ZhuanXia

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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Demand curves have negative slopes. The esoteric reading of minimum wage is it is a accelerationist policy aimed at subsidizing automation.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
If you vote it illegal here, I will just fly to Singapore. You will only make things more unequal.
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>If workers are better off without organization, maybe the same is true on the management side? Instead of big companies, we should have individual managers on their own, employing a team as a sole proprietor. This actually has some inte
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
And, in fact, it has happened before.
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Companies that big have maintain a weird balance between a strategy tax and eating your own dogfood.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
China’s average IQ is 105 to 107. Even if you think their factory workers are below average they are probably higher than 100.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I am a Georgist too! Can’t bring myself to buy land.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
My model is that as median labour power decreases capital and superstars should capture a larger percentage of future productivity increases. And automation should provide huge productivity increases. This seems compatible with index funds
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I remember reading Average is Over and A Fairwell to Alms just when I first started working. They convinced me that labour power was going to decline precipitously. I stared saving 60+% of everything I made and putting it into index funds.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I did not say 1000 times smarter. I said 5+ standard deviations. John von Neumann had an IQ 5+ SD above the mean. We know this phenotype is possible. It is not science fictional to think we can raise the average to at least his point. In an
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Forcing stupidly and mediocrity on our children is the opposite of morality. They could be so much more than us.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
>This is, of course, assuming that we can freely increase intelligence with no repercussions -- are these high IQ individuals at risk of [schizophrenia]( http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/000607.html )
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
It does not work like you would intuitively think, where smart people have special unique alleles that make them so smart, instead they have a higher proportion of common alleles that have a slight positive effect on IQ and a lower proporti
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
I know that; I said "causal variants" not "causal variant." It will take hundreds of edits to raise IQ several SDs. I think this will be very feasible in 10 to 20 years.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Exactly, it is overdetermined. In the west we have Lysenkoists on the left (who refuse to acknowledge that intelligence is even heritable) and on the right we have people who believe embryos have souls. Asia has none of these problems, and
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Anyone paying attention to cognitive genomics knows wide-spread germ-line engineering is inevitable. The gains are just too great. Once we know the causal variants, raising IQ by 5+ standard deviations will be very feasible. In the short te
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Canada is nice and all but China has a Japan-level quality of human capital and an enormous population. Anything we can do they will be able to do, and probably better. Absent crazy stuff like AGI or genetic engineering changing the source
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
Disney was a great genius, and his charter city was extremely ambitious. It is amazing how far he got. I think he may have succeeded if he had lived. EPCOT is an insult to his vision.
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by ZhuanXia 7y ago
The esoteric read on this, then, is it is a bet on fusion.
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
They did not create the land. Read the Georgist critique of land ownership for the details.
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Sort of ironic as I always think of Amazon as the most Chinese of the FANG companies
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Paul Dirac: Projective Geometry and the Origin of Quantum Equations [pdf](atomicprecision.com)
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Pharmaceutical research is very broken. It is startling how ineffective all but a few drugs are. Medical Nihilism by Jacob Stegenga is a great book on the topic.
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Don't forget the doctor's guild limiting supply of doctors.
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Scott Alexander has a good post on bird intelligence here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/25/neurons-and-intelligen... Though they have much smaller brains, there is evidence to suggest that their brains
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by ZhuanXia 8y ago
China has the highest quality human capital in the world and a huge population. There is nothing we can do that they cannot. It is a shame how things are turning in China. There was always the potential for greater authoritarianism and it s
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Multi-Stage Bean Machine Visualization(gwern.net)
2 points by ZhuanXia 8y ago|0 comments
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We used to do this on LessWrong back in the day; people would write or study math in a video chat room. It was surprisingly effective.
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Until people start talking about dismantling zoning laws, I don't take them seriously when they say they care about homelessness. We deeply care about homelessness. Yes, we've systematically made dormitory housing illegal, but we
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>The amount of resources and thus damage that an individual in a basement can do is rather limited. It is for now. We will get to a point where a negative utilitarian with accesses to genome synthesis technology will be able to kill tens

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