estearum

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by estearum 5mo ago
We don't know enough to say if people are transgender because their hormones are imbalanced, but we do have reason to believe that transgender people tend to have a distinctive hormone balance even prior to any hormonal therapies. Fo
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by estearum 5mo ago
Lmfao you think naturalizing makes you no longer a foreigner? How is it that you're immediately detectable as not-American on a messaging board then? Hint: It's the low-trust third-worlder attitude, which unfortunately the legal p
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by estearum 5mo ago
You should read Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is the single most informative book on politics I've ever read. Unfortunately the conclusion it points to is not great. But worth reading anyway!
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by estearum 5mo ago
Pandaman, 9 days ago: "When I moved to the US..." ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406788 ) Talk about projection, lmfao! Not even here long enough to prevent your weird writing quirks from revealing that yo
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by estearum 5mo ago
You seem very confused. Here's how it's detected: "There are 1000 ballots from this one address that has never had more than 3 ballots sent from it. We should look it up in our GIS and tax records and see how many people resi
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by estearum 5mo ago
Calling this administration an idiocracy is insanely generous
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by estearum 5mo ago
What...? Virtually every type of fraud is first detected by detection of a nominally legal but abnormal behavior, then it's investigated to figure out whether fraud actually occurred. That would – obviously – be exactly how any vot
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by estearum 5mo ago
Here was my request: > Can you describe the specific chain of events required to create a fraudulent vote that is "impossible" to detect? You literally just described a scheme that is possible to detect in any meaningful amou
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by estearum 5mo ago
Please don't refer to bribes as taxes. Extremely, extremely counterproductive.
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by estearum 5mo ago
> Did not you notice that this person has not been charged with voting with other people ballots (even though she was able and most likely did that) and only with paying to register? Such a charge would be very hard to stick. Huh? There
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by estearum 5mo ago
Okay so in this scenario, if this woman wanted to actually vote on behalf of these people, all she had to do was pay a bunch of people to register with her address, get 10, 30, 100, or 1000 ballots mailed to her address, then fill out all
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by estearum 5mo ago
You’re describing an attack that entails both hacking the SSN database, 1 to 50 of the state voter databases, then physically following mailmen around and stealing ballots…
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by estearum 5mo ago
Yes, more people should vote. Always funny when Trumpers try to this out as a gotcha lmao. As a believer in democracy, I think it's better that our government is more responsive rather than less responsive to the public.
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by estearum 5mo ago
Can you describe the specific chain of events required to create a fraudulent vote that is "impossible" to detect? Surely if you can confidently state the system not only is this way, but is purposely designed this way, you sh
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by estearum 5mo ago
Can you describe specifically how someone finds enough complaint-free absentee ballots and sick friends to vote at any meaningful scale? Doing this even 10 times seems unbelievably hard.
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by estearum 5mo ago
100% -- RCV is a super important part of this equation in the long run.
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by estearum 5mo ago
Well right... you also need to vote for the correct ("less-bad") people and get your friends to do the same. Voting for the worse people makes things worse.
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by estearum 5mo ago
Voting and getting everyone you know to vote
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by estearum 5mo ago
Henry George definitely did not advocate for UBI in the absence of already solving the problem of land rent capture. If you do solve that problem, then there are a million other solutions you can stack on top of it. If you don't solve
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by estearum 5mo ago
Wait why didn’t you excerpt the next few words in that second citation? Is it because you’d find the phrase “the bulk of,” which is clearly not “all of?” I get the sense you don’t even know what you’re arguing. Me: the bulk of the gains are
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by estearum 5mo ago
Huh? Here, let me flesh out the original claim so you can see the difference: > Like every single productivity improvement before it, the bulk of the gains of AI will be piled into land rents, which then gets diffused into the cost of ev
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by estearum 5mo ago
I don't recall Anthropic saying "Fable 5 is a doomsday device, here you go public!" I actually explicitly recall them saying "Fable 5 is a model we've deemed safe enough for public use." Has the government come
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by estearum 5mo ago
It's really not even leftwing. It's the purest form of capitalism, but it would move us closer to the leftwing utopia than any idea the Yangs of the world have ever proposed.
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by estearum 5mo ago
The thesis (pre-AI) is not "fewer jobs, less money." It's "more productivity, more money → higher land rents → upward pressure on everything → higher floor of economic productivity required for someone to earn a plot of
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by estearum 5mo ago
These are not incompatible with each other. If not for growth in land rents (which has no reason to exist given the complete lack of input costs), then each unit of labor would produce a more substantial improvement to their material circ
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by estearum 5mo ago
Like every single productivity improvement before it, the bulk of the gains of AI will be piled into land rents, which then gets diffused into the cost of everything that happens upon land (which is everything). Then we'll just remark
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by estearum 5mo ago
In reality there is basically no mechanism by which a large company (i.e. with a board) can do this so long as there is 1) significant profit motive and 2) no government intervention.
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by estearum 5mo ago
Actually there are specific confines that cannot be changed by majority. Might I refer you to the US Constitution, which itself constrains which laws are flexible and which are not, and which this administration has run afoul of now on hu
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by estearum 5mo ago
You realize that creating fear in the public, especially your political opposition (i.e. blue cities), using lawful or arguably-lawful means is absolutely a hallmark of fascism, correct?
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by estearum 5mo ago
Yeah just like if Volvo complained about automobile safety, imploring regulators to require safety belts, then one valid response would be the government just seizing all of Volvo's manufacturing equipment: problem solved! You: "F

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