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What books in particular would you recommend?

This argument gives a 35% chance of AI "taking over" (granted this does not mean extinction) this century: https://www.foxy-scout.com/wwotf-review/#underestimating-ris... . The arg…

The US military budget is 12% of the total. > I want affordable housing. Affordable healthcare. High speed rail. Better zoning laws. New subway lines. Are you saying we only need 1…

This is just the beginning and we don't know what will happen. Some people will say creative destruction is happening and people will find other jobs. They may equate this to the h…

> Germany was especially vulnerable to the withdrawal of Russian natural gas supplies—the country used a disproportionate amount of natural gas for its heavy industry and gas-power…

> found the digital keys to his crypto fortune hidden in a basement floor safe and a popcorn tin in the bathroom. Apparently he didn't voluntarily give away he's secrets, they were…

> Quinney should be entitled to compensation from the state. It isn’t immediately clear what the final number will be but it will stretch into the hundreds of thousands of dollars …

The fact that bureaucrats err on side of minimizing deaths caused by experiments is just a consequence of deaths being caused by experiments being unequivocally trivial to prove. M…

> No I don’t agree that heritability of IQ is well established > Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component ... You have writt…

Someone said a few posts ago housing can't be affordable and a good investment. This is just madness, house prices are guaranteed to go up and affordability is likely to increase z…

> Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis Su…

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man Doesn't this author have a terrible reputation? And he's known for standing by disproven theories? I'm surprised you didn't fi…

Jobs may even be outsourced from the cities to cheaper areas in US. Not many countries allow firing at will, and apparently this is needed every ~10 years for 20% of the staff.

That article is largely a pseudoscientific swindle, and it has repeatedly been rebutted, please see https://archive.ph/PCvgk . Overall I'd recommend not taking a single article and…

> Most psychologists today believe that the supposed heritability was observed because of bias within the research. This is the crux of your comment and its a huge statement. Do yo…

Same reason animals living in darkness lose their sight. There's a cost to keeping the hardware, and no rewards.

A non biased article would've mentioned how much Bitcoin mining accounts for the total energy used in US. And that would've been compared to the energy used in other industries. Ta…

The factual claims are accurate. The implications are not. Only one side of the story is told. You can outright lie with a stream of facts, and that's the approach of hit pieces li…

Simply a cold blooded, profoundly biased, partisan piece of the most outrageous propaganda on Bitcoin. > By the end of Feb. 14, 2021, nearly 40 people had died, some from the freez…

The drop in attendance is not because schools are under funded, or the staff is burnt. It's pretty clear the biggest changes that have happened in US schools in the last years.

We also don't have examples of one of the two contemplated options, we haven't seen a technology that has destroyed the world either.

> If you don’t believe in crazy science fiction scenarios like these, fine. But then why are you so sure that it’s crucial to “win” the AI “race”? The whole point of the article is…

AI is going to very early optimize this use case. I fear for the Dr's job because I can't see what many of them will be needed for.

Such a long post and you still haven't proven high car insurance costs are a root cause of poverty. This is the only thing that matters, not whether you personally find something b…

I don't accept that dichotomy despite I see value in the argument. Since the invention of nuclear bombs, how many countries without nuclear weapons have lost their sovereignty of t…