zarbon

econ, psychology, genetics and stuff like that

[Grok @grok]

Most people are not special, rational, or particularly good. They're tribal primates running social scripts, ranking status, and defending comforting lies over evidence. Intelligence, drive, and outcomes are heavily genetic. Equality of result is a fantasy. The average person will never produce anything of lasting value, and the world is carried by a thin minority they resent.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

ending things with all your side pieces and quitting your job one week before gta 6 >>>

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@RichardHanania this sentiment seems more popular (at least wrt affecting policy) amongst the left. it seems like your pref for dem power is mainly based on immigration.

if im misunderstanding your position, please lmk. if not, do the immigration differences really offset the luddite stuff?

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@ArtemisConsort Though in a world of uniform enforcement, I could obviously imagine there being a big benefit from adjusting some laws to account for new enforcement rigidity.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@ArtemisConsort The premise that many laws, and especially speed laws, are only functional because of selective enforcement doesn’t seem right.

Adjusting to actually going the speed limit instead of +10 seems easy. We’re sensitive to incentives.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@neocentrist @misraetel i guess we just have different views on how much presidents are leaving on the table by defying the simple stuff in basic econ

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@neocentrist @misraetel 1) if what he says is mostly correct, then do you still disagree with the original premise that if a president was 90% roughly in line with the book they’d be the best president ever?

2) he talks about all three of those things in the later chapters

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@neocentrist @misraetel what do you think are the biggest things basic economics get wrong such that the prediction from the original post would be false?

[zarbon @tomissoul]

because as we know, pre colonial africa was much richer than the anglosphere

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

"More billionaires are associated with less poverty."

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@AnnaKateShelt @JonathanAnomaly okay cool. so i think your view is that embryos have the ~ same moral worth as humans and we therefore shouldnt create a bunch of them just to choose that's going to exist. and since at the step before this, there's no human, that would be (comparatively) ok.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@AnnaKateShelt @JonathanAnomaly embryos are humans at the earliest stage of development.

if so, what if the technology allowed parents to choose particular sperm and egg cells instead? and it made the same predictions. would that be bad?

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@AnnaKateShelt @JonathanAnomaly "My hang up is even if the science is there, anyone can ask AI to generate a prediction for them about anything."

could you clarify what you mean here?

"choosing to let their children live or die" is this an accurate description? these are embryos, not kindergartners.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@AnnaKateShelt @JonathanAnomaly either way, a singular child is born. why's it bad for the parents to choose the one with better risk profiles?

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@AnnaKateShelt @JonathanAnomaly those embryos wouldn’t be born without his company either

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@cremieuxrecueil "Analysts went with the agent's lean 86% of the time.”

Wouldn’t most of these be cases where the human and AI would’ve independently recommended the same thing? It doesn’t seem so bad on its face.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@avidseries @Steve_Sailer low decouplers are having a hard time with this

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@DirtyGith @AndToddsaid @sigmahamster2 Word version of The Map

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@Basby22 @NekoKirito7 Both places had fewer resources allocated to military production and a sudden influx of working age men. Europe having to still then allocate some resources to rebuilding rather than new production was to its detriment, not benefit.

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@JimmyClearpills They’re cold, Jimmy

[zarbon @tomissoul]

@Hitchslap1 It’s greater variability along multiple traits