s1artibartfast

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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Not that far fetched. Most is already possible with todays tech. The scary stuff is yet to come. The department of war is talking g openly about bombing China if they get ahead of us I. The AI race.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
You needed a team of scientists and state funding to make superbugs, not a 12 year old or an angry misanthrope.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
So you agree they would survive
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I would much rather take my chances with either over AI. Both at once.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Dont shoot the messenger... > While President Trump continues to lock in fair and reciprocal trade deals with nearly twenty trading partners across the globe, Canada continues to retaliate against the United States for its efforts to cor
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I would actually expect to see a reduction in densification if a LVT is more expensive than current property taxes. While it obviously encourages putting high value land to greater use, it also encourages avoiding high value land itself. If
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
And the labs are all building panel of domin expert models, while simultaneously chasing open math problems. I would be shocked if they weren't tuning those models with the most relevant math texts and user material
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
"Why would you burn your house down and kill your famiy?" "If you dont want me to be nice, then I dont have to" -nice mobster
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
What do you even mean by that? It is the human value?
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Yeah, perhaps I am arguing too much with with vocal online LVT proponents, and my criticisms should be directed at them rather than Henry George. I think single taxers or mostly single taxers have bad policy, and also overestimate the diffe
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
If you are arguing the efficient baseline for roads is a use tax, then we agree! The un-priced state of government infrastructure and service use is a market failure, but this is exactly what modern georgism and LVT calls for in its myopic
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I see the two as completely independent, and I think proportionality overrides non-distortion. I dont care if a tax has zero distortion when it is levied predominantly on one person to benefit another, or levied on the masses to benefit the
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I said minimizing distortion isnt a purpose , not that I find i find it desirable on its own merits. So as you point out, one large segment of voters are interested in pigovian taxes. I think there is also a large overlapping segment that w
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Im more a small goverment type. That said, the point of a taxation scheme is not to "minimize distortions". If you think that is important, thats fine, but it isn't a commonly held position. Funnily, It is mostly Georgists th
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Most libertarians think government institutions and their services are essential for society to function. They aren't anarchists after all.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I would expect that land usage favors the very rich, but not nearly as much as income. Georgism does a excellent job of incentivising better land use, but is trivial to shelter income from. A teacher renting a run down aprtment might have a
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
There is no optimal form of taxation, only trade-offs. There is shifting burdens from good to good or person to person. I find it no surprise that so many of the loudest proponents for georgism are highly compensated tech workers with low p
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Even human Languages aren't perfectly translatable. The idea is that you could miss important context when translating, and that important meanings could be a lost or Missed in translation. For what it is worth, this can also be true f
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
A rug pull means you hype and then sell on the open market without.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Taxes are already pretty massive; there is only so much you can take without consequences. US taxes (state, federal, and local) are approaching 30 cents on every dollar, and that is with the Fed spending ~135% of revenues each year. You mi
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
It seems like by definition it is. Someone could sell it on the black market, sell it to Google, or just move on with their life and not sell it. I don't know what this is worth on the black market, maybe I'd be scammed by even tr
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
The second sentence of the first post was explication of the sentiment described and criticized by the preceding sentence. It is the sentiment I am calling out. The first post could or should have been more clearly written with an em-dash,
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Like they wanted Llama to kill babies, or what?
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
No need to be rude. Luckily, I also have room in my brain to hold two entire thoughts, and can acknowledge a deed and it's context are differnt too. I don't have to take a brain-dead shortcut of claiming every deed is bad. Not eve
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Im glad we agree then, provided you assume neither building the autobahn or affordable vehicles are evil. My whole point was bad actor /= bad deed.
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
Actor and action conflation is incredibly common these days. If someone is bad and worth condemnation, all their actions must also be bad.
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I think the average buyer of a online multiplayer game is loosely aware that the company could stop hosting it. Probably less aware that their single player content could disappear. I personally think it is hard to mobilize people because t
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
What kind of logic is this? 99.99% of people say "buy" a hunting license and 0% are confused about the duration.
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Licenses are commonly understood to have variable duration, as specified by the license. I get that people want to be able to purchase games forever, but this linguistic argument seems tortured concern trolling. maybe Im wrong, but are th
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by s1artibartfast 1mo ago
I would just like to point out that nobody actually answered this question, just inserted their own imaginary cynical commentary. In fact, the federal court case over the issue is ongoing. The case is Mendoza, et al. v. Sony Interactive Ent

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