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Software-only machines are qualitatively different than machines with paper trails, since they can be tampered with en masse by a small number of adversaries without needing physic…

It's politics. He's saying it because it's an effective thing to say, not because he actually didn't know health care is complex.

So your philosophy is, "I only do healthy things if they're also painful"? That doesn't seem productive.

You’re right. I didn’t read the paper very carefully, and was myopically focused on the emulating-a-real-brain AI strategy. As in, let’s slice up a real human brain, map the neuron…

Let's look at the most important section of the paper. He estimates the processing power of the brain: The human brain contains about 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 5 • 10^3 …

Well, if it's possible to build a human level intelligence, it's probably possible to build an intelligence that's much like a very smart human except it runs 100x faster. And in t…

My understanding is there are two reasons you want inflation: (1) Inflation means real interest rates can go negative, which means it's harder to get stuck at the zero lower bound …

That's exactly why it's called a deflationary spiral: once you're in it, it's hard to get out even with aggressive monetary policy.

> My general impression is that more and stricter regulations in an industry is usually (though not always) a bad thing for consumers in that industry In cable internet the average…

This is astonishingly high quality for pop science. It deserves more upvotes!

You're complaining about the system... in response to a powerful instance of the system working correctly? What?

No, booking a ride with the intention to cancel is definitely wrong. My point is that Uber employees aren't doing that frequently enough to affect Lyft at all, so this can't be a p…

Lyft says that Uber employees have canceled 5000 rides since last October. That's like $100k in lost revenue -- it's nothing. Definitely not some big plan by Uber to undermine Lyft…

Uh... which of Uber's actions here are unethical? Aggressively poaching drivers from Lyft seems all right to me. That's just healthy competition. And this stuff about wasting Lyft'…

Your comment makes no sense. GDP is slightly down compared to 2013 . Why are you talking about 2008? The article implies that the main driver here is reduced consumer spending from…

If the fixed income came from newly-printed money then yes, it would cause inflation. If it came from taxes then no, it would not cause inflation in and of itself. In both cases, i…

Other industries are deeply unlike tech, so comparing salary trends would be meaningless. A sibling comment suggests that we look at salaries in tech companies that didn't collude.…

If, in my nonfiction book, I write, "Under normal circumstances, water boils at 80 degrees celsius," then I am a liar, and there is nothing I can say after the fact that will excus…

Right now people avoid self-employment because if they get seriously sick it will bankrupt them. Under the new law it won't. That's the argument. The premiums you pay when you're h…

If nobody's willing to do the job for $6K then why would the salary of the job drop to $6K? Nothing you've written makes any sense.

Citation? I really like the idea of basic income but $2700/month per person seems absurdly high. I don't know why any political faction would try for so much.