You can’t prove anything if people know that you feel that you have something to prove.
You can’t prove anything if people know that you… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
It takes moral courage to not resemble one’s enemies.
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(Re: torture etc.)
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SELF DRIVING CARS, A DISCUSSION
A self driving car doesn’t have skin in the game, though owner is liable. But no tailgating, inebriation, road-rage, speeding, bullying, etc. So I wonder where one should stand there as far as harm to others. Recall that skin-in-the-game removes from the gene pool those harmful to others…
Further, this is a logical continuation of the information revolution. Cars have been progressively turned into computers, and if it weren’t for Detroit bailouts, they’d be made in Silicon Valley (rather, assembled, with parts made in China, just like a computer).
One can estimate that a taxi ride would drop by 50-80%… Think of car rentals.
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You can be defined as rich if and only if the wealth of others doesn’t bother you.
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Heuristic: in any profession, 90% of the people are clueless but work by situational imitation, narrow mimicry, and semi-conscious role-playing, except for academia where it is 99% and journalism where it is about 100%.
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