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I just googled and in 2024 there >200k approvals for Indian nationals. That’s one year, one source country. And I believe that’s capped. Over time, it must be millions.

Also have fewer qualms killing other people. Young people are more idealistic/poltical/murderous on average .

Amputees have phantom limb sensations including pain. I believe this is more than theory. Certainly medical science has collected at least some case studies over the past century a…

Import/export mute lists would be an amazing feature but why would x allow that? Shareable mute lists would turn the place into mastodon or something non-monitizeable due to low en…

Just 86 x. Anything else is a half measure, at best. The house always wins.

I’d argue. The CCP isn’t ideologically opposed to democracy but rather capitalism. Capitalism is an inherent feature of democracy. They despise capitalism (the Communist Party) eve…

If China embraces capitalism more tightly that will be a good thing for the world. The problem with China is not its wonderful people or culture, nor its prosperity, the glaring pr…

I’m not so sure that’s a valid dichotomy. The cypherpunks were heavily anti-government libertarians and probably overlap a lot with the local VC crowd over a certain age. The cyphe…

“social groups expected” Catholic?

Ditto baseball cards.

80% of the variation due to individual differences OR measurement error.

“ review tasks in minutes that used to take three days,” said Jinzhong (Jin) Liu,” Sounds like the FDA budget is about to get a drastic cut. A clever bureaucrat never confesses tha…

“And soon” Base rate is soon never comes. And soon flying cars, but now Facebook glasses.

Generally concur but I wish we wouldn’t squander credibility by making claims like, “travel for attend conferences (a key part of science!).” Oh come on. Conferences are a monument…

Exactly. They raise campaign funds and appear on tv and cross examine industry leaders like Altman and Zuckerberg. Clearly that is not “nothing”. But some worry that is not enough …

I wonder if optimizing for votes, as is the day to day business of most policy makers, gets you to the same place as optimizing for profits like in the private sector? If not, stud…