@adamgries Eliezer has actually written extensively on the subject - e.g. in 2008 on the evil of death and how cryonics was potentially a very valuable technology. So I think this should increase his credibility.
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@SolomonforJC The parade cost $11k in fees, and highrises cost well over $100m to make, suggesting it is already many orders of magnitude easier to hold a parade than build apartments. If your objective was to e.g. make parades 10x easier than high-rises, you need to do major YIMBY reforms.
@NewStatesman@garethlwatkins This article is very serious about dismissing Eliezer. And the New Statesman is writing about the most serious topics of all: death and extinction. It is not, however, a serious article, and treating it as a serious article is to everyone’s detriment.
@KelseyTuoc Seems like Democrats have often extorted companies in the past, just not using this specific mechanism. See for example the NY insurance regulator threatening firms with enforcement action if they didn't stop doing business with the NRA.
@dylanmatt@lymanstoneky He was responding to a tweet that explicitly references a part of the bible about how Christians should deal with other Christians.
@BrilliantMaps A large number of small jails in rural counties. Pretty much all counties need a jail, but not all counties need a college, because students are willing to travel longer distances.
@paulg@ilex_ulmus I don't expect YIMBYs, who oppose rules letting neighbours veto new buildings, to personally get a lot of experience vetoing new buildings. Nor do I expect opponents of coal power plants to personally heat their homes with it.
@paulg@ilex_ulmus I think that's a not totally unreasonable description of the new image generation functionality, given what people have actually been using it for.
(But even if it wasn't... in most fields we don't expect people who oppose X to do X. Most people would consider that hypocrisy!)
@NoamGidron@AJPS_Editor@LiorSheffer@ItamarYakir Seems strange to call this 'democratic backsliding' when many of the reforms would increase the power of the elected legislature. If anything the status quo is less democratic, and these reforms would push Israel more towards typical democratic institutions.
@MilHistNow Strange to call the conditions 'ruinous' when they left Germany largely intact and in a position to launch a new war a few decades later. The conditions after WWII were much more demanding, including splitting the country and an extended occupation, and Germany was pacified.
@RichardMCNgo Seems false to me. My carbon monoxide monitor only goes off when the air is bad, but the absence of a chirpy "the air is good right now!" doesn't make me trust it less.