[–] 1 point 5 hours ago

I assume you're talking about Lemmings betting against fire because they want data centers to burn.

If there's a lot of people betting, then why wouldn't there be depth?

If the data center is causing measurable harm, then a victim losing the bet against fire is still a net gain. If you're acting rationally, then you can afford to do it repeatedly — like insurance. But if people are just flushing their money down the toilet because they hate something and gain nothing from its loss, then they'll go broke.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Marx argued that UBI is capitalism "decked out in socialism" against Henry George. When capitalism is dead, there will be no need for UBI.

    In the meantime, we ought to repeat these successful experiments at a larger scale. Any inflationary pressure from UBI might be counterbalanced by deflationary pressure from its taxes. Landlords don't absorb the whole UBI because elasticity is a thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    There would need to be sufficient market depth to pay someone to act. So we couldn't just publish $0.01 bets on everything and watch the town burn. "Coasian" solutions like this are limited by transaction costs.

    In practice, the owner of the datacenter would need to either eliminate the externality or watch it burn. If the datacenter is worth more than its external cost, then they can reimburse their victims or pay for cleanup. If the revenue from the datacenter is less than its external costs, then it's a net loss for society and ought to be shut down.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40825996

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    My understanding of federation is that it's like email. If one server is misbehaving, then they get defederated.

    So how come email spam still exists - why don't spammer domains get defederated? It seems like we've got the worst of both worlds, where it's hard to get your emails relayed when you run a small email server, and easy to get them relayed if you're a spammer.

    Is there anything about Lemmy's architecture that will prevent this problem?

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