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Many states have already passed something like this, which only takes effect once enough states sign on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

However, I think it's unlikely that this will get over the 270 hump anytime soon, because right now GOP-run states (correctly) perceive that the EC has a pro-GOP tilt (for now at least); and the swing states benefit a lot from swing status.

Those kinds of VC-run business can also often have other problems. For example, Aspen Dental was sued for deceptive marketing.

It's not true that you can't pay negative taxes on your betting market losses, at least if you are someone who uses prediction markets routinely. You are allowed to deduct your gross gambling losses from your gambling gains, and you only pay tax on the net gain. See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/at-02-53.pdf.

Just to push back a little - I feel like these people do a valuable service for capitalism. If people in the reviews or in the press are criticizing a business for these things, that's an important channel of information for me as a consumer and it's hard to know how else I could apply that to my buying decisions without incurring the time and hassle cost of showing up and then leaving without buying anything.

I treat chatGPT as a vibes-ologist; it's good for answering questions about like which X is most popular or what do most people think about X. I agree it's less good for "X is true"

Well, you don't see them as much because they don't necessarily interact with the metaphorical pope(s)/cardinal(s)/etc. I'm just talking about all the thousands of people who have read the sequences and/or other foundational rationalist texts, interpreted them for themselves, and did their best to apply those lessons in their own lives. Many such people exist! They just don't live in the Bay Area, don't necessarily go to rationalist meetups, and might not be active LW posters. So the reason I don't have examples for you is precisely because Active in the Rationalist Community is highly correlated with both "LW readers are likely to know who this person is" and/or  "this person is publicly identifiable as a Rationalist," and also with "Catholic within this metaphor" -- Official Rationalist Spaces are effectively catholic churches, in the metaphor. Of course you won't find a ton of protestants there!

The Protestant/Catholic schism was fundamentally over whether the Bible should be interpreted by the Pope and the Catholic church, with the role of the faithful to listen to their priest and take what they say as the Received Interpretation of the Word of God, or instead whether each individual Christian should become literate, and read and interpret the Bible for themselves. Of course, there were particular points of dispute but they all stemmed from this - is it possible for the Pope to be wrong, and if so, what does that say about our faith?

The Catholic position was, it is not possible for the Pope to be wrong within the bounds of our faith, and therefore if there is proof that the Pope is wrong then it would prove that our faith is wrong. The Protestant position was, like, of course its possible for the Pope to be wrong, he's just some guy. So when Martin Luther was saying "it is possible for the Pope to be wrong" that was a big f'in deal. But you don't see modern protestants going around defiantly asserting that it's possible for the Pope to be wrong - they know there are millions of people who already agree with this idea, and it just kinda seems silly or beside the point for them? A protestant generally doesn't care what the Pope thinks any more than they care what other prominent world leaders think.

This comment probably won't get a ton of readership on an old post, but if you understand my metaphor and think you are "protestant," please react with Checkmark, even if you are mostly an LW lurker. If you understand and you think you are "catholic", react with Xmark. If you think this metaphor makes no sense or is fundamentally wrong, then I guess react with something else.

Footnotes are good in translated works. I read the 3-body trilogy translated into English, and it was very helpful to have notes from the translator explaining certain points of cultural context that a Chinese reader would be expected to be familiar with.

Well, "fish" is a statutorily defined term that clearly includes all invertebrates. What did you want the court to do, ignore the statutory text? Arguably, that outcome supports the notion that the courts are less likely to just ignore text limiting the kinds of harm that are cognizable, not more likely, as you seem to be arguing.

I have a hard time imagining a Court ruling that "Other grave harms to public safety and security that are of comparable severity" could embrace something so different-in-kind than the listed items.