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A stopped clock is right twice a day, Zuck might be right about something for now. They didn't hate AI solely because of Zuck, they had many good reasons to regardless, and Z's emb…

No tech leader believes that. They would never let their own staff work less than before.

In the abstract, yes, things can be created through applying energy to matter (e.g. transforming land, timber, mortar, sand and metal into a house). Wealth via debt is the financia…

It's his ship and his responsibility, or if nothing else his choice of captain and crew. Definitely reflects on him.

How do you ever choose your boss at work? Never. Oh, by quitting that job and getting another? That's called "moving" when applied to politics. Which is super unattractive in much …

Why does anyone believe more tech makes less work? It makes different work, but the 50-hour week remains. More AI will never bring less work much less "abundance".

Sorry, which objection are you referring to?

For a mutual insurance company, everyone is betting that it's going to happen somewhere sometime, that's why they pay the premiums. There is also not "winning" and "losing", there …

This is one of the huge problems with allowing betting. Of course, people could collude without the formal marketplace, but just as social media provides really painful detrimental…

Cargo e-bikes seem like the ideal platform for fair-weather suburbia.

As someone who enjoys riding their own bike, but uses their car for needs that cannot be met by bikes, I don't think this is just grievance. You can be sour about reality. SF in pa…

Can you expound a bit? Opportunity for what, and who? Are they the same Sams and Elons who talk up "abundance"?

That sounds sideways or wrong. Poor people don't necessarily have debts. They don't have income or assets. Indebted people like inflation because their debt is worth less _if they …

The "abundance means money is meaningless" is obviously complete BS. If that was true, AI would not be seen as a path to vast individual or institutional wealth.

Growing up in the environment we've made for them, I'm hardly surprised. But, let's see more peer-reviewed work on this.

I've spent my years trying to think productively. You've got one good idea, I'm confident that there are many more.

You can't rule out some accounting fraud.

Your take is a little sour, but I agree with the direction. If your children (or nephews/nieces) matter as your bodily protection and old-age assistance, you want to raise grownups…

There's an archive link in the comments now, but the whole thing seems petty and boring.

Alcohol may have been involved.

Exporting luxury goods is fine for socialists. They are clear about who's in the in-group and who isn't, the out-group must fend for themselves. Socialism isn't against private pro…

Love the idea of earthmoving on an uncleaned Superfund site.

It's a little easier to think about when you ignore people's addictive tendencies in the large. It also takes a blind spot re the forces that will influence events based on betting…

> I stand against... the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. Ok. Stars die. This is insane.

There was evidence. Just not pointing to him.