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> The only way to get that is to give some protection to the little guys while they grow.

Industrial Policy

It has a very bad reputation in the West but in built Japan and Taiwan

In the West it meant "protect old industries" rather than grow new ones (e.g. British steel)


AI might one day be useful for this

Not this AI, today


hot take: if all models stopped improving today, we could get there with today's technology.

No, you couldn't whip out a foundational model out of the box to do this, but we could likely engineer our way to guardrails to support this without substantial hallucinations (i.e. fewer than the 95th percentile of human teachers.)

Also in no way would this replace everything teachers do. I'm talking purely academic curiosity.


>I'm talking purely academic curiosity.

Sure. In that lens, anything is possible. We put people on the moon with tech less powerful than a modern graphing calculator.

Reality, however, is disappointing and not actually incentivized by bettering humanity.


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> people didn't bat an eye as he was allowed to fire government employees

I do not think that is true!


should have said most people, because that's true. it's the dire state of things. even now only 49% disapprove of the current admin, after seeing their own country men shot while protesting, little kids born in the US kidnapped and sent to foreign countries. if you think those 51% of people cared about government employees getting fired or allies being alienated, you'd be mistaken.

No.

The difference now is the number of people feeling effected

It always been thus for people at the margins


So we agree, including that there is a difference.

> So we agree, including that there is a difference.

No, that's a distinction without a difference. I mean, it doesn't matter in the slightest if at some point in time certain powers weren't abused, if they're being abused now the situation cannot be tolerated.

Arguing about how it's possible not to abuse the system is a waste of time at best and a diversion at worst.


I'm not arguing that it's possible to not abuse the system. I've recognized abuses for quite some time, regardless of which political team has been in power. The point is that we need to avoid normalizing our current situation by pointing to previous abuses.

But did you not disagree before? The "I am getting tired" statement kind of implies that.

Different commenter and different statement.

> It always been thus for people at the margins

It's worth pointing out that "criminals" are generally "people at the margins"... If for no other reason than to point out that pithy comments like this are often so vague as to be worthless, or even counter-productive!

It's also a good thing that antisocial behavior is often isolated to "the margins", so your statement can even be considered a good thing, by the same metric!

TL;DR: Twitterisms like this are stupid.


> post-WWII American boom years which were a fluke

No fluke. A deliberate policy


There's certainly some flukiness to being the only major country on the planet that hadn't been shelled and bombed to smithereens in the preceding decades. That's not the whole story, but it's certainly part of it.

We can't return to a place where America is the only manufacturing country in the world, where every other country is in ruins and rebuilding and taking loans from America. That was a very weird set of circumstances that gave America unprecedented tailwinds that no other country has ever had.

> total compensation will be set based on the market value of your labor.

No, you do not want that.

The market value of most people's labour is very close to zero.

Left to the market most of the population would live just below starvation, a very small group of owners would live very well, and a small group of artisans would do OK supporting the tiny group.

That is where many countries are heading


Abolishing private property is another way of defanging power


Has this been tried successfully anywhere? Seems like mostly a dead end as long as we have resource scarcity.


Let's start with your private property.


95% of the commenters on this post own no private property.


> you can tax stock without taxing inventory.

How? What is the difference between "stock" and "inventory"?


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