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What is an example of something that, in your view, would simplify this complexity?
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Opportunity costs hugely outweigh the present value of money in this case. Especially given current risk-free rates.
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> Because there is no I in AI. This. In a nutshell every sort of algorithm we call "AI" today is reductive pattern matcher. This limitation isn't due to computational capacity or even, IMO, algorithm design, but due to our
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It's always hard to talk about history that didn't transpire but yes, due to technological change similar to IBM.
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That's not universal. Good example here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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Why is increasing efficiency always net good?
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It's very hard for a corporation to get large without explicit or implicit government support. Truly competitive markets do not allow monopolies to develop in the long-term.
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One of the ideas behind federalism was that government / the state need not have a monopoly on everything. Corporate monopolies usually only persist due to two reasons: regulatory barriers or technological stagnation. Both are solvable
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There are many types of relations that were referred to as slavery throughout history. The common, vernacular English definition does refer to chattel slavery and there is an onus during discussion to make oneself clear. Having said that, e
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The situation was almost the same in the Classical world. The only difference being the debt relationship was personal and not institutional. You can do whatever you want while you pay back loans today as long as you keep your contact infor
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Tax enforcement prioritization roughly follows the shape of wealth/income distribution. Focusing on the long-tail isn't impactful, as far as fiscal concerns go. You'd achieve about the same result tax wise w/ muscular KY
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Sounds really close to the current student loan regime in the US when you think about it.
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> And I'm at the point where I think social media needs to be heavily regulated to stop society from imploding. It's just too powerful, too harmful of a tool as is. Heavy regulation would seem like a good solution, except it do
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> In fact, large companies and enormous capital are required to take things from a "disruptive innovation" to a household name, to say nothing of providing an exit for SV startups. I think this is becoming less and less true, u
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> is our inability as a community to once and for all define a solid foundation for the principles of computing Is this possible? If code is a social construction as you say, then wouldn't it be impossible to arrive at this point un
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Not everyone is able to stick to a schedule. This can be for internal reasons such as akrasia as the sibling comment mentions or for external reasons due to being in chaotic environment and not being able to change that.
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One straightforward approach would be to make it possible to actually make things in the U.S. again. Reducing regulation, encouraging tax subsidies for small manufacturers, welcoming immigrant entrepreneurs with open arms i.e. startup visa
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I understand the distinction between advertising and building brand awareness. It doesn't sound like Uber was doing the latter. It also doesn't take away that if you're advertising to an audience who'd have come to you a
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> as key to their current standing. It seems like it would be important to measure this standing and turn down spend once it is reached. I can see how there's a lack of incentive to help large advertising spenders understand this.
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That still doesn't address the GP point, advertising doesn't matter if you can get customers coming to you organically. Business size changes the odds of that, irrespective of that if the customers would have come to you anyway (a
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Does this mean that all of the so-called "small business needs it" arguments against durable federal privacy legislation are totally moot?
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> Goldman Sachs doesn't get hurt by a minimum wage, but small business owners, such as those running a convenience store, do. Goldman Sachs is a red herring in this argument. The ones hurt most are the very poor who never have a cha
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The article mentions poor incentive structure around development of better disease models as an obstacle for some of the drug categories, is that an area where either the federal govt or the industry as a whole can step in and develop a col
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What would you have done differently from what the policymakers have done? And how would you account for potentially undesirable second-order effects? (Which were quite massive for most of the obvious alternatives.)
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> At best it can be "Assumed" that logic is true. What exactly gives you the right to do that? And why is your reason any better than a different one provided by someone else who wants to argue the opposite? > Replace "
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> it must assume probability and logic is true. True in what sense? I appreciate the rigor you're trying to bring to this discussion. Most of the points regarding logic you raise here and in your other replies on the thread have bee
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> The main connection in those two areas is that science assumes logic and probability are part of reality. That's definitely not the case with respect to science, which is empirical and not rationalist. What you're describing
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Indeed, no rule like the "be the first" promulgated here can be universalized across all situations. It does encourage urgency which makes it a useful heuristic and not much else.
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> The language I'm about to use pains me, but this is an extremely privileged take, or at least naive take I think the take outlined later in the post is the privileged take. Sure those who are lucky enough to be accepted into a sch
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Anarchism is akin to that annoying team member who wants to do a ground up rewrite of a crufty yet more or less functional codebase whilst insisting on repeating every mistake possible and developing a case of excess earwax when someone tri

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