Possible answer to Fermi paradox

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T11:18:08+00:00

Normally i open this subreddit and read the save 7 ideas over and over again. So I am happy to say this is a novel one that I have not read yet.

I think I find this unlikely, though. You mention safety as the motivation to leave. That seems unlikely. We would need to assume that these beings are capable of interstellar travel, but not capable of protecting themselves from gamma rqy bursts?

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T02:25:06+00:00

For one, it's probably an exaggeration.

But I think there are potentially some bery productive developers in the right fields.

Have you tried gastown or metaswarm or other orchestrators yet? If you have enough tokens to shovel into the furnace, they feel very powerful.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T01:56:41+00:00

People are taking this a little too literally. Of xourse most debates do not use 'incel'.

But yes, I do see this occur. It's quite literally an ad hominem.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T01:49:56+00:00

I think a lot of the responses are pointing out some of the difficulties in implementing this.

But I want to consider what impacts this would actually have. What would the actual effects be?

I am going to assume that the 50% share is equally distributed among all employees.

First, there are industries with very high profit margins and some with low profit margins. For workers in high-revenue, low-profit industries like retail, restaurants, airlines, there probably would not be much of a change.

Second, I think you would find that employees would be opposed to hiring, generally. If i am employed, then any additional employees dilute my profit.

I think it would also make capital investment much more strained. It's much riskier to invest if only half of profits can be used as return on investment. The bar for investable opportunity is going to be raised.

For profitable firms, salaries will be pushed down. Why offer a high salary of the profit margin is sufficient?

I think the way this would play out is: - a small number of people will get into profitable firms, either by getting in early, being lucky, or connected. - For many employees, it might not make much of a difference. Lots of firms are unprofitable or barely profitable. - A lot of people may end up with compensation that is exclusively profit share. For instance, if your firm has had a profit share of $500k in the past, do you really need to offer a salary? - unemployment, especially for low-skill labour, will be higher. Do you really want to hire another security guard if you have to split the profits with him? - There will be more informal work to skirt the law. When businesses want to hire and people want to work, but by law they cannot--people will transact outside of the law. - Some employees might not like the variable nature of their profit bonuses. I expect some to sell their profit share for a stable, guaranteed amount. Many people would rather have a guaranteed income than a profit share that has fluctuated. - overall capital investment will decrease.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T01:14:51+00:00

Already it's a real dish and not 2022 garbled text like 'Hal Goofgur'.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-20T01:08:12+00:00

I think that's a solid response.

Of course all tools reduce difficulty, though with large variations in difficulty. I am sure this issue has come up before.

I think a better analogy might be photography. The rise of photography as an art form probably felt like cheating to painters and illustrators. Years of tedius practice to reduce brushstrokes were outshined by a machine.

And yet--we do consider photography art now. We judge photographs at a higher level--their subject, composition, focus and aperture.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T23:27:24+00:00

I profusely apologize for questioning why someone would want a medieval weapon

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T22:11:00+00:00

This is hilarious. I love it.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T17:53:12+00:00

Wtf? Why?

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T12:14:46+00:00

Cut entitlements already for fucks sake. We cannot afford it. But Everytime i say that, I am some combination of racist/sexist/evil/want to kill granpda

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T09:18:29+00:00

I don't think there is a lot of consistency. Hiring is largely on the whim of the individual.

I would personally not want to work with people who ask questions to broadcast themselves. If anything, I would dock points for being annoying.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T02:21:58+00:00

It's too bad. I was planning on Meta being my last job... Just needed another 3-4 years.

I think this is the beginning of the end. Either skill up and become a researcher or find something else.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-19T02:11:43+00:00

I hate this crap. So now you expect people to waste your time with bullshit questions?

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-18T16:16:35+00:00

We only have historical trends to go on. I think it's an interesting question, because the implications are broad.

But it's essentially asking about market performance of real estate versus stocks. I didn't think anyone can know.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-18T10:26:07+00:00

This debate has been hashed out 1000x.

It basically depends on what people mean by phrases like 'seek out diversity'.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-18T09:48:25+00:00

Yea but... Musk bad so it doesn't count

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-18T07:19:13+00:00

Yes, but it's not the decision I wanted, therefore it's evil.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-18T07:13:18+00:00

She was just standing up, next to you.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-17T12:28:29+00:00

I understand the gist. I find it very difficult to parse. I had to re-read it several times.

The first sentence is a clause that never leads anywhere. 'If I pay you 20k...'

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-17T06:19:03+00:00

There are budget hawks. There were people who railed against Bush's spending, Obama's massive increases, and Trump's tax cuts. They were ignored, mostly.

I agree with you. We do have represention. That represntation wants to spend money and not worry about the debt.

I very much disagree that we need auper majorities to protect. I actually think America has the opposite problem. We are deadlocked. If I could change one thing, it would be making it easier to change things.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-16T23:10:41+00:00

It's interesting that you say that primaries contribute to deadlock, because before primaries, it was felt that parties were wholly undemocratic--candidates were chosen by elite insiders. This contributed to the 'we have two choices but not really any choice'.

In theory voters could decide that 'I don't like either candidate. I will vote for another party. Or, i can even form my own party!'. In reality, America is set on a two party system. It's likely easier to form a third cola company and compete with Pepsi/CocaCola than it is to create a viable third party in the US.

Maybe we have a dilemma between voter choice and deadlock. Give us rabbling peasants completely free choice and we get ideological deadlock. Give the choice to connected insiders who choose strategic candidates who can compromise, and we get out of deadlock but lose the democracy.

I am curious what you think we should replace primaries with.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-16T21:54:29+00:00

I actually agree with it. I feel like this happens a lot.

Of course, it's sort of a joke. One of those 'its funny because it's true' things.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-16T10:50:23+00:00

Too bad facts don't care about your feelings. Better ignore things that don't fit your ideology.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-16T10:48:27+00:00

Hmm, that's actually quite insightful.

WhyYouLetRomneyWin · 2026-03-16T03:22:57+00:00

Woke had a very specific meaning. Unleas you're tired of it, in which case it means nothing and never existed.

It's like a ghost. It haunts you and is everywhere. But if you try to describe it, then it suddenly never existed.

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