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>The end result probably looks like us burning most of the modern world to the ground, literally, but that's where game theory is taking us. Has it ever occurred to you that if peo…

Except the actual left has been complaining about centralised capitalist control of the media for decades. Indeed, it's precisely because of that control that you've apparently nev…

Ah yes, you're correct, I got confused by the first-name/surname thing. I would still question the validity of this approach, and more generally, I don't think you can meaningfully…

I said power dynamics (i.e. power imbalances) should be opposed, not the abstract concept of power itself.

If they can choose not to help they're not "helping you to live", they're choosing not to kill you. And if they choose whether to kill you based on whether you do what they want, t…

>If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die, you should tolerate more of his weirdness. Yes, if someone has control over your life or death, you should probably d…

This only makes sense if you assume the organisation's interest is only to maximise productivity in the short term. An open source organisation may explicitly be interested in attr…

So looking at their methodology, they chose the "high class" black names ("Anderson" and "Thompson") (EDIT: I misread, these aren't the black names) based on census proportions, bu…

>Life creates a power dynamic which can be abused in this way. And such dynamics should be acknowledged and opposed wherever they exist. >Have some minimal set of rules Except as I…

>I just always have trouble imagining the end game of that kind of thinking - even in Stalinism, people with higher abilities were selected for various more demanding tasks. Reject…

>The simple fact is that people who have power tend to abuse that power, but that has nothing to do with meritocracy as a concept. Except that by definition, meritocracy creates a …

Humans have a sleep cycle driven by circadian rhythms, and most jobs in a country work similar clock hours in order to coordinate with other companies more easily. So in fact, it's…

There is no way to implement verifiable voting which is not vulnerable to voter coercion. If you can verify your vote, so can the person threatening you. The way to ensure the ball…

For the majority of people, their share of the vote is a lot more powerful than their share of the dollars.

You're not advocating for encouraging STEM graduate immigrants, you're advocating for the exclusion of any other immigrants. Unless you're also advocating for the deportation of no…

The parent was not suggesting subsidies, they were suggesting nationalising the entire energy industry and managing it to address the problem directly. A carbon tax might work in t…

>Are you really suggesting that anybody in the world who wants to walk into the USA should be allowed to? Maybe block known criminals and bad actors, but otherwise yes. If your arg…

>The thing with YouTube alternatives is that they have to be at least as good as YouTube. Creators will only go where their audiences will go, so a site that doesn't offer a good u…

Your analysis is numerical nonsense. Work is not divided into even units completed at a constant linear rate over the course of the day. It's a wide variety of different actions, a…

Because working out if someone is a competent doctor is hard and expecting every single person in society to work it out for themselves, regardless of their level of free time, edu…

That someone can earnestly suggest that going 48 hours without sleep is somehow an effective way to address an outage is an indictment of a messed up work culture. People need slee…

This means they can't process the payment, but it doesn't necessarily cancel the subscription, and if not, you still owe them the money legally, even if they can't get it easily.

Socialists usually also argue from a utilitarian point of view. The utility a person experiences as a result of increasing access to resources is sublinear, i.e. there are diminish…