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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Are you going to update your poetry engine now that we have this?
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I advise anyone in Canadian tech to move to the states if they can. The rise in pay is so enormous it overcomes all objections. Move from Canada to Austin and you get higher pay, affordable housing because of zoning is not controlled by a r
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Vinge’s definition of the singularity is the creation of human-level AI. After we have superhuman AI governments will be irrelevant. What ever the AI wants it gets.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Molecular assemblers are almost taboo to discuss in chemistry and have been for decades. Sort of like the AI winter. Things feel like they are starting to thaw.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I don't know what Uber thinks its end game is. Uber's "lets burn money to capture the market and own self driving" stratagem is economically absurd. In the limit of driverless cars, capital can be turned directly into la
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They have not seized the means of production and handed it to a poorly-incentivized bureaucracy that claims to speak for the public. If you have private ownership of production you are still capitalis
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Is there any proof peer review has increased scientific productivity? It is relatively new, and I don't see any reason prima facie why it would work better than an editorial teaming willing to delegate when necessary. Anecdotally, I se
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
If only the downsides of all regulations were so transparent and causally obvious to the public.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
If you are trying to make free market arguments for doctors salaries come on. The doctors guild restricts supply through the state. No free market here.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
FTL and antigravity violate physical law. Drexler’s designs just don’t. Point me to a design in Nanosystems the that is physically impossible to construct. The point of Nanosystems was to explore what technologies are feasible given our cur
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
It is the contention of Mr Ford of Hollywood that every science denier must be shaken out of modern politics, as one would shake moths and dust off of an old coat. What does he imagine he will have left? If you rid the pool of electable can
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I do not think you read the link. It is not about Drexler, but P. T. Barnum, which does not seem an apt comparison. Few would claim molecular assemblers are physically impossible. Drexler made claims about what was possible under physical l
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Explain?
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The twins were separated at birth.
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Gould was a paleontologist, not a geneticist. Gould's reputation is zero in evolutionary biology, an industrious fool. See this letter to the editor if you want to see what the giants of evolutionary biology thought of Gould: John Mayn
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
i) states will realise that a global competition in human enhancement is collectively irrational, and proscribe it through a robust international convention, e.g. as they have with chemical weapons, and nuclear weapons through the non-proli
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That is a question so hard we need a genetically engineered supergenius to solve it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
That is a logical possibility, yes. Imagine a town with a tradition of hitting each other on the heads with baseball bats. In terms of differences in individuals, empirically 60%-80% appears to be genetic: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I am afraid Paul Krugman's take on Gould is pretty accurate: "Now it is not very hard to find out, if you spend a little while reading in evolution, that Gould is the John Kenneth Galbraith of his subject. That is, he is a wonderf
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Whatever your normative beliefs, we do not live in unipolar world. Our options are constrained by our competition. If the west makes this technology illegal, we will eventually be in conflict in a technological landscape we are too dull to
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Education is more a filtering mechanism than an enrichment mechanism. Panning does not create gold. Regardless, 5 standard deviations is enormously huge. Every person born would be as smart as the most elite scientists today. The most elite
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The current fashion among the right-thinking in the west is to assume all characteristics are genetically heritable save for mental traits like intelligence, hand waving the twin studies which proved pretty conclusively that a huge portion
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
They are welcome to try. But it seems unlikely to work on China. If I was trying to maximize Chinese future influence I would do my best to support the unscientific Lysenkoism of the mind that is so fashionable in the west and so completely
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Eliminating mendelian disease is on the table too. We are on the verge of getting gobs and gobs of selection power. This will allow us to select on multiple dimensions simultaneously.
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The tourism angle mentioned is the real deal killer for these regulations. If you outlaw this, people like me (who think inflicting stupidly and ill-health on their children by withholding these technologies is morally wrong) will just fly
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See the other reply for the Georgist critique of land ownership. >Taxing landowners as if they control their own zoning would distort incentives in bizarre ways. They are already bearing the costs of not being able to fully develop their
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A) We are in an incentive trap. It sucks for property owners, but government subsidizing them with zoning laws needs to stop. If they are leveraged and lose all their money I don't care. They used the state to steal their rents and cap
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Increasing wages will not help as they will be captured by rising rents. I hate to get all Georgist here, but landowners are not creating economic value. In fact, by supporting zoning laws they are vastly worse than landowners historically.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>Tech companies now employ people, feed people, transport people, educate people, and now they house people. Pretty soon we'll be voting for which tech company governs our society. This seems like a good deal to me. Anytime I have i
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This is the comment you want to make on a board dedicated to startups? If a startup can gain power and then lobby to change zoning laws, even if they do it in a self serving manner that locks out competition, it would be such a vast improve

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