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True, but laptops have a fixed price. They aren't worth $0 most of the time and $1B a tiny fraction of the time.

What is terrible about the subreddit? Your following paragraph ("Basically...") sounds very reasonable.

Perhaps they are homeowners, who want the housing crisis to stay terrible because it keeps their property values high.

> small self-selecting group that has chosen the convenience to living in densely populated, well connected cities Urbanization is steadily increasing worldwide. > and are relative…

Reminds me of desktop computers vs. smartphones. Laptops may soon be a luxury/tool for techies that most people just don't need.

> when you can find another sucker to work for half the pay? Who says you can? People who will do that are rare, and often aren't as good as people who expect something closer to m…

SEEKING WORK - Remote, SF, Chicago, Berlin Experienced Meteor Developer & Designer I've been developing in Meteor for 15 months now at two YC startups (Sourcery, and until last wee…

> Batteries are not clean; lithium mines are one ugly slight and recycling is difficult: You are conflating two senses of "clean" that are radically different in meaning and import…

Usually when people say "4chan" I assume they mean /b/.

> CSS best practices ...don't exist. There are many competing schools of thought. In particular, BEM is a school of thought with widespread support which disagrees with your commen…

Amazing. Writing this from Berlin, which doesn't have maglev trains, but has phenomenal public transit. It's sad to be going back to the US soon where the infrastructure is so prim…

Can you support this claim? I'm not skeptical so much as curious. How did people keep more or less consistent time back then?

I suspect what's actually happening is that they are playing lowest-common-denominator music, which few people are thrilled by, but which more people are interested enough in to st…

In short, "yes and" instead of "no" or "but".

What is that a reference to? Google links to here. At first I wondered if it were this (Another World intro, 1991): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4gO9sR7zs

Higher education is absolutely a means to personal growth, but at ~$100K in the US it's a really extravagant form of personal growth.

> average person does not care, something evident from the complete lack of constant mass protests That's a pretty high bar for "care".

I would say the same things I said in this nearby comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9325518

I'm making no such assumptions. A machine superintelligence that seeks to survive and reproduce would seek (I intend no conotations of consciousness to that word, just "behave in s…

> We won't be capable of arguing with it by its very nature. It will be superintelligent. It could forecast our arguments before they've even entered our heads and have thought of …

Let me clarify. I can imagine two forms of superhuman AI: AI 0: Strictly speaking, you're right, it seems conceivable that one could invent general AI that is clearly superior to h…

I'm not talking about constraining AI not to commit genocide. I'm talking about enslaving it in the ordinary sense – taking a complex intelligence that would probably prefer doing …

Seriously. If general, superhuman AI is created, it will want (and we will have a hard time arguing why it does not deserve) the same autonomy and freedom that humans deserve. And …

Sure, but that's just a case for "ecological sustainability is a reasonable candidate for the GF based on what we know about ourselves." Which is a weaker statement than "we are pr…

This is a great point – which I would paraphrase as, let's not worry about cosmic filters when we have a very tangible filter in front of us – but it doesn't follow that we're "pro…