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Markets in Everything(dopaminemarkets.com)
1 points by 27153 9mo ago|0 comments
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by 27153 1y ago
Piece argues that health wearables offer little in the way of marginal health insights or benefits while exacerbating health anxiety, discounting signals from the body, and providing data to big tech and insurance companies.
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by 27153 1y ago
https://archive.ph/cx5HQ
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The Asymmetry of Destruction(passingtime.substack.com)
18 points by 27153 1y ago|3 comments
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by 27153 2y ago
Where are the weirdos? Is it all just AI now?
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Consulting and finance as black holes of elite human capital(passingtime.substack.com)
3 points by 27153 2y ago|0 comments
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by 27153 2y ago
Would love to hear why you think this. Couldn’t disagree more at first glance. He feels like a breathe of sanity and rationality in a crazy political world.
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by 27153 2y ago
Appreciate the comment. This is the author here. Unfortunately, due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law as pointed out by another comment, there is an asymmetry of effort in making vs finding/dispr
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by 27153 2y ago
Ezra Klein
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by 27153 2y ago
The order of magnitude of his mistake makes it damning. Especially considering he began his commentary by noting that "the data can be confusing"
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by 27153 2y ago
Government spending is how a Keynesian combats a recession. For perspective, though, look at this chart of government spending as a % of GDP. It has never gotten even close to 85% of GDP ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph&#x
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by 27153 2y ago
It's frustratingly impressive how grifters are able to maintain a grift even after it's made evident that they are grifting...
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by 27153 3y ago
How do the costs not apply to the tens of thousands of lives that could have been saved?
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by 27153 3y ago
I don’t think EAs are focused on assigning credit here. It’s very consequentialist; they would say “it doesn’t matter who saved the 100 lives, it matters that they were saved.”
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by 27153 3y ago
Think about the counterfactual: a student doesn’t go to Harvard, they instead go to Duke or a public Ivy. They’re only marginally worse off. All of these schools already have enough money to where families making under $75-$100k won’t be pa
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by 27153 3y ago
No, because everyone doesn’t think that way.
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by 27153 3y ago
You don’t think doing more good with the same resources is a good thing? Is it not better to save two lives than one life, all else equal?
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by 27153 3y ago
Nah the money he gave was unrestricted. They just decided to name the grad school after him. The money isn’t earmarked for anything in particular.
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by 27153 4y ago
Right! That would disqualify me from going to every coffee shop and small quick service restaurant in my city.
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Tipping Is Spreading and It Sucks(passingtime.substack.com)
69 points by 27153 4y ago|41 comments
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by 27153 4y ago
See https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by 27153 4y ago
Looks like the FTC is aware of it but I'm not sure that there have been any regulations against it yet. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2012/05/economics-dri... According to Wikipedia there w
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Companies use drip pricing to overcharge consumers(passingtime.substack.com)
317 points by 27153 4y ago|416 comments