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by bluecalm 1y ago
Yeah but then laws need to be clear, understandable and possible to enforce fairly. What is X accused of specifically? "Algorithm manipulation" doesn't sound like a crime to me.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Do you think that they are dumb and unable to learn "few tricks"? They are just slow because they are humans. It's like in chess: if you calculate million times faster than a human you will win even if you're pre
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by bluecalm 1y ago
What you are missing about chess and go is that those games are not about finding one true solution. They are very psychological games (at human level) and are about finding moves that are difficult to handle for the opponent. You try to un
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Imo competitive math (or programming) is about knowing some tricks and then trying to find a combination of them that works for a given task. The number of tricks and depth required is much less than in go or chess. I don't think it&#x
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by bluecalm 1y ago
My view is that it's less impressive than previous go and chess results. Humans are worse at competitive math than at those games, it's still very limited space and well defined problems. They may hype "general purpose"
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Yeah it’s a completely fair playing field, it’s completely obvious that AI should be able to compete with humans in the same way that robotics and computers can compete with humanity (and are better suited for many tasks). Yeah same
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Now take that good one and compare them to a guy like Thibault Duplessis (Lichess author), look at his GitHub and commit history for Lichess and you will quickly realize that even with your 0.1x starting point 1000x engineers are out there.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Do you remember the EV offerings from European car companies back then? Ugly, weird shapes, "futuristic" features instead of utility. They made those because regulation requires them to but they didn't really want to sell ma
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Not a very convincing article in my view. >>Take, for example, the case of surveying land for oil. Imagine a landowner invests significant time, money, and effort into exploring their property to determine whether it contains untapped
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I think we can't make LVT the only tax. Other good taxes are consumption taxes, pollution taxes, resource usage taxes. You can also add some business revenue taxes like recently popular idea in EU of a digital tax. I would also tax IP
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by bluecalm 1y ago
It's a good point. Usually farms are on land classified as agricultural and residential buildings are on residential land. It's easy to design a system that values residential land higher (because it's in fact more valuable i
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by bluecalm 1y ago
But land is a scarce resource, at least desirable land. Blaming existing houses is exactly what you should do because instead of them you could build higher density.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>I agree with many of the arguments here about the theoretical impacts of a land value tax, especially the section "an LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land" which is often overlooked or glossed over in these dis
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by bluecalm 1y ago
My point is that it's written in a way that makes malicious compliance possible. One way to improve it would be to make it clear you can't require any consent before providing your service. It's either necessary or don't
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by bluecalm 1y ago
With GDPR it matters how countries incorporate it in their law and that doesn't work in practice. >>GDPR actually says that it’s illegal to condition content or services on the acceptance of tracking Good intentions, doesn't
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Good job Europe, keep blazing a trail which I hope my country eventually decides to follow. While GDPR had some good intentions the way it implemented in practice just makes things more difficult for consumers and changes little. Fo
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by bluecalm 1y ago
One thing that can hurt them is a shift from current neural networks to something that is more sequential in nature and thus better suited for a CPU. One scenario is that maybe a smaller NN is enough for most tasks but you have to train it
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by bluecalm 1y ago
In many places people wouldn't ask because it's completely unrealistic to get it. Regions struggle to get a bit more independence from the central government. An own currency is completely unrealistic. Your argument doesn't
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by bluecalm 1y ago
There are exceptions. For example I can't remove your name, address, IP address and other data if my tax authority requires them for VAT identification (if you bought something from me).
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Idk about danger. There are countries with better functioning democracy and personal freedom than US that make it illegal to use an app that warns about speed traps. For example Switzerland. In multiple other countries you also can't f
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by bluecalm 1y ago
There shouldn't be tax on income. There should be tax on assets. Don't tax income from land, tax land value. This also avoids a loophole that buying land and doing nothing on it means you pay very little taxes while patiently wait
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Modafinil 50-100mg or micro dose of long release amphetamine like Vyvanse.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
In myy experience it works even better with a stimulant with a smoother curve than caffeine and optionally a bit more intensive (but still on lighter side) exercise.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>Why should people living an a country not pay tax in that country? its a general principle that you pay tax on your income to the government of the country you live in. Terrible principle. You should pay proportionally to what you u
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by bluecalm 1y ago
What assets? Land can't be moved, company offices can't be moved. Just tax what you control and let others tax what they control. Why do you care if I have a pile of gold stored in Barbados. It doesn't influence your country
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>The western economies are growing (barely) at around 1-2% per year. The wealthy (since pandemic) grow their wealth at 10-20% per year. Imagine you are in Germany: -you have a business that has modest profitability of 4% per year (pr
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>>This is not so much about income inequality, but about making sure that the rich actually pay their taxes, or even more proportionally to their wealth when compared to lower income individuals. Sounds like you want to tax assets. Ev
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by bluecalm 1y ago
Why would you compare a unit of work (say an hour) to a cumulative index? It just doesn't make any sense to compare those two values.
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by bluecalm 1y ago
I don't understand why politicians call for taxing assets but fail to tax assets they control in their own country. Why are super rich non-doms a problem in UK? Oh, they own a lot of land and real estate? You can tax it right there. Or
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by bluecalm 1y ago
>> perfectly fine businesses being closed and employees being laid off because they don't give double-digit returns Sounds like an opportunity to me. >>empty shop spaces because it would diminish their value to lower the re

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