lake for Memorial Day; enjoy these last few weeks of only-child Nev
+* Project: make a song with my iPad, maybe in a novel location; get the house ready for this BABY
+* Skill: get back into running (fell off in April)
Reading:
-* Fiction: [_Title_][1], Author
-* Non-fiction: [_Title_][2], Author
+* Fiction: [_Magician's Gambit_][11], David Eddings (enjoying this series)
+* Non-fiction: [_The Creative Act_][12], Rick Rubin
-[1]: https://bookshop.org/
-[2]: https://bookshop.org/
+[11]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belgariad
+[12]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-creative-act-a-way-of-being-rick-rubin/18543579
Links:
-* [Title][3]
-* [Title][4]
-* [Title][5]
+* [The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids][13]
-* [The Judgement of Magneto][6]
+ > When one of my now-adult kids was in middle school, I had a small epiphany about parenting. I had been haranguing him constantly about his homework and grades, which were indeed a problem. One night, after an especially bad day, I was taking stock of the situation, and came to a realization: I didn’t actually care very much about his grades.
+
+* [Parents Can Counter the World’s Cruelty With Joy][14]
+
+ > Parenting is always an exercise in hope, a gift given to a future we cannot see to the end. At some point, if God is merciful, our children will continue forward without us, left with the memory of love shared and received.
+
+* [The Boox Palma is the best purchase I've made in a long time][15]
+
+ > When I first saw this device from Craig Mod, I didn't think I'd end up loving it so much. It is, after all, just a phone-sized Kindle with access to an Android store that costs $299. What I didn't expect is that this is precisely what makes it such a fantastic device. A few weeks in, it has become the device I use the most day by day—yes, even more than my phone.
+
+* [AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?][16]
+
+ > But I find one common thread among the things AI tools are particularly suited to doing: do we even want to be doing these things? If all you want out of a meeting is the AI-generated summary, maybe that meeting could've been an email. If you're using AI to write your emails, and your recipient is using AI to read them, could you maybe cut out the whole thing entirely? If mediocre, auto-generated reports are passing muster, is anyone actually reading them? Or is it just middle-management busywork?
+
+* [The Judgement of Magneto][17]
> A fault-line yawned open within the global Jewish community, exposing the divide between those who had understood “Never Again” to be a humanistic warning, and those who saw it as permission in advance for whatever they deemed necessary to ensure it.
-[3]: https://example.com/
-[4]: https://example.com/
-[5]: https://example.com/
-[6]: https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto
+* [On giant piles of cash, and their origins][18]
+
+ > The previous generation of venture capitalists were, for the most part, actual engineers and scientists. They had spent time in the lab. They had experience being “close to the metal.” They made some real money early, then started to point that money in the direction of funding audacious high-risk/high-reward projects that didn’t fit anywhere else. The sector was small, compared to government money and corporate R&D money.
+
+[13]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/parenting-anxiety-happiness-children/677960/
+[14]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opinion/parenting-mistakes-joy.html
+[15]: https://cliophate.wtf/posts/boox-palma-review
+[16]: https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/
+[17]: https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto
+[18]: https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their
[^1]: Here's my Lisbon playlist:
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+Lo-fi music is known for its lush chords and warm [39]chord progressions.
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+There’s something about lo-fi chords that give them a [41]nostalgic feeling
+though.
+
+The pairing of[42] jazz harmony with a [43]lo-fi aesthetic will get you there
+most of the time, but there are specific chords and chord progressions that can
+really hook a listener in.
+
+In this article, I’m going to cover lo-fi chord progressions that’ll make your
+lo-fi beats stand out.
+
+I’ll also explain what colours and textures you can use on your lo-fi chords to
+[44]achieve a retro, nostalgic sound.
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+1. Dmin11 – Ebmin11
+
+This simple two-chord progression goes a long way. I know what you’re thinking–
+only two chords?
+
+Hear me out. This chord progression uses parallelism. The chords are only a
+semitone away from each other, but the sonic difference is astounding.
+
+This chord progression uses [48]extensions like the ninth, and eleventh of the
+scale they’re from.
