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This is ridiculous. Plenty of people who most Americans would call "rich" pay income tax.
If you earn, say a $300k - $1MM/yr salary, you are rich compared to most Americans in most areas, and you pay tons of income tax and potentially zero capital gains depending on how you manage your finances.
Edit: Uh oh, downvoted by people who apparently think either people who earn $300k - $1MM+ aren't "rich" or that they don't pay income taxes. Lol.
Did you read the paper you linked? It describes all the immense amount of learning that actually happens: https://art.torvergata.it/retrieve/e291c0d4-b584-cddb-e053-3...
> One only needs to see a foal walking less than an hour after birth to be convinced of this.
Have you actually seen a foal walking? They are very visibly learning how to do it!
Age 2: Can point to their own body parts; hold something in one hand while doing something with the other hand
Age 4: Changes behavior based on where you are; can draw a person with more than 3 distinct body parts
There's a huuuge amount of learning that happens through this period. Your brain is learning things like 3-dimensional space, temperatures exist and I don't like some of them, I-have-two-arms, things fall when dropped, I must engage my big toe to stay upright while walking, other people appear to have feelings, other people appear to believe that I appear to have feelings.
And in any case, the difference between 2 and 4 is only relevant to the question of whether a 4 year old can remember being 2, not what this article is about, which is adults not remembering being <4.
> Web3 can prevent a whole class of problems that normally would require after-the-fact arbitration to fix.
Such as?
> This is the massive improvement over code that runs inside some server farm and can be switched up anytime.
Massive theoretical improvement. No debate there. The question is about applicability, which I notice you've still not made concrete.
> It's weird arguing that no, we would rather have databases where certain people have the key to subtly corrupt the entire database
I don't know, it basically seems to work and as far as I can tell, you're about a billion times more likely to have your shit stolen from you in the web3/cryptoverse than using the traditional financial system... except of course if you're a criminal and/or a more grey-area "unsavory character" to some of the main stakeholders. Which that is a good usecase for this tech, of course.
However, this is the exact behavior from prior owners that he counter-positioned himself against, allegedly pursuing a broader “free speech absolutism.” That philosophy certainly would not permit arbitrary bans of people he doesn’t like.
These mental gymnastics are remarkable to see.
> Wikipedia’s political bias confirmed
2) I truly don’t understand the “none of your business?” Whose behavior am I obsessing over? Only candidates I can think of are POTUS and his inner circle which… is absolutely my business…?
To the hopeful new rent seeker, the pitch is obvious. To everyone else, the provided rationales tend to sound like a whole lot of bullshit.
Also: It's a literal interview lol. You get to read his own answers to (very light) skeptical questioning.
You can see him completely elide (or forget, or not know?) that CEOs are accountable to boards and, ultimately, to shareholders. You get to see him dismiss his own child's fears about Trump's wall by first forgetting (or deceiving, again) that Trump did indeed start building a physical, literal wall, then assure his child that his life won't change as he attends a fancy private Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco.
The hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty just cannot help but seep out of this supposedly serious thinker!
Of course the real value of his philosophy is its conclusion that the ultrawealthy should rule the world. So the ahistoricism, dishonesty, and internal incoherence hardly matter to the Silicon Valley elite.
Yarvin's claim: "[In] F.D.R.’s first inaugural address,... he essentially says, Hey, Congress, give me absolute power, or I’ll take it anyway"
From FDR's speech: "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency..."
Operative phrase: "I shall ask the Congress"
These people are, at best, dishonest and cowardly. Even more disappointing, it's increasingly clear the only indicator of actual intelligence is net worth. This is rather lossy signal, unfortunately.
Interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-in...
Fine foregoing the latter so long as we can retain the former, but really a whole lot of complaining about cancel culture comes down to “people shouldn’t be able to dislike me for the things I believe, say, or do,” which is obviously insane imo.
Utilizing state power to express disapproval, of course, should be absolutely verboten in almost all cases (US 1st Amendment case law has overall found good gradations here).
I don't think this follows at all. There are tons of variables at play in an election that make this connection way, way too noisy.
Left-leaning people need to do the hard work of convincing people to their side, and that work needs to start now.
Trump got young men to vote in droves.
Group (1) is the impediment to progress on the problem.
You should have the integrity to just say it!
Concretely, how do you do this when you don't know much about the pathogen?
> the medical establishment has suffered a severe blow to their credibility because the government used their work in vain
Eh, I think the propaganda machine did more damage than any actually poor decisions.