[HN Gopher] The United Slate (2017)
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       The United Slate (2017)
        
       Author : simonebrunozzi
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-11-25 14:25 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | lapcat wrote:
       | (2017) https://blog.samaltman.com/the-united-slate
        
       | javajosh wrote:
       | We need more catch-up mechanics and fewer win-more mechanics. But
       | the rules-making strongly favors wealthy, old incumbents, and
       | disfavors poor, young newcomers such that the rules themselves
       | are immune to such a reversal. I fear that nothing will stop this
       | feedback loop from the inside. The incentives are too strong, too
       | obvious, to everyone involved to change their view, to give up
       | advantage, especially for something as nebulous as "the survival
       | of society". To be sure, along with humility and wisdom, self-
       | restraint, honor and magnanimity is now described only in
       | derisive terms, the vices of a loser rather than the virtues of
       | the great, at every level of society. Such a society is immune to
       | ideas such as these.
        
       | actuallyalys wrote:
       | If you're curious how Sam Altman's principles translate into
       | donations, you can look up his contributions on Open Secrets:
       | https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle....
        
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