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> corrected to "extreme capitalism" and left there Incorrect uses of specific terms shouldn’t be changed to questionable uses of incredibly vague terms unless this is mere activist slogan homework instead of an actual discussio
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> Neoliberalism/anarcocapitalism has stoned these corporations Either you’re implying that neoliberalism is the same as anarchocapitalism, or you’re suggesting that Apple embodies both at once. In the grand argument over how much g
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> anarcho capitalism, in which a single entity wins because returns to capital accelerate. This single entity can then do whatever it likes. You could have a natural monopoly form in anarcho-capitalism but unless they also grabbed a mono
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> there is actually a supersonic jet startup. A16Z hasn't invested in Boom, though, near as I can tell. A quick review of their website and some cursory googling reveals that while boom is not in their portfolio they have invested
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> if I were trying to restart civilization and was only left with ChatGPT In this scenario you’d need to also be left with a big chunk of compute, and power infrastructure. Since ChatGPT is the front end of the model you’d also need to h
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> If the food is chemically identical… If it were 99.9% chemically identical but they left out the salt and spices…
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> All that took was using words to describe things. All that took was words and a shared experience of smelling.
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> a hedge against a potential library of Alexandria incident What would cause a Library of Alexandria incident wiping out all human knowledge elsewhere, that would also allow you to run a local LLM?
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> Insider trading is not illegal Trading based on non-public material information is what is meant by Insider Trading and it absolutely is illegal. [1] 1. https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba.
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> no one should deliberately have children as a tool for their own person growth I’m not suggesting you’re saying this, but there seems to be an idea floating around that any motivation to have children that incorporates your own good is
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> "The most pressing thing? Just do some of it right now" Maybe, but the most pressing thing is quite often a task of significant enough size that the thought of doing it is intimidating. The most effective thing I find is just
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> we mask it with a thin layer of democracy Clearly all governmental systems are designed to broadly maintain a status quo, and there aren’t really any truly democratic governments, but societies like the United States are still signific
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> Endless money for war, never enough money for something that will benefit society or its citizens Europe has generally been dropping its military spending over the last several decades with a recent inadequate uptick due to Russian agg
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Walmart-backed tech firm Ibotta files for US IPO(reuters.com)
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> laughs in regulatory capture Well, if the guy was murdered, and if the murder was related to the case it doesn't sound like they were merely laughing.
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If I’m reading this right, depending on the severity of the offense, what he alleges has a maximum sentence of up to life in prison, or a fine up to $1M, per offense . [1] 1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text&#x2
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> The notion that the US has stepped back at all is entirely unsupported by the actual facts. 40 years ago the US Navy was equipped and staffed to patrol the global oceans. Now, the US has a relatively few massively powerful forces of na
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> Millions are starving today on American streets Millions of Americans suffer from "food insecurity" i.e. "reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year." [1] This is very bad, but, t
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> Whether we look back in 20 years and think "wow glad we took that hit upfront" is anyone's guess Globalization is breaking down quickly. Chips are crucial to national security and our economy. The supply chain for advanc
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> Without SpaceX, the US would be in almost the same position as Europe right now. Yes, without decades of public and private capital and other NASA resources supporting commercial space startups that bred, amongst other highly innovativ
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> Why not target a fast-food application This is already happening and it doesn’t require advanced AI and expensive Nvidia chips.
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> startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing Companies like Microsoft have consumed countless startups and startup employees over the decades and are practiced at digesting them without being changed all that much.
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>Hard to claim to have implemented a system before a word for that system was invented. You said "pretty much every country" had implemented them, and the name has been around for well over a century, it's actually one of
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> A continental sized country at a time when transportation was still limited that used a gold standard satisfies the condition of "implemented Austrian economic principles". Merely having a gold standard in a nationally regul
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> societies tend to put some limits and controls in place. It’s not just a tendency, societies always have limits and controls in place. The anarcho-capitalist wing of Austrian Economics would propose limits and controls too, but not
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> pretty much every country implemented Austrian economics principles Looking at history I’m seeing pretty much every country having a government controlled and manipulated currency, mercantilist restraint of trade, guilds and unions wit
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> what would it even mean to have an Austrian economic system and how would it differ It’s difficult to know exactly, but you would have an unmanaged system. No reserve bank, no stimulus, no regulation, minimum to no restraint on trade d
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> Your comment about Austrian economics never having been implemented reminds me of leftists who say communism has never been implemented so we can’t say communism doesn’t work Maybe, however the difference being that there are many coun
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> There's certainly intelligent life out there… > Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to experience whispers of proof in our lifetimes Certainty without evidence is faith. There’s nothing wrong with that exactly, I just like to
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> that's a lot of CapEx for generally lower value crops. We’re not disagreeing. Those farming regions are not viable long term unless the economics change dramatically.

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