adambaybutt

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by adambaybutt 4y ago
Happy to see HN comments largely explaining how the author of the Politico article wrote an ignorant dunk on free trade. Maybe there are some folks around here who still believe in liberty and are optimistic about technological progress.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/11/ai-outperform... among others
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Ah, fair. Yea, perhaps the capitalism we have tried is the closest that is practically possible. I think we overweight how many people in society do not know what to do with cash. I think we may say that we believe they can do something bet
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Depends how medical advice is defined, but AI has been shown to be better than humans in several contexts already, e.g. radiology.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
A society built via capitalism just gives people what they want; not maximizing some arbitrary objective function. We currently have no capitalist societies on earth.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
He's seems open to the idea that it is just a transfer to a citizen's brokerage account which could be a service provided by the private market.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Exactly. Sam isn't a politician or policymaker. He is trying to contribute ideas for others to improve and implement.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Technology has reduced costs of goods and services by orders of magnitude more than any public policy. But yes I do agree iterating to improve public policy is important too. Hence the organization of Sam's essay to reflect this.
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Sam's proposal doesn't avoid the wealth tax compounds simple arithmetic that PG notes. And yes many important questions for society to answer on this, e.g. how much does is disincentivize entrepreneurs if they have half of their w
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by adambaybutt 6y ago
Altman isn't arguing that Moore's Law DOES apply to everything but rather than we should work toward such a world. It is good for society if the costs of goods and services decrease over time to allow a given income/wealth le