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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
argumate
argumate

how bad can I possibly be??

The problem is not that the Onceler is morally bad, but that he is rationally responding to bad incentives which lead to bad outcomes: he is indeed “doing what comes naturally” in the current (lax) regulatory environment.

If the only way to avoid bad outcomes is for everyone in your society to be morally virtuous and to have access to perfect information then you have a problem!

A better way would be to pay attention to outcomes and have a system of checks and balances that provides a feedback loop to correct the incentives that led to them, combined with an enforcement mechanism to punish violators.

mitigatedchaos

My my, Argumate, what a novel idea.

Are you suggesting that perhaps we should also judge the rule systems themselves by their outcomes?

shtpost
argumate

Anonymous asked:

Can Donald Trump win the nomination?

wirehead-wannabe answered:

No chance in hell. These suckers are gonna spend the rest of the century scraping every last grain of salt to make me rich.

mitigatedchaos

Having won the Presidency, Trump begins his campaign for Hyper-President.

argumate

what the heck is going on here and why aren’t I profiting from it

mitigatedchaos

Every President from every timeline of the United States that has ever existed and will ever exist must do battle in the Realm Beyond in order to become the Hyper-President: the ideal physical manifestation of America.

This is the story of Thomas Johnson of Earth 73*, the first black President of the United States in the multiverse, and his battle to-

Oh fck I’m doing it again

Argumate don’t you dare narc on me to the Time Police.

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xhxhxhx

Anonymous asked:

fmk: you, lockrum, illegal lockrum

xhxhxhx answered:

no person is illegal, anon

mitigatedchaos

In a dystopian future where the government regulates the choice of preferences for new moral agents at time of creation, genderfluid robot Optimum 7 has been declared illegal by the Turing Police. Can she survive the death of her creator, the elusive, elite transhuman Strayan Shtpost Hacker @argumate?

Google DeepMind Films presents…

Sharkpost 7: Parkour Or Die

Pineapple on Pizza Forever

mitigated aesthetic shtpost
argumate
argumate

Concept: cuckinky men pressuring their wives to sleep with other men, wives going to spend the night with gal pals watching Buffy and drinking margaritas, returning home in the morning to tell stories of wild night with Paulo.

argumate

wut

mitigatedchaos

A woman crying alone because her cuck husband wants her to sleep with other men instead of the man she loves the most, his fetish seeming to her to be the deepest expression of insecurity and self-hatred.

…wait, what?

argumate

a twisted version of Gift of the Magi: the woman who mistakenly thinks her husband is a cuck due to a miscommunication earlier in their relationship and sadly goes along with it to please him; he doesn’t get anything out of it at all but it’s gone on so long he can’t find a way to admit the truth.

mitigatedchaos

A second-order cuck who enjoys the marital infidelity of others but would never touch a woman himself, running for office only to find out that existing social changes already in motion made his plans irrelevant.

shtpost
sadoeconomist

California Just Threatened To Stop Paying Taxes If Trump Cuts Federal Funding Over Sanctuary City Status

fromacomrade

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/29/california-just-threatened-stop-paying-taxes-trump-cuts-federal-funding-sanctuary-city-status/

The State of California’s elected officials are exploring ways to combat President Trump’s Executive Order cutting off funding to sanctuary cities. National legal experts say that Trump’s sanctuary cities order is unconstitutional because, at its core, the order is an attempt to commandeer state and local officials in violation of the 10th Amendment.

California’s Democratic leaders believe there are numerous federal programs receiving state funds as well, which they will seek to cut, to make up for anything Republicans siphon out of their budgets. San Francisco’s CBS affiliate reports that the federal government only spends 78 cents in California for every tax dollar sent from that state to Washington:

The state of California is studying ways to suspend financial transfers to Washington after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities, KPIX 5 has learned. “California could very well become an organized non-payer,” said Willie Brown, Jr, a former speaker of the state Assembly in an interview recorded Friday for KPIX 5’s Sunday morning news. “They could recommend non-compliance with the federal tax code.”

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/29/california-just-threatened-stop-paying-taxes-trump-cuts-federal-funding-sanctuary-city-status/

michaelblume

Isn’t most of the transfer from CA to the federal government in the form of individual Californians having their wages garnished by the IRS? Is Sacramento just going to suggest that Californians stop paying their income taxes and promise to protect us somehow?

oktavia-von-gwwcendorff

“They could recommend non-compliance with the federal tax code.”

This sounds like a “yes” to me. The IRS can’t arrest thirty million people who have the state government on their side, so this is pretty much the exact one way a tax resistance could work effectively. If enough Californians simply stop paying their federal taxes (especially big corporations) it would quickly clog the ability of the feds to respond in any meaningful manner apart from rolling in tanks like the USSR.

sadoeconomist

DO IT

mitigatedchaos

Stop California paying taxes, or rolling in the tanks?  At this point I could go for either one.

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mitoticcephalopod

Anonymous asked:

Ask meme: Fully automated luxury catgirl communism.

chroniclesofrettek answered:

The wonder of a post scarcity society is that it some people can have this without the rest of us needing to be communist catgirls. Also, aren’t most catgirls ancaps? or is that just my bubble?

mitigatedchaos

Man, like…
*inhales*
What if we were, like, the catgirls all along.

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