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the world is incredibly filled with risk to humans—people in the AI doomer camp are making a claim that AI potentially is a new kind of uncontrollable risk that warrants extraordin…

doesn’t your example make clear the existence and nature of free will? it’s obvious in its absence

this is my pet peeve with discussions of ‘free will’ they have an implicit definition—everything being exactly the same at a different time or place—that is non-sensical as far as …

I’ve never understood his crankiness on this subject: the concept of ‘right to repair’ is entirely synthetic. Government intervention in markets is usually predicated on some kind …

Really? Like in the next 200 years? That’s ridiculous. The scenarios from IPCC envision a future of prosperity, albeit at a reduced level than if we could somehow drastically cut c…

In the US landlords do have some liability for criminal conduct on their property whether committed by tenants or others. Most web services do have strict restrictions on conduct. …

No he is not. The Strike in question is the one run by Jack Maller and the description of using USDT for remittances to ES comes from Miller’s own Medium article. https://jimmymow.…

When have ‘the media’ ever not published lies and ideology? Serious question...

I agree with the thrust of your comment in general. I thought that Trump’s China travel ban was a choice of common sense and the Democrats labeling it as xenophobic was counterprod…

Isn’t this a problem of efficiency and optimization? Running the system lean leads to lower costs, but with risk of occasional shortfalls due to exogenous effects. But to optimize …

This argument about code inspection does not make sense to me. The number of people who are going to even have the ability to inspect the code of the applications they use is infit…

We need protection from which government? All of them? I think that is probably impossible.

This article is an example of the pure propaganda that 'mainstream financial media' participates in on-the-regular. Why that is I don't know. Symbiotic business interests I guess. …

The difference is the moon landing or ‘who shot JFK’ are about subjects that are low stakes, very low. Having millions people believe the Presidential election was corrupt is corro…

I believe what they are saying is that if their is a correlation between skin color and vitamin D levels (people with darker skin have less vitamin D) and there is another reason p…

You are not acknowledging the core economic problem which is that the productive capacity of the economy is going to be destroyed if this doesn’t end soon. What you are describing …

I like Serum a lot, but it has the same set of issues that make all of these digital synths limited as performance instruments compared to, say, a piano. The issue starts with the …

I wouldn’t say modern electronic music has a higher level of ‘sonic texture’ than orchestral music, or any music using traditional instruments. The difference is that in modern mus…

That doesn’t require a blockchain based system though. A single entity can secure a crypto currency. You can convert PayPal directly into US dollars at your bank, so I don’t think …

In reality, the attack surface with crypto’s is ever expanding. There’s no free lunch, and the minimal security provided with crypto currencies is provided at a high cost.

But it really depends on being able to transact at one of the very limited set of vendors who would accept crypto, especially overseas. It’s a chicken/egg problem because without a…

I agree with a lot of his points, and I would do well to embrace them. When he gets into diving people into “makers or takers” that’s an arrogant and ugly way to look at the world.…

I thought GM did a great job with the Volt. My Dad has one. He usually only drives around town, so he never needs gas. But the car has a range of 400+ miles on a full charge and ta…

The middle class enjoy the benefits of subsidies to the oil industry already. They are also getting cheaper prices due to the political resistance of including the costs of atmosph…