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National television news will always be what it is. The business model is ad sales, from that all else inevitably follows. A news corporation is a corporation first and foremost. That said, there wasn’t anything anomalous about the 2020 election that can’t be claimed of other elections so there’s that.

If the left were really the left they wouldn’t be the left though. The NBC left is the problem, the Democracy Now left is not. The left doesn’t want Bernie, Chomsky or Amy Goodman they want The View. Turns out young men don’t want The View, so the left is stuck now much like the American right because there is no ideological coherence, just aesthetic and hatred for the other team however they are imagined (e.g. “tax and spend republicans”).

But we are not limited by our biology. With tools and technology we can change our limits. From pharmaceutical tools like adderal to neurolink style brain implants to ai assistants to genetic engineering, the limitations in our cognitive capacity are becoming less salient every day. The importance of g in the future asymptotically approaches 0 the farther out you go, at least in terms of economic outcomes. It will always be important for moral reasoning as I’m frequently reminded. But I would guess that openness to experience and/or conscientiousness will eventually displace g as predictors of economic success, if they haven’t already. G is useful when everyone does paperwork in offices, but when everyone is on UBI and/or living in government camps g won’t matter as much, again aside from the capacity for moral reasoning but that can be offset with a stricter and more draconian legal system.

Specifically, as well stated by [23] there is no such thing as “race.” The premise of racial group differences is not possible; we can’t have racial differences if race is not real. Sadly, a lot of people very much believe in race, especially the ones that shouldn’t!

It seems like a lot then I think about how California’s EDD department gave 50 billion to criminals in 2020/2021 and then it feels less ginormous.

My answer because I don’t see it: climate change research. A billion isn’t much but if it can help save the planet that would be worth it to me personally.

It’s not being unaware (naive) but rather a lack of cynicism. I think that’s an important distinction to make. It takes an extra dose of intelligence to avoid cynicism when you are at that level. Cynicism isn’t wisdom, and its absence isn’t naïveté.

Not sure if you’re joking. The parent mentioned Clinton’s surplus so I referenced Clinton’s famous welfare queen reforms.

If I wanted to attack the character of William Jefferson Clinton, I would have plenty of facts to draw from there as well, like sexually assaulting an intern in the Oval Office and lying to us with “it depends on what your definition of is is”[0], which I’d note our non-biased hard-hitting media elites collectively shrugged off. Or I might allude to Jennifer Flowers, or Epstein, or a really long list of other ghoulish Clintonian acts.

[0] One can easily see this as the approximate moment the executive became unaccountable, a trend that’s continued (slippery slopes are real) and which many are now fallatiosly calling factism. It’s not, it’s just unaccountability in the same vein as Clinton’s sexusl assault.

The trick is, or was, demographics. The boomers outvoted other groups, because they have larger numbers. Why build housing that diminishes the boomers (ie voters) property values? Also, why limit demand for the hoarded housing by enforcing immigration laws, not undercutting local labor with exploitative practices like h1b abuse, or by creating reasonable legislation like other nations have that protects real estate from foreign speculation oand domestic market manipulation by monopolistic and predatory corporations like blackrock and blackstone? Because the boomers had the numbers and the real estate, and democracy is mostly about winning elections.

The boomers got old. They were flawed but the heavy anti-authoritarian vibe of the old left was largely carried over from the 60s. Imagine a zoomer lefty burning their covid card the way hippies burned their draft cards. Nope! The thing that shifted was authoritarianism; the terminal end-stage of socialist ideology.

Chris Hitchens used to like to remind people that Clinton was actually a conservative whose political success was due largely to the longevity of the appeal of the “southern democrat” to certain segments of society. His granting of MFN trade status to China is relevant to “his” budget surplus, as is the fact that the internet happened and the unipolar moment began while he was president. Clinton didn’t invent the internet himself; Al Gore did. He didn’t bring down the Berlin Wall either.

What did Clinton do? Clinton did save us all from “Welfare Queens”, which also seems very relevant here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_...

And “always invert”! A related mungerism.

Notice peeing. That’s my hack. It can be used as a dehydration monitor, not just frequency and volume but color especially is informative.

I’ve known criminals, and a lot of people with huge debts, even known a few people who have had to declare bankruptcy. I assure you nobody is robbing or stealing or raping or killing people over medical debt. Student loans on the other hand…

It’s sexist too. Arguably even more sexist than racist.

“With newer social services and things like the ACA, there's less reason to committ crime.”

Crime was certainly never driven by the cost of private health insurance. Rather, crime is driven by things like alcohol and demographics, policing or lack there of, surely not by aggregate health care spending lol.

Property taxes are very high thanks to prop 13. 250k in California is like 30k in states like Texas or Illinois, enough to make it a great year but not life changing.

Security experts.

Directionally correct. But not better in terms of security or privacy. Life expectancy has decreased for American born persons. Housing is now impossibly unaffordable, and to find a mate you need to use tech products that increasingly only serve to hurt users (tea) and sow discord between those either differing views (x/facebook). Yes, glorious times for some, but not for the average American born person.

So you actually disagree, it’s not the prices, it’s the tech. I agree. The person you responded to claimed it was prices not tech.

The EA folk have thought about this and the answer is that you make money with bitcoin and then give the proceeds to medicine sans frontier or some similar organization. I don’t know the best “anti-genocide” orgs, but if you can’t find one you could make your own. That might be the best solution given that you’re “bored.” The most optimal solution via crypto windfalls is not the least boring one.

Two steps short of legal prostitution. Maybe the worst idea from the administration so far. Time to build the app…

Right anti-monopolistic policy: tariffs

Left anti-monopolistic policy: destroy Musk via the press/court system.

It can just be an empirical question, right?

This is exactly what the developers say. Low income housing, which is unaffordable even on middle class income, is only viable if heavily subsidized. So the tax payers have to pay the developer to take the guaranteed loss. And even then, 3000 rent on a low income studio apartment is only possible for low income people who have subsidies. So the tax payers pay the developers to build it, and then pay the tenants to rent, and people have the gall to refer to this as the “free market” solution.

My contention is that links to pii are themselves pii.

A name, Jon Smith, is technically PII but not very specific. If I have a link to a specific Jon Smith’s facebook page or his HN profile, it’s even more personally identifiable than knowing his name is Jon Smith.

Their usage.

We microsleep whenever we blink. Or at least that was the old science, maybe there’s a new explanation.

Internet commerce requires databases with pii that will be breached.

Who is to blame for internet commerce?

Our legislators. Maybe specifically we can blame Al Gore, the man who invented the internet. If we had put warning labels on the internet like we did with NWA and 2 live crew, Gore’s second best achievement, we wouldn’t be a failed democracy right now.

Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes.

“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”

No, the average person has no idea what “ai training” even is. Should the average person have an above average iq? Yes. Could they? No. Don’t be average yourself.

Coins discourage if not undermine rule of law and weaken strong institutions. It’s the cat chasing it’s tail.