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This is all very rich coming from someone who also wants a totalitarian government regime dedicated to suppressing machine learning research.

http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2

Some of the things CA "receives" from the federal government are zero percent interest rates and preferential access to vast capital markets, a heavy implicit labor cost subsidy via immigration policy, an implicit promise of massive earthquake insurance, access to the Colorado River, copyright & patent protections for its primary industries...

Looking at fiscal inflows and outflows isn't the benchmark of who gains from a relationship and whether it is positive-sum.

If merely hosting a headline & link like this is problematic, you must also have an issue walking by news stands, visiting bookstores, or watching CNN. It sounds exhausting.

It's fascinating to see how the people pushing this argument prioritize economic nationalism exactly to the extent it promotes open borders, and exactly no further.

You also have a problem with precision. A test with a 100% pass threshold is a really poor estimator of an underlying failure rate; at best it can bound it, but you really do care about the precise underlying odds of failure.

If your system requires 100% perfection from all of its subcomponents, it is a shitty, fragile system. Robust systems can be made of parts with known failure rates.

The flip side of strong ethnic ties and ingroup preferences enabling fraud, is that they make it possible for, eg, Hasids to conduct an extemely high-value diamond trade on a handshake basis internally. https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/new-yorks-diamond-dist...

And Hillary Clinton wasn't elected. As I said, imagine.

The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corruption mentioned in the article, there are credible reports swirling of a "8 Goddesses" cabal and various occult practices.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfa...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/...

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/76...

https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppe...

The disturbance you feel is likely at least partly cognitive dissonance at the idea of open borders amounting to labor colonialism.

It's an interesting idea, wouldn't you say? What are the effects of ensuring Sudan or wherever is unable to maintain a functional local elite? Are they good or bad, on balance? If we strip-mine all of their potentially capable administrators, do we have an obligation to administer their state for them, or just airdrop rice every couple years, or what?

The idea that states and people have reciprocal obligations beyond Maximum GDP isn't exactly novel.

Good. The entire premise of the internet is that it allows coordination at low latency over distance.

It's also probably not fantastic for the United States to be strip mining the entire >130 IQ population of eg Sudan and packing them into SF/NY/DC to work on ad optimization when they're desperately needed by their own people; setting up infrastructure to work remotely is a great first step to eliminating the brain drain problem period.

The traditional answer is various ways of forced community-building (collective punishment & reward, forming in/outgroups, etc) as a way of building loyalty to their individual unit.

Also note that in modern militaries, the ratio of behind-the-lines support troops to front-line trigger pullers is absurdly high. Depending on the country, you can end up with conscripts e.g. running the vehicle pool and doing logistics while the core infantry is essential volunteer.

No one seems to be mentioning that doing so would presumably screw over the NRA harder than Everytown. The target viewer for gun control content would presumably not be interested in an NRA ad, but the NRA is nonetheless paying to run it.

Oddly the "threat" is essentially that you might become ritually unclean by proximity to such content.

Weev is working on a similar project: https://youtu.be/ZMptVkyZWE4

One consequence of gay organizations deciding to focus all of their energies on punishing rubes in flyover country via gay marriage campaigns has been a significant de-emphasis on HIV education / treatment / prevention. The latter has actually done us significant amounts of good and it's a shame to see it wasted in favor of spite.

That's a revolutionary discovery; you should probably publish it immediately since it refutes decades of genetic research.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9f67/21bf5954d1129d0212bc4f...

http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...

Uh oh.

The "great filter" hypothesis is essentially that the rarity of intelligent life has to be explained by some parameter of the Drake equation, and that whatever the "small" parameter is is either in our past or in our future.

If the "great filter" is the rarity of habitable worlds, then clearly we don't need to fear it, since we already found one. But if habitable worlds aren't rare, then it's more likely it lies in our future (e.g. global thermonuclear war, plague, difficulty of space travel, etc).

Thus things like discovery of exoplanets, bacteria on mars, etc should make us rather concerned.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Given current interest rates, even a long-term bond at 5.5% will have significant default risk priced in. Vanguard's non-junk long-term corporate bond ETF presently yields ~4.4%. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=3147&...

Weev's use of every IP-connected printer in the US to publish antisemitic "samizdat" significantly predates this. There's no real exploit in most cases, just things connected to the internet doing what they're told.

https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in

https://storify.com/weev/why-i-am-getting-a-bowlcut

The expression "bake my cake" comes to mind.

Somehow one faction has an inalienable right to compel speech from its ideological opponents out of pure spite, because sacred principles of antidiscrimination or whatever, but when it comes to giving a speech by express invitation, having raised the necessary funds for security etc, we are maximally minimalist about what a government institution has to allow.

The implication is that the modern identity of "gay" is a recent, politicized, Western (& really more like American) construction. The further implication is that this identity is also deconstructable. Which seemingly refutes the whole idea of "innate gayness" in as much as it amounts to any particular pattern of behavior.

Left out of these discussions of the joys of automated checkouts is that the illiterate and/or obstinate population makes up a large segment of consumers in certain areas. McDonalds has enough difficulty training their staff to use the checkout machines in particular areas that you do not want to see what happens if you throw the lunch rush to their own devices. Interfacing with such machines is a skill like any other and people like the author dramatically overestimate how common it is.

Partly because they are involved in politics on a mostly cosmetic basis. It is much easier to imagine a specifically politically connected figure (imagine a John Podesta or Rick Perry level personality) being arrested for some sort of corruption; in SK evidently those figures are also businessmen of various sorts.

It is unfortunately likely that antibiotic-resistant STDs will be the ultimate end of this mating pattern.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/sexual-health/3-common-stds-be...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/gonorrhea-treatmen...

Expand your imagination, it is a predictable dynamic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial...

https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-ho...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/19/amazon-echo...

...At which point we would get a series of think-pieces about whether the AI was implicitly misogynist.

Yes. It ends up being unprofitable to buy from donors directly, but it is still legal. There is also a thriving secondary market in selling donated blood, the Red Cross for instance makes a large amount of money selling blood.

http://newsok.com/article/4985779

Blood is renewable, and is already a buyable/sellable item. Discovering a new use for it would simply boost demand.

Summary: infrastructure costs to maintain spread out exurb style development end up being more than the incremental tax revenue, especially when you consider replacement costs and the potential for future higher borrowing costs.

Property developers (along with car dealerships) are by far the strongest advocacy groups in many areas. It's not totally surprising that they've managed to capture the local government and push them towards counterproductive development that ends up being a massive subsidy from the taxpayers.

The FBI has been repeatedly caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-f...

http://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-planted-bugs-california-cou...

When caught they feign a mixture of complete denial, ignorance, and "I didn't know it was illegal", and they are approximately never held personally responsible by judges.