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This is all very rich coming from someone who also wants a totalitarian government regime dedicated to suppressing machine learning research. http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-inte…

Some of the things CA "receives" from the federal government are zero percent interest rates and preferential access to vast capital markets, a heavy implicit labor cost subsidy vi…

If merely hosting a headline & link like this is problematic, you must also have an issue walking by news stands, visiting bookstores, or watching CNN. It sounds exhausting.

It's fascinating to see how the people pushing this argument prioritize economic nationalism exactly to the extent it promotes open borders, and exactly no further.

You also have a problem with precision. A test with a 100% pass threshold is a really poor estimator of an underlying failure rate; at best it can bound it, but you really do care …

If your system requires 100% perfection from all of its subcomponents, it is a shitty, fragile system. Robust systems can be made of parts with known failure rates.

The flip side of strong ethnic ties and ingroup preferences enabling fraud, is that they make it possible for, eg, Hasids to conduct an extemely high-value diamond trade on a hands…

And Hillary Clinton wasn't elected. As I said, imagine .

The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over Piz…

The disturbance you feel is likely at least partly cognitive dissonance at the idea of open borders amounting to labor colonialism. It's an interesting idea, wouldn't you say? What…

Good. The entire premise of the internet is that it allows coordination at low latency over distance. It's also probably not fantastic for the United States to be strip mining the …

The traditional answer is various ways of forced community-building (collective punishment & reward, forming in/outgroups, etc) as a way of building loyalty to their individual uni…

They also have nothing to do with "gun safety", unless you consider e.g. the National Right to Life Committee to be an "abortion safety" organization. Ironically the NRA actually d…

No one seems to be mentioning that doing so would presumably screw over the NRA harder than Everytown. The target viewer for gun control content would presumably not be interested …

Weev is working on a similar project: https://youtu.be/ZMptVkyZWE4

One consequence of gay organizations deciding to focus all of their energies on punishing rubes in flyover country via gay marriage campaigns has been a significant de-emphasis on …

That's a revolutionary discovery; you should probably publish it immediately since it refutes decades of genetic research. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9f67/21bf5954d1129d0212b…

Uh oh. The "great filter" hypothesis is essentially that the rarity of intelligent life has to be explained by some parameter of the Drake equation, and that whatever the "small" p…

You might be surprised, but in the American context numerous people considered "black" for political reasons clearly have microscopic amounts of black admixture. https://en.wikiped…

Given current interest rates, even a long-term bond at 5.5% will have significant default risk priced in. Vanguard's non-junk long-term corporate bond ETF presently yields ~4.4%. h…

Weev's use of every IP-connected printer in the US to publish antisemitic "samizdat" significantly predates this. There's no real exploit in most cases, just things connected to th…

The expression "bake my cake" comes to mind. Somehow one faction has an inalienable right to compel speech from its ideological opponents out of pure spite, because sacred principl…

The implication is that the modern identity of "gay" is a recent, politicized, Western (& really more like American) construction. The further implication is that this identity is …

Left out of these discussions of the joys of automated checkouts is that the illiterate and/or obstinate population makes up a large segment of consumers in certain areas. McDonald…