Is $15k a year typical for car insurance? In the UK it's a few hundred dollars a year at most unless you're a very young or very risky driver.

Rather than 'zero sum' I've heard it referred to as a positional good.

‘Reality has a surprising amount of detail’ must be one of the lindiest posts on here. Well done @jsalvatier!

Thank you - this is the comment I was going to write. 

Bartender at my local place wearing a loose-fitting charcoal suit (think Father John Misty): painfully cool. Robert from Industry wearing a black suit on his first day at an investment bank: totally out of place (“get a new suit, you look like fucking Neo”).

Nit: scaling up RL by 100x and inference by 10,000x would be a 1:3 OOM ratio I think

Or nicotine spray (like Nicorette QuickMist).

I get "invite invalid" when I follow the link.

I have often wondered if having a “no complaining” experiment would be similarly useful. 

Sahil has been up to things.

This links to a sequence where the most recent post is 7 months old - so I don't really understand the context (and I still don't know who Sahil is). Can it be made clearer?

Sentience is absolutely the thing that matters here. My thermostat can respond to changes in its environment but that does not make it a moral patient.