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If everyone in the industry knows what the rules are, you can make contracts and agreements and licensing that works with those rules.

Endgame assumes intentionality. Maybe the economy is just people responding to much shorter term incentives and the whole thing is a misaligned runaway process.

It doesn’t have to be an identical material, just one that has similar properties in attracting and holding contaminants.

If it was kernel level only, maybe. But why does windows seem like it needs to restart after every little update?

Supply is only one half of value. The demand for gold is almost entirely speculative, whereas dollars can be directly used for almost anything.

Licenses like GPL are built on top of an enforcement mechanism like copyright. Without an enforced legal framework preventing usage unless a license is agreed to, a license is just…

Are billionaire oligarchs misaligned with humanity, or is egalitarianism and democracy misaligned with them? Time will tell.

Reality is short term thinking. Idealism is long term thinking. If you disregard reality, you will never understand the world around you to make change. If you disregard idealism, …

I mean, we already had PRISM, why is anyone acting like this is a big deal?

39% of US adults think they live in the end times, and 10% think Jesus will definitely show up in their lifetime. Given those priors, planning ahead probably seems like the less ra…

Poorly. GPUs are easily the bulk of the costs, and a disposable asset.

You can pick any set of axis you feel like and get similar results. “Do you like X? Wow you are an X person!”. So yeah, technically better than horoscopes, more like a “warm” readi…

But it has the suburban cars and suburban zoning, without the parking lots or even a full simulation of the generated traffic (because that would render it nearly unplayable). It s…

I tried this, but I couldn’t really tell the differences between even quite obvious characters until I sat down with them individually.

In the USA, any non-private government investment is considered to be foolish and doomed at best, and an existential threat to business at worst. The best we can do is “public-priv…

Talk radio reaches well past broadband. These problems aren’t new, they are just social problems from decades ago finally surfacing.

What about proven facts that get disproven? Is there room to rethink your priors?

Imagine you are a 19 year old in charge of some Hamas survivors. Let’s say you want to surrender. 1. Would it even mean anything? It’s not like you or anyone else has the control t…

Most games that use an existing engine get like 60% on metacritic and ship like less than 1000 copies and are a generic flop. “Shipping no matter what” is a lot less valuable in ga…

Do what Japan desperately wants people to do, and visit any of the 95% of the country that isn’t Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fuji, or Nara.

The whole idea that the way to reduce crime is by surveillance and enforcement is a con. Like in this case, all the places that managed to significantly reduce traffic accidents do…

> Most of us are not esoteric authoritarian freaks pining for a CEO of America who'll track us all using mandatory Fitbits and assign us jobs based on an AI's estimation of our cra…

Yeah, cause while blood type is like horoscopes which absolutely no meaningful information, silly personality quizzes at least tell you back what you told them, so some kind of cor…

Imprisoning someone is also a great harm. That harm should have a cost, so that it is not employed flippantly.

The idea is that if they are making a rational choice to embezzle or not (and have other viable options for living), then knowing jail time is a possible outcome changes the expect…