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Why AI Won’t Kill The Firm \ stacker news

Just as scarcity can’t be fully conquered, the economic coordination problems that give rise to firms won’t disappear. The idea that artificial...

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*One does not simply walk into Bitcoiners' corner of social media, mention the unholy word starting with 's' (and not ending in 'aylor'), and expect sudden bouts of logic to ensue.*

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Saylor Selling Sats?! \ stacker news

We check in on our financial-engineering "heroes" at Strategy now and again (https://stacker.news/items/1475688/r/denlillaapan, https://stacker.new...

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Margaret-Anne Storey

What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a sy...

Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup — Fractile's SRAM architecture reduces need for pricey memory during extreme pricing and shortage crunch | Tom's Hardware

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Anthropic in early talks to buy DRAM-less AI inference chips from UK startup — Fractile

The Claude developer is exploring a fourth chip supplier alongside Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.

Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet | Quanta Magazine

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Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet | Quanta Magazine

Scientists keep detecting new forms of ice. According to simulations, there could be many more left to find.

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Perplexity: the state is not primarily a normative ideal but an emergent coordination device imposed by material and incentive constraints: States crystallize around culturally or geographically coherent blocs because: shared language, norms, and expectations reduce the cost of enforcing rules and extracting revenue, physical geography (rivers, mountains, coastlines) helps define clear, defensible boundaries for coercion and taxation. These relatively stable “constraint bubbles” allow: semi‑predictable law enforcement, semi‑stable property regimes, inter‑elite bargaining via institutions (armies, courts, bureaucracies) that partially internalize the incentive problem by tying rulers’ fates to some degree of order and long‑run revenue. ...the “state” is the least‑bad overlay of endogenous constraint on an otherwise unstable anarchic incentive landscape—functionally analogous to the way socialist planners, lacking market prices, try (and mostly fail) to impose exogenous constraints on the calculation problem

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KitKat turns chocolate bar packaging into Faraday smartphone cage - Notebookcheck News

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KitKat turns chocolate bar packaging into Faraday smartphone cage

Smartphones are making recreation increasingly difficult - from business calls to private Instagram notifications and group chats, smartphones make...