Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
Disagree. Assuming there is a write-in or minor party option, “I am willing to vote but these guys all suck,” is a coalition that you would be defecting against by staying home. Simply showing up demonstrates latent potential.
Quantumfreakonomics
10mo ago
Why don't we just give parents a direct financial claim on a portion of their children's income? Obviously there will be some details that need to be ironed out (maybe this portion goes to the state when one's parents die, to prevent perverse dynamics), but this seems straightforwardly incentive-aligned.
It seems almost too obvious. Do any countries anywhere do anything like this, surely this is a cultural custom somewhere?
Quantumfreakonomics
10mo ago
The solution that comes to my mind is using the North runways for departures and the South runways for arrivals (or vice-versa). Would this cause taxi times to be unreasonabe? Aerodynamic turbulence issues?
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
I’m not against the idea of a penal colony, but sending prisoners into the hands of foreign sovereigns is inherently risky.
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
3 is not even better than 7, which only has one really good movement.
There are not many composers who have ever written a piece better than Beethoven 3.
Not many worth talking about. Any composer worth remembering 100 years later has at least one piece better than Beethoven 3.
it quite literally inaugurated the romantic era
Okay, I’ll bite. I don’t like the C# in measure 7. It’s not set-up, and it doesn’t go anywhere. I know people always talk about how it “changed classical music forever”, but really that just means that everyone else used it as a jumping-off point for ideas that work much better.
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
Well yeah, omniscient AI will end war by taking over the world, leaving no possible adversaries.
Quantumfreakonomics
6mo ago
Oooh, I think your right. The timeline matches up with the passage of the ADA (which requires extra time on exams for disabilities, among other things).
Quantumfreakonomics
6mo ago
but I know the infection control nurse is the person who goes around cancelling all of our tests that will show that the patient got a hospital acquired infection" (through nobody's fault) because the government doesn't like when we have those.
First thought: How is this a thing?
Second thought: Oh yeah, economics. Of course this is a thing.
Third thought: Can we shoot these people instead?
Fourth thought: It totally was somebody’s fault. I realize that meticulous clinical hygiene is hard. People will still die if you screw it up.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
Cyanide tastes horrible. I would be insulted as a Kraft Heinz executive that Jim Jones didn’t trust Kool-Aid® to mask the flavor.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
It was trading at 25% ish before the election. Kamala's lead in Nate Silver's polling average was 1%, well within a single standard deviation.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
This one actually does seem quite sketchy. Hmmm.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
No? Her flaws are completely different.
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
I am going to do the Yudkowskian thing and ask you to map out in your head what would actually happen if someone began developing and deploying biosphere-level sun-blocking technology, remembering what tends to go down in real history books.
I’m not necessarily against geoengineering, but there are in fact reasons not to go down that path until we need to.
Quantumfreakonomics
10mo ago
I guess this hinges on whether the Chinese got to those positions through merit by being legitimately better at them, or through corruption (there is a lot of gray area in between of course, but my point should be obvious).
If it turns out that the world’s greatest physicists, philosophers, writers, comedians, investors, and entrepreneurs were languishing in poverty for a century as a result of imperial subjugation, that would in fact be one of the pivotal events in world history!
It would be especially weird if the people most upset about this had some weird historical hangup like, “the Opium Wars were actually about tea, no one was trying to smuggle drugs into China.”
Quantumfreakonomics
10mo ago
Unofficial Motte Strawpoll: Tattoos on women yes/no
Quantumfreakonomics
11mo ago
They're using the entire waterway as the stadium? Kinda hard to rehearse things like this.
France has always been gay and cringe. It was a good idea for them to lean into it.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
Is there a big spike in female dating app usage at 35? That’s about when “admitting defeat” becomes the rational thing to do.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
My point is a bit more subtle than that. Universi Dominici Gregis is not a restriction on the pope's creation of cardinals. It is a restriction on how the conclave is to operate. I think your argument is that the pope's creation of more than 120 cardinals under the age of 80 in and of itself changes the law about how the conclave is to operate. This seems like an argument from, "it would really suck if that were true." Yeah, it would suck if Francis put the church in a position where we couldn't elect a pope until 13 otherwise eligible cardinals voluntarily agreed to give up their right to vote, but that is the best reading of the current law (in my opinion). It would be much easier to proceed as if Francis changed the law to let the maximum number of Cardinal electors exceed 120, but anyone reading the rules without the preexisting comittment of fidelity to the church can see that they're making it up as they go along.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
It is socially acceptable to ask girls to dance at a school dance, but boys don’t want to dance. They want to fuck (or get married if you’re feeling charitable). The discourse is unproductive because they have abstracted away the thing that everyone knows young boys want.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
How are things in South Africa since they ended segregation?
Better than the counterfactual scenerio for the black residents, worse than the counterfactual scenerio for the white residents?
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
Beethoven 5, 6, and 9 are the best obviously. Everybody knows them because they really are that good.
Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
I sort of agree with you. But I think this would fall under the funding freeze issued by President Trump. This isn’t a brand new program. There are migrants in New York hotel rooms right now. It’s not like Concentration Camps Incorporated has the tent cities in Nevada ready to go. If the funding gets stopped, then the migrants get kicked out onto the streets of New York with nowhere to eat, shit, or sleep.
It’s sort of a hard sell to say, “oh yeah, we had money appropriated to shelter these migrants, but the hotels they were at didn’t fit the president’s criteria, so we let manhattan turn into a biohazard slum instead. No impoundment act implications here.”
Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
do some short test-prep site quiz like this.
Is the 5-question pop quiz the same for everyone? If so, can someone post the answers (spoilered for politeness of course)? I'm not going to give them my data.
Also, is that results graph accurate? I got 4/5. Is this really 94th percentile? The questions weren't obvious, but they didn't seem particularly difficult. I feel dumb for missing one tbh.
Consider the possibility that a squirrel living indoors in close proximity to a raccoon would be more likely than wild squirrels to be infected.
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