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Oakland, CA
Joined October 2011
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Replying to @glenweyl
@glenweyl Just curious--do you have an account I can follow on Mastodon?
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Replying to @kamilkazani
@kamilkazani What's your opinion of this video on the ideology of the Russian elite? youtu.be/sdFtqa54TuM
Replying to @eean
@eean For the projects BART’s developing on their parking lots, are they trying to lease out properties directly and collect rents or are they selling the land to developers?
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This article has caused me to update strongly towards @glenweyl's (former?) stance that Rationality and adjacent subcultures are dangerous
Haven't been on here much lately-- I've been working on something very important to me. It's a piece about my experiences at Leverage Research for 2.5 years. I think it contains some really important elements for others to know. Read it here: medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-expe…
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Or at least contain dangerous elements
.@bufordsharkley Probably an old question: what are the prospects for a formal Georgist/YIMBY party in the Bay Area?
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.@larsiusprime I just watched your great podcast convo on Georgism! I'm a fan of your writing, as you can judge by my pinned tweet. Are you familiar with @glenweyl's work? I think his COST proposal is an interesting answer to the assessment problem: web.archive.org/web/20210902…
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Replying to @aglev33
@aglev33 do you have any idea who owns this lot and why it's been undeveloped for so long? It seems ideal for housing development but it's just an overgrown abandoned parking lot goo.gl/maps/7FaWu43b58KXzpUY…
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This talk by @glenweyl is relevant to this idea, @Noahpinion : youtu.be/dmsjBWv6nQU?t=1970
Replying to @Noahpinion
This is something I think we've lost, and need to regain: Democracy as a way of life, not just a process of elections. Democracy in social relations, democracy in business, democracy in culture.
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Are you concerned that, in a world where any organization can take advantage of quadratic funding, inefficient orgs with good PR might clog up the market rather than going out of business? Is there any simple way to prevent this if so? @glenweyl
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Replying to @_FundOSS
@_FundOSS On the payment screen, why is the estimated amount of money matched the same for each collective? My understanding was that the amount allocated varied based on the number of other people contributing, and how much they contributed
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I used qv.geek.sg to poll the users of a subreddit I moderate on what kinds of posts they want to see, and it worked pretty great @glenweyl
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Any thoughts about who to vote for for the CA district 18 election? @bufordsharkley @alfred_twu @IDoTheThinking @jdcmedlock
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Is this as good as it seems? @jdcmedlock @bufordsharkley
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Have there been any studies of the cross-cultural prevalence of/commonalities between millenarian movements? I’m thinking of things like the White Lotus Cult in China and similar movements in Southeast Asian hill tribes, plus the familiar Christian examples. @Evolving_Moloch
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Do you think that, with our resources and our technical talent, California could have potentially done as good a job fighting the pandemic as Korea or Taiwan, even without federal gov’t help? @jdcmedlock @bufordsharkley @Noahpinion @IDoTheThinking @KelseyTuoc
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Replying to @jdcmedlock
@jdcmedlock Now that you’re getting a lot of clout, it’d probably be a good idea to resurface the best of your old tweets for new followers. I know I’d benefit from that, even though I followed you a while ago!
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Replying to @LittleKeegs0
@LittleKeegs0 @jcdmedcock What would you say to the economist who claims that unions only increase wages for their members by restricting the number of workers in a given industry?
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