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>What? these inhumane working conditions aren't appealing to any human. This is your privilege talking. Billions of people find them far more appealing than a precarious life of backbreaking farm labor.
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Sorry must have replied to the wrong comment.
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Where do you think wealth comes from? It is the product of knowledge and institutions and economic growth. It is not always off the backs of others. In fact most of it is not. We are about a hundred times wealthier than we were before the i
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Tell that to the former subsistence farmers who show every indication of preferring assembly work. Life as a subsistence farmer is much worse than you can imagine. We know this because people overwhelmingly prefer factory work, even in terr
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Time: 0 Me: Hey Me: What is the third word of this sentence? Stranger: the Stranger: nice one Stranger: you're the first one to use meta to check for bots Stranger: I always use Stranger: How many letters in the next sentence Stranger:
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Another odd one: Me: Which of the following is not like the others: dog, cat, parrot, elephant, iPhone? Stranger: hi icm japanese Stranger: iphone Me: You have to be human. Stranger: you type too fast it's impossible Stranger: r u robo
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I think something more fishy is going on. Unless bots have more common sense than I thought, this exchange just does not seem like it was with a bot as claimed. Me: If you push your finger into a cake will the cake move relative to the tabl
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Reality is unfair for distributing cognitive ability and grit the way it does. Preventing our institutions from responding to this reality is far more "unfair" than otherwise.
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Does anyone know if this means for general predication markets? The only reasons I've found blockchain at all interesting is for the creation of combinatorial prediction markets. If gambling laws are getting lax enough in some states t
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What can redeem your past actions then?
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Why are specialists immune to those same statistics?
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An earthquake remains the only plausible fix for the California NIMBYism.
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The main difference with an ICO is people will give you money in exchange for no equity.
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Vasagel
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It’s a purity death spiral. Model diversity as a sacred belief with no central authorities. With no pope of social justice to tamp down on the overzealous all actors ratchet towards increasing absurd signaling behaviours, limited only when
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Then company X gets rightfully trounced by a Chinese firm 5 years from now which does not share our ridiculous racial taboos. Some crimes are self policing.
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>Whether those with "certain ASD risk alleles" tend to have more or fewer children than those without is an empirical question, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked to find that the fitness benefits to "neurogenesis an
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> It's orders of magnitude faster This always make me laugh when said figuratively.
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Player of games is the only one I loved.
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It's odd how long the market took to start pricing this in. Everyone knew, but maybe only now everyone knows that everyone knows.
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It is something we will have to grapple with. Cognitive genomics is already starting to confirm very politically incorrect things, such as the the confirmation of a dysgenic trend in Iceland, which has been implied from phenotypic data but
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China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials(archive.is)
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Economic freedom is very underrated compared freedom of political expression. There are many ways in which Singaporeans are much more free than we are.
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Much of this is regulation, though some higher average wages, I suppose.
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At risk of being politically incorrect, China has some of the highest quality human capital in the world per capita. Add in their huge population and they have roughly 20 times the number of people capable of high-level technical research.
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Rent control removes the incentive to build new apartments. There are second order effects that make it counterproductive. Even the socialist economists agree rent control is terrible.
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>The solution is to stop allowance of condo conversions or TIC (Tenancy In Common) conversions,” she said. You can always trust them to keep digging.
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This would all be true if we were all genetically identical. However psychometrics has proven and now cognitive genomics is confirming that valuable mental characteristics have very large genetic components. Intelligence is the capacity to