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Usually the solution is to have a graduate student write a review paper. ;)

I want to see what some other commentators who are more knowledgeable about the field say. This is a pretty striking attack against a central theory in... Scientific American? With…

The positive way to think about this is that it appears humanity's moral universe is expanding. I could name a long list of things that we do all day that we are going to be judged…

It justifies critical awareness such as is happening here.

Why do we bother celebrating any of them? Mortals are mortal, they deserve to be evaluated based on what they do. I'm not sure what purpose, other than propagandistic, is served by…

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Hahaha, the small town capitalists are fighting the international monopolists and the workers everywhere lose.

I had just read this essay which advocated for the FANG + Microsoft to be nationalized and taken out of the profit system like the post office. It really resonated with me. If anyt…

They still escaped it. Competition was the driving force for companies to become big and monopolistic. The "intended" effect of the market resulted in the opposite.

For what it's worth, I feel like we already have a version of that book by Peter Norvig: https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Modern-Approa...

I'm not sure I believe that S&P 500 chart proves his point that we are living in historically similar times to the 1960s. S&P looks at the top of part of the distribution, not the …

Ah bloomberg news, understanding that a new economic slowdown is in the cards wants to reassure the public that the economists have learned something. What they've learned is that …

Big companies get bigger because of market consolidation. Competition is a lie. News at 11.

Carbon taxes have to be astronomical to actually affect market behavior. Better to take direct control and titrate down carbon fuels while ramping other methods. The market can't d…

How are those choices different from money? The money version is only more liberating if you're rich. First-come-first-serve does suck for newcomers, but do they have a right to di…

I am suggesting that. I think that perhaps we might want to check for certain types of criminal charges, but we are seeing in real time how that is abused. However, yes, the concep…

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Yes, but how much of the housing price is physical maintenance and how much is "location location location"? With the latter eliminated, I'm guessing the concordant increase in tax…

Freedom of movement is a human right full stop.

What went wrong in your case?

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Democracy means that people have equal representation. Money based systems are literally the opposite of that. A man with a billion dollars has a billion votes.

Imagine if no one paid rent to people that do almost nothing. You'd have hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars in your pocket every month minus some extra taxes. If repairs n…

Of course, another option is to impose rent controls on all housing to eliminate the insane market and then rationally plan how much additional space to build.