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Namecoin is an attempt to use a blockchain to implement a decentralized DNS. (It also has an associated cryptocurrency, but that's not the important part.) I know someone who is doing some domain squatting on this. I don't think it's particularly likely to take over the current DNS, but names are only a few cents.
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Being good at video games is an obvious antiskill.
Only when being good at a game increases your propensity to play it. In my personal experience I think that's been true for less than half the games I've played.
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The Cryonics Strategy Space
I actually have a list of about ten of these, which I will happily make available on request (i.e. I’ll write another discussion post about them if people are interested) but I don’t want the whole discussion of this post to be about this one single issue, which it was when I tried the content of the post out on my friend. This is about the cryonics strategy-space only, not the living-forever strategy space, which is much bigger
I would like that, I am far more interested in the general live forever space.
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What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?
Yes. If the lives in the first ecosystem involve more suffering than pleasure, then the second almost certainly has more utility.
So, desertification is a good thing then, I guess? Actually, is there anything in that line of reasoning that doesn't argue for converting all wild nature into sterile empty spaces?
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What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?
Any ecosystems which do not involve more suffering than pleasure shouldn't be exterminated, by that line of reasoning.
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What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?
Ok:
Step 1) double your money using an efficient business (or a hedge fund or whatever).
Step 2) leave a dollar of profit and spend the rest of your gains to do TEH EVILZ.
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What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?
I believe the question is about things that are currently being done, not potential ways to legally maximize utility loss.
That's strange. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it, but I tried and it turns out I can. It's difficult, though, and I'm not counting perfectly (there are repetitions and possibly skips). If I focus more on getting the counting right my reading ability degrades. I've also noticed on earlier occasions that I can read while listening to someone speak, this as well done imperfectly.
EDIT: I realised you might have meant to count loud out. I actually just counted in my head. I'm now trying to count to out loud (even while writing this comment 290.. 291... 292..) I can still read (and even write). It's hard, I sometimes have pauses in my counting and I read with noticeably less attention and speed.
380.. 381.. 382
Huh, same here, it was much easier than I expected. Elsewhere in the comments, buybuydandavis noted a distinction between 'hearing' and 'saying', and I think that's what's going on here, for me it least. I say what I'm counting, but mostly hear what I'm reading.
I can't read while listening to someone, so at least somewhat different things are going on between us.
Is subvocalization is negatively correlated with getting a mental picture when reading fiction?
My single datapoint says no. I almost always subvocalize, but get quite vivid pictures while reading.
In my experience people mostly ignore the speed limits and drive at whatever speed feels right for the circumstances. Speed limits might have a role in building peoples' intuitions, though.
Do you live in a country where speed limits aren't enforced? People here most certainly don't ignore speed limits. That becomes expensive fast.
I live in a region of the US where they are only sort of enforced.
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Let's make these comments a reply to this post. That way we continue the tradition, but keep the discussion a bit cleaner.
Oh right, I forgot this part. I have taken the survey (like two weeks ago)