istinetz
2mo ago
Like this one:
Organize locally. Become involved in your community. Talk to and become friends with people you disagree with.
It sounds nice, but if you think about it...
What does that even mean? Have you seen teens lately? They're barely literate phone zombies. What does it even mean for them to "organize locally"? Organize to do what? What community? There is no community, cities are just a big pile of strangers that don't make eye contact very much.
istinetz
2mo ago
Can I just give some honest feedback, and you take it with a massive grain of salt because I'm just a random anon.
While I agree that most of your theories are true, I extremely disagree with the approach "here is what my theseses will be, and I'll add a bunch of case studies (anecdotes) and data that supports them".
You literally have a detailed plan, chapter by chapter, on what your book will argue. Why then collect data at all? Why bother interviewing people? You already know what you're saying, no?
But you want to add data and charts because you see them as effective weapons in persuading people.
I feel like if that's the starting point of your book, the absolute best case scenario is that it ends up being yet another airport book + ted talk. It will not be actually new, fresh, and practically influential, because you have arrived at your conclusions by normal life and passive media consumption - I'm sure you're smart/observant/analytical, but you need to actually be open to any conclusion before seeing the data and talking to the actual people.
istinetz
3mo ago
take advantage of residence-by-investment programs in the EU
Those have been mostly phased out, AFAIK. The only one left is Malta, and it has a bunch of restrictions.
istinetz
1yr ago
Looking it up on Youtube I see a BBC documentary from 2002, an Al Jazeera documentary, a Jocko Willink Podcast discussion and some small high production value channels giving an animated breakdown.
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.
istinetz
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
I feel quite safe where I currently live
Dude, this is absolutely not safe. I would hate living like this
istinetz
2yr 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
2yr ago
At no point did white people decide that sub-Saharan Africa was worth settling.
istinetz
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr 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
2yr ago
Yeah, agree. If Hillary or Trump end up the only options for president, something has gone very wrong somewhere in the process.
The impartial third party kind of exists already. I use photofeeler, you get ratings on your dating photos, and you can see roughly where you stand.
For example, one insight I got is that it didn't matter a whole lot which photo I think is good and which photo I think is bad - they all get roughly the same ratings. By using your best vs bad photos, you might get 0.5-1 point increase, as opposed to 2-3 points difference.
As a benchmark, I get ratings around 6-7, and very few matches in dating websites (though I am very picky). So you should aim for 8-9.
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