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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I want to see what some other commentators who are more knowledgeable about the field say. This is a pretty striking attack against a central theory in... Scientific American? Without citing a wealth of evidence with detailed citations? I f
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
The positive way to think about this is that it appears humanity's moral universe is expanding. I could name a long list of things that we do all day that we are going to be judged extremely harshly for, but it would derail the convers
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
It justifies critical awareness such as is happening here.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Why do we bother celebrating any of them? Mortals are mortal, they deserve to be evaluated based on what they do. I'm not sure what purpose, other than propagandistic, is served by looking at them through rose tinted glasses. In any ca
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Hahaha, the small town capitalists are fighting the international monopolists and the workers everywhere lose.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I had just read this essay which advocated for the FANG + Microsoft to be nationalized and taken out of the profit system like the post office. It really resonated with me. If anything, the removal of profits would return the things we like
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
They still escaped it. Competition was the driving force for companies to become big and monopolistic. The "intended" effect of the market resulted in the opposite.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
For what it's worth, I feel like we already have a version of that book by Peter Norvig: https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I'm not sure I believe that S&P 500 chart proves his point that we are living in historically similar times to the 1960s. S&P looks at the top of part of the distribution, not the whole distribution. If for some reason, there w
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Ah bloomberg news, understanding that a new economic slowdown is in the cards wants to reassure the public that the economists have learned something. What they've learned is that they are ever more desperate to attempt to coax additio
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Big companies get bigger because of market consolidation. Competition is a lie. News at 11.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Carbon taxes have to be astronomical to actually affect market behavior. Better to take direct control and titrate down carbon fuels while ramping other methods. The market can't do it except by perhaps a happy accident, an accident th
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
How are those choices different from money? The money version is only more liberating if you're rich. First-come-first-serve does suck for newcomers, but do they have a right to displace someone that has lived there forever on a whim?
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I am suggesting that. I think that perhaps we might want to check for certain types of criminal charges, but we are seeing in real time how that is abused. However, yes, the concept of nations, standing armies, and the whole lot is built on
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
1) Practically speaking, that wouldn't happen. 2) Ask yourself how ethnocentrism and nationalism led to that genocidal outcome. Could we have instead invited the native americans to work together in a democratic system? Imagine the pos
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Yes, but how much of the housing price is physical maintenance and how much is "location location location"? With the latter eliminated, I'm guessing the concordant increase in taxes will far from compensate for the fall in t
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Freedom of movement is a human right full stop.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
What went wrong in your case?
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Democracy means that people have equal representation. Money based systems are literally the opposite of that. A man with a billion dollars has a billion votes.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Imagine if no one paid rent to people that do almost nothing. You'd have hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars in your pocket every month minus some extra taxes. If repairs needed to happen, the state could fix the property becau
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Of course, another option is to impose rent controls on all housing to eliminate the insane market and then rationally plan how much additional space to build.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
"Hork-bajir", now that is a deep cut reference.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Whelp, just one more reason why we need Medicare for All. There's no need to enable these people whose business is to find ways to deny people healthcare, just eliminate their industry completely and save money in the process too.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Remember when everyone was talking about how an amoral AI paperclip optimizer could destroy the planet? We have those, they're called corporations and they optimize dollars.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Yea it's clickbait, but I could easily see mathematicians working on the problem making this joke themselves. I found it very charming.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
They have a point, but count me nostalgic for the early days of early technology. At a certain point things move from being homegrown and individualized to industrial, dehumanized, and commodified. No one really likes this process, but it&#
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
This is literally what Andy Puzder threatened to do back in 2016. We cannot leave labor decisions to capitalists. They are the class enemy. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/23/andy-puzder-on-automation-if... htt
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
Wait, 6 cores is a 70% speedup but 4 cores is a 2x speedup? What?
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
I apologize, and will desist. I would point out that it's actually anti-nationalist rhetoric though. I'm from the US and am unrelated to anyone in South or Central America.
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by jadedhacker 8y ago
That's always true, the context matters a lot. The actual factors that characterize "arrogant" behavior are relevant to the discussion.

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