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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
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netstack
Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
There’s no shortage of New Atheist styled critiques of everything from AI millenarianism to Yudkowsky’s lifestyle choices. You can find them here or in the NYT.
Simulation theory is bizarre and counterintuitive and not, I think, all that widespread. SBF tried to cite it and people (correctly) went, no, you’ve still got to give the money back. Drawing an analogy with Christianity isn’t exactly flattering.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Oh, I’m sure I know some. I don’t understand them, and I’m certainly not going to interrogate them about their mental state in person. Pretty sure I already lost one friend by telling him that UNSONG was comedy.
I didn’t know there was a museum like that in Dallas. My “favorite” is the one in Glen Rose, also known as Fossil Rim. No prizes for guessing what they’ve found there.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
I agree that if one can accept the Resurrection as related in the Gospels, the rest is small potatoes.
But I also agree with @sun_the_second. A miracle of this grade provides evidence against the historical record. How much other, non-Christian mystery hits the same threshold of evidence?
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1mo ago
Uh. Why?
This is a genuine question. I cannot personally imagine what it feels like to believe some of those things. To think “yes, the Earth is only a few millenia old” and not feel a deep-seated confusion at the contradictions. I’m not trying to rehash the early-2000s smugness debates, but I really would like to know how your experience differs.
I can at least model how other people experience faith, even though I’ve never felt it particularly compelling. But YEC? Specific dogmas? Alien to me.
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1mo ago
Is this supposed to make him more or less credulous of Christianity?
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And yet the dominant strains in the U.S. have a much higher regard for literalism. This is not a hallmark of logical consistency.
I think once one is five or six schisms removed, one shouldn’t get full credit for citing St. Augustine.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
The teeth usually work on a specific diagonal motion. Not that much force, I just sort of pull it in different combinations of “down” and “side” until it catches.
Of course, I can’t rule out the possibility that your tape has mutated, acquiring resistance to slashing damage. Try blunt weapons next time.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
It would also be against the rules.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
No idea.
I could imagine some number of non-commercial surrogates who are volunteering for an infertile/gay/etc. friend. No, I have no idea how often that occurs, but it came up in the last discussion of this topic.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Yes, I’m asking for a source. The biggest, most dramatic scammer in the movement doing something does not imply an “awful lot.”
I couldn’t find a talk or paper called Investing to Give. I did see this proposed framework, which doesn’t give a single threshold, and this, where he talks about the theory. But I also note that this guy donates all income past $32,000. It sure sounds like this guy is giving and not just earning.
The baseline level of charity for an American is less than $1300. I’m pretty sure that’s an average, too, and I expect the median is much lower. I am confident that EAs, as a group which self-selects for neurotically caring about this stuff, clear that bar.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Source?
Scott keeps talking about things, like the Giving What We Can Pledge, which are designed to counteract this exact failure mode. I expect that a random EA is more likely to give than a random American, let alone a random investor.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
I thought you were saying no pro-lifer would be a surrogate at all, even without such a clause.
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1mo ago
20 years ago it would have been Terminatards, but I find that in poor taste. How about Chudkowskys?
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Wait, why wouldn’t she have been a surrogate at all?
Presumably she never would have accepted a contract clause about abortion, but I figure you can come to pro-life beliefs without holding a specific marriage-only doctrine.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Their version of “bad end” snuff films would involve the mother miraculously surviving and staying involved in the kids’ lives
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1mo ago
Coming through for the USA once again.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Meh. Lovecraft did it better. 0HP Lovecraft also did it better.
There’s not even an obvious connection between giving women octopus the vote and, uh, erasing all social constraints. You just sort of import the talking point.
Then when everything goes to shit, it’s taken for granted that preserving the white North Sea race is totally worth killing the women females. Why? Is the right to life, to self-determination, actually worth less than the need to control future generations?
3/10, maybe stick to reporting on your hobbyhorse.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
If he plays his cards right, maybe he can secure the Republican nomination in twenty years?
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Antipope is right. Most of those are “partisan facts [claims?] I disagree with.”
Trump is a Russian asset.
Anti-Trump motte: dude is too friendly with Putin and/or too soft on Russia. Not a conspiracy.
Anti-Trump bailey: he or at least his administration take covert orders from Russians, perhaps as quid pro quo for stealing the 2016 election. Conspiracy.
I’m reasonably sure that the bailey is no longer popular. Trump supporters continue to act like it is, since it’s pretty easy to fight. I wasn’t able to find much in the way of recent polling.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
I have seen Florida subdivisions built around drainage (alligator storage) systems about the size of a lot. It’s a possibility.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
Finally, a fitting companion to Ben Franklin’s Letter to the Royal Academy.
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
>X AI
>does nothing
Well, I guess this checks out at least
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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion
1mo ago
This particular treasure chest was last filled during a rather popular administration. “A rising tide” and all that. We still teach Keynesian economics in high school; the government is expected to run a surplus in good times and mitigate the bad ones with deficit spending.
That cycle has been more or less pretextual since 2008. The opposition got hijacked by a populist before they could really pull back on spending, and the next crisis hit right before an election. I suspect we can still put the toothpaste back in the tube, but it would take a level of economic optimism which hasn’t yet appeared.
Going crazy on Twitter? That plus a dollar will buy you a Costco hot dog.
No, it’s still Texas. The presence of nonwhite people has not changed the character, traditions, even the political landscape of the area. Sometimes unfortunately.
Not in my experience, but what do I know? I’m sure the Brits understand better.
Only for a sufficiently strong value of “don’t like.” You know, like anything else. Taxes too high? Can’t own a gun? Tired of hippies? Maybe you should leave those states.
But no, that’s quitter talk. Real Anglo-Saxon cowboys gather their posse and run the degenerates out of town. Anything else would be unacceptable value drift. If you don’t shoot the tax collector you’re basically allowing white genocide.
No, they’re the old values. Sometimes values apply even to people you don’t like. Cultural replacement can happen but it’s not magic. Getting a bunch of Indian students to come absorb your rituals is how it’s supposed to work.
The enemy must be both strong and weak, huh?
Where, indeed? Why is it that the places with freedom of movement and speech have all the good stuff? How come the nonwhite people get to enjoy it? If you just pushed them all out, maybe you could enjoy that magic soil for yourself.
You said it, not me. I wish you’d go for longer before bringing up your hobbyhorse. You got some good questions out of this account.
Twitter delenda est.
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