Consider that if you focus on a single throwaway generalization from a longer essay that you’re the one outgrouping yourself.
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most single family households have a lot fewer than 10-20 people in them.
I think the statistics you quote are exaggerated in order to terrify. When I tried to look up “4% of adults are sexually attracted to children,” for example, I found nothing. Similarly, the news is often full of stranger danger fears because terror is what gets attention and therefore revenue and funding. And as others have said, they also include stuff like 18 year olds having sex with 17 year olds, which some people may find unacceptable but I don’t.
A huge advantage to buying over renting is you actually get to be in charge of what’s done with the space and who lives there, as opposed to a landlord who has different desires. A landlord might want to sell the land to build a zoo, or kick you out so his newly turned 18 son can live there, or simply just not want to divide up the units in your apartment in such a way as facilitates your plans because that’ll reduce the building’s value.
This is paranoid, but even if it wasn’t: The more people living in one house the LESS likely someone is to get away with molesting someone else unnoticed.
All the higher conscientiousness people realize how bad of an idea it is financially to try to live in the bay and move elsewhere
Are there legal barriers to renting property you own only to people in your ingroup? I feel like there must be, especially in California.
Also I second the housing co-op idea, there are a bunch of them here and they seem to work pretty well for the people who live there.
A possibly useful hack for this is kickstarter/tinder type thing, where people can propose buildings, and people announce how much money they would be willing to pay to own what percentage of, a specific place on the market where the next step is only triggered if enough people sign up with a sufficient amount of money that it’s worth actually looking into pooling money and purchasing it.
A lot of places actually have laws against more than few unrelated people living in the same house.
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Have you ever played videogames? Sure AI is often programmed to make certain errors, but there are TONS of things that smash your sense of verisimilitude that would be programmed out if it was easy. You can notice this by comparing the behavior of NPCs in newer vs older games. You can also deduce this by other in-game features: EG tutorials that talk about intended ways to defeat the AI but fail to mention the unintended ways, like putting a bucket over their head so they can’t “see” you sneaking.
Also: plenty of AI also plays PERFECTLY in ways no human is capable of. I gotta ask again, do you play videogames? A lot of game AI is in fact designed to beat you. There are difficulty settings for a reason! The reason is there are a lot of people who actually like being crushed by a more powerful opponent until they figure out how to beat it.
For the same reason videogame AI often makes mistakes a human player never would.
Yup. He certainly wasn’t aligned against them in any of the blatant ways I would expect unsafe AI to be.
an AI even that was just AS smart as von neumann would still be a very dangerous entity, if it wasn’t aligned with humanity’s interests.
If all the parts of this hold true, then person knows me well enough to know how important it would be to me and to the world to change my worldview. If they’re not already telling me without payment, I can conclude that it wouldn’t have much practical impact and be something like “The Earth is a Simulation but we don’t know anything about how it works beyond physics or who made it, but the proof is convincing.” Given that, I would probably pay a small amount of curiosity but not more.
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How much does it cost you a month?
the US regime operates on popular support in a way very unlike that of China.
I think a lot of people’s intuitive moral framework relies on the idea of the Outlaw. Traditionally an Outlaw is someone who has zero rights or legal protection accorded them by society: it’s legal to steal from them, beat them, or kill them. This was used as punishment in a variety of older societies, but has mostly fallen out of favor. However, a lot of people still seem to think of transgressors as moral non-patients, and are happy to see them receive any amount of punishment. Similar to how people think criminals deserve to be raped in prison, people think Nazis deserve whatever happens to them. This is counter to our judicial system and the happy functioning of civilization, but I don’t think most people are susceptible to reasoned arguments when they’re in a heightened emotional state.
Planned obsolescence is technically difficult: it’s relatively easy to design and use a material which lasts indefinitely, but harder to design a machine around materials that last a specified period and then fail. You need to tread the tight-rope between “too shitty to buy” and “too high quality to require frequent replacement.”