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gnepon
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
Perhaps economic value can come from a more educated and skilled workforce if they're using AI for private tuition (if it can write as well as us, it can provide a bespoke syllabus, feedback etc.)

Automation over teaching sounds terrible in the long run, but I could see why learning languages and skills could improve productivity. The "issue" might be here that there's more to gain in developing nations with poor education standards, and so while capital concentrates more to the US because they own the tech, geographical differences in labour productivity reduces.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I was referring to their rejection of the progressive tax system. I can concede there's no objective definition.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Yet the countries with the least amount of poverty (Northern Europe) have high taxes, a large welfare state and high redistribution
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
This is the kind of extreme internet Libertarianism that's dangerous in the real world. Not practical or concerned with extreme poverty through inequality, but preferring to fight on first principles, like all tax being theft (not your claim, but equatable).

I'm less concerned about the definition of fairness and more concerned about real human suffering.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Fairness here usually refers to the inequality left over after tax, not the tax amount itself. When the US is the 127th most unequal country out of 168 measured (by the Gini Coefficient), along with still having abject poverty around, it's not overly ideological to say more distribution needs to happen.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
> I'd rather live in a world with 100 million humans, and computers helping to run this world.

Easy to say when you've positioned yourself as one of the 100m that gets to live - and with 7 billion people's worth of man-made resources to be shared round.

I think the journey towards it would be catastrophic under capitalism (and any transition away from capitalism could also be catastrophic, at least in the short term).
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Her message and the way she conveyed it is, for the millions that it resonated with, more important than who her mother is or her credentials (what credentials are you expecting of a teenager?)
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Setting our social media accounts to private should solve most of that. Otherwise we will have to put less of our lives on public platforms.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Nobody votes for the PM directly unless they're running in your local constituency. Beyond that though, we have gone through various PMs since our last election, so nobody did vote for him.

For those that will vote for him in the upcoming election (directly or indirectly), they still do not want him to be president either.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
We're ambivalent on whether we want King Charles, but we're adamant in not wanting a President Sunak.
gnepon
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
This is the best case scenario for prediction markets I think, as it means the odds more accurately reflect the outcome likelihood (e.g. people aren't betting against their favourite in an hedge against emotions).

At least then they would break even in an efficient market. But it isn't an efficient market due to fees and opportunity cost... So you're right, it is irrational to participate.