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Is there any high-quality, intelligent discussion on the internet about California's ballot measure about gerrymandering, Prop 50?

What am I to conclude about your values from the fact that you're moderately dominant in bed?

You claim that:

the government is [not] somehow stopping people from working more.

but also:

the Netherlands [...] has enacted part-time-friendly policies

I'm skeptical that both of these claims are straightforwardly true. Due to the nature of labor law, a policy that is friendly to shorter work-weeks will in practice also be unfriendly to longer work-weeks.

In particular, my uninformed guess is that a Dutch employer and employee seeking to formalize a 40-hour-per-week working arrangement will encounter obstacles or costs that wouldn't arise for a <35-hour-per-week arrangement. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

I've been wondering the case of Teresa Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt. A hotel employee called the cops on them because they were "dressed in tactical clothing and protective gear, while also being armed". Does this pass the threshold of "too weird" in New England? Or maybe it was New England forbearance that let them get away with it for as long as they did? Or maybe it's possible to be weird in New England, as long as one has the right kind of vibe.

Do you have any advice for people financially exposed to capabilities progress on how not to do dumb stuff, not be targeted by political pressure, etc.?

Yes, Dan Luu wrote about how he writes a lot because he's a fast typer.

See also Jevon's paradox.

Maybe people notice that AIs are being drawn into the moral circle / a coalition, and are using that opportunity to bargain for their own coalition's interests.

Yeah, you and I agree that people can clearly distinguish between my senses 1 and 2. I was responding to Paradiddle, who I read as conflating the two — he defines "conscious" as both "awake and aware" and as "there is something it [is] like to be us". I could have been clearer about this.

I believe grad students and Less Wrong users in these conversations are usually working with sense 2, but in fact sense 2 is multiple things and different people mean different things, to the extent they mean anything at all.

Paradiddle claims to the contrary that practically everyone in these conversations is talking about the same thing and just has different intuitions about how it works. But you seem to disagree with Paradiddle? Are you saying that Critch's subjects aren't talking about what you mean by "conscious"?