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by ETH_start 3mo ago
There are certainly ecological costs, but in the long run, Earth's life will only survive if an advanced species like ours is able to transport it off the planet before the sun expands and boils away the ocean and atmosphere, in approx
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News
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This was covered in the article, only a small fraction of the office space can be converted to residential.
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Satoyama(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
What I'm saying is not spurious speculation is the idea that the healthcare industry across the developed world has gotten more expensive because it has become less market-based and more top-down controlled. That's an extrapolatio
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Assuming agent costs keep declining exponentially as they have over the last three years, why would everyone not own some agents? It's not like the number of agents is capped and the billionaires hoard all of them. I imagine it would b
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Housing is exceptionally vulnerable to capture because it is immobile. AI on the otherhand should see its cost continue to plummet due to competition. Per token costs have already fallen exponentially over the last three years. I'm not
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
Health care costs across the developed world have skyrocketed for exactly the same structural reasons. Yes, implementations have been different in their details, but the larger structure is the same no matter where you look in the developed
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I strongly agree that socializing the healthcare industry will not help in any way. To the extent that healthcare costs have skyrocketed, it's precisely because of government intervention in the U.S. Healthcare industry has massively i
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
I wonder if labor itself will become an anachronism in the age of AI. Perhaps the future economic landscape will be dominated by capital because everyone will own capital. You will command a small army of agents to do whatever you want. You
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
That's a reasonable concern. Any industrial site is going to be a concern for nearby residences. But even proposed sites far away from any residential settlements are being opposed. The proposed National Data Center moratorium, for ins
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by ETH_start 3mo ago
According to late Intel founder Andy Grove, having domestic manufacturing, including chip fabrication, is very important for a country's ability to innovate. https://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/upload
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What's incredible is how much resistance there is in the U.S. to do what for other countries is the obvious strategy forward. The U.S. — after decades of seeing manufacturing being outsourced — suddenly has an incredible advantage in d
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
If you look at countries that have experienced export booms, you see broad-based wage gains correlated with it.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
A racially disparate outcome is not evidence of racial bias.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
I think one of the highest-leverage U.S. economic strategies right now is to maximize the upside from the AI data-center boom. That means reducing any bottlenecks around not just data-center construction, but also adjacent industries like p
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Censoring the internet is about as anti-democratic a policy that can be implemented. I remember reading someone argue that anytime you see a claim that we need to do something to protect democracy just replace the word democracy with bureau
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
The KYC/permissioning of the web will be abused by governments to censor dissent and cutoff dissidents from the internet. You're free to put child-safe software on your personal computer at home. Your desire to keep your kids safe
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
The most important question here is not whether social media access should be banned to children. The question is whether everyone's rights should be stripped in an effort to enforce such a ban. I find this whole globally coordinated e
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
I strongly disagree with this framing that moving away from formal philanthropy has resulted in a move "toward hard-edged individualism and ostentatious displays of wealth". It's easy to forget now with the massive market val
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Having a mandate to educate people in California is not the same thing as having a mandate to politicize science or have racial discrimination in hiring. Also, having a mandate to educate more people is not the same thing as having racial p
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
I don't want to quibble on the specifics, but the rubric being encouraged by Berkeley is an example of the kind of analytical framework that is being favored in academia, or had been until very recently. It acts as an ideological filte
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Scientific American is not the organization to be providing commentary on this as it is in the center of the maelstrom and often cited as an example of the cultural shift that preceded the backlash.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
What education cuts? Education spending per pupil has skyrocketed since the 1970s.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
There has been almost zero loss of sea ice since 1980. What is sparking your alarm?
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
1. There are many different perspectives on how societal problems should be fixed. The preferred solution of social democrats, of racially discriminating in favor of some groups, has not been scientifically proven to be effective, let alone
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Quite realistic. Could be more realistic still if you could chop two blocks at once.
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by ETH_start 4mo ago
Can you elaborate how I'm not understanding what the decolonization movement is and how properly understood it belongs in science?
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To be clear, the only ideology that belongs in science is the pursuit of objective truth. Not my views on economic growth and technological progress, and not the push for equity or other political goals. Once you start requiring anything be
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The rubric explicitly gives a low score to candidates who "state the intention to ignore the varying backgrounds of their students and 'treat everyone the same'". It listed a number of other positions that it would penal

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