affective autist

People hate property taxes. You don’t have to do a property tax just because economists say it’s the most efficient tax. If it’s something that people really hate, then you’re allowed to pay for the necessary services some other way and stop doing the thing people hate.

Today we're sharing with you all the name of the next Elder Scrolls title (did you guess correctly?).

One reason @ESYudkowsky believes that powerful AIs may be able to cooperate in one-shot prisoner dilemas is because **he literally proved** that this is possible in general for two different AI systems as long as they can both read each other's source code (paper: arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5577),

IMO people who leave the candy bowl outside are already violating Halloween norms. Why even participate if you're just going to hole up in your house and not interact with anybody? It's silly to assume a social convention won't break down if everyone always half-asses it.

Turns out Jane Does fake rape allegations were just a covert ad for a Netflix documentary She had been filming with Netflix the last 2 years and came out with the allegations just in time to promote the movie

Ex-Balyasny PM Ying Hua on why a crowded trade is a positioning game, not a fundamentals game: "Sometimes a game is not fundamental. Sometimes the game is a positioning game." "As long as there's someone who's willing to buy your shares at a higher price, that would mean someone needs to follow you." "Because everyone's process is more or less the same, because everyone will more or less use the same data, your position's gonna be the same." "You might not be playing a fundamental game. You might be playing a position game."

Elsa Jean reveals how her former sugar daddy funded her entire life from age 18 including a $10k/month penthouse in Central Park. ​“My OG sugar daddy that I don't speak to anymore, I mean, he has probably given me millions. I'm not joking.” ​“He has carried my life. Paid for my whole entire life.” ​“Whole entire life. That penthouse I had in New York that was in Central Park was him. $10,000 a month.”

😂😂😂 “I gave my guys a 5% drawdown limit where they lose half their capital and was STUNNED by how short term they became!”

Census numbers get used for all sorts of things besides voting that need to be scaled by residents, illegal or no. You wouldn't want local emergency services or schools cut back bc there are lots of illegals in your area.

Good for you. I don't care about the people's will on immigration. I care about right and wrong, and what makes economic sense and what doesn't.

Going home with a girl and pretending to act cool as her dog keeps jumping all over me is an experience I could go without having ever again

I'm at the karaoke bar and @techno0ptimist knew EVERY WORD of the Evangelion theme song. And she doesn't know Japanese.

.@mattyglesias proposes some widely agreed tax changes rather than a wealth tax:

A sincere question about NYC: Why does the city allow people to set up shops on the sidewalk selling fake goods? It looks ugly, effectively steals from the shop owner's they set up in front of, doesn't generate tax, blocks walking, and frankly the people selling these good seem like a pretty bad bunch overall. I could fix the problem in a week easily. But the city just lets it happen. Why?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Federal authorities bust $2,000,000,000 healthcare fraud operation in Los Angeles, arresting and charging 15 people.

This Hoover Institution study, which has fueled the deluge of ads (more than $200 million spent by billionaires so far) to defeat the California billionaire tax, is spectacularly misleading. Let me explain its crucial flaw. 🧵