Revoke 5-10% of driver's licenses and tens of thousands of lives will be saved, insurance prices for auto, property, and health will all decline, multiple forms of pollution and traffic will decrease, and there will be a new demand for robust public transportation. Boomers will

Nice. As I wrote in Skin in the Game, the only people annoyed by inequality are the no-skin-in-the-game bureaucrats and professors who envy the class above them. The rest of us worry about mobility.

i was told we're revoking visas for this type of thing

Reminder.

This illustrates an aspect of AI that I hadn't thought about till now: it cuts through bureaucracy. If a big organization is paralyzed by indecision, AI doesn't care. It will happily generate a version 1. And that becomes the starting point, because there is no other version 1.

realist take on venezuela: - decapitating a government in hours means the state was already hollow. removing the center of a patronage network doesn’t get you "democracy." it usually means a violent scramble for the carcass (sigh, pun intended); - in a multipolar world, rivals

someone needs to write a eulogy. debugging something obscure, finding a clearly explained solution by user343913 from 7 years ago...it was beautiful

thinking about this iconic moment

the rules-based order was constructed by and for western states because it’s a more effective way to maintain power than constant kinetic warfare (it also had many other positive externatlities). but the architecture outlived the power dynamics that enforced it. a luxury of a

but how much water did the ai use?

we’ve exhausted the takes on this, but a small note for fatherhood and life: let go of the notion that what you ‘like’ matters. focus on duty or purpose and your likes change to satisfy them. otherwise your likes will be mediated by unholy forces disinterested in your wellbeing.

overestimates the code quality of programmers; underestimates the code quality of sota models

the mistake political strategists make is they’ll look at the crassness of trump or whatever and conclude that they need to replicate it. but trump works because he’s just authentically like that. he doesn’t have millennial social media managers drafting tweets like this. there