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by pythia__ 10y ago
>Seasteading Or Patchwork.
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by pythia__ 10y ago
I haven't read that book but the voting pattern the American working class exhibits is widespread, and so is unlikely to stem from its unusual love of success alone. This quote from a now-defunct Telegraph blog by Ed West captures the
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Basic Income Impossibility Theorem(alrenous.blogspot.com)
4 points by pythia__ 10y ago|3 comments
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Devil's advocate here. What nice things would we have if nobody gave money to people who believe that? Or, if that is what you meant, if the belief itself was extinct?
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Your comment to which I responded with mine suggests a dichotomy between morality being "objective and real" through religion and it being "invented delusions that can be ignored". What I was pointing out was that if the
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>It is the only way to understand statements about morality as objective and real rather than as invented delusions that can be ignored. Not necessary. There is an alternative route through game theory and the notion of an evolutionarily
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>I think your post is also wrong on an ethical level Do you actually mean the argument in the post or the post itself for presenting it? >You're not just upsetting them, you're upsetting their network. Right, this would be a
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>having the computer guess is just a bad idea Not necessarily. If you approach this strictly from a business perspective as a commercial software developer, statistical guesses (not just about gender) that, for example, delight 70% of yo
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by pythia__ 10y ago
It doesn't trouble me at all from the perspective of this being something Thiel can do that I can't. As long as billions mean something billionaires are going to wield more power than mere morals. From my standpoint, moreover, thi
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by pythia__ 10y ago
It will more likely be (state subsidized?) embryo selection for the genetic markers of intelligence (see, e.g., https://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection ), not work on proxies like education, that will substantially reduce p
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by pythia__ 10y ago
I think to focus on the angry ideologues is actually to divert the attention from the real issue, to the extent there is one; namely, that neurotypical humans, whether happy or angry, have a strong, automatic in-group bias. If you are one y
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by pythia__ 10y ago
Look at both climate change and the genetics of intelligence to see how America's political groups deal with the scientific consensus.
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>there is plenty of apolitical journalism Could you name three major sources of it, preferably not personal blogs? I am asking out of curiosity and disbelief.
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Hugo Chavez's economic miracle (2013)(salon.com)
1 points by pythia__ 10y ago|0 comments
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by pythia__ 10y ago
>the entire goal of technology is fight the actual laws of nature I find this a very questionable premise. Technology, being constrained by physics, necessary works with the laws of nature at least to that extent[1]. Well-designed techno
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by pythia__ 11y ago
It's not as simple as that. Advances in trauma medicine played a major role in lowering murder rates. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/
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The Sliding Scale of Bullshit Jobs(thefutureprimaeval.net)
3 points by pythia__ 11y ago|0 comments
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by pythia__ 11y ago
>your IQ is irrelevant, it's an outdated way to measure anything practical This is a common misconception. IQ predicts a lot about a person's life outcomes; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_qu
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by pythia__ 11y ago
A fundamental problem with huge cities is that smart, talented people go there and never have children who would inherit they smarts. For this reason they are a human resource drain on everywhere else. In short, "cities are IQ shredder
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by pythia__ 11y ago
I think your objection is less to codes of conduct as such than to their usual contents and the kind of environment they intend to create. You can have a very different code of conduct, e.g., one that goes something like this: 1. Don't
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by pythia__ 11y ago
Unnecessary for your personal survival? That's true, but it's a very limited perspective to take. Cockroaches are known to affect our species' health adversely (e.g., http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1
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by pythia__ 11y ago
>It isn't our job as technologist to build tools to circumvent the law. Would you say the same thing to those building tools to circumvent the great firewall of China?
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IQ and Permanent Income: Sizing Up the “IQ Paradox”(humanvarieties.org)
1 points by pythia__ 11y ago|0 comments
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by pythia__ 11y ago
No, I was talking strictly about the users.
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by pythia__ 11y ago
The paper is about GitHub, which has a reputation for the opposite. Can you point out an instance where you think misogyny wasn't called out on GitHub ?
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by pythia__ 11y ago
What this makes me wonder is, could they use a cell phone Wi-Fi mesh network at least for a significant part of their communications?
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by pythia__ 11y ago
They recently tried to bring over Brazilian Japanese immigrants but were sufficiently dissatisfied with the results to pay them to leave. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigran.
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by pythia__ 11y ago
My guess is that in a hundred years people will either not need to eat, and thus few will have kitchens, or people will need to eat and will generally be more resource-poor than today, thus requiring them to have kitchens and to use them mo
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by pythia__ 11y ago
I think this is true but hardly surprising. The average participant in an argument on the Internet is interested not in the truth but in winning. Who wins an Internet argument is thought by that participant to be decided by the audience, wh
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by pythia__ 11y ago
In the short term it may or may not be. However, such society is almost by definition more likely to be fit , in the evolutionary sense, i.e., more likely to survive and perpetuate itself. Society surviving means that its benefits will be

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