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This is why I disagree with the zeitgeist that says this is due to economics. We have less kids because people don't want them. If you wanted them you'd have them.
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My experience supervising employees in CA and Texas. It's also just an inconvenience on businesses. I'd be giving my Texas employees grace time off all the time to move. My opinion. Sucks to not be able to live in your home
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Yes people in Texas have to move a ton because as property prices go up so do their taxes. With California, you control how much income you earn. In Texas, people moving to your neighborhood can price you out even after you've bought .
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Houses are cheaper because there is no appreciation. Ca appreciation is high and the appreciation more than covers the tax though
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Don't take into account the higher appreciation in California . I disagree about the safety net. I was a high earning California resident (mid six) and when I was laid off, I got my unemployment and my kids got free Medicaid that ended
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Texas has high property taxes. This causes people to need to move. It also spurs construction causing prices of homes to stay flat. For the typical homeowner, the total combined appreciation of your home in CA combined with the savings from
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A lot end up moving back and are upset they don't get their prop13 savings. California becomes cheaper the longer you live in it. Texas doesn't
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people move to Texas thinking it has low taxes. It doesn't. Washington state has a much lower tax burden. For a normal earner, California has a lower tax burden than Texas. It is surprisingly insanely high tax. Of course California als
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You believe in the scientific method because it's commonly accepted but it's not necessarily true. Seeing that you have consciousness and assuming things like you do as well is a logical error. It may be true, but your way of know
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The majority of Americans own stock and most of that is investments in the S and P 500. This is probably the closest any nation has gotten to mass public ownership of the means of production. Certainly more so than explicitly communist nati
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Monopoly may lead to wealth inequality but you're confusing causation with correlation. Witnessed wealth inequality does not necessarily signal large scale monopoly
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The current richest man on the planet makes his money not from economic rent but from first mover advantage in the electric car market, first mover advantage in the private space market, and first mover advantage in the online payments mark
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In what way is any of this wealth distribution harmful to free enterprise? The things actually harmful to free enterprise are not even on this chart.
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I didn't say we can't know anything. I said we can't know everything. I cannot say for certain whether or not someone else experiences consciousness. > Different waves behave sufficiently differently from each other that I
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The weights are uninteresting. People need to get out of their head that NNs are built on numbers. They're built on matrices, which are conveniently representable as numeric arrays, but are their own thing. Similarly, the rational numb
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I have no evidence anyone else is conscious besides an innate human desire to believe myself to be like everyone else. If we step away from our internal biases, you'll discover that 'producing behaviors similar enough to yours&#x2
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There are two reasons I've seen that people are homeless. The first reason, prevalent in third world countries, is because people are ostracized from society by people who don't consider them fully people. See tribal conflicts in
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Not judge no. Implement and create a working MVP, yes of course. And yes, I fire off ideas all over. Many require predicting the future to decide what to focus my individual effort on. This is a terrible way to do things because humans (and
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I feel the opposite. My brainstorming has increased rapidly. I can now just throw ideas at an LLM to rapidly validate.
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Chatgpt acts as if it experience subjective internal states..this only solidifies my belief that perhaps some people don't? I mean.... ?
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Gilded age is one of the GOATed times in America though.
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No ones labor is worthless. Guys this is so retarded but I understand why tech people find this difficult. Humanity runs off of romance. This is not sexual romantic love but rather the thrill of other human people. An AI cannot provide this
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America is a communist nation since the majority of the populace holds the majority of the productive capacity in joint ownership
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We have no data. Is it that we are not like rocks or trees, or is it that we simply 'feel' different than a rock and a tree. Perhaps a tree is aware of itself but is unable / unwilling / unbothered enough to do something
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The inability to predict times is because AIs are rarely trained on their own abilities. Humans are trained on our own abilities. We see our own performance, and we have a sense of time. this data is integrated during our training process a
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You can also take the opposite view as you and claim that only some humans experience consciousness, or even more strongly, only you, since you have no evidence. You are correct that, in my perception, some other people have fallen into the
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A bit off-topic, but I feel like humanized monoclonal antibody treatments are so under-appreciated today despite showing efficacy against a broad class of diseases, infectious, auto-immune, and even some cancers. Absolutely amazing class of
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This has nothing to do with p v np. An AI has no will. Even if superior to our abilities it just does what we tell it.
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If turmeric had health benefits, we would expect India to be the world leader in that particular benefit. There are so few areas in which India is a leader that the answer is obviously no. Like I get that turmeric is exotic and that a lot o
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Trees being burned down is not a valid argument against AI as we have unlimited energy available should we choose to build it.

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