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simianwords

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    Comment #49240043

    its not so obvious that the stupid person won't provide positive returns at the margins. i'm sure there are a few people like that and they should be in disability or other governm…

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    Comment #49240006

    Here's a metric for all people that think redistribution will help: if you redistribute the consumption, you will all consume like the average person in India. And I don't think th…

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    Comment #49239987

    > To fix this, we must somehow achieve the fabled post scarcity society. Automate everything so thoroughly the price of everything becomes literally zero. This destroys the economy…

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    Comment #49239944

    it would be naive to assume that you would be paid to be an artist or poet in a socialism as opposed to a farmer

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    Comment #49239635

    In some time it would look like the obvious default and we would wonder how we even worked with the old one

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    Comment #49230888

    I'm not sure who is getting bankrupt?

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    Comment #49230748

    Not really. A company can work and do things without having to run RCTs to prove everything. The market itself is the RCT.

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    Comment #49230261

    If you believe that AI does add to productivity gains, say equivalent to adding 10-20% employees, would you do anything differently than SAP?

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    Comment #49229087

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    Comment #49228298

    its ironic how no one needs to justify having abundance and freeing humans from the shackles of work. its no longer the wholesome chungus luxury space communism that we wanted is i…

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    Comment #49225847

    this is one of the worst positions to take and accepting no agency in the process.. and making out "nature" to be some mysterious persona that has a balancing effect for some reaso…

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    Comment #49225818

    >You think life expectancy will stay the same when forests burn down, we run out of water and crops, conflicts start everywhere, cities start flooding, we get more and more storms,…

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    Comment #49225747

    incredibly naive comment. as if humans are materially different -- a question for which you would have no response to.

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    Comment #49225728

    what a naive comment. these companies have world class alignment researchers. a math Fields medalist is also joining OpenAI as one [1]. > They can stop doing a thing they claim sho…

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    Comment #49223983

    But life expectancy is highest and stil increasing. Do you have any proof this trend would reverse?

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    Comment #49223912

    You care more about the beauty of the environment than people’s lives. It’s all about aesthetics for you. If you cared about lives you would bring up statistics.

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    Comment #49220826

    I have been trying to look for sources myself and I feel like this whole sector is rampant with "noble lies". If you dig into the sources you will find Economic predictions: The mo…

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    Comment #49214424

    There’s no luna instant I can see