mlowry.bsky.social
Science, philosophy, history, technology, art.
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Internet access, and expanded liberties for women.
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Nothing is permanent. Change is inevitable, and the will of the people is fickle.
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“One’s an exercise in intoxicants, excruciating pain, and endurance; the other is a dental procedure.”
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He makes a good argument for consumer benefit. He does not make a good argument for return on investment.
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Because there’s no social safety net, couples start young so that they can have more children, increasing the chances that they have at least a few surviving offspring to take care of them in their old age.
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Clearly society is willing to accept a nonzero number of deaths, just as with auto fatalities or any other cause of death.
The more relevant question though is how to draw the line between compassionate deaths and wrongful deaths.
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Good policies can come from bad people. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Bad policies can come from good people. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Is the ‘patient’ here the LLM?
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Coverage in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/962d...
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Jihad is just an inner struggle, not a holy war.
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If the participants are choosing relative wealth knowing that it is limited to the context of the game, and even at the expense of a lower payout at the end, then that does suggest they are prioritizing the game itself.
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It sounds like an artificially supported mini-economy, isolated from the actual economy, except at cash-out.
In the real world people’s choices set prices.
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How is that supposed to work? Who are the other participants in these hypothetical economies?
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People understand this intuitively. This understanding is captured in the proverb:
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
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“People would rather be relatively rich and absolutely poor!”
This misunderstands how money works. There’s no such thing as absolute poverty or absolute wealth.
The value of money is always relative, and depends on supply & demand.
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Just think about it. Prices aren’t fixed. They depend on consumer purchasing power.
When the median income is 25,000, those earning 50,000 are wealthy.
When the median income is 200,000, those earning 100,000 are poor.
It’s not just a feeling. It’s an economic reality.
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This makes economic sense though! Having relatively more than others is more meaningful to purchasing power. People care about money only to the extent it is useful. Absolute monetary values are meaningless without context.
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Jack Turban’s journal article on how to conduct a biopsychosocial assessment of a child seeking gender transition drugs stands in direct conflict with his book, in which he denigrates such assessments as worthless and suggests they should be done away with. benryan.substack.com/p/dr-jack-tu...
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The crazy youth of today will be the boring normies of tomorrow.
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My god, the bar is low.
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And people have always put the ideological cart before the epistemic horse. It’s still foolish.
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Interesting behavior.
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THE DRUM SOLO IS FOR BABY JESUS.
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Cult rituals seem bizarre to those who aren’t indoctrinated.
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The Fountains of Paradise stuck with me, probably because of its scale and tragic elements.
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Aggressive psychotics are a persecuted minority.
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It’ll be interesting to see what additional evidence comes out in discovery.
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@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
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So what are the consequences?
I speculate:
1) Fertility should fall, as very few want to take the hit of parenthood single-handedly.
2) Men and women may grow apart, and struggle to empathise with each other's experiences.
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These crybullies aren’t satisfied with ignoring or muting you. They don’t want anyone else to be able to read what you write either.
This sort of contemptuous thuggery stems from weakness and fear.
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Citing the SPLC as an authority in 2024 is a red flag.
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Jesse’s detractors are no better than schoolyard bullies. With neither facts nor arguments on their side, they lash out with lies and insults.
It’s impotent and cowardly.