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4y ago
You're saying Joe Biden or Trump or Kamala Harris should have the ultimate authority over growth? Those are the people you trust to cap human potential?
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4y ago
Who should be the authority on good growth vs. bad growth? Should this extend to caps on individual wealth aswell? Who should decide how rich people can get AND how much growth can happen? Seems like you're just changing masters.
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corbulo
4y ago
Does your biology analogy stretch to macroevolution aswell?
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4y ago
Continuous growth is necessary to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If there cannot be continuous growth, who becomes the arbiter of human potential? People who call growth cancer? You can't be serious.
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4y ago
The problem is how 'health' is defined (or lackthereof) and overprescription of drugs. It doesn't really seem like the medical industry is going in any particular direction other than developing more subscription drugs (whos
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4y ago
I think that scenario is actually the opposite of the train regulatory environment. Cars have been really overregulated for years(how many major car brands are new in the last 50 years?). I've worked on post-2000 cars; it's not fa
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4y ago
>GQP Why use such zealous partisan terms? Do you not see how it makes you sound? What is your objective, to persuade or to polarize?
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4y ago
Tether is about 10000x shadier than anything SBF had cooking.
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4y ago
Thats a very culturally specific issue. If you have a low-trust culture you're absolutely correct. If you have a different kind of culture, such as in Japan, thats incorrect. Finance is a great example sector in your favor because it i
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4y ago
>slow moving vehicle When train lengths are miles long, how else could you practically do it? The industry is clearly structured around anti-inspection. Inspecting 3 miles worth of traincars just so one single train can leave is kind of
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4y ago
Why do you need freedom of speech? Just be nice! This might be the most British comment ive ever replied to
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4y ago
The thermals on that would be difficult to deal with I think. Snapdragon had thermal problems for a long time. Have they solved it? What did they end up doing?
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4y ago
I'm beginning to envy those who are well versed in xkcd
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4y ago
Facebook sees that and will raise you digital resurrection of your dead family members to tell you they think [product] is amazing and really works! and You support [political candidate]? They raised you to be better than that!
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4y ago
>Where your argument falls down, however, is that you're making it sound like a choice between the toxic chemical pollution from "clean" energy and the greenhouse gas pollution from coal, gas and oil. It's not. Burnin
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4y ago
"It's the economy, stupid"
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4y ago
Oh its much better (though there are still other issues with it, local ecology for one). Just don't call it clean, green or renewable.
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4y ago
They're usually more about strongly opposing the appearance of releasing harmful chemicals. See Nuclear Energy NIMBYism, lithium/ cobalt mining, emissions and supply chain required to make solar panels, and wind turbine blade disp
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4y ago
I'm always fascinated by the dichotomy of the evil hitler hyper-competent sub 100IQ billionaire who became president illustrated in every one of these types of comments. You could literally just read his executive orders to figure out
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4y ago
Not everything a politician said was true, therefore if you read NYT and WaPo you're more well informed than the President. Amazing.
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4y ago
Where do you people get briefed? The guy was fucking President
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4y ago
It's amazing to me how consistent the refusal is to think people you don't like might be rational. It leads to repeated underestimation. they're doing the people they don't like a favor by attributing everything to proje
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4y ago
Those are all points that none of the studies on this subject address. Because they're crap studies. The premise is flawed in every one of them.
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4y ago
There's innumerable market sectors where 4 day work weeks wouldn't work. It's proof of how half baked the idea is that it wasn't even addressed. It makes the broadest generalizations with no hedging.
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4y ago
>That's a strawman argument for this study, which is not anecdotal but a large scale study with a statistically significant cohort. I never said it was anecdotal. Quite the opposite. Do you know what p hacking is? The number of meth
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4y ago
You could argue increasing the constraints on a LLM would actually be restricting it from becoming AGI (whatever it even means).
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4y ago
It attracts more investment
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4y ago
Ethics are often a function of intelligence. If you want to preserve what you create or the decisions you make, ethics are what dictate its lifespan. Being able to see many orders of consequence down the line is what ethics is about. Which
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4y ago
Or maybe there are other relationships at play? Could it be not because its the 5th day, but because its the 'final stretch' to the weekend and would therefore apply to any final day of any workweek? In my experience, i've se
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4y ago
Can you define what that means without using socioeconomic-class terms?
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