Herring
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Comment · 7 days ago
Comment · 10 days ago
This is not that difficult. It's just like what happened to physical fitness/obesity after the invention of the car. Go look at countries that do it reasonably well (ie not the US). Copy exactly what they do, wholesale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0 [Not Just Bikes]
Comment · 13 days ago
It's not trolling when people actually die. https://www.newsweek.com/40-percent-us-covid-deaths-could-ha...
They're pretending it's just a game and they're in control - they're really not.
Comment · 19 days ago
Yeah forget foreigners. They have plenty of trouble integrating their own rural Han population (hukou system). Eventually that might change, but not today.
Comment · 21 days ago
> They should lift incomes, not suppress prices
Redistribution is a left-wing policy. A lot of elected governments went right-wing recently. It's as simple as that.
The issue is not "governments". This is what the voting public wants.
Comment · 22 days ago
>food, physical fitness, health (obesity, life expectancy, etc)
Those are unfortunate examples. The US doesn't do them very well compared to other OECD countries.
Comment · 27 days ago
The article is right. You're missing the key point, which is that democracies generally tend to do better economically than autocratic states.
What does democracy have to do with the economy? Well concentration of power in a subgroup is generally pretty bad for overall performance. That's true whether it's concentrated by gender, age (gerontocracy), race, monopolies etc. Even one sector of the economy getting too strong is generally bad (resource curse). There are exceptions of course, but that's the trend.
Since the end of WW2, and especially since the end of the Cold War, Democratic administrations have presided over significantly higher job growth than Republican administrations. https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c...
Young men swung hard for "grab them by the pussy" Trump. I recommend not doing that. If you care about jobs, you need to start caring a lot about DEI and abortion and welfare and trans people. It's not "political bullshit" vs "real issues". The two are inextricably linked, and that jobs chart will keep happening until American society finally understands it. There's a reason Blue states are (generally) richer than Red (ex-slave) states: they have better teamwork.
Comment · 3 months ago
Actually, I think I'm pretty much done here. Cynicism is a symptom https://alexriosme.substack.com/p/engineers-cynicism-is-a-sy... Requesting a full ban please!
Comment · 3 months ago
This is like your typical 2-story US house "eating" a baseball. Completely trivial occurrence, cosmologically speaking, unless you're specifically looking for it.
Comment · 3 months ago
Oh yeah I can't wait for the next election. Things get so toxic when money/power is involved.
Similarly, you can try something like:
> Break down aspects of the economy by amenability to state control high/medium/low, based on what we see in successful economies. Include a rationale and supporting evidence/counterexamples. Present it in 3 tables.
It should give you dozens of things you can look up. Eg it might mention successful Singapore and Vienna-style public housing, and there are some nice videos on that on Youtube. Teach your kids how to do nuanced large-scale research, while everyone else is at "communism is bad".
The bot might also miss something, or get something wrong, and they should be able to catch it. I think auditing LLM output will be very important in the future.