chargingmarmot

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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
No. You're referring to the part of the article where it mentions Peter Thiel as a backer of an environmental non-profit started by a Dutch teenager, correct? If environmental non-profit startups count as big tech, then what doesn&#x27
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
The editors at the New Republic shouldn't have let this headline go to press. The article has almost nothing to do with "big tech"; it seems like the term is used just to invoke some group we're supposed to dislike.
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I thought this was an interesting read: https://mises.org/library/political-economy-antifederalists-... Things don't seem entirely one-sided with regard to free trade; e.g. you have anti-federalists concerned abou
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I find it interesting to learn that the founding fathers made some explicit comparisons to ancient democracies while arguing for the US constitution, e.g. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed63.asp (Relatedly,
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
Hmm, yeah, you make a compelling argument. Maybe I should stop worrying about problems I can't prevent and just focus on stockpiling ammunition. ;-)
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I worry that some form of Kessler syndrome [1] developing in the next 50 years seems very likely. I realize that this article is talking about laser- or cyber-based attacks, but turning space into a battleground seems like a disaster waitin
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
It seems ironic to make this statement on news.ycombinator.com: you do realize that Sam Altman was also president of Y Combinator some time, right? It's interesting how eye scanning seems so Orwellian and potentially oppressive even th
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by chargingmarmot 3y ago
I just wanted to complicate the story by pointing out that secular materialism is not new! All the ingredients are there in the philosophy put forward by Epicurus in 307 BC, which was widely known by the Romans and rediscovered by renaissan
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by chargingmarmot 4y ago
I'll take the opportunity to drop one of my favorite quotes from Herb Simon (Turing award and Nobel prize winner, artificial intelligence pioneer, father of behavioral economics, founder of CMU's Computer Science department): &quo