quantian.bsky.social
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We're unbelievably fucked if this is the bench of competent people
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Who, the Lebanese guy?
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"Dumping tea into the harbor is counterproductive and will only harm the standing of patriots when consumers see how prices increase"
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lol Armand once got super pissed at me for saying vandalizing Teslas was clearly an effective tactic given how Elon was crying about it nonstop, Le loves scolding you when hit dogs holler too loudly
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They love the idea that if someone is smart enough they can automatically win all arguments. Are you familiar with Big Yud's AI box experiment, where he claimed he could (roleplaying as an AI) convince any human to release him? The results will not surprise you. rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_...
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Nothing less than a bottle of the finest PlumpJack Cabernet would suffice here
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i read the whole thing when it first came out and these people are so high on their own supply they make Elon look like a teetotaler
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I would love to know more about this but am completely unwilling to structure and send a search query on Bluesky for “trump furry handcuffs” or variants thereof
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this is 100% a Skill Issue on her part, I have fewer followers than she does and my recent tweets have a reach consistently around 100k or so.
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This sounds insane to say but the 99th percentile post-tax is 120k GBP, if you spend half your salary on a mortgage that only buys you about 700 square feet of studio in Central London (and you need to live in London to get that salary). In the US a 1%er could buy that in Manhattan in cash!
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the thing about the UK is 1. property prices are so high (functionally the entire country is SF-level), 2. top end incomes are so low even at the 95th+ percentile, and 3. financing terms are so harsh, that you can literally be a top 1% wage earner and not able to afford to *mortgage* a home!
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Stephen Wolfram, the world cries out for you to derive a fast N-dimensional cellular automata simulation algorithm for dungeon management,
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It would be a nightmare to make because by definition you’re creating a ton of content that goes unused on every playthrough, and I don’t think there’s a huge market for people who want to play a Lotka-Volterra ODE, but it would be sick if someone did make it
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“Oh you killed all the goblins instead of paying tribute for safe passage? Well when you went back into town the kobolds on level 2 raided all their leftover supplies you didn’t carry with you and now they have the upper hand against the dwarves on level 3 who don’t like you anymore as a result”
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I would love a game that is mechanically a pretty straightforward dungeon crawl but with much deeper faction/reactivity mechanics, like an actual D&D megadungeon campaign where clearing out a level has major downstream impacts on the balance of power
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He’s a translation savant, his only meaningful skill, and can passably simulate surface-level human interaction, but is incapable of planning, mind reading, or complex thought. He is essentially non-sentient and treated as such, and his body can’t perform any task more complex than serving drinks.
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Apples are related to roses which surprises some people, and potatoes are related to nightshade, so some wires probably got crossed on the “this common food is related to a flower” front
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I suspect a large source of the insistence on repeating the “actually 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck” talking point despite how easily it gets refuted is because people need to imagine there’s a secret working class voting base so huge that activating it means you win forever
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Ok Step 1: we 9/11 the Hermes store in Riyadh and blame the Qataris, step 2: found the Institute for Gulf Fraternal Peace and Brotherhood and get fukkin paid
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Does the UAE have any active disputes with Oman about all those weird exclaves they have in the middle of the desert? Is there oil in any them? I would love to form and stridently voice my opinions on that for the reasonable fee of $75k/mo plus expenses.
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On the one hand she probably just doesn’t know what Azerbaijan is so she didn’t even list it. On the other hand if she actually is getting paid under the table then critical support to Brianna Wu for wasting their money
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How did you even type this when your keyboard looks like this right now?
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I believe it was Hirschman who pointed out that a favorite tactic of left wing argument is that when presented with some kind of a tradeoff (often disingenuously!) you just ignore it and say “I would simply have both good outcomes, skill issue”
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Libertarians are mostly annoying, but as fellow members of the “I Have Rigorously Derived My Ideology From First Principles” club they are much better than leftists about entertaining questions of the form “do I consider this statement to be a logical consequence of previous statements I have made?”
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I don’t think foundational knowledge of how all life on earth works is “trivia” actually
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Now that there’s no research funding yeah lmao. It’s time to add a bunch of mandatory science requirements to juice enrollment enough to support the newly unfunded grad students on teaching stipends. Turnabout is fair play after all!
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I’m afraid she’s right and you have succumbed to the Straight Man Virus, get some bleach in that mf and start scrubbing
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Calling in rich is a real problem but it doesn’t catch up to you immediately, unless you say tell your normie liberal employees to build the Immigrant Mincer posthaste