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Comment by J C (j-c-1) on Promoting Prediction Markets With Meaningless Internet-Point Badges · 2021-02-11T22:49:18.617Z · LW · GW

it would have to be a third party service, perhaps appended to peoples names via a chrome extension at first?

it would also have to be auditable publically so people could see each individual prediction that lead to the overall score. similar to an amazon rating or rotten tomatoes score. 

as they're rated you can also begin to introduce other ratings and classifiers beyond just accurate or inaccurate. 

Comment by J C (j-c-1) on Why isn’t assassination/sabotage more common? · 2020-06-05T06:25:42.978Z · LW · GW

Even with the organizing technology, there are no outspoken people who have decided to act as leaders of these movements. No martin luther kings, Malcom Xs, or huey newtons, or fred hamptons. My suggestion is no one wants to be those guys because they all got assassinated. thus these movements sadly remain unorganized and leaderless.

Comment by J C (j-c-1) on Why isn’t assassination/sabotage more common? · 2020-06-04T23:17:52.319Z · LW · GW

While i dont have a definitive answer, i will say one of the reasons that left wing political movements nowadays (Occupy wall st, BLM, the environmental movement) dont have the same pronounced leaders that the left wing movements of the 1960's did, is due to the targeted arrest, harassment and assassination of those leaders by authorties.

Comment by J C (j-c-1) on Isn't Tesla stock highly undervalued? · 2020-05-18T17:10:38.086Z · LW · GW

luckily they also seem to be ahead of this trend by developing the driverless taxi fleet capability in their cars. it seems they're actively counting on and accelerating this trend.

cost of ownership will also go down commensurately since owners will be able to send out their cars to be used as autonomous taxis while not needed, thus earning money and offsetting the cost. potentially paying back the cost.

also given their position in grid level storage they have the ability to recycle the battery of the car for grid storage, thus lowering the long term battery cost even more.

this expertise will probably lead to greater functionality soon: i.e. using idle cars charging in their garages as powerwalls / distributed grid level storage, giving owners a piece of the profits.