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What about it is BS? I don't see any issue with leasing things if it does make me happier.

Pension systems don't have a huge effect on the incentive to work. They have some effect but not enough to collapse the system. But we could possibly see a collapse in the future i…

Free public services are similar to UBI but have little effect on the incentive to work because they don't provide all of the basic needs.

AI is just a technology, nothing fundamentally different from what has been happening for centuries. Once AI is able to replace all human work, that's a new situation. But this is …

I didn't imply that this is how I define UBI. Look at the exact wording I used.

> UBI type system in place to pad the fall, people will bounce back and adapt when industries break down If you mean UBI that would allow anyone to stop working and live a modest l…

I meant basic financial independence. It gives you the option to live like someone who has the median wage forever, but without having to work. If you work, it's a bonus on top of …

It's really hard for me to understand that people who have the chance to achieve basic financial independence (say $1M net worth) don't take that chance and make sure to stay finan…

> So abducting the leader of one country (against international law) and killing the leader of another country (against international law) is fine? Depends on the leader and the co…

The US is providing some help but less so than Europe and much less so than what Ukraine is contributing. And by saying "to the last Ukrainian" you're spreading a Russian-propagand…

You're not the bad guys, there's a huge difference between the attack vs Iran and the attack vs Ukraine. Iran is an authoritarian regime which repeatedly said that Israel should ce…

I've recently went into a rabbit hole of learning about Singapore. It's fascinating that you can transform a developing country into a country that's almost on the level of Switzer…

> The crux if it is that if you ever break from "the universe can be fully expressed mathematically", you are stuck in the mud of supernatural beliefs. That's just not true. I've b…

What specifically you mean by "manifestation of a bunch of chemical and electrical signals"? The brain is a system of physical particles. Why do I feel pain when the system is in s…

Gist of the argument: If it was true, you can create extreme pain by running a program. You can run the program by simulating a CPU, using pen and paper for memory. So you're essen…

Yes, we're stuck at the first step, defining consciousness. My definition, which I am confident to be "correct", is that consciousness is my current feelings, perceptions, thoughts…

I assign probabilities of zero to all 3. Computer program being conscious leads to ridiculous and obviously false conclusions (think about a person running a program using pen and …

Yes, this is basically my only issue with SQLite. SQLite with a strict type system would be great.

Blue Origin's tortoise slow-and-steady approach to development ia increasingly looking stupid.

Science will never be able to properly even define the concept of consciousness because it's outside the scope of science. Consciousness is something that is used to observe the ou…

Why not? How could it negatively affect my life?

For example using nested .gitignore files vs using one root .gitignore file. I guess this principle is related to this one: Imagine the code as a graph with nodes and edges. The no…

Not a law but a a design principle that I've found to be one of the most useful ones and also unknown: Structure code so that in an ideal case, removing a functionality should be a…

I have some of those too, to a limited extent. Not worried about inequality, at least not in the sense that AI would increase it, I'm expecting the opposite. Being intelligent will…