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21 years ago today, Nick Bostrom published The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyran...

This is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard.

The real with prediction markets problem is that people can make bets, then alter outcomes to match those bets. This is a well-known issue in sports betting (e.g. taking a fall), a…

Non-paywalled version: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3326102/v1

One of the authors is a retired general, so he probably knows a bit more than us internet randos. Still, the last paragraph says: "The lesson of the Iran campaign is that the F-35 …

I am extremely pro-abortion. I think that "pro life" laws infringe on the basic human right to bodily autonomy, and threaten to criminalize miscarriage. I am also aware that many p…

And downvoted to pieces. HN is such a cool place for dialogue!

I wish this announcement weren't infused with intersectionality. "Your abortion fund uses TikTok to spread crucial information" is listed as one of three sample reasons you might u…

You can locate an aluminum plant pretty much anywhere you want, as the energy required to make aluminum is large compared to the cost of mining/shipping bauxite. This solves the ma…

On aluminum, the author says: > “renewables” cannot provide the stable current and carbon atoms needed to make the process possible This is untrue. Iceland has a huge aluminum indu…

Unfortunate that JG is the fall guy for Siri. He was very successful at Google (e.g. BERT was published just after he left), but it looks like he wasn't able to save Apple from its…

Is anyone willing to explain to me how Google is a monopolist in advertising? There are other online advertising platforms, and publishers can and do sell adds directly to advertis…

See https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/