Emma_Goldman

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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Growth is a useless indicator. The whole point of Piketty's argument is that the return on capital tendentially outstrips the rate of growth, and that large investors have access to especially high return assets. The OP is right that a
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I get that this is a humourous and offhanded comment, but it's the equivalent of saying that basketball is 'just bouncing a ball'. A surprising amount of complexity emerges from putting teams of humans into a competitive sand
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I think crucial over the medium-term is the comparative difficulty of decarbonising building heating and home-to-work transport at scale, through what technologies that is achieved, and the energy intensity of those technologies. It also de
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I do think this is a crudely banausic perspective. > Their novels are surely enjoyed by far fewer people than an only-relatively successful niche Youtube or TikTok content creator. Literary novels don't make money, and don't sh
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
The depletion of fossil fuels is not the problem. In fact, the opposite is true: we need to leave a very large proportion of present-day fossil fuel reserves in the ground if we're to avert catastrophic increases in global radiative fo
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
You are conflating absolute resource scarcity with planetary boundaries. There is no absolute resource scarcity on any meaningful timescale, there is only a related question about the size of the resources which will become economically rec
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Why do you 'love' him? According to multiple people, perhaps including himself, he is a sex predator.[1] Regardless of whether you think a figure like that should be at the forefront of the public eye (I don't), it's str
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
For background, there seems to be three things going on here. First, the UK has deployed surveillance assets to support Israel.[1] "The military package, which includes P8 aircraft, surveillance assets, two Royal Navy ships – RFA Lyme
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Does anyone know what if anything is substantively different between the original bypass paywalls[1] and bypass paywalls clean? The implication, obviously, is that the original is unclean. [1] https://github.com/iamadamdev&#x
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Not really, and your own description is little different from the person you're responding to anyway?
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I can't reply to your comment so posting here: Growth rates can be misleading when starting from a low absolutes. The EU and the UK, the two cases I'm most familiar with, do not look set to meet their renewable targets. The UK cli
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
> "If gas plants can be replaced by something cheaper then they will be" This is a simplification of what is a highly complex, interdependent, path dependent and regulated system, with long lead times, and more priorities than
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Interesting and bold proposition, but I suspect the reason why this has not been treated as a feasible vision by any government is that it is optimised for least-cost in the median scenario, not high energy security in the extreme scenario
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_in_Gre... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
> "Without providing price detail, which companies say is commercially sensitive, Clarke said Carlton had struggled to finance the planned gas plant in part because of uncertainty over the revenues it would generate and the number o
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
That Reddit thread[1], if genuine, seems to raise the probability that Altman is a through-and-through operator who has been actively politicking against the board to hijack OpenAI for his own commercial ends. The resonances with OpenAI are
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I agree, it's an extremely non-obvious assumption and ignores centuries-old debates (empiricism vs. rationalism) about the nature of reason and intelligence. I am sympathetic to Chomsky's position.[1] https://www.nytime
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
> "We know enough now to know that the “safety-focused nonprofit entity versus reckless profit entity“ narrative doesn’t hold up." Why do you think that? It still strikes me as the most plausible explanation.
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I disagree. First, there are strong diminishing returns to well-being from wealth, meaning that moving oneself from the top 0.5% to the top 0.1% of global income earners is a relatively modest benefit. This relationship is well studied by s
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Really? If they work at OpenAI they are already among the highest lifetime earners on the planet. Favouring moving oneself from the top 0.5% of global lifetime earners to the top 0.1% (or whatever the percentile shift is) over the safe deve
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
I don't really understanding why the workforce is swinging unambiguously behind Altman. The core of the narrative thus far is that the board fired Altman on the grounds that he was prioritising commercialisation over the not-for-profit
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Probably raptors and owls. But the problem, for any predator, is that rats live within buildings and the city's subterranean.
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Sam Altman 'was working on new venture' before sacking from OpenAI(theguardian.com)
17 points by Emma_Goldman 3y ago|2 comments
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
A fun theory, but it's wrong. The likely explanation is tectonic: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-ancient-fo...
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Web browsing data collected in more detail than previously known, report finds(ft.com)
4 points by Emma_Goldman 3y ago|0 comments
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
>"If you think being able to take all variables you can into account and have your model spit out "better" or "worse" is crude, than you can't be asked anything cause any answer to anything is crude." T
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Perfectly possible, but if there were no staff, that means that the denizens of Gothenburg were conscientious enough to police themselves. They checked out their books even though they probably could have just walked out the front door with
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
Read the first sentence with which I began. I said it was simplistic, not that it was categorically and completely wrong, and certainly not that its opposite was true. What I object to is the extraordinarily simplistic, one-dimensional view
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
'Golden age' is typically used to mean a historic age of comparative greatness from which society has since fallen. See the idiomatic vs. the mythological meaning on Wiktionary: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki&#x2
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by Emma_Goldman 3y ago
That's a bit simplistic. If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth, a crisis of democratic representation and its populist backlash, the return of oligarchic inequality to levels not s

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