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Fiat is handled by a finance elder (always a layperson) and a finance committee (also laypeople). Only a handful of people have the ability to make payments from the bank account, but it does not require multisig. So I do think for bitcoin a single sig setup should be fine to start with.
I actually haven't encountered that in my corners of academia. But I do think some departments are more ideological than others, I just haven't worked at any ideological ones. This would definitely be something at the department level though, not the university level.
Yeah, I never really encountered this at department/college level committees, mostly composed of people with econ backgrounds. First time encountering it is on the university-wide committees.
Hmmm, that's not been my experience. Actually, my observation is that senior leaders are less ideological, and probably more motivated by self-preservation/advancement.
But that instinct for self preservation often leads them to not pick fights with the radicals, but to give radicals their spaces, usually with the air of legitimacy (i.e. "Sustainability Community of Practice", etc.) The radicals then exploit that legitimacy, as well as being very good at using morally coercive language, to steer resources down unproductive paths.
I'm not sure what your friends in the EU are going through, but what I can see happening is that if you stand up against the radicals, the leaders will not take your side. It's not that the leaders are ideological, it's that they're motivated by self preservation and the radicals are more than willing to make your life hard.
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I still don't think I made any sats off my begging ad. (Though, my wallet doesn't make it very easy to track where all my sats are coming from).
Probably because academic departments are extremely sorted samples of people, applying strong filters on interests and personality.
Actually yes. Extremely high degree of correlation, strong predictive power. Traditional departments, i.e. departments that would have existed 100 years ago, are generally not like that. You can probably guess which departments are.
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After getting tenure, I started sitting on some university-wide committees, so I started getting exposed to different faculty from other disciplines. I really think some of these disciplines just training professional complainers.
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How university radicalization happens:
- University-wide AI task force
- Small minority complains about environmental sustainability and racism in AI
- Rest of committee doesn't want to talk about that, but leaders don't want to say this is an irrelevant topic for this group
- Leaders create a separate "community of interest" for the topic
- Fringe complainers join that community, no moderate people join, that group becomes more fringe
It stems from leaders being too shy to shut down conversations that are not relevant to the university. Even if you believe that AI has environmental sustainability issues, I don't see what one university can do about it
Curious to get @Undisciplined and @south_korea_ln's view on it, given your academic backgrounds
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It's obvious to me that all of the "costs" regarding nuclear are due to over-regulation. Whether land use regulation, safety and environmental, or occupational licensing, or insurance, all these are the costs.
That's why when people dismiss nuclear as "too costly" to be an effective future energy, I tend to not believe them. The cost is not a fundamental, physical limitation of nuclear energy; it's entirely a man-made problem.
