You are not a great fan of Morrison v. Olson, are you?

A few years ago I actually came to the opinion that the IC was an inferior officer, but I forget why. Don’t get old.

Any pension scheme is a redistribution scheme.

Innovation, science and technology. These things make us special as human beings. If there are any human civilizations unwilling to engage in those things, they should be absorbed and assimilated.

https://safing.io/ does what you're asking. There's no need to use their SPN service.

I don't think Eleizer Yudkowsky has anything meaningful to say. He is a doomsday cult leader who happens to be fashionable in some circles.

While I won't claim he currently has much of interest to say, he definitely explained a lot of important ideas for thinking more clearly to people who would not otherwise have encountered them, even if he didn't invent any of them.

Exactly. It's a variation of Pascal's Wager for morons.

I wouldn’t say it’s any worse or better than the original. It basically just swaps some names around.

It's late by hundreds of years. It introduces a lot of unnecessary complexity. The most sophisticated variation of the Wager I've encountered is the Taleb's diatribe against GMO.

The right of rebuttal!

It's very unlikely but it can happen.

As of 2024, they are well supported.

Amen