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by martin-t 1y ago
And this is why I say that people are not and can not be equal, despite how uncomfortable it makes everyone. Everybody has a "right to an opinion" but some people's opinions are fundamentally invalid because they are not cons
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Nobody said it's a conspiracy. It's simple specialization. Some people are good at productive positive-sum work, others are good at office politics, manipulation and scams. The latter are good at accumulating power to extract valu
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And that's why I say power must always come from the bottom. Many people have anti-social traits which manifest by seeking power and then using it to extract value from other people at their expense. Meanwhile the people doing real wor
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I can recommend reading ACOUP to any technically minded person even if it's about history. I haven't had the time to read this series yet but I can recommend for example his articles about the industrial revolution, making of iron
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Today's social structures exist because they evolved through history and shifting incentives. I sometimes wonder if we could design a better system today taking today's knowledge of psychology (and psychopathology) into account an
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As long as the student doesn't record him saying something that could be understood as a sexual remark out of context and/or claim he patted her on the buttocks and a friend who never likes the teacher because of bad grades backs
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$3000 per book is laughable given they can then use the book as much as they want and if they build a good enough model, it'll completely obviate the need for the book. Copyright designed at a time when reproducing work in way which wa
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Can you name it?
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Say you're a parent or teacher and see kids fighting. Do you investigate who started it every single time or do you just get fed up and tell them to stop fighting or you'll punish both? Incentivizing victims to behave in certain w
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Your argument boils down to state having the upper hand so you have to play by their rules. And that's the reality. That's why I described the difference between provability and reality. You also seem to think that I am too quick
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A lot of people don't care. A lot of people who care are unable to do anything about it because representative democracy is too indirect. And yes, I think a lot of people don't fundamentally understand this, otherwise things like
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I am not against specialization. I am against some specializations getting paid per unit of work regardless of the market value of their product while other specializations get paid a cut of the market value. I am against positions of power
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> You described a “primitive” legal system I didn't describe a legal system at all. But it is certainly a modern way of thinking that one always needs some higher "authority" to resolve disputes or to defend against injust
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In addition to what the other commenter said, it's virtue signaling.
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Yes, I won't pretend it's clear cut or that the numbers without context mean much. How I see it: - Victimhood works when there is somebody to appeal to or other people to gain support from. - Violence works when there's no hi
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Is how they evolved relevant? When somebody protests against the government itself, the legal system doesn't even matter, unless it has a mechanism how people can secede legally. Do any have that? When I meant is that victimhood works
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Sorry to see you getting downvoted or flagged but that's HN for you. Issue is many people believe that peace is more important than justice. Or that fighting and losing is worse than not being able to fight at all. And there's a b
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In primitive societies where people are expected to resolve their own problems because everyone is roughly equal, violence is the principal currency, for better or worse. But in "civilized" societies with multiple layers of power
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You can't make people care. Not by telling them they should care. They have to experience. Unfortunately, with dictatorship, once you are experiencing it, it's already too late. --- The reasons democracies slide towards less freed
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Alright, so I read your story and I disagree with you even more now. You had the system used against you and yet you still defend it. The system was specifically used against you by ignoring who initiated and escalated the conflict and by i
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> I don’t mean to direct this entirely at you I don't buy this. "Get help" is a well-known gaslighting tactic used by abusers to discredit their target. It does not make sense in a "generic" sense. > You will
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> I take issue with this as an innocent bystander, because I don’t know what you know if the transgression happened previously to me happening upon you killing them. I cannot parse this sentence. In any case, I say that when you have the
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You didn't understand what I wrote. Of course you need to sell your product but as a builder you can do it yourself. It's not your specialty so you likely will be worse at it than a dedicated person and will have less time for act
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> the justice system Lately, I've come to hate this phrase. It's the legal system, not justice system.[0] One reason is that legality is limited by provability - the people working for the legal system, even if they intended to
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Y'know, I used to say 1.5-2x, now I lean towards 2x but 3x is actually fine by me too. And for any kind of financial crimes, this should also be divided by the probability of getting caught and convicted.
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Now the question is how to get the message out and change how it works. Because this can't be that hard to understand even for the average person.
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> knowledge should be free Knowledge costs money to gain/research. Are you saying people who do the most valuable work of pushing the boundaries of human knowledge should not be fairly compensated for their work?
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And no doubt you understand that this is the current state, not a stable equilibrium. They'll either go out of business or make better models paid while providing only weaker models for free despite both being trained on the same data.
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Funny that you say that because at some point I started dividing people in my head into what I call builders and redistributors: - Builders produce food, mine resources, build houses/machines, do research, provide essential services, e
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There's two interpretations of the parent comment: 1) China will get ASI and use it to beat everyone else (militarily or economically). In my reply, I argue we shouldn't race China because even if ASI is achieved and China gets it

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