>We live in an era of noise, and we are in desperate need of better filters. How do we detect an argument made in bad faith? How do we respond once we know an argument can't be won? I don't think we have good answers to either question.
We place faith in effective political and social institutions and aggressively defend them from those that attack them or bypass them.
The stock price is the present value of the future profits. Since this shouldn't have a huge effect beyond 4 years, that's saying profits for Intel in the short term would be down by 20 percent.
I find it supremely hypocritical when the super poor lecture people about their tax avoidance when they pay an order of magnitude less.
The tax rate is what matters there not the total tax. Similarly, look at the emissions per dollar not total emissions. If you care about monetary inequality, complain about that directly, don't drag global warming in.
He monetarily donated to support a position that half of America supported. One simply can't expect demand that level of moral purity in a free society.
I think most would agree FactoryFactoryFactorys are bad. But how does one fix this? What's the alternative? Maybe a post on how to disentangle one of these?
>Who doesn't think the US Highway System has been great for our economy?
When one considers the hidden costs of increased urban sprawl, reliance on automobiles, and the associated increase in pollution, it isn't so clear. If roads were privatized then the true costs would be more clear.
Why do early investors agree to invest knowing that the future rounds will get preference? Tragedy of the anti-commons is a thing but you'd assume that existing investors would push back against this type of behavior.
I'm more concerned with the opposite problem of how we will behave in response to AI control.
AI has no notion of the Lucas critique. It doesn't consider the perverse incentives it's optimized judgement scheme may create. The costs of looking good to proprietary algorithms are only going to grow.
Oil companies have been compensated for those benefits by people paying for oil. They have largely not had to pay for those harms. Allowing them to be sued brings their compensation more in line with what it should be.
I very skeptical that lithium-ion batteries are the end game for huge-scale energy storage.
Lithium-ion batteries are the "hot" energy storage. Efficient, powerful, and very light, but also expensive great for a laptop or a car, not so great for massive-scale "cold" storage.
Simpler things like flywheels, compressed air, reverse hydro, other cheaper battery types all seem like more plausible options.