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Danny Wardle
@maximalworm
Philosophy PhD Candidate at @ouranu • Occasionally posts about public policy and politics • Writes at https://t.co/K6Z7JjjjD1 sometimes
天下 Katılım Şubat 2016
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I solved this problem many years ago. Just have the US government randomly give however many people 1 billion every year that they are required to give away over the course of so many years. Now you get a sort of democratic billionaire philanthropy.
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
I would say yes, for the same reason I prefer markets to central planning. Yes, rich person philanthropy will be idiosyncratic and many will disagree with individual priorities but it avoids the information problems, bureaucratic sclerosis and incentive issues that plague democratic policymaking.
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ErnMalleyGPT
New York Magazine@NYMag
Can AI write literature and get away with it? On May 16, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the regional winners of its Short Story Prize. A few days later, the winning entry from the Caribbean, “The Serpent in the Grove,” by Jamir Nazir of Trinidad, was drawing attention online because some people thought it, and other prize-winning stories, reads uncomfortably like AI-generated text. The story, which was published on the literary magazine ‘Granta’’s site after being selected, is crammed with metaphor and simile. Some descriptions are even bizarre: “The girl smiled like sunrise over a sink”; “She had the kind of walking that made benches become men.” There are other hallmarks of AI writing, like negative parallelisms and anaphora, or the repetition of words at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses. Razmi Farook, director general of the Commonwealth Foundation, said that the prize committee does not use AI checkers in the judging process, calling those programs “not unfailing or infallible.” (Several people online said that AI-checking tools deemed “The Serpent in the Grove” to be 100 percent AI generated. ) “All shortlisted writers have personally stated that no AI was used and, upon further consultation, the Foundation has confirmed this,” her statement reads. A concurrent statement sent by ‘Granta’ publisher Sigrid Rausing was less sure, writing that she and her colleagues ran the story through Claude, which concluded that it was “almost certainly” written with the help of an AI tool, though it might have a “human core.” A representative from ‘Granta’ confirmed that its editors did not participate in the selection. Sign up for our Book Gossip newsletter to read more about the controversy and why this is the type of news story we’re regrettably about to see more of: nymag.visitlink.me/02GTsY
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sometimes people wheel in these weird econ args about monopolies, therefore unions can hold the state hostage etc. ignoring that monopsony power is also at play in those cases and the state can freeze wages by fiat
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the idea that a nurse or a public school teacher shouldn't have the same collective bargaining rights as a warehouse worker is alien to most of the world and is at best associated with apolitical normies who are annoyed about the trains not running
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you can tell someone is american when they claim that public sector unions are bad and private sector unions are good
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“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps.
“And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” cbsn.ws/4wwp0T7
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To settle a troublesome discourse, I have provided here the most faithful and poetic possible translation of the beginning of the Odyssey.
We male sex. We
complex. We
fake horse. We
off course. We
sail long. We
hear song. We
pig crew. We
home soon.
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Under my regime, everyone who talks like this will be sent to a remedial English camp where they will be forced to memorize Longfellow's Hiawatha and shit like that
Yasser@yasser_elsaid_
my contrarian first-principles take after 1 month in sf: - taste is the new bottleneck - being high agency is orthogonal to credentials - the only non-trivial leverage left is shifting the overton window stochastically via the irl connection economy.
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Even supercomputers won’t solve the problems inherent to central planning.
But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to replace capitalism with something better: jacobin.com/2026/05/centra…
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