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by wycs 8y ago
Of course they are subject to power dynamics. The question is whether the dysfunctions of informal power dynamics are worse than the dysfunctions of formalized power dynamics in their economic niche.
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by wycs 8y ago
We should praise people for speaking truth. Power has nothing to do with it. Cognitive genomics will confirm or disconfirm all the really shocking and offensive stuff very shortly. I have my priors and you have yours. We will see how it pan
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by wycs 8y ago
Yes, I find those are extremely shocking and offensive.
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by wycs 8y ago
Then provide some examples.
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It’s a blog post. Basically everything there is not controversial in the relevant fields. The difference in spatial rotation is extremely well replicated: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/19086027_Emergence_...
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by wycs 8y ago
Cochran is a genius, but not for everyone. There are certain facts that are taboo to acknowledge, possibly for good reasons. Cochran does not abide taboos. If you keep reading his stuff, it is very likely to shock and offend you.
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by wycs 8y ago
They have been used for almost a 100 years in Russia with great efficiency. Our inability to use phage therapy here is due to terrible incentives created by intellectual “property” laws and regulations that assume standardized treatmentment
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There is very active work on using STARKS for this purpose. In the long term this is the plan for both Tezos and Ethereum.
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by wycs 8y ago
Exactly, there may be non-pyramid scheme money in crypto but so far there is no evidence for it. Look at the daily average users for Dapps here: https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings They are absurdly low. Like less than
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by wycs 8y ago
Glad to see someone is addressing the bloat problem. Kinda sucks that every time we improve blockchain design we have to start from scratch with a new chain though.
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Why?
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Then attack the inequality directly. Let us sieze the high IQ alleles and distribute them to the proletariat! We should not just pretend an equality exists where it does not. East Asians on average are smarter than whites, by about half a s
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by wycs 8y ago
>that's a problem by any social measure. No it is not. East Asians on average are higher quality students than gentile whites in every measure of intelligence and grit we have. Denying them entry because such ethnic differences make
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by wycs 8y ago
Exactly. I would much rather live in Singapore, something of a dictatorship, than Bangladesh, a democracy. Democratic freedom is often worth very little. Open borders would work well if sovereignty were held in competitive non-democratic in
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There is a certain accelerationism to the idea. If you don’t believe in the welfare state this is a mechanism for heightening the contradictions of redistribution.
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by wycs 8y ago
Open borders is a great idea but is not compatible with democracy. Garett Jones writes well on this topic. Immigrants from parts of the world with bad institutions will likely lower the quality of the institutions in their new countries, bu
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And a much better language. Though it is hard to do worse than solidity. The consensus algorithm is pretty terrible though, but subject to amendment I suppose.
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Boy is this risky.
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by wycs 8y ago
There is startlingly little evidence that pure doses of nicotine are harmful without smoke.
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by wycs 8y ago
It depends. As we know intelligence is highly heritable and an extremely large component of one's productivity, it may make more sense, in terms of having an impact, for extremely high-IQ people to focus on have a large number of child
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by wycs 8y ago
We also had pretty incredible productivity growth. Perhaps they are related. A sort of forest fire effect.
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I think full deregulation of healthcare would be superior to universal healthcare. But universal health care is clearly superior to American style almost fascistic corporate/government rent seeking.
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The Case Against Education is a great book on this topic.
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Do you not think they may have addressed the obvious issues a layman thinks up.
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I think it is fair to say it is completely brain dead.
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Like Steemit, this cannot incentivize production long term unless it has more efficient means of monetization, which it doesn’t. Steem subsidizes content through inflation of a token during a speculative mania. To put it mildly, this is not
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by wycs 8y ago
Dysgenics is, unfortunately, starting to look undeniable: http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2017/01/10/1612113114... IQ slightly increases male reproduction but massively reduces female rep
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20% wealth tax per year? Think about what you are saying. The state would own everything after 20 years.
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Am I right in assuming you consider communist revolution the only solution? Just so you know it is unlikely you will be the Stalin of that eventuality, just one more of his slaves.
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I am going to recommend a book to you. Doing Good Better by William MacAskil. It is not a work of right wing “intellectuals”. It is a book I think may cause you to rethink things. In exchange, I will read any book you recommended, Marxist o

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