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Effective Altruist | Programmer | Global GDP maxxer

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@savannahbrown @Vaporeon107 A few recommendations that i think might be your vibe:
- @bashu_thanks
- @tasshinfogleman
- @QiaochuYuan

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@TylerAlterman I resonate with the sentiment, but isn't it reasonable to assume that much of history has felt like this from the inside? Whats new? Are there examples of current normie suffering?

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@bschne https://t.co/XUlbpstxg7

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@kajaykumarr_ @jay_wooow @venturetwins @eigenrobot https://t.co/gOJEelO9ea

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@sargx90 @eatonphil https://t.co/gjb7BAAQge

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@hankgreen https://t.co/moUyUVf6Ft

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@bryan_caplan Gray tribe doesn't seem to value local political action, even though it seems like one of the most tractable and effective methods of change.

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@deepfates Instagram was apparently only 13 employees when sold for $1B. It doesn't seem implausible for 1 person to ~10x their output. Especially if the main bottleneck is agency rather than information aggregation.

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@xsphi Inequality is only a problem in a shrinking economy. The economic multiplier that a one person $1B company implies would however surely lead to a massively growing economy, and I therefore don't see it as a big concern.

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@mattyglesias

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@generic_void @nominalthoughts Does this mean that you think relative economic status of ~20-30 yos is the best predictor of fertility rate?

I don't think this is the case, and I'm thus significantly more worried.

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@patrissimo @Aella_Girl People rarely describe being poly as having a revulsion for monogamy, though.

I mostly hear them describe a lack of revulsion for having their partner(s) sleep with others. This seems to indicate that it can't be trauma-based.

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@SimoneHCollins Many of the high performers, I know, like to focus deeply for long periods of time and obsessing over details. These traits seem inversely correlated with being good at email

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@VanceCrowe Vance, I have great respect for you and your opinions, but the German farmers seem wrong on this one.

When I talk to European farmers, they often complain of the bureaucracy and low expected prices associated with their many ag subsidies. How is this different?

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@KhanStopMe If you only read 1 Taleb book, Antifragile is superior. Fooled By Randomness, as I remember it, is just him describing a subset of the same ideas.

If you feel like you already have an intuition for fat tails and don't care for Talebs ranty (but fun) style, you can scrap both.

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@whoknows0o0 @KhanStopMe Seconded wrt WWL

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@ESYudkowsky Is this not exactly what we would expect, if the actress had the power to edit her brain? The easiest way to predict is to emulate.

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@hankgreen Sean Carroll making the case for B: https://t.co/am1A3zrhie

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@akarlin @bryan_caplan The ability to have different jurisdictions is nice. People have different preferences. It lets us experiment w policies.

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@astralwalkk Which examples, stories, pieces of tech etc. do you mention/point them towards?