ace
4d ago
the ballroom would not be completed by the time he leaves office anyway.
From your lips to God's ears.
ace
5d ago
The good news is that this actually most works anyway because there just aren't very many determined attackers.
Absolutely. The same person who has the competency, drive, and intelligence to think through new angles of attack and succeed are also successful at finding better uses for their life.
ace
6d ago
In one of his interviews, his primary complaint was that individual lone-wolf acts of violence are not sufficient to stop AI development and would have a tendency to sway public opinion in the opposite direction, as these things do. But his opposition is only because of ineffectiveness. He's very publicly in favor of an international alliance of USA, EU, Russia, and China firebombing rogue data centers.
ace
8d ago
Can you explain what you mean by that? It seems a pretty consistent world-view to me.
ace
8d ago
You do know that there are other viable hypotheses besides Buddhism and Christianity? This isn't only directed at you, but I do wonder what went astray that there's so much unabashed religiosity in my rat-adjacent fora.
ace
10d ago
You got nerd-sniped by ... nicotine? Keep us up to date on your efforts to kick the habit. We're rooting for you.
ace
13d ago
The chicken thing might be them absorbing water during the chilling process. Look for packaging that says "air-chilled" and see if that solves your texture problem.
ace
20d ago
"treat this as a stop sign" is beyond their ken
Drivers don't even treat stop signs as stop signs.
ace
2mo ago
saltines and mustard for dinner
There's gotta be a connection between a mama who makes those kinds of decisions and needing food stamps in the first place. That's enough to throw the whole program in the bin and go back to local neighborhood charity by people who can verify it's being put to good use.
ace
4mo ago
my wife is quite concerned that a "no" from us will damage the friendship irreparably.
These are not friends worth keeping given their either ignorance or indifference to the effect of this on your marriage and relationship to your kids. You're a fool for even considering it.
ace
7mo ago
Should I wait to see the evidence he used to reach that conclusion, or is that just my insane moon epistemology talking?
ace
7mo ago
It took me until the last paragraph to figure out you're talking about a recent game, and not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_(1983_video_game)
ace
7mo ago
This is what I do - run Windows in a VM. I have a few games that don't run in Linux. If you never let Windows access the Internet, a lot of the annoyances are mitigated.
ace
8mo ago
If you have half an interest in physics and are not yet totally convinced by Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation, I recommend it.
ace
8mo ago
17 years. Summer and fall of 2008, I was searching for explanations of quantum mechanics because the textbook and everyone else's explanations were so goddamn confused, incomplete, and self-contradictory. Found Big-Yud's Quantum Physics sequence, which felt like the first time finding someone who had sane, coherent opinions on the matter. From there an easy step to the rest of the sequences, LW, and SSC.
ace
9mo ago
Cutting off the bottom 40% of the distribution and then finding that the remaining 60% is average-to-above-average is a thoroughly underwhelming statistical finding. Autists have pretty specific deficits in understanding people, and if that's not measured in IQ, so much the worse for IQ.
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