TournamentFishing
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TournamentFishing
5mo ago
A farmer once told me "farmers run land management companies with a farming problem"
TournamentFishing
5mo ago
My experience with a very small sample size of normies (my wife) is that they use reddit to view only one or two hobby subreddits.
The most baffling I saw on the front page was a headline about how the University of Minnesota allows senior citizens to audit classes for 10 dollars a credit hour.
"Oh, how cute," I thought.
Redditors were furious.
I think there might be a dynamic going on whereby the kind of person who hangs out on big Reddit subs is looking to be angry, (either because that's their hobby or because of selective pressure on comments in a large subreddit), so pattern matches even completely innocuous stories into rage bait (in this case something about student debt and boomers stealing from the future).
TournamentFishing
5mo ago
Forget about simulations. Humans have one million times the mass of a bee but only ten times the ability to experience joy. It would be downright unethical not to convert all humans into swarms of happy bees.
TournamentFishing
5mo ago
I crush a worm for no reason - I feel sorrow.
I feed a worm to my chickens - I feel peace.
The first action goes against my values, but not because the worm suffers. The first action is wrong because it reduces a beautifully complex piece of nature to mere goo. The second action transmutes that complexity into a new form.
TournamentFishing
5mo ago
If you follow this logic to its conclusion, it implies we should genocide all life forms so they can't suffer any more.
I think the author would agree with you there. From the composting article:
the most certain way to reduce biological suffering is to prevent food energy from being created in the first place, i.e., reduce primary productivity
TournamentFishing
6mo ago
Hypothetically, sure, that's true of any murder. There could be someone secret behind the scenes doing things for rational reasons. But "drug-addled ne'er-do-well senselessly slaughters someone only tangentially connected to his pain" is a fairly common cause of killing.
What's your theory regarding Mangione? Stooge for the actual killer or random scapegoat so the feds don't look bad for failing to catch him? (Genuinely asking, not being snarky here.)
TournamentFishing
7mo ago
You're right to point out those behaviors are irrational. But that shouldn't shift your priors too much.
If the alleged perpetrator had been thinking clearly and rationally, he simply would not have murdered Brian Thompson.
TournamentFishing
7mo ago
Iirc the vast majority of malnutrition deaths in the US occur among the elderly, and it's less that they are deprived of access to food, and more that they have physical difficulty with eating.
TournamentFishing
7mo ago
That just looked look 100% organic free range human journalist slop to me on first read.
That raises a question: Are journalist-written articles more likely to trigger AI detectors?
TournamentFishing
8mo ago
To paraphrase something I once saw in an econ textbook: "'Pro-market' is not the same as 'pro-business'"
TournamentFishing
8mo ago
this is the worst case they could find
Not necessarily. Being controversial or borderline increases social media virality because both sides can angrily post about it. Toxoplasma of Rage and all that.
TournamentFishing
8mo ago
How are the sales of the game doing in Brazil?
I ask because Ubisoft Brasil had a very different marketing strategy.
That said, in writing this post I did not find a study or review that gives Narcan substantial responsibility for the rise opiate use (now plateauing) and deaths
Here's one that made the rounds a few years ago: The Effects of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Abuse, Mortality, and Crime
In this paper, we use the staggered timing of state-level naloxone access laws as a natural experiment to measure the effects of broadening access to this lifesaving drug. We find that broadened access led to more opioid-related emergency room visits and more opioid-related theft, with no net measurable reduction in opioid-related mortality
Author's website has some additional commentary and appendices. Most interesting is the regional analysis where their estimates are that naloxone access led to a 14% increase in opioid-related mortality in the Midwest in particular (in the West and Northeast: insignificant decrease in mortality; South: insignificant increase). They give two explanations:
- In the West, black tar heroin is more commonly used. In the Midwest, powder heroin. Black tar heroin doesn't mix easily with fentanyl which removes one avenue by which drug users could engage in riskier behavior in response to narcan access.
- In the West and Northeast, drug treatment programs are more accessible:
We find suggestive evidence that greater availability of drug treatment may be important. That is, broadening naloxone access increases mortality more in places where less drug treatment is available. This makes sense if we think that the primary goal of naloxone is to give individuals a chance to get treatment for their addiction — if there is no treatment available, then perhaps it’s unsurprising if naloxone does more harm than good.
Their main policy recommendation is to expand drug treatment programs and find ways to ensure people get help post-overdose. Your paddy-wagon idea might have legs.
Often, one needs to know a specific term to have any luck with search queries. LLMs can sometimes help with that.
(I feel like search engines used to be better for this kind of thing before they added semantic fuzziness.)
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