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While technology has empowered governments, it’s also empowered the individual, and more importantly shifted the material dynamics to better align the incentives of governments wit…

Who cares about reading? Take a step back - humans don’t exist to read, reading is a tool, a means to an end. It’s to transmit information from one to another. If we can do that wi…

Gold Standard is probably a force that acts against inequality but the forces pushing inequality today are just much stronger. Technology that creates winner take all markets and i…

Surprising how tech people on a tech forum are some of the biggest Luddites. Maybe it’s because the creative destruction is coming to your industry this time?

It’s reminiscent of Dune: - Small devoted religious sect seeds messiah myths in the distant land for generations, so that in their time of need, they can tap of this devotion from …

Everything everywhere does this. All human progress has been making common and accessible the rare and expensive. Universities, online courses, textbooks, etc all exist to make eco…

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No VC makes an investment off the star count. It’s a signal to identify opportunities in the noise. Once surfaced, there’s other signals to filter if an initial conversation is eve…

If you’re wondering what is left when you have a swarm of generally intelligent agents working on your behalf and can do every task as well as a human, we already have the answer. …

Yes it is. Kids grow up to run the world, a world I’m going to live in. I have a stake in that. This should be obvious if we take our civilization seriously.

Yes of course. Unfortunately many of those decisions get distorted and captured by bad actors, creating a reasonable skepticism. If you care about solving climate change: instead o…

Actually I think a lot of climate change denialism has more to do with the “…and so we have to do X to solve it” part of climate change. It’s “climate change activism” that turns p…

Individualism taken to the insane. “How the next generation of your society is raised is none of your business”. Take some ownership

Or make them part of the consequences. Give them skin in the game. “Let’s not use AI” is dumb and impossible

“You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak.” If “I get exhausted that I have to check in on my coding agent while it does my job” isn’t weak, what is? This has to be satire.

What is well-being to you? You’re right: all things should serve humanity, including markets. Rent-seeking behavior of any kind, including unions, including business engaged in ren…

Unions are rent-seeking behavior and that’s the problem. Voluntary unions are one thing, but the way unions are build today is requiring labor to participate and for businesses to …

Who cares about capitalism? It’s a label. What matters is eliminating rent-seeking behavior. Unions are rent-seeking. Business cartels/groups are also rent seeking. Abolish them al…

If I did, would it change your mind?

Unions are everywhere and always a market distortion. Using political power to pull wealth into your union that would otherwise spread to the rest of society via competition (in la…

Honestly this sounds like a Luddite mindset (and I mean that descriptively, not to be insulting). This mindset holds us back. You can imagine the artisans who made shirts saying th…

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People are animals like any other. That’s not a slight. Managers respond to incentives much like dogs do too, and so do execs, and board members, and every human.

You have to look a level deeper. Life has always been productive, it’s the only way you maintain negative entropy and thus life itself. If you found a species that stopped being bi…

If your alternative meaning of life is harnessing as many feel good chemicals in your brain as possible, that’s an objectively pointless existence If we’re all just particles and f…