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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@dfkodsi I don’t think it takes that much ingenuity. Beyoncé’s billions seem relatively straightforward: people like her music, and give her money in exchange for it. I don’t like Windows, but I still give Bill Gates money for it, for what seem like highly contingent reasons.
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Daniel Kodsi
Daniel Kodsi@dfkodsi·
Yglesias may be the selectively-stupidest person on Twitter (smart, but disingenuous). If the wealth of celebrities is justified, then whose wealth isn’t? It takes some ingenuity to get into a frame of mind whereby actors and sportspeople are our most deserving of billionaires.
Rona Dinur@RonaDinur

Nozick's argument was meant to show that liberty - the freedom to transact - would upset any form of "patterned distribution", that is, the distribution of resources in a way that corresponds to what people deem an appropriate normative principle, including merit or desert. The example of celebrities and entertainers illustrates the point quite well.

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@osoleve @VicVijayakumar @climatepaige Well right now, as in, at the time of my typing, you're doing neither. Though I think you meant at the time you were typing your reply, in which you were responding to me. That doesn't really answer what I asked tho.
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@osoleve @VicVijayakumar @climatepaige Do you think that's what's going on here? Like, is one of Paige's conservative friends known to be violent? It seems odd to assume that there's nontrivial risk of violence here.
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oso@osoleve·
@VicVijayakumar @climatepaige More succinctly, if I think one of your friends poses a direct risk to the safety of one of my friends, I'm going to try not to socialize with them.
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@samhaselby @davidshor Not sure why you’re bringing up market crashes in this context, which only correlates somewhat to wage distribution. If you don’t like wage compression as a measure of inequality, it seems like you should counter with like, stagnant GINI, not a podcast about something else.
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Sam Haselby
Sam Haselby@samhaselby·
Obama will be remembered as the American Gorbachev, the charismatic, well-intentioned leader feted by the world but who, by failing to address crisis levels of inequality, elite impunity and corruption, hastened US national decline.
American Values 🇺🇸@AVGirl4Life

What is the #1 thing Obama will be remembered for?

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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
Tucker: I wanted to talk to Fuentes to see what he thought about the war with Iran. He interviewed Fuentes months before that. Tucker lies like most people breathe. I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually convinced himself this is true.
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@ApatheticRex @RichardHanania We've not been at war with Iran for 47 years. What do you mean "which is it"? We weren't meaningfully at war with Iran until February of this year.
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Felix
Felix@ApatheticRex·
@RichardHanania Wait. I thought we’ve been at war with them for 47 years? Seriously, which is it?
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WestSideGAKYAK
WestSideGAKYAK@literallysup·
@agraybee It’s just hard to pass off moral grandstanding from a position of unconditionally supporting genocide and ethnonationalism. Like you have to understand that people are less likely to care about things you say if you stand for those things, no?
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Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee·
Bassem Youssef is one of the least antisemitic Egyptians but it's pretty shocking to cohost a podcast with him in America.
Danny Morris@DannyMMorris

For context, Mehdi Hasan still co-hosts a podcast with Bassem Youssef on his media platform, Zeteo. Their latest episode, uploaded on 9 April, was titled ‘War for the Epstein Class’ and carried the caption in the thumbnail: ‘The truth is now antisemitic’…

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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@mehdirhasan It’s sort of odd to puff your chest about opposing antisemitism, while hosting a podcast with Youssef, a pretty unambiguous antisemite.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
Many of us rightly see antisemitic violence as horrific and unacceptable and growing. But if cynical pro Israel propagandists like this person think they’re gonna cynically use it to stop us from accusing a foreign government of genocide - which is the consensus view - good luck
Heidi Bachram@HeidiBachram

@Airhead2 He shouldn’t have been invited on unless it was to go hard. The repetition of the lie of genocide feeds into the harm being caused to Jews.

