rayiner

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by rayiner 5mo ago
You don’t have to be Jeff Bezos to believe you’re better off in the long run with strong property rights. To your example: I’ve got 10 gig fiber from a private company. My alternatives are 2 gig fiber from a private company, or 2 gig cable
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by rayiner 5mo ago
“Took?” AI companies aren’t removing the information from the public domain. What happened to “information wants to be free?”
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Why does the public have a right to expropriate the property if AI companies specifically, as opposed to other types of companies? Just make broad rules that apply to everyone based on abstract principles. I’m fine even with very liberal ec
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The mythologizing is in taking the absence of data—as you acknowledge, IVC hasn’t been excavated to the degree of other civilizations—and projecting onto that blank slate utopian ideas about a society free of warfare. We know very little ab
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> More so than every other field? Not every other field, but a lot of them. The entire field is fundamentally based on drawing conclusions from too small N. You don’t see anthropology papers that read like this: “We found a bunch of stuf
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> What's unique about the nations for which democracy isn't the best form of government? What's unique about their people? It’s the other way around. Countries that are well suited to democracy are the exception. You need
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by rayiner 5mo ago
You’re ignoring the most important point. India had a larger per capita GDP than China until the 1990s. As the article points out, China’s median income was lower than India’s until 2000. All those historical things you mention about India
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The interesting thing about this is that China’s homogeneity is a result of ethnogenesis. 90% of the country is “Han Chinese,” but people in different parts of the country look very different and their dialects of “Chinese” aren’t mutually
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by rayiner 5mo ago
But does it matter whether you can challenge authority or disrupt the established order? Because surely it’s even harder to do those things in China. And India’s people seems to me to be too little order, not too much.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I suspect that’s some noble savage mythologizing. Many Harrapan weapons have been found: https://www.allsubjectjournal.com/assets/archives/2015/vol2i...
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Yup.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I think that’s a different task than the one OP is referring to. To your example, I’m not familiar with the capability of LLMs in that regard. I have struggled with using the AI features of westlaw when it comes to that sort of argument. (B
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I agree. It’s worth remembering that the Lincoln GOP was an interventionist party. That history was retconned by the Reagan GOP.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Orderly east asian culture versus disorderly south asian culture? Countries with cold weather and resource constraints that require long-term planning, versus countries that have three planting seasons annually?
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Nobody wants to pay their lawyers more than they have to. There will be a huge market for firms that can use AI to avoid charging clients for $1,000/hour junior associates.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I would think that LLMs would be better at avoiding foot-guns. That’s a situation where you have a list of well known rules and potential pit falls, and the work of the lawyer is to apply those to a fact pattern. That’s something that has b
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Getting to the bottom of this is one of the most important public policy issues in the world. When my family left Bangladesh in 1989, the country’s GDP per capita was similar to China’s and India’s. Today, India and Bangladesh are still poo
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Florida ranks in the middle of U.S. states for homicides and does substantially better than the median for suicides. The reputation of Florida comes from having a very broad public records law that requires publication of numerous details o
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Yes, good catch!
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by rayiner 5mo ago
> actually provides something of a decent balance that is appealing to a lot of educated professionals. I feel like a lot of the worst impulses of Dem-run cities get moderated in TX compared to west coast, Dem-run states. This is true in
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by rayiner 5mo ago
The fact that it’s easier to build stuff in Texas—whether it’s oil rigs or solar farms—is related to the political leadership. There may be no intention to facilitate renewables, but intentions and effects are two quite different things.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
It used to be, just like Virginia used to be solidly red. But Trump won Florida by more than Harris won New York.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Except you’re not going to install native apps for the vast majority of things you use a browser for. You’re going to use the browser for content consumption and native apps for a few things that need system access.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
What difference does that make to the salmon?
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by rayiner 5mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/HardcoreNature/comments/13jabzl/not...
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by rayiner 5mo ago
But you need relatively few native apps with those capabilities, in contrast to visiting many different websites for content consumption.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
Now that we have AI, can we go back to real apps and native tech stacks? And revert the browser to a text-display interface?
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by rayiner 5mo ago
No.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
I’m not saying we shouldn’t have any unit of planning beneath the state. I’m saying they shouldn’t be incorporated entities that have the power to sue and be sued in their own separate from the state.
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by rayiner 5mo ago
States are sovereign entities and cannot be dissolved. Local governments are organs of the states and can be dissolved. Local control is desirable, the question is the proper granularity of local control in the modern era. The structure of

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