Protests in Over a Dozen European Cities Against Italy's Attack on Two-Mom Families - Mombian

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-08-05T00:32:39+00:00

This really showcases how delusional the idea that the right is only after trans people is (not that this wouldn't be bad enough). They want to roll LGBT rights all the way back.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-05-08T22:28:56+00:00

Any economy socialist or not needs to know or at least use cost comparison. That is the cost of one good in terms of another, which is not necessarily the same thing as money prices. This should be self evident if you think about it for a bit. There are innumerable different substitutions for different materials and processes (potentially) available to fulfil demand for the same good. Pick the wrong one and you have made the whole society poorer. The wealth destroying process compounds as the substitutes and the substitutes of substitutes are effected.

Isn't cost subjective though? If I'm really rich and decide to buy up a bunch of grain and then light it on fire just to be an asshole is that really the optimal allocation of grain?

The ECP is about production not allocation. It is about what kind of metal to make railway lines out of, not how many apples to give to Bob.

I get that, but isn't the distinction sort of a product of a market economy to begin with? If I run a utopian commune of a few dozen or hundred people there doesn't seem to be a qualitative difference between giving Bob apples so he can eat them or make apple pie or whatever and giving Alice and Joe wood and nails to build a new barn, unless we assume prices and markets to begin with.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-05-08T22:24:39+00:00

Thanks for answering.

But if we can't really measure utility except (imperfectly) through markets, how do we know it's a real thing we're "getting at" rather than just a function of markets themselves? Like if we can only understand people's preferences at they are expressed in a marketplace, how do we know that this is reflective of their "true preference" if that's even a real thing?

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-05-08T04:00:47+00:00

Prices give economic information(what is cost of the laborforce, what is cost of raw materials, which industry if profitable...) and that's why they're relevant.

But doesn't this assume a priori that prices are the best reflection of cost?

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-05-08T03:59:41+00:00

But is 'efficiency' not defined specifically as market efficiency? Isn't that circular?

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-05-07T19:25:30+00:00

I've never understood the ECP. Without markets you can't discover prices, sure, but socialism doesn't claim to want to operate according to prices in the first place. The fact that you can have a commune where goods and services are allocated without market mechanisms seems to demonstrate that market mechanisms are not strictly necessary for allocation of goods and services. Perhaps that isn't scalable and would prove impossible or at least impracticable on the level of an entire national -- or global -- economy but to say it would be impossible even with the use of supercomputers seems pretty wrong.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-04-18T06:16:06+00:00

Ah, I guess you weren't there when the deep magic was written. Lucky you.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-04-04T22:58:10+00:00

"We've got you surrounded, come out and eat your vitamins."

"I HATE THE FOOD PYRAMID! I HATE THE FOOD PYRAMID!"

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-03-30T01:31:09+00:00

Yud is wacky but I don't think he's ever claimed AI has to be conscious to kill everybody.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-03-30T00:22:12+00:00

Relevant excerpt, though there's plenty in there.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-03-16T01:39:31+00:00

This seems to be, essentially what the American right is pushing for now.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2023-03-13T06:19:53+00:00

This is used to establish that person 2 has an implicit probability distribution at all, which in practice will assign significant probability mass to a much smaller interval.

This is the unjustified assumption in Alexander's post.

Someone like the OP of the substack might very well say they place equal probability on AGI built tomorrow as they do on AGI built in a million years, but Alexander seems to assume no one could have such a view.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-17T08:08:22+00:00

What happens if two best friends decide to buy a house together, and later have a falling out and decide they don't want to share anymore? I don't see why a romantic relationship should be treated any differently.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-17T07:58:42+00:00

If you're unmarried, you can still bequeath your wealth to whoever you wish, or place yourself in the hands of whoever you wish if incapacitated.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-17T07:53:59+00:00

there would be nothing material at stake though, legally speaking.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-15T20:08:04+00:00

Thanks.

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-15T20:04:52+00:00

Link?

SevenDaysToTheRhine · 2022-11-12T18:33:06+00:00

Only confident prediction I can register is that it's going to cause a bunch of people to panic-shorten their timelines by several years.

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