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Yeah, fuck the free market. In real terms, it's China that's loosing value (production capacity and resources) and is only getting money in return.

You seem to be mixing two different ideas here. One is (high-bandwith) brain-machine interfaces, the other is some kind of "normalisation" of brain fu...

France and Germany are both approaching about the same number of cases per capita as Italy had when their health system started to break down. Both co...

I have no idea how safe it is, or what the opportunity costs of attempting this treatment might be. And of course if subsequent information makes this...

Is that a sociological question? If so, I'd say no. Rejection of Trump isn't based primarily on single decisions. As you have already analysed, it's e...

It'd perhaps be more accurate to say that the a society could, if necessary, suspend the use of markets and money to direct economic output and instea...

There is no such thing as devolution in the sense that you're using it here (as an opposite of evolution). There is just change. Who is to tell you ho...

Sure. But my employer would hardly let me, would they? If some children go to school, and others do not, how would classes be handled?

It's not just a numbers game though. Our societies operate on certain principles. We accept the deaths caused by car incidents not just because the be...

It's not even necessarily good for the victors. France and Britain won both world wars, but their economies (especially that of France and especially ...

An interesting thought: For many young Europeans, the current crisis is the first time in their living memory that Europe's borders are closing. Even ...

I get your point, though I was referring more to the deregulation that allowed the entire mess to happen in the first place. That was a policy born in...

It originally appeared to have a case fatality rate of around 3%, which would suggest an actual mortality of 0.3 to 1%. However, Italy is experiencing...

I'd agree that money represents delayed consumption. You're giving away something you have right now (like your work) but get nothing immediately in r...

And why do you believe that? Access to salt would also have been extremely limited. There are other ways to preserve foodstuffs, but in general there ...

While money is fundamentally connected to debt, it hasn't been directly convertible for decades. And even when it was, it was mostly a theoretical exe...

Food and shelter are not the only things you can trade. What about tools. Or shiny things? Why are we assuming debts must be repayed, or repayable? So...

Your statement is not connected to the post you were replying to. "Birth rates in India are going down" "The population will probably reach X in year ...

Efficient at creating growth and thus wealth, certainly. But there are situations where one wouldn't choose it. Like if you were embarking on a long j...

I feel compelled to point out that this is a complete non-sequitur

For one that assumes money is available as a metric in the scenario we're talking about. You seem to be assuming a capitalist system here, but in a si...

The bigger problem, in my opinion, would be to figure out a system that determines who can procreate and when, without causing unintended shifts in ei...

Great. Now I am afraid :wink:

Any idea why Germany has a CFR almost an order of magnitude lower than everyone else? 4.5k cases, 9 deaths, comes out at .2 percent. The only other co...

Well first of all it would have to be possible to regulate it in a manner that doesn't cause massive followup problems. China's one child policy is a ...

Yeah, but how did it start going off the shelves in the first place? I understand what is happening now, in terms of the psychology involved, but I do...

Any thoughts on how this whole toilet paper craze got started? By now it's clearly a self-reinforcing cycle. But at some point, someone must have figu...

Does anyone know whether Italy has a different method for reporting deaths due to the virus? Because the numbers coming out of Italy are pretty scary....

An interesting anecdote: Italy has received a shipment of masks and respirators from China, of all places, to help combat the virus.

I am not asking you if you "know" he made a mistake. I am asking you if you think he did. As in, do you think he should have taken different measures,...

So you think he made a mistake there? Everyone makes mistakes, right?

So, why didn't Trump close the borders 2 weeks ago? Do you have a mirror?

Things may change quickly though. 2 days ago, the only measure in my state was that large gatherings were canceled. Today it was announced that all sc...

The case of Italy seems to have shocked Europe into more drastic action. Germany is taking steps to shut down public life. I suspect most other countr...

I would say the first. I find it easier to mentally construct the appearance of permanence out of a fundamentally flowing reality.

It's actually a lot of repetition after the first three minutes. The framing is odd too. Why do people assume it's hair sniffing? It looks to me like ...

It's not that I want to ignore it. It just seems to me there should be implications of this line of reasoning that go beyond circumventing this specif...

But we don't need a justification to ignore the hard problem. We can just concentrate on the easier problems regardless. It's not like the hard proble...

Well, if it's true that the capitalists (holders of economic power) dislike Sanders and campaigned against him, wouldn't that mean he'd have worse cha...

But does it really explain, in the sense of giving additional information? What is it that Illusionism says beyond "the hard problem is an illusion?" ...

That strikes me as a bit circular. The hard problem is the reason we are even considering the approach. But since, in that scenario, we are the comput...

Which is tragic on an individual scale, but will not necessarily impact society much. Even the impact of the Spanish Flu was limited, and it's still a...

The Spanish Flu had a significantly higher mortality rate, and hit societies which were in bad shape and had no warning. It also disproportionately af...

I'll second here. You'll have to first define illusion in a way that makes sense when inside the mind. What's the difference between experiencing the ...

I see your point, but for most people, the "chance I die if I catch it" is very relevant in determining their reaction. For the big picture, cases req...

CNN is very helpfully reporting that symptoms include: a runny nose, a cough, a sore throat. Of course, those are also the symptoms of a common cold. ...

I'd say that there is a caual link, but causal links themselves have no moral dimension, either. There is an additional component of intentionality im...

The important part here is the qualifier "in some sense". We really only understand one kind of consciousness - our own. We infer from that understand...

Science as a method is part of philosophy. Actual scientific research, on the other hand, is not. I'd say that all methods of gaining knowledge are pa...

Well, if we assume the Covid 19 infects about 20% of the world population within the next 2 years, and the mortality rate is 1%, that'd be 15 Million ...