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+Adding these colours will make your chords sound more lush and [49]emotional.
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+2. Dmin11 – Gmin7 – Dmin11 – Ebmin11 – C#dim7
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+I heard you complaining about the lack of chords in the last progression, so I
+expanded on it.
+
+It starts with the same chord as the first progression, but I’ve added a Gmin11
+and C#dim7 chord.
+
+[52]Diminished chords function as a dominant chord, so they work well to get
+you back home.
+
+Diminished chords are built on minor third intervals. This gives them a very
+dark, but sophisticated sound.
+
+Perfect to use in any [53]lo-fi beat you’ve got on the go.
+
+3. Amin11 – D7 – Fmaj7 – Cmaj7
+
+This progression has some of the most emotional harmonic movement you’ll ever
+hear. It happens when the D7 chord falls to the F major 7.
+
+This happens because D7 and F major share several of the same notes–except one.
+
+The F sharp falling to F natural is at the core of what makes this progression
+so emotional.
+
+Finishing off on a C major 7 chord keeps the mood uplifting, before returning
+to its minor counterpart.
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+4. Fmin9 – Ebmaj9
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+This one is a lot like the first chord progression. It’s not completely
+parallel, but the root movement is similar.
+
+The change from minor to major is what gives this progression its own vibe.
+
+The added ninth to the Ebmaj7 chord makes this one sound very uplifting–making
+it perfect for any happier Lo-fi jams you’ve got going on.
+
+5. Cmin11 – Fmin9 – Cmin11 – G7#5
+
+This progression contains a chord with some serious texture happening. I’m
+talking about the sharp 5 on the G7 chord.
+
+Also known as an augmented seventh chord, the G7#5 carries a weight that
+resolves nicely back to the Cmin11.
+
+This type of chord always carries a mysterious but nostalgic feeling whenever I
+hear it. It’s no wonder that you’ll find it in several Lo-fi jams.
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+6. Ebmaj9 – Abmaj13
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+This progression might be the happiest in this list. It’s completely major,
+with some nice extensions to boot.
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+I know, we’re working with two chords again. If you’re working on a slow bop
+this might be all you need.
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+7. Gmaj7 – F#min7 – Amin7b5
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+You’ve arrived at the most chill sounding progression in this list. The reason
+why this chord progression brings the chill factor is the last chord that turns
+around to the top.
+
+The minor seven flat five, or half-diminished chord carries a darker colour
+than a regular minor chord. It’s borrowed from the parallel [59]minor key and
+serves as a plagal [60]cadence back to the G major chord.
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+It’s a little out of place, but most chill things usually are.
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+Just like the last progression, this one has another unique type of chord
+quality that brings home the mystery factor.
+
+I’m talking about the minor-major seven chord. It’s built with a minor triad
+but includes a major 7 on top.
+
+This chord is one that you might associate with mysterious moments in old
+thriller movies.
+
+That’s why I think this chord reigns in the nostalgia factor. It’s a perfect
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+9. CMaj9 – B7aug5#9 – Emin9 – EbMaj7Aug5 – Dmaj7 – DbMaj7Aug5 – CMaj7 – F/B
+
+Here’s a very [64]soulful chord progression that ends with a nostalgic sounding
+2-5-1 progression,
+
+What makes this progression so interesting is all the augmented passing chords
+between each diatonic chord.
+
+These augmented chords don’t really belong to the key and are fairly dissonant,
+but they’re great when used as a pathway to the more pleasing major and minor
+sevenths and nine chords.
+
+The chord progression also ends in a very sweet yet mysterious F/B chord that
+implies that the chord progression has places to go next.
+
+
+
+10. Cmin9 – Fmin9 – F/G – DbMaj9 – Cmin9 – Fmin9 – F/G – G7b9aug5
+
+Here’s a nice chord progression in C minor that makes some interesting moves in
+the bass.
+
+Moving from Cmin9 to Fmin9 it’s interesting to then go a tone above Fmin9 to G
+major while still keeping the F in the bass.
