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Sortition is far superior to elections in preventing corruption.

He called my vision of people not being imprisoned for engaging in voluntary interactions "sickening". You want me to not call him out for having a preference of imprisoning peacef…

>And how exactly do they determine that? You want me to explain the entire body of common law? What is the point of this line of questioning? Are you trying to demonstrate that eve…

>This has more to do with the evolution of freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I have no idea what that means. > Any economic theory rooted in rational decision…

>This is different. In the past, technology has been a multiplier for the productivity of workers. No it wasn't. One power loom with 10 operators replaced 2,000 people. The same wi…

>An ad-hoc process controlled by an individual? Of course I'd complain. Morally there's no difference. You just want the armed robbery to be done in a more organized and deliberati…

>Yes, I'd prefer people be thrown in prison for refusing to feed the starving, rather than them starving to death. So I guess you won't complain when some self-righteous modern-day…

>Why should I bother, if you're just going to change the way I was using a word and then tell me I'm sheeple? It doesn't really matter how you define it. What matters is that they …

There are other factors at play in an economy besides automation, like forcible income redistribution. That the rich are benefiting from automation while the rest are not could be …

I'll just quote my own comment from further up the comment chain: "Computers and horses don't have property rights or the means to exercise them. All of this automation is augmenti…

They don't have "vibrant economies". They have strong economies, that long ago stopped being "vibrant" (by vibrant, I mean fast-developing). Europe and Canada have seen stagnant wa…

>1. Property rights is the reason that technology is augmenting humans 2. Unified global culture is the reason that technology is augmenting humans 3. Having a genetic legacy is ev…

The proliferation of smartphones doesn't lead to everyone getting "propaganda from a central server". A smartphone is a personal computing device that enables far more peer-to-peer…

Wonderful article. Private knowledge is the most valuable economic resource that individuals have, and I believe this will become increasingly true as more narrow human functions b…

>We are about to face a few individuals with technology will hold massive power over everyone else. There are plenty of counterindications to that. For instance, many forms of tech…

Humans cannot be made obsolete by technology because we come to own the technology.

Neanderthals faced a different species of humans whose culture they were not capable of integrating into. Humanity right now forms one unified global culture through which ideas an…

Isn't that obvious? I'm not sure how I could be more explicit..

People being able to exercise their right to freely contract and control their own private property is sickening? You'd prefer people being thrown in prison for refusing to surrend…

The US isn't the world. The US has many traits that are peculiar to it, and not universal to economies that are becoming increasingly automated. The world has seen more wage growth…

All regulations, except on natural resources like land, should be eliminated in my opinion, as they are forceful interventions against people exercising their legitimate right to f…

The Malthusian argument has never been tested for an extended period in a situation where resource usage has been decoupled from resource generation. From the brief experiment we'v…

>See: Enron, where deregulation of the energy markets led to artificial supply shutdown (the infamous rolling blackouts) in order to drive prices higher and profit. Enron was no su…

Computers and horses don't have property rights or the means to exercise them. All of this automation is augmenting humans because we do. We've gone from 122 million people owning …

>But as things stand now, the owners of the machines get richer, and the displaced workers get significantly poorer. No they don't. We've had 200 years of massive automation fueled…