Viewing profile — ethanbond

Okay, well most people who have issues with digital advertising don’t have as much a problem with ads as they have a problem with the negative externalities of how ads are currentl…

You don’t think there’s at least a minor difference between an ad that directly pertains to the content you are directly reading, and is in fact from the same “vendor,” versus an a…

Also you have to look up how to open it (regardless of where you live) if you haven’t encountered one before. Truly, truly bizarre design.

Because it’s a different issue with different principals involved. Does the federal government set the national number of teachers who can be trained each year?

Oh okay. Guess we’ll just continue to have 1997 level supply of doctors forever. I don’t even know what argument you’re trying to make here? It’ll take time to solve? Yeah, obvious…

What? People benefit from higher land prices?

The opioid issue is absolutely a big degradation in QOL from recent years, but no the current crime rate is still well below decades ago, especially on a per capita basis. https://…

You’re describing problems that are all solved by money.

It’s the land price. Gets baked into every single good and service and goes up in lockstep with productivity gains.

Crime is much much lower than it was decades ago almost everywhere in the US. Also “run down” in reference to cities is just not true outside of a few failed areas like Detroit. NY…

This is easy: how much did an acre of land in Palo Alto cost then, and how much does it cost now? Why? Why does the price of land “need” to go up? It pays no wages, no rent, no sup…

You just spend more money to scale the program. Funding for the residency program has been frozen since the late 90s, the demand for doctors has not been.

Vibes > clinical trials

What's there to criticize if it's not bad?

Got it, so post-abolition United States is not “more righteous,” even on the dimension of human rights, than pre-abolition United States. It is, as you say, “impossible” to compare…

That is an immense leap from "if we could have machines do it, we wouldn't have slaves do it" to seeing slavery as undesirable. Aristotle was a staunch believer in "natural slaves"…

Obligatory: Tailwind

No, I didn't say that you are indifferent to nor pro-slavery. I said that you'd land on the conclusion of allowing it, presumably despite your own personal preferences. Many people…

Well no, we need billions of human-level AIs who are experiencing a world as rich and various as the world that the billions of humans inhabit.

You are aware that the existence of grey areas does not negate the existence of different ends of the spectrum, right? I’m not arguing the world is simple and entire countries/civi…

Where is anyone proposing berating anyone? You can say that a segregated society was less good than a non-segregated one without saying that everyone who lives or lived in a segreg…

Sure, I don’t believe cultural relativism is itself in all cases wrong. I think it’s obviously wrong when used to excuse obviously immoral things done in a context where they are i…

Those countries can outlaw those conditions whenever they want. When they do, they’ll have achieved some additional moral progress. I’m pretty sure you’d be crying foul if the US d…

No, what we’re finding is actually quite the opposite. High volumes of light weapons is not only enough, but preferable on the modern battlefield even fighting against heavy weapon…