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To be able to trust random Internet users was never a good dream because cheap identity is the Internet's default. (Not necessarily a bad one.) More surprising than reviews regress…

Corporal punishment is more humane and a more effective deterrent to crime than prison. I am not actually sure if most people don't believe this.

They will be as effective as anti-piracy law would be if pirates were paid to seed. At best they will prevent respectable publications from directly using distributed archives as a…

>kind (especially when others around us are unreasonable just because they can) Think about why you want to be kind to such people. It is one thing if you expect your kindness to d…

If obvious inefficiencies are not being fixed, nobody's incentives are aligned with fixing them. A sustainable solution must address the wrong or weak incentives, not try to fix th…

The problem with voluntary human extinction is that suicidal ethical systems are inherently self-limiting. A serious negative utilitarian who wished for human extinction would have…

>I for one would like to see the tables turned more often. The most prominent example of this in recent memory is Peter Thiel sponsoring Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. Do you…

It's funny how when they ask you if you really have to be anonymous it tips the scales towards "yes".

Can you give a few typical examples for when your are and aren't entitled to your "casual time"?

Why is it unethical? What ethical principle is being violated? (These are not rhetorical questions.)

People may yet make a comeback as a premium service since they can do things that self-driving cars can't like help a passenger carry bags.

If those who augment their brains outcompete those who don't by an ever-widening margin (seems more likely than not), this discussion topic is preemptively obsolete. Their ethics w…

On the other hand, if a lot of countries had apocalyptic weapons (a phase that naturally precedes such weapons becoming available to individuals), it could all but eliminate war. C…

You can have it both ways: use CloudFlare and offer direct access through a hidden service (since DDoS attacks over Tor are impossible, expect for application layer attacks).

As a Slashdot comment points out, CloudFlare could protect the owner from DDoS attacks with minimal effort on his part. Edit: The original original post already talks about CloudFl…

I think you do my argument a disservice by equating it to the general trend of people denying X can be automated until X is automated. It is more specific: I say that some jobs (ro…

I'll answer your specific questions first. Driver, no. Maid, no. (But keep in mind that robot maids/janitors are considerably farther away than self-driving cars. Cleaning environm…

>Also, what will keep the 95% from revolting? Security robots! More seriously, as robots do more and more, people will start to place a premium on having a human do the work where …

Not ceding classic liberalism with the word is the point. (Because ceding too much of it puts you at danger of a populist takeover, i.e., "literally Hitler".) Land explains this be…

Conversely, if you recognize this, do not let "liberal(ism)" become a thought-terminating cliche for you.

The idea just might be in the air, but there are several ways an attempt at implementing it can go, some of which are less likely than others to succeed through differentiation. Th…

Every "permaban" like this is an opportunity to get a famous person on a distributed Twitter competitor like GNU Social (especially if the ban actually lasts). If you work on one y…

>It takes decades to build up a world-class university. Maybe centuries. This has been accurate so far but it could be because the idea of disrupting university education and resea…