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Lars

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Lars

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Lars is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between December 13, 2021 and February 06, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Thanks again to Lars for his recent Georgism posts”; “description of those systems by Lars (on Germany)”; “conversation between Lars and Motteposting”. It most often appears alongside Georgism, Lars Doucet, LVT.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: December 13, 2021
  • Last seen: February 06, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 202
December 13, 2021 · Original source
2: Thanks again to Lars for his recent Georgism posts. He wants me to add that he found the Hagman citation he was looking for, and it is “a giant anti-Georgist diatribe written as an authorial self-insert fan fiction, IN SPACE, confidently expounding upon how an LVT experiment failed on the planet Mars”.
Inline links: he found the Hagman citation he was looking for
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
January 27, 2022 · Original source
-- In hard dollars, the healthcare industry takes about $26,000 from the total compensation of a worker with family coverage whose salary is $50,000 (whose total compensation is actually about $70,000).
And the NHS is really good at pinching pennies in smart ways. When my wife needed to go to the hospital, I called the NHS hotline, and they asked if she was able to walk. Not far, but yes, she could. So they sent a taxi-cab to my door, who dropped us off at the hospital front entrance. It was totally free -- his fare was paid for by the NHS. In the United States, they'd send an ambulance, for 10X or 100X the price, then bill it to insurance, who would then send a co-pay to me for some hundreds of dollars. That doesn't help anybody.
Of course, companies can offer things that go beyond basic insurance, but this is a completely different market, and probably much closer to US system. But those are luxuries, not necessities. For details on the two countries (I was referring to public insurances in Germany, which is only part of the system), there are excellent description of those systems by Lars (on Germany) and Er Matto (comparison between Germany and Switzerland) in the comments.
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability
September 22, 2022 · Original source
1: Lars Doucet (writes Progress and Poverty) writes:
Inline links: Progress and Poverty, writes
Lars :
See also this conversation between Lars and Motteposting on how to apply this to exploration, research, and talent.
Inline links: this conversation between Lars and Motteposting
Open Thread 262
February 06, 2023 · Original source
5: ACX Grants update: You may remember Lars Doucet from his guest posts on Georgism. Last year, he and Will Jarvis received an ACX Grant to work on land value assessment technology that might make land value taxes more tractable and appealing. They’re happy to announce that this has turned into a startup, ValueBase, which raised $1.6 million in seed funding. Congratulations to Lars, Will, and the ValueBase team for what I think is the second ACX Grants project to become a $1 million + company.
Inline links: guest posts, received an ACX Grant, ValueBase, raised $1.6 million in seed funding
6: Speaking of Lars - I tried to credit Philosophy Bear as someone who had beaten me to writing about the chatbot propaganda apocalypse, but I didn’t realize Lars had also discussed it on his blog - see AI: Markets For Lemons, And The Great Logging Off. I like his post because unlike Bear or my response to Bear, it’s not originally considering the problem through a political lens and so mostly just expects “spam, but worse” - which I think is broadly right, but didn’t emphasize enough earlier.
Inline links: Philosophy Bear, AI: Markets For Lemons, And The Great Logging Off
7: And you can bet on both Lars’ and my predictions about the chatbot propaganda apocalypse on Manifold. For example:
Inline links: Lars’, my