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Wei Dai's avatar

Agreed on the calculation being interesting. I was mainly complaining that the post (especially the sentence I quoted) makes it sound like the surplus earned by a clan will either be spent on worker leisure by the clan, or be divided among typical em workers to be spent as they see fit, when there is actually a lot of uncertainty about how the surplus will be spent.

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Robin Hanson's avatar

I agree it isn't obvious how clans will spend any surplus. I still think it is interesting to calculate how large a surplus they'd have to spend.

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