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by nickpp 3y ago
> What do you mean "how are you going to do that"? I mean that in order to regulate a technology you normally would develop it first, to see how it's used. EU (where I am unfortunately residing) just reached an agreement t
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> to adjust the style of life In what direction? Most of the world is only now slowly achieving the lifestyle of a middle-class Westerner in the 50s. If you think that these people are going to accept a downgrade from that, from their &q
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And how are you gonna do that? Not even the very inventors of technology can predict how it’s gonna be used (especially for bad) and by whom. Are you gonna have a committee of bureaucrats who never invented anything in their life come in an
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How exactly are “neofascists using technology to further and further tighten their grip on power and undermine our democratic institutions”?!
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> Varoufakis says it’s anything but. Jeff (Bezos, the owner of Amazon) doesn’t produce capital, he argues Maybe Varoufakis should try creating an Amazon instead of writing some book and running Greece’s economy into the ground. We are se
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> Elsewhere millions starve and freeze. Elsewhen uncountable numbers of humans have suffered and died. Only millions out of 8 billions? But that is incredible progress! It used to be that not many millenia ago every single human on ear
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No, it's just stronger than the opposing point: that there exists such a potentially negative technology that it's worth freezing/delaying our technological development to avoid it.
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> it's extremely difficult (if even possible) to assign "scores" to the outcomes of all technologies On the contrary, it's quite easy to judge the outcome of technological development for our species: it's about
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> extremely dubious assumption I personally don't know any technology that overall was a net negative . I agree, we could happen run across one in the future, but so far history is on our side. Also, don't forget that our spec
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I am quite sure people were able to come up with plenty of downsides when fire was discovered too (accidents, usage as weapon, burning whole fields, forests and even dwellings), but most of us can now agree it was a net positive for mankind
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> associations of the term "accelrationism" with the extremes of the political spectrum Care to elaborate? I am completely unaware of these associations.
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It's a simple but powerful idea: since any new tech comes with good and bad but overall there is more good than bad - we are better off accelerating adoption to outrun doomers who'd rather have the whole humankind stagnate than ri
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> make me very deeply uncomfortable Especially when thinking that we ourselves may very well be AIs in a simulation and our life events - the prompt to get an answer/behavior out of us .
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Cost. Cost is what you are forgetting. Yes - we try to reduce risk as much as we can but the more we protect ourselves the more expensive that is until the last little part it's costs everything. How many resources are you willing to a
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by nickpp 3y ago
> fails miserably to account for human behavior. Agreed - the only system I know of that takes human behavior into consideration is capitalism and free markets. > ARPANET [...] CERN You do realize that the Internet is not just a set o
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by nickpp 3y ago
Have you driven a Lada car? Drunk a Soviet pop soda? Worn some commie clothes? I did and I can tell you that until you do, you have no idea what “shitty” is. You are writing your nonsense on a free-market created computer, publish on a free
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Also hope I will not lose my consciousness in the middle of the desert where there is no hospital. Yes, there are risks in life and you cannot protect yourself from every possible danger. Life is harsh.
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> The profit motive does not select for high quality products Simply not true. Under communism, where the profit motive was outlawed, we had the absolut crappiest and worst products. While in the west, capitalism and free markets were sp
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> it assumes everyone has perfect knowledge Nobody says that. Free markets are actually the best mechanism to deal with situations in which participants have partial/imperfect knowledge. > I don't need to do a ton of researc
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> put their trust in a profit-driven company's hands Every single company making products and services we all use is profit-driven. > Healthcare isn't something that should be sold as people are forced to buy it to survive H
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AT&T's monopoly was definitely government-granted: there was even a law forbidding users to install their own 3rd party telephone receiver "to protect the AT&T network"! I am not familiar with the other 2 cases but I
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> purely as a free market Who said anything about purely free markets?! Markets are indeed over regulated around the world today. More so in Europe, than in the US, explaining why EU is lagging behind economically further and further. Bu
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> Healthcare industry as we know it today did not exist back then Not true - it always existed (with different costs and treatments of course) and it was rather developed and affordable in the '50s and beginning of '60s before
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Actually, free markets have a very efficient way of dealing with monopolies: it's called competition. Only when competition is restricted by governments (through regulations, certifications, patents and such) can a lasting monopoly be
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Free markets have existed since the dawn of mankind. Their only prerequisite was the rule of law. They are responsible for the amazing wealth we are enjoying everyday, for the full shelves of products and the range of services offered to us
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Free markets tend to reduce prices making health care more affordable (including for people on fixed income). For an incredible success story see how the free markets made computing power so affordable despite last century’s “digital divide
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His actions and the value he created helped to (or actively did) build countless companies, and millions of jobs . Services and products we are using every day. People that earned a living, kids and families enjoying a prosperous life - ar
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Is there some study about this “phenomenon” this or is it all anecdotes?
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I actually watched a short the other day where a wildebeest horns a lioness throwing her high in the air a couple of times. It was fearsome. It saved its friend from being eaten by the lioness even! We all have a (larger or smaller amount o
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> you think humanity being lost is acceptable I never said that.

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