Your premiums are gonna go through the roof and the insurance companies will probably make greater profits. But if the goal is "pay nothing at the point of catastrophic care," this is a thing that could be done *without* ripping the wiring of the American health care system out of the walls.

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"But the insurance companies are ontologically evil and what I really want is to drive them out of business and, preferably, Luigify everyone who works for them!" Yes, I figured, but I decided to indulge the fool's errand of taking you at face value for a moment.

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my kingdom for an EV manufacturer and a charging network that report battery capacity and charge delivered in megajoules rather than in one of the world's most accursèd derived units, the kilowatt-hour

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my explanation for why this is a big deal is that it is actually a theological dispute concerning the apocalyptic beliefs common in the ai industry and specifically that roon and nick are trying to pull influence from the specific cult in berkeley

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at some point i started feeling like i was stupid for entertaining the ideas in the space instead of examining the specific social forces involved. the ideas are clearly not actually driving.

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