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…iced the paragraph I quote from him. My next generation theory really belongs to my 17 th -century rhymesake Sir WilliamPetty, who happens to be my nominee for greatest economist of all time. In a way, I could also credit it to the period of production theorists John Rae, Nassau...

…zed work alone. Next Generation Theory I also treat rate of return. This combined free growth theory with insights of Petty in 1662 and William Stanley Jevons in 1871. Petty’s idea was that each generation passes the baton to the next. Our investment horizon is the generation l...

…he rules for convenience. The rules currently define such terms as "attorney for the government," "federal judge," and "petty offense." 121 "Victim" should likewise be defined. A definition is required for a second reason: Rule 32 currently contains a differing definition of "vic...

…ave seen that beautiful insight as enough. Not me. What explains and quantifies time preference? What turned out to be Petty’s idea occurred to me about 40 years ago, when I first took an interest in evolutionary biology. My friend Alan Rogers, a population geneticist | didn’t k...

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a victim has a right to be heard at sentencing for any petty offense

… First Interpretation Next generation theory says in effect that R. A. Fisher’s version of the generation length, not Petty’s primogeniture version, gives the period of production of total capital. We would miss the point if we focused on the period production of human capital...

…en in cities by city-dwellers, appears to assume the same. Chapter 2 listed some examples. Let’s review them. There was Petty’s of 1662. The similar equilibrium wage theories of Smith and Ricardo expected pay to converge to the level maintaining and replacing the work force, whi...

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…biology selecting tastes that maintain and reproduce us. The idea that we act out the biological imperative is clear in Petty and Malthus, and in the equilibrium wage theory of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, where pay converges to the level preserving the work force. But if] say...

… undermine prescriptive ethics. Even an accumulation of less grandiose unethical drives such as violation of contracts, petty theft, white lies, and so forth might lead an AGI (as well as a human) to the decision that ethical behavior is irrelevant and that “the ends justify the...