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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
All good tips but I think it really boils down to the last bit: sustainable changes. This doesn't help one understand how to differentiate a sustainable versus unsustainable change. In my experience, the single most important factor
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Yes but even this ignores the more important dynamic at play: rent rises to eat nearly all the productivity gains. If you add technology to your workplace your wages should go up (not to eat all the gains of the technology, but a decent p
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
> How can I be free to do my gardening whenever I want when the landlord is asking for $11K rent in my SF flat? This is the fatal flaw. It's been recognized explicitly for at least 140 years that the price of land rent rises in lock
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Sure, the model that you propose here sounds a lot better than the one being proposed by the current administration. It seemed like you were suggesting that a property tax (which does not function how you just described) was a good idea, ba
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
A patent definitionally only has market value (i.e. a value to be taxed) if it's something people want. Right, I'm aware there's a spectrum from bullshit patent owners to non-bullshit patent owners. Why would you write a tax
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
And so... how does a property tax fix any of what you're describing? If it's a bullshit patent that's not being deployed to the market, it can't possibly be very valuable, ergo will have no carrying cost. Only the patent
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Obsidian is a personal knowledge management system which is unique in that, yes, it's ultimately just a pile of Markdown files! Obsidian gives you a good UI to interact with it though: obsidian.md
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
> allowing patent holders to try to levy (what amount to) taxes that are paid indirectly by the public. What are you referring to here? The premium that a patent holder (one who created or purchased novel, valuable IP) is able to extract
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
But again: Alex Jones' and Limbaugh's hugely popular shows pre-date that. So does the libertarian strain on the right. Modern MAGA definitely spun out of the Tea Party which didn't originate at all in leftist education.
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Interesting theory but anecdotally doesn't fit with my experience. The most compliant, least critical, and laziest thinkers in my acquaintance are all squarely "anti-institutional" now. > Alt-media arose in maybe the last
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
No, they really didn't. Institutions made mistakes, sure, as they always have. None of these mistakes, individually or in aggregate, justify anything close to the discredit they've received. Had there been similarly ignorant, id
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
The problem is that a massive orchestrated campaign to sow distrust of institutions can succeed well beyond what's needed to achieve their destruction. The actual truth and institutional trust are both far harder to establish than they
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Grievance politics amplified by an assembly of the most astoundingly dumb people you’ve ever seen behind a podium That’s it! That’s the strategy!
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
No the implication is that you’re repeating press releases from extremely biased parties as if they are fact. They are not, and this discredits you.
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Not true, there’s been a huge jump in deportation of people with no criminal record. You’re right though there has been only a marginal increase in deportations specifically of criminals. https://www.cato.org/blog/65-pe
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
I disagree. Not sure how common this workflow is, but I write by putting all the different unsynthesized ideas down and rearrange them as the latent structure "reveals itself." At the end you have something synthesized. Sure some
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
6 months ago were you saying "there's no way he'll do broad tariffs" or "there's no way he'll do a mass deportation campaign?"
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Okay you have a point. AI probably would do really well when short case abstracts start walking into clinics.
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Here’s how this is working in practice: There’s a fast-growing cottage industry of companies using AI to figure out how to bill insurers “better” And there’s a fast-growing cottage industry of companies using AI to figure out how to deny cl
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
I will bet $1,000 you don’t work in a clinic and you’re instead spouting press releases as fact here?
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Yep! What ya gotta do when you spot a problem, is just throw whatever objects or topics are immediately at hand at it. Then blame regulation and that pesky Other Side Ta-da! Fixed!
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Yes we should disincentivize continuation of these practices and incentivize adoption of different practices. No, we obviously shouldn’t be so extreme that we trigger famines. This isn’t even remotely necessary anyway given that the people
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Tax emissions, incentivize density, and let the market work. We have already made massive strides against this problem. Yes it will require some sacrifices (like wealthier nations helping developing nations to leapfrog into lower-emission t
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
China's urban per capita emissions are growing slower than their national average ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-023-00084-2 ) So are you proposing that we prevent the developing world from developing?
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
Tax emissions, incentivize density, let the market work. We have both natural and artificial incentives in the opposite directions. Get rid of them then let's see what else needs to be done after that. I've given my proposal. What
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/deterren... Sounds good
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
> I don't think this is possible. I think it's better to pursue a world where violence is unnecessary and aberrant. I didn't say it was possible. I said it's worth striving for, and then you stated the same thing with
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by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
This would be an excellent rebuttal to the claim that everyone who experiences a specific type of hardship later has a specific outcome. But for the claim you're responding to, this appears to mostly just be some cringey self-aggrand

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