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There are evolutionary benefits to groups that cooperate and improve fairness internally. But if an AI surpasses humans in every way, is there any evolutionary benefit for the AI t…

Welp, that's enough internet for me today! Warning for the squeamish: I only made it partway through the article before deciding it would probably make me nauseous if I continued.

> the world's dominant power by virtue of having roughly half the total world population If human+ level AI takes off one would expect to see a great decoupling of power from popul…

New Zealand does have the advantage of an ocean border and thus near total control on entries and exits. Compared to the very porous land borders of the US.

Of course the easiest solution to the problem is money. You sell the games you don't want for money. You buy the games you want with money. Much simpler than algorithms for barteri…

You're using "high interest rate" to mean "biotech has great returns right now". Everyone else is using it to mean "the Federal Reserve has set the interest rate high right now" Ve…

Of course that situation may be reversed for people with a Chinese grandma instead of an Italian grandma.

AoE may be Turing complete but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

The difference is mostly heart disease not "risky behavior". If anything the average software engineer is more likely to die of heart disease due to our sedentary lifestyles. Sitti…

Your CDC figure is an average over all genders. Assuming hacker news readers are disproportionately men, the mortality rate is even higher, since men die younger than women on aver…

Everyone remembers Malcolm X, but does anyone remember the names of the thousands of civilians who protested the Iranian regime and got summarily executed? Resistance doesn't work …

Maybe the m dash?

The Arab States post-1948 genocide of indigenous middle eastern Jews has been far more complete than Israel's genocide of Muslims. There are almost zero indigenous middle eastern J…

> long COVID is probably more accepted as a real thing by practitioners at this point than CFS Isn't long covid just CFS that can be attributed to Covid? If you accept that multipl…

At which point the bitcoin in legacy wallets is clearly worthless

> the cheapest and least disruptive option is to cut consumption And good for the environment!

> price to pay for the damage the us and Israel have inflicted on Iran Well if we're talking reparations, shouldn't Iran pay for the damage Hezbollah inflicted on Israel with Irani…

Israel withdrew fully from Lebanon in 2000, and this was certified by the UN, yet Hezbollah kept attacking them anyway. If Hezbollah offered Israel a choice between: peace with Hez…

Imagine if the US government diverted the billions spent on this war into building out green energy infrastructure. If everyone had electric cars charging from solar then Iran's st…

> now.. with that $2M toll, iran just learnt it can just toll the ships... But the strait has two sides and Iran only controls one side. The UAE/Oman on the other side could equall…

I notice the repo has no data on supply of doctors per person in different countries. It's well known that the US residency system with its limited slots constrains the supply of d…

Exactly https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/few-us-busi... > Only about 70 employers have paid a $100,000 Trump fee on H-1B workers from outside the US since it was im…

Yet another reason monopolies are bad.

If Iran is unwilling to let neutral international observers confirm the number, that suggests they are trying to hide a number they don't want the world to know.

Difficult to be sure what would happen in a counter factual universe without foreign interference. We do know that Russia et al sow division online as part of their anti western ef…