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I don’t understand what the big deal is about the ethical dilemma of self-driving cars. A Google search reveals over 40,000 results of how the trolley car thought experiment is applicable to self-driving cars. Thousands of articles in the span of just a few years have been written about it. Apparently this is a huge… Continue reading Notes on the ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

Is the ‘deep state’ and its partner Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson? Not to sound too conspiratorial, but the timing is suspicious. It all began on February 3rd when Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson got into a Twitter spat. Sam posted: I have to "dispense with consciousness"? Jordan, my ethics are entirely grounded in… Continue reading Is the ‘deep state’ and Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson?

Bitcoin bottomed a few days ago at 7,500, falling from as high as 11,000 a few weeks ago. It has since bounced back as high as 9,400 and is sitting at 8,900 as of publishing this. Given the weakness of the bounce and thus the failure to reclaim 10,000, but also the weakness in the… Continue reading Bitcoin Update 2/4/2018

Bitcoin continues to fall, plunging below $8000 (and as of publishing this article is below $8000 on GDAX) as I predicted a month ago would happen. There is too much ‘hot money’ flowing around. Too much FUD, social media, and so on. Bitcoin needs to fall low enough to drive out the speculators, who are… Continue reading Bitcoin carnage continues

The main thesis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by French economist Thomas Piketty is that wealth inequality arises from capital growing faster the economic growth, summarized succinctly by his famous equation r>g. Piketty bases his argument on a formula that relates the rate of return on capital (r) to economic growth (g), where r… Continue reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century analysis

President Donald Trump Just Delivered His First State of the Union. Read The Full Transcript Overall, not surprisingly, it was one of those we-must-spend-more-money-on-stuff speeches. It was good in terms of exceeding expectations, demonstrating leadership qualities on Trump’s part, and signaling to voters. I would say Trump gets an ‘A’ in this regard even though… Continue reading Trump speech brief analysis

A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy According to the recent SSC survey, 9% of SSC readers made $1000+ from crypto as of 12/2017. Among people who were referred to SSC from Less Wrong – my stand-in for long-time LW regulars – 15% made over $1000 on crypto, nearly twice as many. A full 3% of LWers made… Continue reading The LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

Sam Harris’ takedown of Nassim Taleb is hilarious and true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZmAmok5M3s&feature=youtu.be&t=48m51s I don’t agree with Sam Harris on everything, although I agree with him about Islam being a threat to western civilization, about the perniciousness of SJWs and political correctness, about some aspects of ‘materialist philosophy’, his denial of free will, and his criticism of… Continue reading Sam Harris’ takedown of Nassim Taleb