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The controller told the truck to proceed, before telling it to stop. That was a serious ATC error.

It'd be hilarious if women formed their own closed rideshare economy; they'd discover that they demand much higher prices from each other than they get from men.

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SKG is more like if the car company is required to provide a working factory, capable of manufacturing all the car's parts, along with working supply chains for all those things, t…

Prediction markets don't uniquely enable it, but they make it far more effective and easy. Insider trading is illegal. And for trades that aren't technically insider trading, often…

I love how this sci-fi misalignment story is now just a boring part of everyday office work. "Oh yeah, my AI keeps busting out of its safeguards to do stuff I tried to stop it from…

I think the legal approach depends on him being a tenant, which the homeowner can't actually be so easily (because they live somewhere else).

> Food is less nutritious You can buy the exact same diet as decades ago. Eggs, flour, rice, vegetable oil, beef, chicken - do you think any of these are "less nutritious"? People …

From experience, there is a huge shortage of human talent. Some people really are exceptional and there are very few of them. How many Einsteins do you think are just kicking aroun…

This podcast covers a bunch of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nj3DLvT64 It's one of those things that can be tricky to research because almost all the researchers and journa…

Sure, but go try to build a house while ignoring what Euclidean geometry tells you about it.

This is actually _because_ automation has been so effective. It's called Baumol's cost disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

> If we limited individual wealth to $999 million--just outright capped it, and enforced that--it would not impact these people in the slightest. It would certainly impact their wi…

The problem is that for the vast majority of people to be psychologically healthy they must have a job. This isn't a societal decision, it's a reality about how humans are. The alt…

Studies on basic income have shown that it's harmful to the people who receive it. They report no improvements on any measured outcome. Not lower stress, not more education, not be…

This trick was used by later games as well. It was pretty funny in Batman: Arkham Asylum to see Batman faceplant while walking down a hallway.

Unfortunately, people are born with a certain intellectual capacity and can't be improved beyond that with any amount of training or education. We're largely hitting peoples' capac…

Humans have that too. Startle response, withdrawing from pain (hot stove), blink response upon incoming object - all these happen without involving the higher brainstem at all. I t…

The space race was not just about inventing, though. It was about doing . You can do the same thing twice, and you can also lose the ability to do something. The ability to do the …

Ending all school programs that separate children by ability is the most radically egalitarian position possible, even in theory. There is no more extreme position one can take. Gi…

The belief that every child has the same natural ability is as radical. It's radical because goes against all evidence, experience, and common sense - it is ideology taken to a pur…

You are confusing emigration with death. We are not concerned with who is physically in Gaza, we are concerned with births and deaths. There are less people physically in Gaza now …

This is not correct. If the algorithm is deterministic and the random seed is the same, temperature can be anything and get the same result. Same as using a seed to get the same ma…

Goalpost moving. Now you're saying, okay they do have restraint, but what I really meant was their restraint is driven by the PR concerns, not by their own moral hearts. Well, that…

Demanding cities be evacuated is what you do when you have restraint. Otherwise you would just kill everyone inside. If they had not done this, you would also claim that it's evide…