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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Thank you for your insightful comment! I agree with you on most points but would like to add another aspect to it. While I agree that we have somewhat of a personal responsibility to be moral and do the right thing, the pressures in a marke
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
It‘s always really surprising and also really interesting how debates about „free“ markets and corporate taxes seem to get snarky and somewhat personal/emotional pretty quickly. For example, instead of having an open mind about possibl
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
But things can change quickly if aktivists start to be perceived as credible. Germany decided to get out of Nuclear within a year of Fukushima (not the best move in hindsight, given Germanys reliance on coal at the moment...). We need to ma
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Campaign, advocate for and support clean meat as a viable alternative to conventional factory farmed animal products. Factory farming is one of the biggest source of carbon emissions worldwide and a switch to clean meat can – due to higher
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
I think in this thread two things might be conflated. Afaik not all digital nomads dodge taxes or do it purposefully to evade taxes as presented in the top post. So, everything I have been saying is coined to the specific situation outlined
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
I guess what is missing from your equation is that the model you are advocating for is not sustainable for large parts of the population. Just imagine everyone doing this, do you think the countries could still exist the way they do? It‘s a
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
You can still talk in economic terms by estimating value in others ways, e.g., using scientific models based on replacement rates, etc. I think that parent comment is spot on in saying that value determination based on what people are willi
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Care to elaborate for the unenlighted? Constructive discussion can actually help to educate people :)
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
One very easy and still possibly higly impactful way of making a difference without having to concern yourself too much with dangerous low probabilities events is to donate to charities which focus and work on these matters effectively. It
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Just as an counter example to your reasoning... there are actually whole movements of people focusing on dangerous low probability events to increase the odds of good worlds coming out of them. Given very real prospects like dangerous races
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Not an expert by any means but I would imagine you simply prefix your time with a specific „large-sclae time zone“ that you are moving in, e.g., it could be earth, another planet or your spacecraft. Wouldn‘t solve it completly but seems to
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Hey, sorry for getting back to you so late but I had a full weekend :) I am not an expert in the pharmaceutical space so take everything I say with a big grain of salt. I would think it could be possible to have some agency like NSF or FDA
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Thank you for your opinion! :) You make it sound like there is a hard barrier between these two options but like most things in reality it is a continuum. You can have mainstream R&D be publicly funded all the way and not necessarily re
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Thank you for your insightful comment. Specifically your last part sounds like an awesome approach to learn and remember. However, I see a lot of difficulty in sharing the resultant cards and getting comparable outcomes. You probably need
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Thanks for your comment! While I agree with your overall outline that „something“ is lost from current social media, I would argue that analytics or more specifically analtical mindset in general should not be blamed for this. Analytics is
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Very nice portfolio, thank you for sharing! I do have a somewhat unrelated comment, though. Looking through some of the examples, I have found an analysis of charity „effectiveness“ where effectiveness is defined very simplistically as the
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
Thank you for sharing your opinion! While I agree that the „move fast and break things“ mindset seems to work for general entrepenuership and innovation in the markets, I really hope that we won‘t follow this approach in developing AGI (art
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
A counter argument against this view, would be the heavy marketing of the new iPad as a content creation device for schools and creative people. Beware, simple frameworks like this might not capture the whole picture...
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
While I can certainly understand your sentiment, I would encourage you to not give up so easily... while it might not be so easy as to stumble upon meaningful jobs there are certainly opportunities that can be created and developed. For exa
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
I am on vacation in India right now and real life here seems to be exactly like the vision you are outlining... just walk around the city and every few meters people are offering you goods that you never knew existed... there is a fine line
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
funny thing is... there have already been basic income experiments in north america in the 70s [1]. As far as I know all experiments so far have never shown any substantial negative side effects and tended to show positive effects on work m
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by ace_of_spades 8y ago
If you care about helping the most cost effective charities with proven track records to deliver well researched interventions than you are doing the right thing! :) Thank you for investing the time to research and think about this topic! I
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
To repost an older comment of mine suggesting a new business model: Mhh, why not go with a kickstarter style payment scheme? Have a campaign to fund the operating budget, another one to fund feature a and another one to fund feature b. You
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
Mhh, why not go with a kickstarter style payment scheme? Have a campaign to fund the operating budget, another one to fund feature a and another one to fund feature b. You get user aligned prioritization for free while users are happy to be
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
If you are referring to the immigration example, it’s not that easy. By digging into this position you won’t really be able to reach people on the other side who on some level at least - do - have some justifiable grievances with some aspec
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
Reality is often more insidious than that... Most issues are (sadly) not of a binary nature but created through misunderstanding and different evaluation functions between parties. In general, every position has some „truth“ or „value“ to i
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
If you care about offsetting environmental costs of travelling, etc. consider donating to coolearth.org! About 70$ can offset an average carbon footprint for a whole year I think... It‘s one of the most effective charities against climate c
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
The difference between all the alternatives and FB is... that FB is intelligent and learning about you through your interactions, which on scale can make FB a lot more intelligent and powerful then the rest of us. Everything that raises fea
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
Thank you for your thougtful comment but I think you somewhat inflate two different points. On the one hand, there is sentience, on the other hand, there is our behavior towards other beings. You can certainly see the sentience in beings an
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by ace_of_spades 9y ago
I don’t have the first-hand source right now but according to Doing good better [1] a book by William McAskill on the topic of Effective Altruism, there is a strong correlation between individual choices and economic outcomes. For example

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