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@ThomasEWoods @romanhelmetguy Can you address regulatory capture? Here's an example: A cartel or a govt sanctioned monopoly of a few players they limited licenses. New players face increasing regulatory barriers to entry. Despite relatively low prices compared to other markets, is this not predatory pricing?

I know everybody thinks you can just buy out all your competitors and then raise your price. I know everybody thinks that's easy. But economists who study this for a living have difficulty finding examples of predatory pricing. Yes, they lower their prices, but then when do they actually raise them? They don't dare, because of all the potential competition. If you look through the legal records of the various companies accused of monopolistic practices, you don't find any where predatory pricing is actually demonstrated. I know it's fun to accuse the economists of being stupid and theoretical and not grounded in the real world, but don't fall for Boomerisms like that

This is her dumbest take. Monopolies form naturally. Monopolies are much more profitable than competitive industries. So if you find yourself in a competitive industry, it makes sense to buy out or collude with all your competitors, or to temporarily take a loss in order to drive them out of business. The government itself is a naturally-forming monopoly on violence. Ayn Rand is frequently guilty of this kind of magical thinking in which everything would be perfect if the government just disappeared. Well, there are still large parts of Africa today in which there is effectively no government. Is it utopia? Meanwhile the Industrial Revolution could not have taken place without the financial incentives put in place by intellectual property law such as patents, which require an incredibly strong government to enforce. The right really needs to get away from this whole “everything the government does is bad” loser mindset.

@NSKinsella It's a great list. Do you disagree with those 6 myths or have more to add?

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Anyone running for a leadership role with @LPNational needs to be able to articulate a political strategy, make difficult decisions regardless of their popularity, and make donor calls. That is the bare minimum. Pledging to be a representative for all party members is a joke. People will hate you. You do not represent everyone's interests. It's not possible, and it doesn't matter. Stop playing Model UN. It's a political party, not a social club for special needs adults.

Good to see @RealAngelaMc bringing the Samourai Wallet case to @Timcast's audience. Most people still have no idea developers are facing prison for writing code. The more people who hear about this the better.

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Our president @glukianoff said it best. Free speech is how a free society settles fights without fists. From courtrooms to classrooms, that’s the very right we at FIRE exist to defend. But we can’t do it alone.

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In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

@scotthortonshow It's hard to be American in Europe and at the same time confront an entirely new set of NATO propaganda that is much more pervasive than in America.

I take responsibility for my part of the loss. Usually my facts are my strength, but here, rhetoric and emotion were much more important. Also, I thought the question was so absurd we would be sure to win no matter what, so I focused on having fun bullying Daniel Fried instead of addressing the specific question enough. When I walked into the room full of liberal-democrat-type kids, and heard the response to our first two opponents, I should have thrown out my notes and adapted my argument to the audience much better.

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