istinetz
11mo ago
Today, a 5 hour recording of a rather important internal zoom meeting of the second largest party in Bulgaria was leaked. It was a meeting of the leadership to decide whether to enter a complicated kind-of coalition with the biggest party.
Would you guys be interested if I go over it and post the interesting bits? Keeping in mind that the usual left-right divide is much less applicable.
istinetz
1yr ago
I don't understand what is the point of these walls of texts and how are they relevant to this discussion.
If I want to know what GPT will say on a given topic, I can ask it myself, you don't need to copy-paste walls of text. This answer is not particularly interesting or surprising.
istinetz
1yr ago
People attribute this to the British's affinity for bricks and mortar over investing in companies and while I agree that plays a part (see the reverse in the US where the exact same Ryanair share trades at a 30% premium in the US over its European counterpart)
There is no way this is true.
istinetz
1yr ago
TDS makes an appearance in the full essay because of course it does; the poor fellow just can't help himself.
what is TDS
istinetz
1yr ago
I feel quite safe where I currently live
Dude, this is absolutely not safe. I would hate living like this
istinetz
1yr ago
Make a realistic compromise proposal, like the Camp David Accords. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" just isn't happening, it isn't in the cards. The US and Israel would be happy to create a compromise where Palestine accepts becoming its own proper state, smaller border because they've lost territory due to Israeli settlement, and Palestine stops launching missiles at Israel; and in exchange, they get billions of dollars poured into them to build infrastructure.
If I rephrase that with Russia and Ukraine, would you agree?
istinetz
1yr ago
At no point did white people decide that sub-Saharan Africa was worth settling.
istinetz
1yr ago
The filter will get better with time. There is a reinforcement learning layer built on top of gpt, with humans manually rating a sample of answers. Apparently someone recently decided to include fossil fuels use in this filter, but the training has not yet caught up.
istinetz
1yr ago
Remember that Saudi Prince @Alwaleed_Talal invested $1.89 Billion and Qatar @QIA about $400 Million in Twitter. They are the real Power at Twitter.
lmao what
istinetz
1yr ago
voting should not require government identification;
I am so baffled by American debates about this. Why the hell don't you want to use IDs to vote? Anyone too stupid to get an ID shouldn't vote.
istinetz
1yr ago
ESG was their invention.
No, it wasn't. I remember a few years back, they refused to participate in stuff like that, after most of their peers have succumbed.
istinetz
1yr ago
It is understated. The 6500 dead workers come from the embassies of 4 countries for the period up to 2021. It is a hard number, not an estimate, and it doesn't include deaths in 2022 and dead workers from other countries.
istinetz
1yr ago
Jesus, Nietzsche, John von Neumann, Aristotle. Maybe replace one with a historical Bulgarian figure, Stefan Stambolov or Ivan Asen II.
Living - Musk, Thiel, Jacek Dukaj, my high school crush.
istinetz
1yr ago
Yep, exactly. It's fine to try a second text, because we're only human, there is stress, work, a billion things to do in the day. Its not a good sign that you have to double-text, but it's fine.
Third one - no.
Effective Altruism != Rationalism.
they have 90%+ overlap though. The line is very blurry.
Edit: it's pretty funny to me that one of the replies claims I'm wrong because EA is a subset of rats, and the other reply claims I'm wrong because rats are a subset of EA.
You can see how this would be confusing to an outsider, right?
istinetz
1yr ago
Yeah, agree. If Hillary or Trump end up the only options for president, something has gone very wrong somewhere in the process.
istinetz
1yr ago
Honestly, as a non-American, it's kinda pathetic that this guy ended up one of the 2-3 most powerful people in the US.
I mean just read it. He's pure animal.
istinetz
1yr ago
There would be no new businesses, no new music, no new books, etc.
I don't know how you made that jump.
Like, if you live in Liberaltopia, there's nothing stopping you from not associating with gay people. There's nothing stopping you from forming a group with other people and having each other promise that you will not do gay things or associate with gays. There's also no size limit imposed on your group--it could be just your friends or half the country.
There are no ways to enforce these shared norms. Imagine you live in an imaginary, hypothetical world where heroin, or murder, or dumping your garbage from the balcony is legal and normal. You and a group of friends agree that this should change, and you "form a group" and "promise" not to do that. So what? Your kids are still hooked on heroin, there is still garbage on the streets, and there is still a chance of getting murdered, because there are others who didn't agree and defectors.
You need a method to enforce that new norm. "Form a group" and "promise" is insufficient.
Surely, if gayness is in anyway bad, well, then in the free market of ideas, gayness will fade away while your non-gay group will grow and prosper?
Gayness, specifically, was an example, of something the larger culture will impose on the sub-communities. You don't need to argue if it's good or bad.
istinetz
1yr ago
A bizarre assertion, given that, according to my count, 13 of the EU's 27 members don't allow gay marriage.
you're right. I changed it to 'gay rights'.
Eugenics is not part of the traditional culture of any country. The reason it's not implemented anywhere is a lack of popular support; it has nothing to do with the EU.
It's an example of an edgy policy that would never be allowed by the EU. It illustrates that the allowed diversity is only surface level.
You're needlessly adversarial.
What the EU doesn't allow is protectionist restrictions that are meant to benefit one country's companies over those of another.
Which is exactly what I meant (and said). Your point about protecting local cheeses kind of proves my thesis.
Finally - why are you doing this?
istinetz
1yr ago
you're right, I overextended with 'marriage'. Changed it to gay rights.
Though the ECJ does not care a lot about Romania's definition of marriage
And now compare it to response to the Iran hostage crisis, in which 50 people were held hostage, but eventually returned and not killed.
Obviously the media coverage is incomparable, but even that aside, Iran is still blockaded and starved. It is impossible to invest in Iran, it is impossible for Iranian companies to succeed globally.
And honestly, Iranians had incredibly good justification to be mad at Americans.
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