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If that's the case then income tax is like the state siezing humans and taking rent from their labour.

When income taxes were introduced did they compensate the owners of human capital for reduced future income streams?

Yes 100% woukd be a wealth transfer. I think the current system has gone the other way, young people have to work many more years to transfer wealth to the old.

So.. we should aim to even it out a bit. Let's haggle on the percent and timelines

Exactly. If there are adults running the show they'll have planned where to put the explosives, have aircraft standing by and know the schools key TSMC employees kids will go to.

For Ada to be the first programmer, Charles Babbage must have designed the first programmable computer without ever coming up with any test programs for it.

He decided what instructions you'd need, and that you'd need multiple ones, then never thought about combining 2 or more together to do anything, ever.

Then lucky for him, a programmer appears!

You designed your cpu for a class, long after people had come up with the idea of a programmable computer, and determining what instructions are needed.

Every instruction that needs to be put in hardware adds complexity, so knowing that some operation can be achieved by another one is very valuable. Babbage's machine had memory, if statements and loops - quite an achievement to know these are needed to write algorithms without writing any.

Making a device programmable, rather than hardcoded is an amazing mental leap and also a massive jump in complexity. One that I believe you would only make if you had at least 2 programs you wanted to run

New schools in the USA

That he would gamble and eventually lose was foreshadowed here

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-bankman-fried/

COWEN: Okay, but let’s say there’s a game: 51 percent, you double the Earth out somewhere else; 49 percent, it all disappears. Would you play that game? And would you keep on playing that, double or nothing?

Eugenics is not part of the traditional culture of any country. The reason it's not implemented anywhere is a lack of popular support; it has nothing to do with the EU.

In Denmark, the Danish Cytogenetic Central Register, shows an average of 98% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome before birth are aborted each year.

Denmark is also famous for exporting tall blue-eyed babies via sperm donation catalogues

So, examples of currently active positive and negative eugenics going on there.

Didn't say it did, I was just pointing out that it was implemented somewhere, and is popular

Just before he said yes, Cowen was trying to get him to back down due to St Petersberg paradox:

COWEN: Should a Benthamite be risk-neutral with regard to social welfare?

BANKMAN-FRIED: Yes, that I feel very strongly about.

[crypto] no systemic risks... captivated the world

Quite the combination!

Invest in public companies likely to do well with AI. There is the BOTZ ETF, obvious plays like Nvidia etc. I wouldn't rely on some things appreciating in value, robots or future ruling classes may not be sentimental

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Male faces look much better at a low bodyfat percentage

Offspring regress to their population mean.

There has been a large decline in couples meeting through work. It was equal 2nd place in 1995 at 19% dropping to 11% in 2017.

Given remote work trends, it may well be even lower now.

Graph

Great post.

A culture war angle you didn't touch on was admixture with white Australians.

You are either aboriginal or not, ie 1/16 counts the same as 100%.

Nature or nurture, whites outperform aboriginals, thus the indigenous medical school scholarship students all look like this:

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/half_width/public/thumbnails/image/7I8A1087_1.JPG?itok=5ntaThSA

I would be willing to bet most pure blooded Aboriginals are most concerned about better food, health and shelter while the 1/16th seem to be fighting hardest to get the government to hand out cushy white collar jobs - this looks to be what the voice is to me.

It is totally unacceptable in polite company to point out how white some of these activist / scholarship recipients / welcome to country paid performers etc look

If I ran the Liberal party, I would try and split the referendum into 2 questions. One that offers "constitutional respect" and one for the voice. Then people could vote yes:no and not be seen as not caring/being racist

Many gender norms are amplifying existing sex differences. Eg men are naturally hairier than women, shaving exagerates this

Biology defines males and females as having small (sperm) and large (egg) sex cells.

True hermaphroditism is extremely rare and non functional:

Spermatogenesis has only been observed in solitary testes and not in the testicular portions of ovotestes

The chromosomes XY, XX etc generally kick off development to phenotypically adult human sexes but there are rare disorders which most people are familiar with now.

The chromosomal pairs for sexes are different in different species, eg in birds males are the sex with 2 identical sex chroms.

But birds and mammals both fit the large/small sex cell binary

Yeah I deleted that maybe a minute after posting, because I didn't want to explain thee edge cases

RNA != DNA

Still happens (and can cause cancer or mutations in future generations) but in DNA the rates are something like a handful per few billion.

Then they have to make it through repair and error detecting mechanisms.

Not as good as computers (you can move gigabyte files across the internet no problem) but far more accurate than almost anything graspable by humans

Sounds like a meat puppet from the 80s scifi book Neuromancer

Criminality is heritable, so sex segregating prisoners is a pro eugenic policy. Please don't remove it and add to the foster care system now, and a worse society in the future