Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
What is the economic case for private equity getting involved in established sports leagues? Does FIFA need capital?
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
”The idea that they would care about the cavitation effects of a nautical propeller but not about the interaction between humans and bullets seems absurd.”
It is entirely reasonable to prioritize propeller cavitation research over rifle ballistics. Everyone knows how rifles work. You point them at the enemy, pull the trigger, and then they die. If your nation’s ballistic missile submarines don’t have anti-cavitation propellers, then you don’t have a resilient second-strike retaliatory force to maintain strategic deterrence.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I suppose educational cost disease and more efficient social sorting have crippled the private disciplinary institution industry. I had completely forgotten about the existence of “military school” since the time my parents jokingly threatened to send me to one. I assumed OP was talking about the service academies.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
In theory I agree with you, but there is something oddly inhuman about Anthropic. I’m not entirely convinced that they don’t want to scan me for all relevant information and then rip my spine out for convenience. I would be reassured if they showed a bit more sentimentality for physical artifacts!
Open weight frontier models are indeed incredibly dangerous. Closed-weight frontier models are marginally less dangerous but significantly more classically dystopian. We are essentially weighing an increased probability of omnicide against an increased probability of objectivist utopia.
I also noticed this surprisingly major border dispute a few years ago. Growing up in the United States, this was never mentioned in school. Occasionally we had maps with a dotted line through Morocco and small-font text that said "Western Sahara", but this was never remarked on in class.
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