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+This lateral movement is cool because it keeps an F note in the bass from the
+previous chord while moving to G major.
+
+Depending on where you want to go with the chord progression, you could also
+alternate between a DbMaj9 chord instead of the G7b9aug5 chord at the end.
+
+11. F#Maj9 – BMaj9 – AMaj9 – EMaj9 – F#Maj9 – BMaj9 – AMaj9 – DMaj9
+
+Here’s a great example of how exclusively using one type of chord—in this case
+the major 9 chord—is a totally great way to make a soulful lofi chord
+progression.
+
+The trick of course is to find ways of voicing and spacing the chords together
+so they blend nicely on the keyboard and are ultimately easier to play.
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+Shown in this example is just one way of voicing this chord progression, but
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+It’s interesting that these colorful chords make us feel a certain way,
+especially when they’re paired together in a chord progression.
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+Knowing how to colour your chords is one of the benefits of knowing music
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+Technological innovation requires capital. A lot of capital. A giant pile of
+cash.
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+There are, to a first approximation, only three places you can find of a giant
+pile of cash. There’s government money. There’s venture capital. And there’s
+big corporate R&D.
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+Of the three, I would argue that government is clearly the best. The reason is
+simple: government funding doesn’t come attached to some rich asshole who
+inevitably screws things up later.
+
+Venture capital, for this same reason, is quite clearly the worst. Andy Baio’s,
+“[33]The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dream” is worth reading on this point. VC
+funding comes attached to VC revenue expectations. It makes unreasonable
+demands. Sometimes they work out for the investors. They very rarely work out
+for everyone else.
+
+Big corporate money is somewhere in the middle. I’d classify it as eh, fine I
+guess, so long as the marketplace is otherwise well-regulated and those large
+corporations are constrained. (Which, heh, ofcoursewedon’thaverightnow.)
+
+The examples of big corporate money that spring immediately to mind are [34]
+Bell Labs and [35]Xerox PARC. There was indeed a time when big companies
+invested a ton in basic science and R&D, with no immediate plans to turn the
+results into products. And, as [36]Ian Betteridge pointed out last month, this
+was because the big companies were rightly concerned about the antitrust cops.
+[37]A nervous monopolist is a (relatively) well-behaved monopolist.
+
+Still, there’s a bit of elegance to the big-pile-of-government-money approach.
+I first took notice of this with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
+(IRA). Fifteen years ago, everyone kind of thought that the only way to
+jumpstart the clean energy transition was to institute a carbon tax or
+cap-and-trade/cap-and-dividend system. (Basically, do some fancy tricks that
+the economists suggested, then let the market work its magic.) Cap-and-Trade
+failed for a whole lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was that the proposal
+was complex and boring in a way that appealed to the economists but were
+impossible to message. Most people were left thinking “this is probably gonna
+turn into weird corporate bullshit, right?”
+
+The IRA, by contrast, was just a big pile of money attached to industrial
+policy — directional instructions for how to spend the pile. That’s effectively
+all it could be, because of some vagaries in the Senate rules that let you
+avoid the filibuster and pass budget bills with a 51-vote majority. And while
+that big pile of money isn’t perfect, it is funding a lot of good things.
+
+And of course we can scan back in history for plenty of other examples. [38]The
+semiconductor industry and the internet were both built out of government
+grants and defense contracts. We have sputnik and the space race to thank for
+the computer age. The Human Genome Project was government funding. So was the
+National Nanotechnology Initiative. Some of these were big hits, some were
+glancing misses. But the general model of promising avenue —> government sets
+up a big pile of money —> research and development flourishes in that area is
+pretty well established. It works.
+
+The are, as far as I can tell, only three downsides to the
+government-pile-of-money approach:
+
+ 1. You’ll need to make the money back through taxes on the industries that
+ develop as a result. And they won’t want to pay those taxes. And these
+ industries will be popular, with a lot of capital to spend on pressuring
+ government to give them special deals and tax breaks. So maintaining the
+ equilibrium of establish big pile of government money —> industries
+ flourish —> they pay taxes, which lets you set up the next big pile of
+ government money is going to take constant effort to maintain. (This is an
+ abbreviated version of Marianna Mazzucato’s [39]The Entrepreneurial State.
