bofadeez

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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Mass murder is about as far as you can get from banal. It's an extremely rare tragedy to experience. But we're talking about two things: one is a violent crime and one is a civil matter involving a squatter. The building owners do
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Last sentence went a little insane.
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No, just an example of a traditional American capitalist value, as requested. Now you want something that's exclusive to America? Why? I don't think you have a point.
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Property rights
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Yeah it violates property rights. Fundamental to capitalism, derp
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
You're presuming they're willing to present themselves to the AI dishonestly for material gain. That's probably a fair assumption.
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Value isn’t something society measures or adds up by people’s bank balances; it’s just how much each individual personally wants something, and markets show this only through voluntary choices, not by declaring rich people’s gains more impo
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Fuel excise taxes (roads) and property taxes (local stuff)
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
We don't need taxes to pay a UBI. If "every country" is in debt, who owns the debt exactly? ... (it's not real debt)
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Roads should be (and are in many places) paid for with fuel excise taxes only. The more you drive, the more you pay.
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
No obviously not. Lots of machines replace workers. Why would taking scarce resources away from productive businesses and allocating to unproductive things be good for anyone other than government bureaucrats?
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
That's pretty interesting if true. It must be because you're the only one still doing it. Using techniques just for your idiosyncratic inbox doesn't make sense to a spammer. But if every inbox was only doing this, then your e
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Alleged_CIA_...
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
What a bigoted remark. Someone flag it!! (lol)... You're not being gaslit, no no, you're just a crazy person whose perception of reality is flawed. Epstein never existed at all, it's just your imagination, okay? Yes or yes? S
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Wow, great point. Video games encourage heterodoxical thinking rather than blindly following the narrative. So you're saying we should develop and promote more Assassin's Creed type games to reduce overall gullibility, as a public
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
That doesn't work alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning Bayesian filters are basically just a cheaper / worse version of what an LLM filter would do. Very easy to beat. Especially if the spam
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
Maybe it's my WARP connection but it's showing almost no useful info. "Unknown" for almost everything.
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by bofadeez 10mo ago
You mean like LLM filters? Right now it's all reputation based on IP and domain with a whole ecosystem of anti-spam companies like Spamhaus, SenderScore, ProofPoint, etc. Using NLP / LLM spam filtering would presumably be either i
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
Sure, running a business in kleptocratic hellholes is a nightmare. Confiscation risks kill private investment, especially for big infrastructure that needs stable property rights and enforceable contracts to make sense. But that's not
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
I’m not arguing that centralized or state-capitalist systems “never work” in the sense that nothing gets built, or that output can’t rise. Clearly roads, ports, power plants, and factories were constructed in many of the cases you listed. T
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
Higher variance isn’t a redeeming feature when the mechanism that generates it lacks rational calculation in the first place. Central direction can occasionally coincide with growth in poor countries because initial scarcity leaves many was
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
The fact that infrastructure was built under state capitalism does not demonstrate the superiority of central planning, only that capital accumulation occurred despite intervention, often financed by prior scarcity, foreign savings, or coer
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
State capitalism like you described totally undermines the price system by replacing profit-and-loss–guided entrepreneurial calculation with political allocation of resources, thereby rendering economic calculation increasingly impossible a
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
I know they're supposed to be smarter than a year ago but you could have fooled me I'm in a loop with Opus 4.5 telling it "be logically consistent" and then it says "you're absolutely right" and proceeded
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
Meanwhile Google does not have to raise money and they're profitable whether AI works or not.
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
It started that way. I was responding to the assumption that time is the underlying variable of all economics. Then someone said everything reduces to time and they brought up Black-Scholes, a quant tool to price options. I didn't bri
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
> Although, one can use either discrete or continuous time to simulate a complex economic system. A very bad model that lacks accuracy and precision, yes. Maybe if you're a PhD quant at Citadel then you can create a very small stati
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
They can all be related on a philosophical level but in practice economists treat them as separate factors of production. It's land, labor, and capital classically. Technology/entrepreneurship can be seen as another factor, distin
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
> Time is the underlying variable of all economics Not quite. It's scarcity, not time. Scarcity of economic inputs (land, labor, capital, and technology). So "time" you mean labor and that's just one input. Economics
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by bofadeez 11mo ago
My point is that it's always available whether it's legal or not. It's always available. It's just a question of how much violence, impurity, and price gouging you want to create by making it illegal. That's the onl

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