Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Good god it’s a slow news cycle. We’re actually speculating on whether or not a nearby comet is aliens.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Investors want to hear that the company is taking advantage of AI technology.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Not that the Catholic Church cares much about doctrinal integrity these days, but there are at least two major heresies in this interpretation, the heresy of monothelitism and the heresy of adoptionism.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
If you are using bitcoin as a hedge against financial collapse, it's a bit risky to use custodial counterparties that would go under in the event of a financial collapse.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
I feel like I need to see the actual encounters being solicited and/or prosecuted to have an opinion on this. Making it illegal to hit on women in public is left-coded (feminism run amok), but arresting flashers on public transportation is right-coded (tough on street crime). Which one of these is, “sting operation on catcalling hotspots,” closer to? I have no idea.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
This shit turns people into the Joker.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
I'm pretty sure the ejaculatory metaphor came first, and then the donut application became the SFW go-to because, uh... I think you can figure it out.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
I initially thought the move was a mistake, but it was a sizable quality-of-life improvement to not have to worry about the sub being banned every time I saw a particularly spicy comment.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
I had thought the internet collectively agreed that RLHF had resulted in glazing that was a huge issue. But it turns out a sizable amount of people actually loved it.
I thought it was widely understood that Glazemageddon was the result of naively running reinforcement learning on user feedback. The proles yearn for the slop. It’s only weirdos like us who actually want to be told when their ideas are provably wrong.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
I saw a viral tweet this week of white guys doing roofing work, and I couldn't get the glaring OSHA violations out of my mind.
Of course, the dirty little secret is that basically no roofing company is compliant, but these guys aren't even trying.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
Zach Ertz is still good goddammit. Can't believe I picked him up for free last year.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
17d ago
Real civilization has never been tried.
Quantumfreakonomics
22d ago
We don’t have to imagine fake Canadian history, we can imagine real American history. Let’s say tomorrow the Navajo decide they’re done being the white man’s bitch and attack the Grand Canyon with smuggled Iranian weaponry. They kill about a thousand people and take a few hundred tourists hostage. The entire white population of the Navajo reservation is evacuated. Twitter is overflowing with clips of Navajo warriors doing the ghost dance over the dead bodies of raped American girls. Big Chief Leaping Antelope declares no surrender until the entire Colorado basin is free of American influence. Bands of raiders take potshots at towns across the Southwest. Dozens of American troops are killed or wounded every week during the attempted occupation by ununiformed partisans blending in with the population.
You know exactly what would happen next, the same thing that happened to all the other tribes who refused to accept American sovereignty.
Quantumfreakonomics
22d ago
there is no evidence of Hamas ever taking aid.
Okay, where is Hamas getting its food then? Do they have a giant stockpile that they have been surviving off of since October 2023? Have they invented the world’s most efficient solar-powered hydroponics system? Does every Hamas militant spend 23 hours a day in a cryostasis chamber? How are any of them still alive if they aren’t surviving off of food aid?
Quantumfreakonomics
22d ago
Thanks for getting me to ask ChatGPT, "how many Jews could survive on South Georgia Island?" which definitely didn't put me on a list somewhere. (The answer is 5-10 thousand btw)
Quantumfreakonomics
22d ago
The default assumption at this point is that Israel is waging a cargo-cult war. They're shooting people, and blockading checkpoints, and bombing suspected targets, but they don't seem to have any coherent goal beyond, "do war stuff to bad guys". They know cutting off supplies to the enemy is good, but they're also scared of the mass starvation that would ensue if they won too much.
If we take as an assumption that Israel knows what they're doing, then it sort of looks like their strategy is to technically let in enough food to feed the population of Gaza, but simultaneously to destroy the institutional infrastructure that would enable actual distribution. That way they can go, "see, we gave them enough food, Hamas was just too evil to give it to their people. They ethnically cleansed themselves," as if effectively rationing supplies to an entire population is no big deal.
Quantumfreakonomics
22d ago
I've really enjoyed fishing the few times I've done it. I just can't stand the constant line tangles, knot tying, and hook prickings. Any protips to keep these to a minimum?
Quantumfreakonomics
23d ago
The State of Israel makes it safe for Jews to live in the Land of Israel. That is the whole point. Living as a Jew in Jerusalem is a higher level of Jewishness than living as a Jew in Brooklyn. It just is. Yahweh did not promise Abraham and his descendants that they would live in New York. You cannot analyze the Israeli conflict from a purely secular lens. Both sides are fighting for the same magic dirt.
Quantumfreakonomics
24d ago
Nice try New York Times.
I'm going to say about 15 miles for all of these, plus/minus 15 miles.
Quantumfreakonomics
24d ago
There is massive latent demand for sex in the economy. Twitch generates about $2 billion in gross revenue annually. OnlyFans generates about $6 billion. It's just a better buisiness model if you are a young woman streamer to be titillating.
Quantumfreakonomics
24d ago
Besides paper trails, the other key is knowing where to apply pressure. Pharmacies don't care about patient reviews. Every pharmacy is below 3-stars on Google. You have nothing to threaten them with from being pissed. The entity the pharmacy can't afford to piss off is the insurance company, and insurance companies have a legal obligation to provide medical care to policy holders. If their in-network providers are unable to provide medical care to patients, that's the insurance company's problem, and in turn they will quickly make it the pharmacy's problem.
Quantumfreakonomics
25d ago
My vague recollection of the online MTBI test I took was that every question boiled down to "are you stupid, Y/N?" and if you answer no you get INTP or INTJ, and if you answer yes you get something else.
I was INTP of course.
Quantumfreakonomics
26d ago
Protip: If you ever find yourself out of medication and the pharmacy says they are out of stock of your prescription, tell them that you are about to call your insurance company to inform them that their in-network pharmacy is unable to provide nessesary medical care to patients. Suddenly, "it's 3-4 days out," and, "this is just our procedure," becomes, "I'll check the stockroom," and "we'll have that ready for you sir," in about 2 minutes. Dangerous professional voice is a superpower. Obviously you must only use this power for good.
If Terrance Tao wants my support for his academic research, he can start by writing a substack comprehensible to a STEM undergrad explaining what the deal is with inter-universal Teichmüller theory. Until then, have fun in the private sector buddy. Meta is hiring.
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