+ Her book is excellent, btw.)
+
+ 2. The big pile of government money is tied up in bureaucracy, which means it
+ isn’t especially nimble or responsive. This can be fixed through
+ public-private partnerships and other administrative design choices. But
+ it’s bound to be frustrating and sometimes wasteful. (Imagine if, circa
+ 2022, the Biden administration had set up a $30 billion fund for, like,
+ metaverse research.) And that waste and frustration will be fodder for
+ ideological opponents to the whole endeavor.
+
+ 3. The big pile of government money doesn’t glorify entrepreneurs and
+ innovators as the very-special-boys who are heroically building the future.
+ And that doesn’t feel very gratifying. They would much prefer an
+ equilibrium where government provides the big pile of money, but then no
+ one talks about it. Or gives the government any credit. Or taxes the
+ windfall profits. It is not, in other words, a story that plays well at
+ Davos. If those entrepreneurs get rich enough, [40]they’ll develop
+ elaborate philosophical justifications for why the most important cause in
+ the world is that everyone clap louder for them.
+
+But those three downsides just mean that the system will require political
+maintenance. It works quite well, but it isn’t self-sustaining. And this
+observation extends beyond science and technology. The
+big-pile-of-government-money is a return to how we approached public problems
+through much of the 20th century, before it was rejected as “tax-and-spend”
+liberalism and replaced by neoliberalism’s faith-based market fundamentalism.
+
+The basic proposition is as follows: we should provide public funding for
+public goods. Those public goods will make us a better, more productive
+society. And then we refill the public coffers through a system of taxation.
+The same approach can be applied to other public goods:
+
+ • [41]There is no magic-unicorn funding model that will save journalism. It’s
+ going to require public subsidy.
+
+ • The crises facing the U.S. education system can mostly be reduced to the
+ simple fact that we no longer fund public education like we used to. The
+ idea that we are going to somehow innovate our way into a system that is
+ both higher-quality and cheaper is as fantastical as it is flawed.
+
+ • Ditto for higher education. If you think higher education is a public good,
+ then you should demand public subsidy of higher ed. (Including, but not
+ limited to, student debt cancellation.) If you do not think higher eduction
+ is a public good, then that’s fine too. But you ought to go ahead and say
+ as much.
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+The VC approach is the prevailing model today. And I have become increasingly
+convinced that many of the problems with the current state of Silicon Valley
+are rooted in the venture capital-class simply acquiring too much capital. VC
+is fine (good, even!) when it is relatively small. But when VC is the primary
+source of funding new science and technology breakthroughs, the whole system
+gets skewed.
+
+As it stands today, the primary direction-setter for new advances in science
+and technology is “what do folks like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and Gary
+Tan and Sam Altman find exciting?”
+
+The problem isn’t just that these guys are ideological fellow-travelers, hell
+bent on a shared political project that socializes all risk while privatizing
+all gain. (though, I mean… that would kinda be enough of a problem on its own.)
+
+It’s also that their eye for science, technology, and even consumer products
+just kinda sucks. Building toward their vision of the future means we’re going
+to end up with a lot of [42]silly investments in pretend-cities and [43]
+eugenics vaporware. It means we’ll have abundant funding for hail-mary attempts
+at developing cold fusion and geo-engineering, and practically nothing for
+helping cities remain habitable under extreme weather conditions.
+
+(Read Karen Hao, I’m begging you!: We’re [44]sapping all the remaining water
+from the desert to cool AI data centers. It’s good for Microsoft’s stock
+performance. It is counterproductive to the climate emergency.)
+
+This kind of VC-thinking works fine under limited conditions, and pretty
+terribly everywhere else.
+
+Take Sam Altman. Altman is not an engineer. He is not a scientist. He has no
+real training in either. He is an entrepreneur, with a flair for optimistic
+tech futurism. He places bets on where technology is headed, and then attempts
+to bend society in a direction that makes those bets pay off.
