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Perhaps economic value can come from a more educated and skilled workforce if they're using AI for private tuition (if it can write as well as us, it can provide a bespoke syllabus…

I was referring to their rejection of the progressive tax system. I can concede there's no objective definition.

Yet the countries with the least amount of poverty (Northern Europe) have high taxes, a large welfare state and high redistribution

This is the kind of extreme internet Libertarianism that's dangerous in the real world. Not practical or concerned with extreme poverty through inequality, but preferring to fight …

Fairness here usually refers to the inequality left over after tax, not the tax amount itself. When the US is the 127th most unequal country out of 168 measured (by the Gini Coeffi…

> I'd rather live in a world with 100 million humans, and computers helping to run this world. Easy to say when you've positioned yourself as one of the 100m that gets to live - an…

Her message and the way she conveyed it is, for the millions that it resonated with, more important than who her mother is or her credentials (what credentials are you expecting of…

Setting our social media accounts to private should solve most of that. Otherwise we will have to put less of our lives on public platforms.

Nobody votes for the PM directly unless they're running in your local constituency. Beyond that though, we have gone through various PMs since our last election, so nobody did vote…

We're ambivalent on whether we want King Charles, but we're adamant in not wanting a President Sunak.

This is the best case scenario for prediction markets I think, as it means the odds more accurately reflect the outcome likelihood (e.g. people aren't betting against their favouri…