ace
2yr ago
I understand your point. Though I posit that people generally understand there are differences in taste in a way they don't understand differences in morality.
Be that as it may, my concern was more narrow, specifically that @PerseusWizardry will have a better time if he drops all of his moral questions. They are simply not questions that can be resolved through conversation or better data.
ace
2yr ago
You seem inordinately preoccupied with moral questions. That's your biggest hangup. They don't have objective answers without fixing a moral framework. And even then, well-informed people mostly disagree.
A while ago I queried the Motte about ways to find average SAT by high school. I got good ideas here, but it devolved into a laborious state-by-state search. I'm asking now, specifically about California. Is there a way to find average SAT scores for just Californian high schools? I've found averages from 2016, but it seems like the data was made private afterwards? Thoughts?
ace
2yr ago
Maybe I'm really out of touch, but would one route be to not bring up Juneteenth at all?
ace
2yr ago
Z-Library, a repository for ebooks with a flagrant disregard for copyright.
ace
2yr ago
Sorry, I'll try to watch myself in the future.
I really didn't mean my comment to come across as meanly as it apparently did. Ted Kaczynski's reign of terror is not commonly fodder for jokes.
ace
2yr ago
I get that part. Are you advocating we follow his example? Please speak plainly here.
ace
2yr ago
Original humor. I don't need the same tired movie quotes I've been hearing for a decade.
ace
2yr ago
If such a technology existed, it would radically change how people conceptualize gender. I think it would be de-emphasized to meaninglessness. It would be akin to categorizing people by what color clothes they wear.
ace
2yr ago
The obvious point is that you only notice the non-passing transwomen, so of course you can identify 100% of the non-passing transwomen whom you correctly identified as being transwomen.
I 100% agree that the posted photos of transwomen on reddit rely heavily on makeup, clothing, lighting, and camera angles. And even then, most aren't that great. However, it's my understanding that people who transition before puberty are in much better shape.
ace
2yr ago
My friend, your words are wasted over there. Those are Motte-style arguments, and there’s a reason the Motte is no longer on reddit.
This post is below the standards for posting here. You can't just say this guy got it all wrong. Whom should we read? What did Lakeman get wrong?
ace
2yr ago
Sure the dog can write poetry, but it’s bad poetry.
Anyways, we’re still in early days of this technology. It’s getting batter and it’s getting better fast.
ace
2yr ago
I own 1 suit I've worn twice in ten years (weddings). And I feel a sense of mistrust for people who spend more than a de minimus amount of time thinking about their clothing.
ace
2yr ago
I agree with everything @MaximumCuddles said. I would just add that matching socks when you do laundry is less work than doing it later, but you have to do it now, so it's a signal you have a suboptimally-high time discounting preference. A trivial thing, by itself, but if I were evaluating if I wanted to share a life with you, I'd be on the lookout for whether this trait echoes in the rest of your behavior.
I'm not really up with the hip lingo from the kids these days. What is "torched"?
ace
2yr ago
What sort of indicators would be most salient when evaluating where to move to?
ace
2yr ago
E Jean Carroll was advocating for the law to be passed so that she could sue trump.
ace
2yr ago
I couldn’t agree more with your sentiment. I deeply appreciated the Sequences; they were formative for me intellectually. And his fiction writing ranges from mediocre to jaw-droppingly brilliant. But I’ve seen in the past couple months that his skill with the written word does not translate to IRL conversations. It’s a shame, too, because he’s one of the most knowledgeable and quick-witted thinkers we have on AI risk.
I'm racking my brain and coming up blank. As an adult I'm reasonably sure the answer is no. Have you?
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