ethanbond

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by ethanbond 2y ago
What? People benefit from higher land prices?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
The opioid issue is absolutely a big degradation in QOL from recent years, but no the current crime rate is still well below decades ago, especially on a per capita basis. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads&
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by ethanbond 2y ago
It’s the land price. Gets baked into every single good and service and goes up in lockstep with productivity gains.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Crime is much much lower than it was decades ago almost everywhere in the US. Also “run down” in reference to cities is just not true outside of a few failed areas like Detroit. NYC today is dramatically nicer than it was decades ago.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
This is easy: how much did an acre of land in Palo Alto cost then, and how much does it cost now? Why? Why does the price of land “need” to go up? It pays no wages, no rent, no suppliers, no anything. It’s just there being land, no matter w
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Vibes > clinical trials
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by ethanbond 2y ago
What's there to criticize if it's not bad?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Got it, so post-abolition United States is not “more righteous,” even on the dimension of human rights, than pre-abolition United States. It is, as you say, “impossible” to compare them. You don’t actually explain how you get from this po
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by ethanbond 2y ago
That is an immense leap from "if we could have machines do it, we wouldn't have slaves do it" to seeing slavery as undesirable. Aristotle was a staunch believer in "natural slaves" who didn't have the faculty o
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Obligatory: Tailwind
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by ethanbond 2y ago
No, I didn't say that you are indifferent to nor pro-slavery. I said that you'd land on the conclusion of allowing it, presumably despite your own personal preferences. Many people who opposed abolition also personally opposed s
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Well no, we need billions of human-level AIs who are experiencing a world as rich and various as the world that the billions of humans inhabit.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
You are aware that the existence of grey areas does not negate the existence of different ends of the spectrum, right? I’m not arguing the world is simple and entire countries/civilizations can be placed on one end or the other. I am s
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Sure, I don’t believe cultural relativism is itself in all cases wrong. I think it’s obviously wrong when used to excuse obviously immoral things done in a context where they are in fact obviously immoral (such as much of the Middle East in
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Those countries can outlaw those conditions whenever they want. When they do, they’ll have achieved some additional moral progress. I’m pretty sure you’d be crying foul if the US decided to go and enforce its laws over there.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
No, what we’re finding is actually quite the opposite. High volumes of light weapons is not only enough, but preferable on the modern battlefield even fighting against heavy weapons. What specific weapon systems would you like to see sent
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Uh no. Republicans control the House which is enough to prevent even $1 from being spent or sent anywhere. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-are-some-yxB.yA2.SzS7M... There’s not some big mystery here. Democrats ar
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Was slavery-era America worse on the dimension of human rights or just different? Why does cultural relativism excuse horrors of actual modern people with access to and awareness of all modern thinking, modern technology, and modern example
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by ethanbond 2y ago
To be clear that’s Republicans. Democrats overwhelmingly support military aid to Ukraine. Republicans are split (at best) on the issue. Israel-Gaza is a more complicated breakdown for sure, but it’s also a much more complicated conflict.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
And as we all know, capable of == actually doing
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Primary motivator being insecurity and rapidly deteriorating mental health
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by ethanbond 2y ago
The Supernote A5X is the only device that has managed to wiggle its way into my daily life alongside my MBP and iPhone. A big e-reader like the Supernote is amazing not just for reading books but as a searchable journal/planner that yo
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Exactly. These people (the anti-EA’ers) are in too deep on the memes. It is absolutely hilarious seeing anti-EA’ers on this thread “pondering questions” about charity that are literally the exact questions posed by EA. EA produces extremely
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by ethanbond 2y ago
You’ve “wondered” whether it’s actually preferable to help fewer people in less substantial and less cost-effective ways just because they happen to live near you? What answer did you find in this inquiry?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Have you met Silicon Valley?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
I didn’t claim otherwise.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Would it affect what laws we have in place to protect dogs?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
Yeah, my understanding is that it's highly undesirable to have no sense of self-awareness.
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by ethanbond 2y ago
How do you falsify the claim that all living humans are conscious? Or that none of them except you are? Or that you are not conscious? This is an inconvenience for every theory of consciousness, isn't it?
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by ethanbond 2y ago
> We know what consciousness is. It's our self-awareness Not really. There are plenty of disorders that destroy a person’s self-awareness but appear to leave a fully conscious person there anyway.

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