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Marshall Steinbaum 🔥
Marshall Steinbaum 🔥@Econ_Marshall·
Socialist bros have a reputation for being unpleasant assholes, but no one, and I mean no one, is as personally repellent as the nihilistic centrist DC lifer. There's a reason even Kendall Roy called them ghouls.
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Mark Changizi
Mark Changizi@MarkChangizi·
— The Suicide Button — No need for a Red button at all. Just have a single (Blue) button labeled, “Press me to commit suicide by midnight.” And then in fine print it says, “Guaranteed to work unless more than 50% of humans end up pressing their button.” Are you suggesting it’s now selfish to not press the button? Because that’s exactly the Red button answer in the equivalent Res/Blue button case.
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@SenseiAnother This is stupid, there are (fewer than in the humanities depts, granted) "leftist/socialist/etc" math professors, good computer programmers etc. Is your view actually that they're all sub 85 iq? It seems like you're high on theory, and decided not to actually look at the world.
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Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝
Mark Zlochin - מארק זלוצ'ין༝@MarkZlochin·
Actually the 2021 UN vote wasn’t about “making food a human right” - it was a bundled resolution that included questionable anti-sanctions clauses. But I guess that “minor detail” didn’t make the syllabus at the TikTok Academy of International Law where you “just found this out”.
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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@lymanstoneky If we’re changing the scenario, why change it to the blue-is-leaping-into-the-jammable-woodchipper and not red-is-activating-the-killer-robots-who-spare-the-activators? You can play with the theming all you’d like to pump intuitions in either direction.
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
Suppose you got to decide what button 100% of people push. Everyone lives no matter what because you can guarantee success. Do you throw everyone into the woodchipper just because you can? Or do you say “no participating in this freakshow is insane we’re all going home, everyone pushes red” Since if you could generalize a rule you would choose red (you wouldn’t risk the possibility that you were lied to and the woodchipper actually can churn through everybody after all), you should individually choose red.
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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@lymanstoneky That doesn’t seem like a necessary implication of the scenario at all. Nothing about Urban’s post implies it, and him saying ‘everyone in the world’ implies that you’re wrong.
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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky·
I’d press red. I have four kids. If your reading of the scenario is “we are offering the hypothetical only in English and to 3 day old babies who can’t even push buttons” you’re an idiot. Tye scenario necessarily implies the choosers are limited to people *who can understand the choice*.
Udi Wertheimer@udiWertheimer

almost nobody who has children would press red unless they know for an absolute fact that their kids pressed red if you think there’s even a 5% chance your kids pressed blue, you will risk your life to improve their odds even by a tiny bit to take this a step further most women are probably hard-wired to press blue as a motherly instinct anyway, even if they have no children. so at minimum you have a 25% baseline for blue right there, which completely tips the odds so i think blue actually wins by a landslide if this was the real world and not a social media app for incels in other words humanity always had the biological programming to ensure blue wins

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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@constans ? The game theoretic solution is just that there’s no dominant strategy. The horizontal axis could be [red majority, blue majority, tie]. Picking blue is better in case of tie, and picking red is better in case of red majority. Neither choice has even weak dominance.
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constans@constans·
Picking red IS the smart answer in that it is the “Jane Street Interview” answer showing that you understand game theory and reflects how well you can model the mind of a trader on the other side of a transaction. It’s a bad answer in that it misunderstands the goals & context
James Medlock@jdcmedlock

@questionableway A lot of people think that loudly declaring they don’t care about other people demonstrates they’re smart and not prone to emotional thinking, when the opposite is true sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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normal_testes@normal_testes·
@AbeLopezAuthor "everyone should press red" - sure dawg, let's get 1 year olds, senile grannies, disabled people etc to all do something.
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Abe Lopez, Author
Abe Lopez, Author@AbeLopezAuthor·
Rational people know intrinsically that everyone should press red, it eliminates any question of anyone dying Irrational (emotionally-driven) people will be compelled to press blue because “it’s the right thing to do” And the more you try to convince them otherwise the more they’ll dig in
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

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