thegrimmest

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by thegrimmest 2y ago
We don’t, or at least not everyone agrees we do. Some of us think that we only have an institution that administers peace and order, and believe that pursuing the good is a private, voluntary concern.
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
In MrBeast's case, his revenue is directly correlated with customer engagement via YouTube's algorithm. I'm sure that were it legal, gladiatorial combat would be very popular and profitable on YouTube. I suppose one could mak
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
So you're suggesting that politicians lying be tried (with prosecutorial discretion) by a jury of their peers in order to determine whether a lie was told? How would this law be written? Would politicians be imprisoned for giving a dec
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
A bit as in: on the spectrum of civilization-capable organisms, between bacteria and human beings, we're only a bit ahead of dolphins, which is where the tipping point happens to be. Aside from dolphins et al, this space was also occup
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
There are good algorithmic, democratic, solutions to this problem. The way X Community Notes work is a good example[1]. 1. https://communitynotes.x.com/guide/en/under-the-hood/ranking...
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
There are no traits that distinguish us from other animals. We're just a little bit smarter than apes, elephants, and dolphins, which has pushed us past a tipping point into civilization. Our societies are still ecosystems, and canno
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
You can live in a free society, or you can live in a society with a ministry of truth. All human organizations are susceptible to corruption. > this not be punished severely Punished by whom? Under what authority? Which comes to powe
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
There's no force here, and hence no fascism. Having your license revoked, while harmful to your career, is not violence. Professional licensing boards and private lenders are also free agents, and can come to any sort of agreements the
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Student loans are not dischargeable by bankruptcy because an education is not an asset that can be seized and sold during the process. There should be (and are) pretty strict limits on how your wages can be garnished to repay this debt. How
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> So I should be able to sell myself into slavery. No, because that would imply that a person can own another person. Free, morally equal, people cannot own each other. It would also imply that present-you can obligate future-you in a
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> Can I sell my kidney? I don't see why not. Me saying you can't would imply that I have a stronger claim to your own kidney than you do. This is a pretty hard claim to substantiate. The majority can be, and often is, wrong.
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Sociopaths and other dark triad types have been the driving force in unifying and leading people since prehistory. It takes exactly that kind of person to unite tribes of strangers in order to go conquer, subjugate, and murder your neighbou
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
The on-ramp from minor pain or surgery; to a massive, blindly-renewed, over-prescription of Oxy; to an opioid addiction that spirals into street drugs is still mediated by doctors. Until these doctors start losing their licenses for their c
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Blindly listening to a company trying to sell you something has never been a good idea. Doctors doing just that despite the clear, obvious, conflict of interest is their failure, not Purdue's. Thinking that an individual or organizatio
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
I would argue that fiduciary responsibility mandates that corporate leaders do everything right up to the legal boundary in pursuit of their shareholders interests. In fact profitably violating regulations would also be the right thing to d
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> Loaning money at 200% interest to vulnerable people is usury and should be illegal Stop with the patronizing. Any transaction between consenting parties (backed by bankruptcy protection) should be allowed. We're all grown ups, l
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> That last thing was their crime Taboos are bullshit. Either something is a clearly articulated, written, rule with an enforcement mechanism, or it's fair game. Prescribing doctors are responsible for the opioid epidemic. Doct
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Seizing 100% of a person's economic output is slavery right? The rest is just a matter of degree. > beyond the strict minimum necessary to maintain liberty itself You missed this part. Yes you can mandate cooperation (read: enslav
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
I'm not! The nice thing about states is there are so many of them, and it's pretty easy to move state. Also as an American you have a right to live in any state you choose. None of these things are true at the national level. I&
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> Why should it be? Fuck that! It's just part of doing business. Know who you're transacting with, pay attention to the specifics of your agreement, and do your due diligence. This is very basic stuff. If you have a dispute,
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
> most of modern Europe This is relatively recent, and has proven itself quite fragile. Democracies elect dictators. Dictators of powerful governments commit atrocities. There is no "don't elect dictators" solution. The
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
My argument isn't that corporations are people. My point is that the government should never have been given the power to redistribute wealth the way it does today. It has not always had this power. And had the constitution been sligh
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
We don't have to make these changes all at once. I agree doing so would be somewhat disruptive. We can roll back the aid over a period of say 5 or 10 years, giving workers (and companies) time to figure out what to do. I agree it may n
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Yes! We just need better, more effective, more efficient courts, more capable of coping with the demand generated by an increasingly interconnected economy. Lemon laws are just a hack to paper over the side effects without addressing the ro
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
No company has (nor should have) any mandate to "customer service" beyond what the market demands. Dispute resolution is what courts are for . Meta already pays taxes that fund courts. If courts are unable to keep up with deman
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
What do you mean "fair"? To me the idea of free/consensual exchange (backed by court-mediated disputes and bankruptcy protection) most resembles "fair". If you like a service, use it. If you don't, don't.
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
It seems you're suggesting that every structure resembling a nation state will be destroyed and we'll end up in a Max Max style dystopia where books are used exclusively to start fires. This is a bit reductionist and simplistic. I
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
A kid famously built a neutron emitter in his suburban shed in the 90s[1]. His goal was to build a breeder reactor. I don't personally know how to do these things either. I know how to program computers, and could teach that. My point
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by thegrimmest 2y ago
Humanity as a whole has never gone back an age. Once we learned to cultivate plants, domesticate animals, smelt iron, we've never unlearned. We'll similarly never unlearn how to build nuclear reactors or microprocessors. I'm

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