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It's an interesting idea only if you've never studied how democracy came to be. The best definition of democracy that I've ever heard is that democracy is war by other means. When …

> He even brought up job displacement directly. This isn’t usually how Silicon Valley talks. I feel like this is 50% of what Silicon Valley talks about these days.

Is it really surprising that the top minds in STEM might not be neuro-typical? You can't tell me you think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Elon…

Full transparency: I make my living as a marketer. So it's entirely possible that I may not have the objectivity to tell the difference between craft and salesmanship. But it's pos…

This is amazing. Thanks for taking the time to share this!

Holy moly, and I thought French (my mother tongue) was complicated due to conjugation. I'm fascinated by what possible context could call for this many variations on how you spell/…

I feel like I'd agree with your comment if it was in reply to an entirely different article. As in: I agree with your sentiment and ideas. Out of context, you're bang on correct. B…

Seeing a lot of comments disputing singular data points, but the author goes out of his way to provide as wide a variety of data points as he could find, and to try to disprove his…

Luck was a necessary ingredient, 100%. But how many other people had similar luck and did nothing with it? Luck is another word for opportunity. Some people are really good at leve…

> Driven by one person? The one that said they needed nukes and allies to defend themselves from their neighbour? Canada doesn't have nukes and has long advocated for nuclear non-p…

I've mulled over your comment for a couple days and I still don't really understand what you're saying... feel free not to reply in light of the delay (or to stop the conversation …

I'm not questioning whether it would be worth it. I'm questioning how that would work, and am very much open to being wrong here. I just don't see how it would work. For example...…

Wow, I had no idea. For all I know that's true in Canada too, I'm not an expert on Canadian insurance law, but I was under the impression that suicide was never covered anywhere. T…

I don't think those are the same thing? For example, I'm in Canada. There's a trade war going on. Every business in Canada is now having to hedge their bets for whether and how lon…

With life insurance, they investigate and won't pay out if they discover it was a suicide. Is there any similar mechanism with Polymarket for detecting, shall we say, unethical bet…

I guess what I'm asking is whether there is anything stopping you from betting against a specific person. I'm being vague because I don't want to put the idea out there about any s…

Wait, does this mean Polymarket is also an assassination market? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market This may be an obvious thing that everyone else has caught onto,…

I usually think about this in terms of entrepreneurs versus managers, or creators versus optimizers and maintainers. One is not more important than the other. Entrepreneurs are cow…

While I'm not saying it's not an emergent property of complexity, is this a falsifiable claim? Is there any proof of this? Until we can replicate consciousness (heck, until we can …

So why didn’t they?

No doubt, but no one is claiming that artificial humanity is an inevitability. (At least, no one I'm aware of.) The claim is about artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses…

New? No. Fully agreed. But there's misrepresenting, and then there's "What the hell does this have to do with the movie I just watched?" Good advertising (and I speak as an adverti…

As a Canadian, it terrifies me that it's supposed to be comforting that these powers are only supposed to be used on foreign targets. The US controls so much of the Internet alread…

I don't know if this works in a big organization, but as someone working on a solo project, I actually love it, and don't take it as a joke at all. I reject the deadline part (I'm …