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Ehhh I suppose but I think that’s a weak point. The purpose of shutting down the internet is undeniably to prevent the people from coordinating rebellion and the help control the n…

Your opinion appears to be people shouldn’t share opinions unless they achieve a certain level of activity behind. So, like, idk dude. I don’t see you campaigning to restrict free …

I guess I just feel like your appeal to skilled manual workers is pointless. They’re not really the focal point. It’s the large masses of people being relegated to the bin labeled …

It would work at sufficient scale and sacrifice

My anecdata is from just two families whom I am hearing from indirectly and have never met in person. The takeaways are: 1) they HATE their government more than anything in the wor…

I don’t see any alternative angle though. Nobody thinks the IRGC is doing this for fun.

You don’t get to gatekeep having political opinions

Removing a white collar job from the economy puts a worker into the bottom tier _and_ reduces the wages of that bottom tier. We are speeding towards a servant class. Uber was the f…

Violence against economic shifts from labor to capital have pretty much consistently failed though. At best they’ve won brief relief that eventually got swallowed by the invisible …

Establishing consensus through discussion is the basis of democracy

I guess. But the framing here is not “clever, innovative IRGC” so much as oppressive regime fucking over it’s people to retain control.

It’s very economically harmful to be disconnected. That’s the downside

This is all likely true. Although I feel people undersell how they work together. Iranians broadly hate their government, yeah. But the thing that gets them rioting is economic fai…

Imo front end is what it’s best at.

No not really. It’s just if you ask the model what percent of people like apples, it doesn’t know the answer. We don’t even need to get to the level of change of opinions. Models d…

That’s just fundamentally not a meaningful argument You need to assess calibration. Not “accuracy”. What does “in play” even mean?

This whole synthetic sampling thing really boggles my mind. It’s like… it’s difficult to come up with an example that doesn’t feel like a hyperbolic strawman. It’s just that dumb.

That is abstraction of the implementation of the tool, not the output. Producing outputs you don’t understand is novel

The phrasing you’re looking for is that 12% of Americans consume an average of 50% of beef consumed every day. By saying “on any given day” you are suggesting it’s a different 12%.…

> is it normal, in the USA, for half of all people to only eat beef once every 8 days? Thats not the implication of 12% of Americans eating 50% of beef by consumed by all Americans…

> A recent study shows that on any given day, just 12% of people in the US account for half of all beef consumed in the US. This phrasing strongly suggests it’s not the same 12% ev…

I feel like this article is littered with suspicious statements Like this one: > In fact, institutional homebuyers (those who bought 100+ homes in a 12-month period) didn’t even re…

Platform economics create monopsony problems. If you don’t play ball with steam, you don’t get access to most customers. End of story. These things are winner take all. Imo 30% is …

If the US tech companies stop behaving this way, maybe.

I’m surprised that Iran can contemplate affording this. There must be such immense losses of all the land, homes, and capital assets in Tehran. And then operational costs of moving…