+
+The previous generation of venture capitalists were, for the most part, actual
+engineers and scientists. They had spent time in the lab. They had experience
+being “close to the metal.” They made some real money early, then started to
+point that money in the direction of funding audacious high-risk/high-reward
+projects that didn’t fit anywhere else. The sector was small, compared to
+government money and corporate R&D money.
+
+Folks like Altman approach the future much like bad sci-fi. They begin from a
+prediction of where they’d like to end up, and then work backwards. Altman has
+faith that we’re going to end up at world-changing Artificial General
+Intelligence. That means we’ll need transformative breakthroughs in chip
+production and energy production. Ergo, he invests in cold fusion companies and
+sets out to raise $7 trillion to build his own manufacturing empire.
+
+That’s actually a fine approach, as private investment strategies go. (Hey,
+you’ve got a prediction for where the world is heading, and you want to make a
+bunch of correlated bets that support the prediction? Go ahead and spend your
+own money that way. God bless.) But when it becomes the primary source of
+funding for basic science and/or applied technologies, then the whole system
+gets warped in the direction of a few billionaires’ speculative fantasies.
+
+Venture Capital is not inherently better than government funding. That’s a myth
+that was popularized during the neoliberal era. It has now become impossible to
+sustain. (Just look at all the [45]stupid bullshit they fund and all the nice
+things that they ruin!)
+
+Big Tech only got so big because we stopped enforcing antitrust 20+ years ago.
+If the current reemergence of antitrust enforcement has staying power, that
+will be good for society and also good for Big tech funding of basic research.
+
+But, most of all, we should get back to enthusiastically celebrating large
+piles of government money, paired with substantial taxes on the companies that
+flourish as a result. Government money isn’t perfect. It can be slow and
+inefficient. But nothing is perfect. And of all the potential big-pile-of-money
+sources, it is the one that does the most good, while putting power in the
+hands of people who are at least supposed to have the best interests of the
+public in mind.
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+ There's an old saying, "The customer is always right about what they
+ wish to purchase." That is, people know their own needs. Being a
+[65] customer requires money. When the US had a growing middle class, they
+[https] were the customers individually and collectively. We were able to buy
+ all kinds of nice things. Now, the wealthy have all the money, and
+ they're the customers for symbolic stuff, not physical stuff. So, we
+ have a crappy consumer market and a wasteful efflourescence of venture
+ capital backed crazes.
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+ "The basic proposition is as follows: we should provide public funding
+ for public goods." However, public funding tends to involve taxation,
+ and the rotten core of "conservatism" is myopic selfishness, so denying
+ public goods even exist is typical of "conservatives". Moreover, the
+ USA is so collectively brainwashed in this regard that even ostensible
+ liberals often fall into thinking of public goods as if they weren't.
+ For example, it's common to say things like "higher education is the
+ single best investment that you can make in yourselves and your
+ future"*, which may be correct as far as it goes, but it leaves out
+ that education is foremost a public good, something we the people fund
+ because it benefits all of us to live in a society where most people
+ are well educated, to whatever level suits their talents and interests.
+ So as a matter of realpolitik in the USA, good luck getting much
+ traction with the eminently reasonable arguments you've presented here.
+
+ "It's also that their eye for science, technology, and even consumer
+[70] products just kinda sucks." I'll be blunter: the guys you've mentioned
+[https] are just kinda dumb. For example, Peter Thiel famously cheered for
+ Candidate Trump but was disappointed with President Trump, declaring
+ the latter and his shambolic administration "incompetent"**. Um, yeah,
+ no shit, Sherlock. But the way Cheetolini governed, if you call it
+ that, was perfectly consistent with his public conduct for decades
+ prior. Only dullards were surprised. Evidently, Thiel is one of them.
+
+ "The big pile of government money is tied up in bureaucracy, which
+ means it isn't especially nimble or responsive.": Often but not always.
+ In my experience, DARPA and NSF have been fairly nimble and responsive.
+ It can be done!
+
+ *[73]https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/09/
+ remarks-president-opportunity-all-making-college-more-affordable
+
+ **[74]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/
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