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by wycs 8y ago
>The sooner the Baby Boomer stop being consumers, the better, in regards to the rest of society. To make your comment explicit, you are cheering on the death and decrepitude of millions of people. I hope your children are kinder to you.
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You say that like vastly increasing the productivity of our largest cities is neutral at best. This would create an extraordinary surplus, and other cities that can build out would compete for citizens, just like Texas is doing right now.
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The solution is to get rid of zoning laws. Baring some breakthrough in public choice theory allowing us to break out of this mess, I predict we are stuck with this until the robots take over.
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Yes. It is all very obvious. For example, suppose a marginalized group uses the hashtag #killallwhitemen to express the disempowerment they feel from the historical weight of white privilege. This, I think we can all agree, is an expression
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AI is general use. This is a good bet.
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AI actually makes money now. There will be no more AI winters as it can now support its own development without patronage.
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The more full the refrigerator the longer it will maintain temperature.
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by wycs 8y ago
Yes. Keeping food in a fridge for 48 hours. What a crime.
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These people built a business that provided a lot of value and a bunch of bureaucrats killed it because they didn’t like the thought of something being in a fridge for less than 48 hours. This is the message of these regulations: don’t try
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by wycs 8y ago
>Could be legit, especially as they're not creating their own token for this purpose. Maybe I am confusing them for another project, but I am pretty sure they do have a token model.
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I'm not fond of the economics of Golem. I suspect they will not be able to compete with centralized solutions, as they have to support all sorts of redundancy to make things trustless. They could make it more federated, but then how is
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Our revealed preferences often paint a bleak portrait.
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Man does this motivate me to start saving more for retirement. No one and nothing will be able to care for you more than your past selves.
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See gwern's write up: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection We can predict roughly 16% of the variance in IQ.
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I don't think we can rule out an evolutionary explanation so quickly. We are starting to get firm genetic evidence that something like dysgenics is occurring in Iceland, for example: http://www.pnas.org/content/earl
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Rent is cheap.
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I don’t think you finished the essay. It is very clear they don’t believe the policy proposed can be implemented and it is only slightly less clear that they think it is undesirable.
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I'm not sure if it would be stable or not. After a couple generations I sort of feel it would be, as even if you hate your parents if you have kids you would still benefit from the policy. In fact, if economic growth continues you woul
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You don't. You wait until they grow up and then you give the parents a commission on their income tax.
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>So there is an unsolvable problem here, you have to compromise one way or the other. This seems addressable by biotechnology, artificial wombs and so on. At a certain level of technological sophistication, all problems become engineerin
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Children are public goods with massive positive externalities. I think it would be a shame if the population declined. My favourite policy to increase birth rates is to give parents a percentage of their children's income tax revenue.
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I thought it was a good movie but morally backwards. Once we have the ability to select against alleles that decrease happiness, intelligence, health, sanity, and longevity we are are morally obliged to do so. His mother’s choice was as mo
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I agree humans are capable of learning, but the growth mindset set claim people are capable of learning how to learn, for which there is little evidence. The rate and extent of knowledge acquisition is limited by one’s general intelligence.
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It is startling how ineffective basically all educational interventions are. I remember reading a quote to this effect in the introduction to the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “Teaching is a skill we have not yet mastered, save for
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by wycs 8y ago
>Vote for people who will. It really, truly is not that simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
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by wycs 8y ago
You would need Wechat for America. I actually think Apple is well placed to do this, but it would go against their hardware-first culture. If they released iMessage and ApplePay on Android, added a Wechat style P2P payment system, and star
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I hope to God I have the right to suicide by the time that happens to me.
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It is about the tragedy of the commons and what it implies when self-modification becomes possible, such as genetic engineering in humans and recursive self-improvement in potential future AIs. That essay is a hell of a piece or writing. It
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It should be noted that some people don't really want glory or fame, and are perfectly happy just becoming filthy rich. I think of fame, in this age of online mobs, as a curse, a sort of disfigurement that lives in the minds of other p
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The scope of engineering talent in China is hard to contemplate. Because of the, on average, higher quantitative talent of Hans Chinese over gentile whites and much larger population, China has, on average, at least 10 times the number of p

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