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There’s a difference between the abuse potential of ‘a car’ and ‘a nationwide surveillance network that tracks your location any time you’re on a public road’

Then that danger is going to have to be balanced against the reduced danger to the general public

Unfortunately we’re not real good at rescinding bad laws, so you just get tyranny (and a lot of mysteriously voided tickets for cops and politicians)

Systems should be built so abuse isn’t allowed in the first place, in addition to monitoring for compliance.

Offering ‘just don’t use modern communication’ as a solution when ‘ban data collection and retention’ is right there feels like a way to derail the conversation rather than an hone…

That cellphone and car and television and most other things that spy on you were most certainly not free.

Setting aside any utility it might have, crypto has lots of negative externalities besides energy usage. The event under discussion, for example.

There’s a lot of nerve endings, probably the same reason spankings are a thing.

That’s…the exact opposite of what the data says?

The shoulder is a very easy place to be tattooed, which is why that area gets recommended for first-timers. Places with less flesh and more bone are much worse; I have tats on the …

The majority of voters who pay no income tax are (heavily Republican) retirees.

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I’ve interacted with a number of rationalists that are just as crazy as Ziz but managed to not implode with the help of money (either lucking into it via family/crypto or a tech jo…

Well-educated young middle class white men, and with politics that generally flow entirely predictably from those demographics. The only real outlier is the openness to HBD/scienti…

And big tech market cap is 5x what it was in 2019, yes. I’m not hearing wild overhiring in these numbers, quite the opposite.

We’re going to be well into the Diamond Age before people stop attributing layoffs to ‘Covid overhiring.’

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100% of what everyone hates about AI is what other people do with it, so “dont like it, don't use it” is fully unproductive here.

It’s always fascinating to see when “this is hard and expensive to do, so we shouldn’t even try” is considered a compelling argument (housing, health care) vs. when it isn’t (defen…

They gave notice, and supplying guns to criminals sounds like an immanent threat to me. I don’t think you’re being rational, here.

> executed He was shot after opening fire, unprovoked, on federal agents performing a search of his home under a lawfully obtained warrant.

Why not just ship him to CECOT? Official acts bro

Reminder for any ‘houses used to be smaller’ rationalizations of home prices that the median homebuyer is now in their late fifties; these are rich people with decades of inflated …

Really? Because in practice DSA candidates seem very focused on bread and butter issues like affordability, housing, and M4A. Like, Mamdani was the only NY Dem not talking about Is…