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There is more money saved up than there are good productive investments available for it, in comparison to the past. This correlates with a few things: - Inflation of the value of …

a savings glut is the thing that Krugman has suggested, and is the thing which makes sense to me. Which stinks because I hate Krugman.

> Nevertheless, the composition of audiences can still tilt toward demographic groups such as men or younger workers, according to a study published today by researchers at Northea…

Why is education supposed to be about learning just for the sake of learning? It should be purpose-directed.

Different strokes for different folks. Some people like living in dense cities. No reason not to build for them if they apparently enjoy it.

Considering that the sources you cite and the source your debate openent cites disagree on the facts on the ground, y'all have some work to do if you ever want to understand eachot…

Living in a state that respects property rights has benefits. When you know that your state respects other individuals' property rights, you know it's less likely that they will tr…

The chart shown at macrotrends does not show total return (dividends included and reinvested). The investor would have broken even much earlier. January 1929 to January 1960 shows …

One other bit about the mechanics of it- If the two trailer hitches are not exactly level with eachother, whichever truck has the higher hitch has a big advantage.

Does this viewpoint help explain anything in a useful way? I do not understand why you would think of wealth this way.

How big of a house do you need? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14455-S-Muirwood-Cir-Herr...

Your explanation of the marshmallow test does not contradict the common interpretation of it. Your explanation proposes a mechanism for why the test subjects differ during the test…

I would have been glad to live in a boarding house earlier in my career.

I havent dove into evidence much during this discussion, but I agree that it is a good place to argue from. (I would tend to echo a good few Jordan Peterson-style points, such as g…

Well, to create a well-enough formalized method of control for the AI- As part of a 1,000,000 year long project, 1,000,000 groups of 1,000 human babies (with different groups havin…

It's interesting that this thread is still going today, and I'm glad that it is civil. Thought experiments are relevant because they can tease out our moral intuitions. Calling it …

The detail "This is assuming a perfectly-trained AI judges the variable, and that it controls against the underlying variables of societal bias in order to ensure that long-term hu…

It's really strange of you to admit this double-think. You are admitting to yourself that you hold two contradictory opinions simultaneously. I think the best thing to do (which yo…

Let's say that there is a population bell curve of the variable "propensity to enjoy being a programmer". One curve for men, and one curve for women. In some dystopian future, ever…

GP may have been doing some strange one-upsmanship, but Russia sure did have a worse time than the U.S. in WWII. I also think that extant Russian culture still suffers from PTSD ov…

The shoes do not add any energy to the system. All energy is provided by the runner. I think they shouldn't be regulated.

IQ and income are correlated fairly strongly. It's obviously not a perfect correlation. https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlation...

Write a bot that detects earthquake-related tweets, a la xkcd.

It's ironic but it's not untrue. The connotation of alien used here is something that is foreign, unfamiliar, or culturally distinct to a person or nation. Nativeness isn't relevan…

(correlation isn't causation, but) fathers on average have a higher income than non-fathers. I can definitely imagine the increased urgency at work when you have more mouths to fee…