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If you are also the worst at politics
teageegeepea1y10

Tyler regularly disagrees with his colleagues. If he were one of them he might think to himself "Alex is the best truth-tracker, so I should check what he thinks on the issue", but Tyler doesn't regard truth as something to optimize for.

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The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)
teageegeepea1y10

Isn't whether a project is "worth funding" depend on whether you think it's proposed output is an actually valuable public good? If it is, then you shouldn't mind not getting a refund that much. If it isn't, there are other places to look for arbitrage.

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Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method
teageegeepea2y-10

I'm pretty sure there are limits to the pre-tax income you can put in an index fund (like a 401K).

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Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method
teageegeepea2y42

The consideration war tax resisters have is that it's bad for the government to get tax money it can spend on wars. Thus refusing to pay what one owes and not owing are equivalent in their effects.

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Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method
teageegeepea2y-10

For instance, maybe you think our current tax rules are bad, but perhaps you'd like the ability to have and enforce any tax rules at all, even when some of your fellow citizens disagree with you about what rules are ideal.

I think income taxes are dumb. Instead I think taxation should begin with Pigovian taxes on negative externalities, then if more money is needed Georgist taxes on supply-inelastic factors, and then finally if the government somehow needs even MORE money it should resort to consumption taxes like VATs and stop there. Does this method inhibit the ability to collect those?

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Genetic fitness is a measure of selection strength, not the selection target
teageegeepea2y-1-1

Pregnancy is certainly costly (and the abnormally high miscarriage rate appears to be an attempt to save on such costs in case anything has gone wrong), but it's not that fatal (for the mother). A German midwife recorded one maternal death out of 350 births.

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Genetic fitness is a measure of selection strength, not the selection target
teageegeepea2y10

Forager societies didn't have below-replacement fertilities, which are now common for post-industrial societies.

Having children wasn't a paying venture, but people had kids anyway for the same reason other species expend energy on offspring.

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The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism
teageegeepea2y10

The distinction between "somatic" and "germ" cells only exists for sexually reproducing species.

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A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
teageegeepea2y10

There is a remaining mystery about Epstein: where his money came from. He claimed to be a financier, but didn't seem to do any trading. Hence Eric Weinstein (who actually met him), concluding he was a "construct" whose supposed finance work was merely a cover story.

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The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism
teageegeepea2y00

The Yanomamo maximize the number of females in their tribes by kidnapping them from other tribes sucker enough to feed & raise females rather than males (which they could have used to raid females from other tribes).

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4"Extortionate" strategy beats tit-for-tat in iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
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