Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
What I don’t understand about Elon is his push for Mars colonization, given his views on AI. AI is either going to kill us or greatly accelerate technological progress. If it kills us, it will find us on Mars. If it accelerates technology, it will make getting to Mars much easier than it is today. Given the likely progress of AI over the next 15 years, why is Elon bothering with trying to colonize Mars in the near future?
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Wait until the fall college semester starts.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
The only moral action is to use Neanderthal DNA to bring back some Neanderthals and then abandon Europe to them.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Polymarket currently gives Trump a 63% chance of winning, and this anti-Kamala ad seems pretty good, so it's not just "copium" Republicans are high on.
Recursive_Enlightenment
5mo ago
Scott could have been debanked and stripped of any professional license. Imagine not being able to get a bank account or credit card.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Probably meant "hoping Trump wins".
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Before Columbus the Americas had a low disease burden meaning the check on population had to be war and starvation. I'm guessing they fought before they let their kids die of starvation so there was probably constant war over food.
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
Trump talked about the drones at a press conference. As best I remember, he refused to say if he had been briefed, said they couldn't be foreign, and said the US government should say what they are. Assuming Trump was briefed and is not being misleading this means the drones are likely controlled by the US government. The military has massive bases on which to test drones, so I'm guessing the drones are looking for something.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Yes, but building multiple underground bunkers run on geothermal power that have mass food stockpiles would probably do more to increase humanity's survival chances than trying to colonize Mars would.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Agreed. To win the message is San Francisco liberal not cackling childless cat woman.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
My biological father (who is still alive) grew up in a poor family and as a kid literally had to worry about starving to death because of lack of calories (war played a role in this).
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
I'm a patriotic American, but I think the Revolutionary War was a mistake and history would have been a lot better if the US had stayed British. So the printing presses used by the Founding Fathers did a lot of harm even without being "automatic assault presses".
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
The Black Hand got a random troubled kid to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Suffice if Trump had been the only victim.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
You can't trust the US legal system to determine if a vaccine caused an injury.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
How long until Trump tells a joke about Kamala and Willie Brown? I bet he already has some prepared.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
But in a real free market, a condition of sale could be that you wave any legal liability for injury.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
Until the industrial revolution everyone in the long run was either (1) in a Malthusian trap, (2) had a lot of war, or (3) had a lot of disease. Before sustained economic growth and birth control, something bad was always the check on population growth.
My small US town put bike lanes on some roads, but lots of cyclists understandably ride on the sidewalk. The bike lanes I pass on my commute to work seem optimized to kill cyclists as they literally cut across the path cars take at one point, although fortunately I never see cyclists on this part of their path.
The cyclists I personally hate are the ones who pull recycling material in carts behind their bikes. These cyclists are hard to pass, and I'm certain the amount of extra gas cars use to slow down for them more than makes up for any environmental gains of them using bikes rather than trucks to transport recycling material.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Sports are profoundly important to lots of kids, and messing with them is, politically, on par with saying we should kill house cats to protect the environment.
I think Iran is one of those totally corrupt countries where not being corrupt is seen as a sign of stupidity not honor.
Recursive_Enlightenment
5mo ago
If you have celebrity status in one place on earth, you live there.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
How about "I think I know your father, he is a police officer, right?"
Recursive_Enlightenment
6mo ago
Is that true? There is a military base within 50 miles of where I live and we occasionally get loud military jets going overhead. We don't expect to be told the purpose of the flights and accept the inconvenience as part of the price of having a strong military
Experiment: When a plumber, electrician, or handyman has finished his job and expects payment, ask if paying in cash is OK. You will see an expression of pure joy cross his face as he answers "yes".
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