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Specifically on risks of harm? Sure: Faults in agreement include parties generating agreement that doesn't reflect their values and/or desires, and the illusion of agreement by one or both parties. While there is potential risk of
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Certainly. However, there are many things where people are expected to reach agreement. It's not clear that this has to be the matter on which they learn it. Indeed, considering the harm that can result, it's probably better if th
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It is 2020: - Speech recognition has acquired acceptable (par with human) accuracy. This has been a great boon for the digitally excluded. It has also increased the relative prevalence of text based commands in the operating system, not tha
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I honestly don't understand why this was down-voted. The planting of opium formed a major part of the Afghan economy - roughly 50%[1] of their GDP in fact - and outlawing parts of that economy is both expensive - the US spent $7.6 bill
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Things might have gone better if they'd been told to ignore drugs instead.
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If you make your mistakes cheaper, you may be inclined to keep making them for longer.
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> (a) They can become a receptionist or barista once they've definitively proved to themselves that they can't get a degree and do something more fulfilling, intellectually stimulating and ultimately likely to lead them to live
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> The lifetime earnings for a college degree holder[1] is probably a lot more than for those without a degree. Which degree may matter a lot too. Without coming down either side of the thing, when you have literature and art-history stud
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> I don't think this is a great way to frame the debate - we've been a consumerist society full of billboards and sales people for 100s of years before the internet was even invented. There has been relatively little pushback (
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> Wouldn't most people take a day off to interview somewhere? Not always possible. One of the big annoyances when I was working for a company was that if I wanted time off it was two weeks notice. Doesn't work particularly well
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I don't think you can prevent them from taking advantage of people, not without a system to network trust tied to hard to change IDs.
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> Capitalism maximizes "giving people what they want". So do drug dealers who get girls hooked on heroin and put them on the streets. Simply because you serve some compulsion or desire that someone has does not make you benevol
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That's a tad worrying. I've found some statements to that effect when I did a search on that last night and some stuff about obesity, do you have any sources giving a breakdown tied to individuals (not names, but like person#whate
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If that's the case, then people are much unhealthier on average than I'd assumed. What do they visit about?
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I imagine that goes down well at an appointment. Someone you might see once a decade or less giving you lifestyle advice.
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If we're going to accuse people of using their idea of reality as an excuse, then the alternative is no better. If it is in someone's nature to be adaptable; and by that virtue to be a success; and if others do not have like natur
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There is a less happy story in which the attempts at ubermensch are mentally disabled. That they will remain so for quite some time, considering the moral horror potentially involved in the experiments, until the errors we make allow us to
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Are you taking 'me time'? When did you last have a decent holiday where you did no programming, turned all your work-related email and phones off, and did something else that you enjoyed and found fulfilling? It needn't be a
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An inability to scale tied to the problem of concentrating resources. The minute you start having non-trivial manifestations of your power in meat-space you become subject to a whole range of logistical concerns. Say you've got 1,000 p
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For fun, to illustrate that it can't be trusted, because what you want to use isn't available for the alternatives. First few reasons that spring to mind.
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I think we'd mostly agree. Though, I'd note that it's not just a consequence of some people having limited aspirations. If you're interested in working with good people, you should be coaching your staff to develop their
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Assuming that both groups are competent for their level of experience: If you can't make more profit out of someone with 15 years experience than you can out of someone who is fresh out of college, then I really question how good you a
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I would be inclined to agree with extensive testing being desirable in this case. However, the only way I think that we're going to get a sufficient quantity of testing under representative conditions is to get a reasonably large numbe
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I'm not terrified of death, in the abstract. You can't be terrified of something that you have no clear concept of, and I'm not quite so foolish as to invent something there to be scared of. The truth is I'm never there
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> The supposition that Uber spent 15bio to lobby NYC to let it operate in the city is nonsensical. The question was what the effect of directing that sort of campaign towards urging improvements to the rail infrastructure would be, not w
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The existence of this system is rather odd then: https://youtu.be/QGxNyaXfJsA Not that the level of surveillance that's becoming possible (and even expected) isn't deeply repugnant, I'm just not convinced it&
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>Is the political will (or rather actual monies required) to spend 15 billion [1] on the MTA shortfall the same as not prohibiting a company from operating a tax service? It's not required that the two costs be identical for the wri
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Ah, good point -edits-
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What, really? Your source is "some Czech guy?" I mean maybe it's true and maybe it's not, but at the same time an article that presumably doesn't link the original article because they don't want people just go
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I imagine the reasoning goes somewhat to the effect of: If a plane goes down, it's reasonable to expect that everyone on board will die. It's less reasonable to expect that the blast radius of a device that was sufficient to down

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