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by naming_the_user 2y ago
> For current standards of what intelligence means, we'd better hope we don't get ASI in the next decade or two, because if and when that happens then "humans need not apply" — and by extension, foundational assumptio
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Yeah. I feel as if there's a (small, but growing?) group of people out there who just sort of see, ok, well, everyone isn't as well off as I think they should be, so those who are doing well must just be hoarding everything. Which
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
That’s also misusing maths though because Amazon is a global company so really you should divide by 8 billion or at least a couple of billion. As a Brit I think I’ve derived significantly more than $1000 in value through Amazon’s existence
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Eh, the news dealing with issues that affect 60% of people seems pretty reasonable to me? I also don't really think it's particularly helpful to categorise people in this way - if we were talking about an immutable characteristic,
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
It's pretty much the same problem set, I think? You have a relatively small social circle (as a percentage of the whole population) and your plans probably won't appeal to those outside of that group.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sure. If 40% of the world are walking around basically without executive function then that seems like a major disaster that we need to do something about not just give people GLP-1's and call it a day.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I grew up in the UK. We have approx 30% obesity rates so less than the US but still pretty crazy. Single parent who worked (and still does work) low paid manual labour style jobs. Same with the estranged parent who was around for a while. I
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I have what feels like a continuously self correcting mechanism running in my brain. Like yeah, I might have a week or two or something of lounging, just punching the clock, but then every now and then I'll assess my goals and how they
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
No malice taken, I do struggle with empathy, yes. To me a lot of people seem to just make unforced errors. There's like, someone who stands on a landmine and can't go to work, or someone who has a chronic condition that makes them
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Sometimes I read this stuff and think I live in the most ridiculous bubble. It's bizarre to me that people don't look after their health. I wake up and I'm like, right, there are three tracks - financial (go to work, develop
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The bottom and top 10% of most groups are going to be odd in this way. Imagine if you took the entire population and asked them to run a 10k. It's very likely that 10% couldn't even finish it whereas the top 1% would be close to r
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
My point is that this isn't uncommon at all. I know tons of people who have nothing. Literally nothing other than things like, I dunno, their cell phone and clothes. _Anyone_ has more than a thousand of them combined. If you choose the
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This is a daft statement though. I almost certainly have more wealth than the bottom 10% in my country because a lot of people either have 10 quid or are in debt. It makes more sense to compare to the median.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I don’t know why people bring this up as if it’s some sort of revelation. That’s literally what status is. People care more because you are actually a more meaningful individual in a real sense. The gunman is hardly a nobody either. There m
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
In the UK I don’t really agree. I think that the minimum standard is fine. I think that the common standard for workers is too low, but I don’t think that this exists as a result of resource distribution as such but rather regulation, basic
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
My general feeling about this is that the objective is to make the system work. If it turns out that it works anyway then meh. Individuals can just choose not to be doctors if they don’t want to. However I think that yes, we probably should
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I dunno man. I guess it would bother me if 1+1=3. It ain’t though. I think a better example is something like e.g. your parents give your sibling far better gifts than you, since you can’t really escape that dynamic as a child. As an adult
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The question I always have to ask about inequality causing “unhappiness” is why I don’t feel that way. Celebrities having private jets doesn’t upset me at all. Seems quite cool. I’d be more upset if I had nothing, sure, but I’m easily a fac
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Imagine if it were 10%, though. During the time it took for a droplet to fall 1 metre, you’d have 10cm of water on the floor. I reckon it’d feel quite heavy.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I stopped reading at “life on easy mode”, sorry, just crabs in a bucket bollocks.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I guess I have a physicist mindset but basically I feel that these things are within margin of error. We're talking 20%, 40%, whatever. And because the lifestyle is so different it's hard to compare directly, it depends on your pe
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The distinction is that IME most Europeans (I am British for what it’s worth) - not all - but most - simply cannot fathom the concept of having any financial independence at all. They need paid time off and paid maternity leave and all of t
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
West Virginia has a higher median salary than the United Kingdom.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Realistically I think the guy is centering on the experience of the poor only and using that as the quality of life index. In another comment he talks about car insurance and food costs as if those are even major expenditures? For a Europea
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I'm British. When I visit the US I would agree that inequality is significantly higher, but it also seems quite clear that overall wealth is significantly higher too. Second and third tier cities in the US are clearly still fairly well
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This feels like a huge generalization to me. The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error. I've travelled a fair amount and everywhere is basically the
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Right, I don't doubt that, but it's clear to me that this isn't the nexus of all of this. What you're looking at is the later stages of a disagreement. It didn't start out that way, it started as something like, hey
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I'm not even in the US and I have multiple friends who have expressed to me that they'd be afraid to holiday there due to reproductive rights stuff. For say, two, three weeks. It's like some
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Anything that people are forced to do is going to cause this sort of visceral response. A lot of things that we were forced to do during COVID still stick with me and have basically made me intensely distrustful of authority to a degree tha

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