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I assume it's to make it harder for competitors to train on Claude's Chain-of-Thought.

That's a very fair point. :)

Given all of that, the unemployment rate is still only 4.5%.

The largest contributor to the shrinking middle class has been more and more people are moving into the upper class. You can look at Pew's survey here: https://www.pewresearch.org/…

We should just set a number of H1Bs and auction them off.

The unemployment rate in the information-technology job market is 4.5%?

To make this concrete, suppose that Elon Musk never immigrated to the US. SpaceX and Tesla are never founded, or are founded in some other country. The American electric car market…

I hire a programmer to code my app, SuperConnect++. I charge $0.99 to download the app. People buy the app if it's worth more than $0.99 to them. If 150,000 people buy the app, the…

A better perspective is that the median H1B holder created $100k+ worth of value for some US company. Salaries are lower than the value you create, or else your employer would stop…

I'd only really be worried about barriers to entry and composition. One limit on wages is $ of value / hour. If AI makes existing programmers more efficient, then you would expect …

We can definitely offer subsidies for manufacturing in the US - we've already gotten TSMC to open several fabs.

I think punishing interest rates are better than an equity stake. As Intel's rally shows, having the government as your equity holder is actually amazing for investors.

The government should avoid bailing out big, uncompetitive corporations. If the government is acting as lender-of-last-resort in some crisis, then it should demand senior debt to t…

If a lawful order is enjoined by a district court, you can appeal to higher judges. If the higher judges agree with the district court, then you can appeal to the Supreme Court. If…

Is there any justification for this beyond increasing Google's ad revenue?

You can remove carbon from the atmosphere for $1000 per ton. That would be a reasonable emission tax.

I think the point is that human demand isn't the limiting factor. Americans having trouble making rent, paying for groceries, and healthcare indicates that they need more - not tha…

Home health and personal care aide is the largest employment category in the US. As other sectors become more efficient, you can direct more people into healthcare, entertainment, …

The US still has a big manufacturing sector and it has an unemployment rate of 3.5%. It could definitely absorb a small number of displaced workers. I think the bigger problem is t…

Slavery is horrifically evil. Ending it freed 4 million people from daily robbery, abuse, and a life of subsistence poverty. Banning slavery eliminated massive dead weight loss. Sl…

I think the ports will just pass along the cost. Whatever bargain the union strikes will be uniform across all of the ports and so they won't be able to undercut one another.

This whole discussion is kind of silly. 7T is 8% of global gdp. If your thing needs 7T of investment to happen, then it’s not going to happen.

I drink a lot of acidic sodas, but I've never had a cavity as an adult.

So that American consumers can benefit from possibly better or cheaper foreign software?