Glassnoser
3d ago
Wouldn't this make voter registration a lot more complicated? How do you prove you're a parent?
Pay people a huge amount of money, like at least $100,000 for each child they have, then deduct a few tax points from their income tax.
Get rid of child car seat laws.
Legalize (paying for) surrogacy.
Completely deregulate childcare.
Make child care expenses and private school tax deductible.
Provide school vouchers.
Do all the housing deregulation economists recommend in order to make housing cheaper.
Aggressively focus on supply side economics to increase everyone's incomes since fertility starts to go up again once people make a lot of money.
Glassnoser
3d ago
I used to post there occasionally, though not often. I largely abandoned Reddit about a year ago after my account was permanently suspended for some little thing I can't even remember and they started cracking down on ban evasion and a lot of subreddits started shadow banning accounts with low comment karma which made my alts almost unusable.
Glassnoser
8d ago
Every time I've tried Tor, it was extremely slow to the point of being unusable.
Glassnoser
8d ago
If one does it and the other doesn't, then the one who doesn't will lose an enormous amount of market share. But if the demand is sufficiently unreasonable, it's easier to count on the other party not doing it. It's a coordination problem solved by the ridiculousness of the demand.
Glassnoser
8d ago
If they just randomly search people's phones, the fine is so devastating that people might be very afraid of getting caught even if there is a low probability.
Glassnoser
8d ago
Couldn't Apple and Google easily refuse? It would be hard for him to ban Google and Apple from the country and the people wouldn't stand for it. There would basically be no smart phones for people to buy.
Glassnoser
11d ago
The first time I drove on a public road was driving home from right after getting my licence. I was going very slowly (maybe 20 or 30 km/h in a 50 km/h) at first as a I pulled out of the parking lot and approached a red light. The driver behind me blared his horn for a full second or two before rushing around me.
I learned to drive when I was 15 to 17 and didn't experience anything like this at all. I think you're just way past the optimal age to learn to drive. Not to discourage you, but I have a few friends who learned to drive in their mid-20's and they're terrible drivers. I think 30 is about the age where it starts to become really hard to learn anything new, and I read a study once that the teens are the optimal age to learn the specific skills involved in driving. I'm in my mid-30's and I've noticed that, whereas learning new skills was a joy when I was 20, now it's kind of painful and tedious.
Glassnoser
14d ago
Wouldn't it take the same amount of time to explain to ChatGPT what you want in the contract as it would to just write it yourself?
OpenAI management stole the IP of the non-profit for their own financial gain.
What? How?
Glassnoser
14d ago
What do you mean by "parents' basement studies"?
Glassnoser
16d ago
Only if you have a student loan.
None of the content on TikTok is Chinese, so it seems a bit inaccurate to describe it as Chinese entertainment. I've always thought China punched way below its weight culturally. I can't think of any TV shows or movies to come out of that country. I can think of very few books. There are almost no Chinese intellectuals who are commonly read in the West. Compare that to India, which has Bollywood and much else, despite having the same population and far less wealth.
You've listed two successful video games (League of Legends is not Chinese, I don't think), which doesn't seem like much. Maybe they're starting to get good at writing software.
Japan and Korea do seem have an outsized influence given their size. I don't know the reason. China can't compare to them yet.
Glassnoser
18d ago
The UK has an unwritten constitution. But that's irrelevant. I didn't say it had a constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. It has freedom of speech. They could repeal that law, but they haven't. They've simply interpreted it to not be as restrictive as the first amendment. The US Supreme Court has done the same in the past.
Glassnoser
19d ago
Middle aged white collar workers from rich countries are among the least likely to want to immigrate.
Glassnoser
19d ago
You're missing the point. The difference in freedom of speech between the US and Canada and the UK is not because of the first amendment. Canada and the UK also have laws protecting freedom of speech in basically the same language, but they've been interpreted differently. The first amendment also used to be interpreted very loosely, resulting in the US having many laws restricting speech in the past that would not be allowed today.
Glassnoser
23d ago
The UK and Canada actually do have freedom of speech. It's just not interpreted as liberally as it has been by American judges in the latter half of the 20th century.
Glassnoser
23d ago
That would be a huge problem for people with long driveways.
At some point in the near future, if it doesn't get regulated out of existence, people will just get used to it. No one finds it shocking that I can write a story where I make something up about a politician. This is like that movie The Invention of Lying where the protagonist discovers you can just say things that aren't true and everyone believes it because they don't know about lies yet.
People will quickly get used to the fact that images are not reliable sources of information. I already find myself ignoring AI generated images which have a distinctive style, but which would have grabbed my attention just a couple years ago.
Glassnoser
23d ago
Each province has eliminated its upper house though, and the Conservatives did try to kill it by not appointing any Senators. They'd probably have gotten rid of it had they been able, but it would require an unlikely constitutional amendment.
Glassnoser
23d ago
Why would it be impossible?
Glassnoser
25d ago
Why wouldn't the House of Lords need to pass a bill to abolish the House of Lords when they need to pass every other bill?
Glassnoser
25d ago
My point is that in places with restrictive housing policies, the population is not much affected by the availability of jobs.
When a trait is selected for for a long time, it's heritability ultimately drops to zero. If fertility has been strongly selected for, we should expect its heritability to be very low and, therefore, further selection should be very difficult. That said, heritability actually probably hasn't been selected for for very long because having as many children as possible doesn't make sense if you don't have the resources to support them all.
Judging by the behaviour of some of my ex-girlfriends, this is obviously false.
This is a popular myth, but it's false. Empirical evidence shows that children have always been net recipients of resources from their parents over the course of their lives. If you think about it, it's the only thing that makes any sense evolutionarily. Parents who don't invest as much as possible into their offspring are a disadvantage to those that do. It makes no sense for old parents who don't reproduce to take resources from their children instead of letting their children invest those resources in their grandchildren.
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