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by roenxi 9mo ago
That seems pretty reasonable, yes. That is like asking if putting a low-cost Ops Research specialist in every company could make a 5% difference in operations - yes it could. Making resource-efficient decisions is not something that comes n
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by roenxi 9mo ago
I like it. There is something subtle here that marks Nadella as a pretty good senior manager (assuming the paraphrase is accurate). He explained what the job is and how to do it in a simple and concise way. Now you'd think that would j
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by roenxi 9mo ago
It isn't quite that simple though - you're saying the standard is something like no danger of being a net welfare recipient. Apreche said he saw "no reason that becoming a citizen today should be any more difficult today than
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by roenxi 9mo ago
So just circling back to the Korea example, does this imply that in the Cold & Korean wars, South Korea was exploiting the US to become rich? What exactly does the word "exploit" mean to you here if the US had to cross an ocea
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> should prove that the current systems are already being held up by people who do not participate in the welfare system. Well, yes. If there is a pool of workers who aren't covered by the welfare system then it would work out fine
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Sure. But hypothetically, if we pretend people are rational for a few minutes here, how does the Ellis Island idea interact with a functional welfare system?
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by roenxi 9mo ago
The growth of a welfare system seems like the major change. How does that plan interact with the welfare system? If someone is impoverished in Asia can they get a plane ticket to the US and expect to eventually be entitled to a state-sponso
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Doctorow makes a lot of good points and I get how terrifying the state is when it gets riled up like this. That said... 1) There seems to be an assumption here that everyone in the US agrees there should be brisk immigration. To me, if the
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by roenxi 9mo ago
So the government has negotiated from a position where the average taxpayer could be buying $10 worth of assets for $1 and have a go at managing it properly and creating some wealth, to a position where the taxpayer pays $1, the government
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> We don't know what the other options look like. A broader collapse of the economy, runs on banks? If the government stayed out then the outcome could have been worse for the average taxpayer. What courses of action does that argum
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> It cost the taxpayers nothing (in fact it made us money) Pull the other one, it has bells on it. If the government is involved in a financial transaction it is because nobody in the private sphere with money wants to be involved. That
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by roenxi 9mo ago
And we've all heard of the linux people, as opposed to whoever is pushing these post-Cassidy OS. Linux isn't where it is because of some imperial decree, it has been winning out in a slow, protracted war for what OS programmers ch
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> for Venezuelan oil leases to be comparable to wind farms you'd have to have the Venezuelan govt say "we are taking the leases away because we don't want any more offshore oil production" That isn't a crazy inte
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> The point is the wolf does not need managment. If some dev rolls up to work and claimed that "I don't need to do anything to be a high value programmer" because he has mastered the zen of not getting in the way of good c
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> All of these activities did occur because good work speaks for itself ... Good work very much doesn't speak for itself, typically software problems represent management problems more than a lack of people trying to do good work.
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by roenxi 9mo ago
How is that relevant? You can give whatever support you like to humans, but machine learning is doing the same thing in general cognition that it has done in every competitive game. It doesn't matter how much education the humans get -
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by roenxi 9mo ago
That would have devastating consequences in the pre-LLM era, yes. What is less obvious is whether it'll be an advantage or disadvantage going forward. It is like observing that cars will make people fat and lazy and have devastating co
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by roenxi 9mo ago
It is a bit counter-intuitive because there'd be law enforcement lobby working very hard to make sure that they can read private WhatsApp chats. I don't think it is reasonable to treat the entity that literally runs a spy agency m
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Because we need a low risk system to track whether people are net-contributing or -draining society's resources, otherwise it isn't easy to tell who is creating more wealth so they can be supported. Gold remains the best option af
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Doesn't this reset the silver price to where it was at the start of the month? This is hardly news, people got a bit over-excited in January. The spike is more newsworthy than the fall, and neither are all that interesting.
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Based on the US troop movements, Israel's sneak attack last year and the ongoing suspicion that the US uses protests and NGOs to achieve regime change it'd seem to be a no-brainer for Iran to be on extreme war footing right now. I
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by roenxi 9mo ago
In English-speaking countries, we have a system that prints money and gives it to asset owners. Gold is still an asset, so buying it will still let people participate in that system. Increasing taxes by whatever (I'll assume 10%) is ma
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> ... I've never seen the government efficiently action on any data they have collected. It isn't usually a question of efficiency, it is a question of damage. Technically there is an argument that something like the holocaust
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by roenxi 9mo ago
I mean, you bought up an example of a man being dragged off the streets of the UK for (1) trying to express support for playdough and (2) being suspected of undermining support for genocide. I have relatives in the UK, right now. And after
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by roenxi 9mo ago
If we're talking about the Palestine Action shirt, Israel is defending against accusations [0] that they are genocidal. The police action of the UK seems like it could be pretty easily construed as suppression of speech in support of s
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by roenxi 9mo ago
The people complaining probably live in the UK or are related to it somehow. Then it would make sense that they are more worried about authoritarianism in the UK rather than in South America. And even if the man was wearing a proper "P
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by roenxi 9mo ago
You can do that with mental phenomenon too - eg, having memories, feelings, consciousness, thoughts. All aspects of "I" that might be present or not - so they can't really be said to be you as much as possessed by you for a m
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by roenxi 9mo ago
Yeah but that probably isn't going to what the original research is saying. Society is basically run by a tiny fraction of people (1-5% of the population range) and the rest are just along for the ride. Democracy is a major innovation
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by roenxi 9mo ago
One of the major lessons of the 1900s is that the moral ills of your own tribe are more important than the problems other people might have. You don't live in some other country, you live in your own. Local concerns are by far the #1 i
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by roenxi 9mo ago
> The fact is that there's evidence that unions can correct power imbalances, raise wages, reduce inequality, and even support long-term productivity and social stability I suppose there was a time when American manufacturing had a

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