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Comment · 1 day ago
Bottleneck is intelligence, not experience.
Comment · 11 days ago
Kind of like the old days of human gatekeepers.
Comment · 19 days ago
google was just hoarding the tech… money invested in openai came from somewhere probably as profits (just re-allocated by the shareholders rather than management)
Comment · 22 days ago
The stocks in the index funds are picked, just by a committee. And there are a few competing index funds.
Comment · 28 days ago
Raising children is a lot of work. I guess to complete the circle, children would pay the father back with interest or grand children when they grow up.
Comment · 28 days ago
Single party state still has elections. You still have to get the votes. You just don’t have 2 layers of voting (primary for party, then secondary between parties). The primary is the final election. I guess the confusion is where the intersection happens between bottom up voting and the top down appointees. Not too different from corporations… there is some merit based promotions from individual contributors, but at some point in the middle management , you get a bunch of yes men because of the top down control…
Comment · 29 days ago
Yes
Comment · 29 days ago
Same as currently, jointly negotiated
Comment · 1 month ago
Men get a child. Yeah, it’s almost all doable in current legal landscape. Just not so socially accepted. the default parenting contract could be per child…
Comment · 1 month ago
Men would obviously the buyer…. Most would need financing… (baby mortgage) Would probably need a Fannie / Freddie cousin if the market got overheated and a bubble pop happened.

theoretically some women could pay some quality fathers for coparenting , but it would be rare.

Comment · 1 month ago
Foster care is for other people’s children. I think having her genes in the children would make a professional mother a little more attentive to her children. Also better quality parenting would allow her to charge more…

The current situation artificially limits supply of mothers because it requires relative exclusivity of the father. It’s like nimby people not wanting apartments in their cities to limit supply. Except imagine if nimby’s were able to ban apartments all over the world. That’s the situation with motherhood. It’s single family zoning world wide…

Of course it sounds dystopian and is not about to happen anytime soon. Because cartel’s don’t give up policies that limit supply so easily…

Comment · 1 month ago
If women were (legally allowed and required ) to be paid upfront for delivering and raising children, the market would sort things out. We would probably get some professional mothers who would have 6-12 children.
Comment · 1 month ago
If the ai is good enough to do the homework, it should be good enough to check the homework.

I mean some people are good at Tetris and some aren’t. Tetris can tell you which ones are which.

Comment · 1 month ago
Or maybe general ai that is more efficient independently than humans is still far away.

We already have plenty of cheap alien intelligence outside our borders that gets throttled at the border…

Comment · 1 month ago
How many more generations of 6 children per woman do you think they have space for ?

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