arduanika

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by arduanika 7mo ago
Employ atomized logic, reach atomized conclusions.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Lol, you did the meme. "Pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible".
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by arduanika 7mo ago
> Porn is not illegal. Do you believe that there is anything that is legal yet immoral? If an industry is legal, is it automatically good to dedicate your life to growing and spreading it to all corners of society, so long as it makes yo
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by arduanika 7mo ago
You nailed it! The only way I could possible believe in any constraints on the free market is that I am Monty Python's cartoon of a Catholic. Well done. There is no such thing as a healthy or unhealthy society. Only money. This guy mad
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by arduanika 7mo ago
The flip side is that if you make a thing smooth, profitable, and safe-feeling, you get more of it, as any economist can tell you. Also, as any sociologist can tell you, when you make a fringe thing feel normal among young people, you get a
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by arduanika 7mo ago
The family of the OF user is not the only family affected by this general decay. Indeed, when you normalize sex work, some families never even form. There's such a thing as a social fabric. Libertarianism is willful ignorance, and take
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by arduanika 7mo ago
That's big of you, given that he showed no concern for anybody else's family. What's terrible is to spend your life ripping apart society.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
What a curse, to die with not one but two forms of cancer.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Sure: pay your monthly subscription fee, and it keeps being your friend.
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by arduanika 7mo ago
> The Viet Cong disputes the reporting and furthermore publishes death threats against the American journalist. So here, your hypothetical already diverges from the story under discussion. As far as I can tell from TFA, it is not someone
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Hmm, okay, I can see that. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the frequency of prediction markets articles on here. From that perspective, I see where you're coming from. I was miffed by the "here" in your "I
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by arduanika 7mo ago
"Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal." ― Chuck Norris
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Yes, I read your message. > At no point do I say the oracle target should be private Yeah, that's why I said that Case 1 (the one where you actually read TFA) was unlikely. I included it out of charity, because it was the only way I
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by arduanika 7mo ago
(Oh, I see now what you meant. Cool.)
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Yeah. It's not obvious how to do it. I just wish that policy people would do some thinking in this direction. (Nit: I believe that in venture contexts, LP = "limited partners". A "liquidity provider" usually means t
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Not quite, but only because the FTX case was weird. Many individuals from around the world were users . They didn't sign up to be investors, or even to be depositors in a banking sense, and so not all of them were qualified/accre
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Yes, maybe. The optimal number of scandals is sadly not zero, and any given piece of legislation tends to overreact, fighting the last battle without seeing all the potential second-order consequences. Even the most carefully-crafted laws a
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Listing on a public exchange is not a requirement, but it is generally a boon to the public interest. The theory is that if we close the gap in regulatory burden between public companies and large private companies, then maybe we'll se
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Now we're discussing "audio frequencies"? My gosh, you really are off the deep end, aren't you. If you want to effect change, then state your critique precisely, or not at all. Your looney top-level comment has derailed
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Yeah. It seems like one of these two things is true: Case 1. sam0x17 has read TFA carefully and he is proposing, without spelling it out very well, that the oracle should point at anonymous deciders instead of at vetted outlets with well-kn
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by arduanika 7mo ago
This is a serious news story that should be concerning to all sides, including people who are generally pro-markets. Thus, I wish that we had produced a top comment that was critical of Polymarket without being deranged. (Libertine? Adam Sm
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by arduanika 7mo ago
It doesn't matter whether you've misrepresented him? It doesn't matter whether the ideas you cite to him are ones that he actually held? Are there any cases where truth matters to you? I hope that this is just a rare exceptio
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by arduanika 7mo ago
It's a big deal to me! I have a bet riding on this! If the mods don't change the headline to contain the word "rewrite" by midnight PST, then... eh, nvm, I probably shouldn't even joke about this. (To be clear, this
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Can you name anything about this news story that couldn't have happened in a non-Israeli context? Or does the Israel angle just draw you in like a moth to a flame, until it's the only word in the whole article you can really read?
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Surely you can see the difference between dealing in a legitimate asset like a government bond, which requires a market of buyers and sellers, versus this new extraneous layer of prediction contracts, where the only defensible economic purp
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by arduanika 7mo ago
Is it that surprising? Elsewhere in the thread, people are discussing the best smear tactics!
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by arduanika 8mo ago
Sure, Palantir is just one tool in the chain, and it's a lot more boring than people make it out to be. On the other hand, a comment like yours does smack a bit of "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down."
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by arduanika 8mo ago
> be the king Which of these two CEOs wants to have an unelected spot in the decision loop of our government? Once I dug into this story, I realized that only one of these companies was attempting a real power grab. Maybe the EAs are doo
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by arduanika 8mo ago
It's hard for laypeople to comprehend such large numbers. Could you add a counter that measures it in miles of California high-speed rail? It's got to be over three miles by now at least.
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by arduanika 8mo ago
Depends. Did you incite crimes?

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