ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
1yr ago
I am going to die in this game-like dimension has one of the most unique worlds I've seen, even if the plot is kind of generic. It was written by a physics teacher, and it has entirely new physics: gravity pulls you to the nearest surface, cold is just as real as heat, your lungs process lavi and oxygen doesn't exist, and my personal favourite: "
Generally, the differences from earthly physics show up in a controlled scenario (such as training), then surprisingly they also show up in real situations working exactly the same way. Like, wall-running past a pit is fine because the nonexistent floor doesn't pull you down, but surely
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ulyssessword
1yr ago
most Americans would be squicked out and there's literally no one pushing for it...Every politician who voted for that would be saying goodbye to their career and personal life.
Why? Every argument I can think of comes down to "because they don't believe sex work is real work", and the same arguments that would convince the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice would convince the Department of Corrections (and/or the voters upstream of those organizations).
I'm aware that the previous paragraph sounds like "without God, Atheists have nothing stopping them from murdering everyone!!!", but I literally don't see the limiting principle (assuming there is one).
ulyssessword
1yr ago
OP mentioned him getting a standing ovation
Oddly, that article (link again) never actually says who was arrested. If you read through word-by-word, all you can say is:
- Petgrave's skate slit the throat of Adam Johnson.
- Johnson suffered a fatal injury to his neck.
- A man has now been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Johnson's death
Who could that man possibly be?? Any conclusion you could reach would just be wild speculation and couldn't be attributed to the Sun in any way, shape, or form.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
I'm not that optimistic. It reminds me of The Simpsons:
The judges are empowered to help criminals. You thought judges were empowered to help? Empowered to help criminals, not you.
It'll take a good action to move my opinion in a good direction. Not just "they can do something; good things are 'something', therefore they can do good things."
ulyssessword
3mo ago
How far can it stretch before it stops being "this weapon", and shifts to being a different one? If the standard is "...her[/his] presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda.", then campus protesters (or rally organizers, or similar) are pretty much the only valid targets.
The right-wing base doesn't generally shout their opinions from a soapbox in the same way, and therefore isn't as vulnerable to this.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Thanks for the candor.
Being self-aware that your opinions are absurd is much worse than standing defiant against accusations that your opinions are absurd, regardless of how strong the accusations are. If you already know you're wrong, why don't you change your mind?
ulyssessword
3mo ago
By that standard, a good fraction of cars on the road don't qualify as human-driven.
(My idea for self-driving car laws: It has to pass a standard driver's license exam, and has to carry insurance. Anything past that is consumer protection instead of a valid safety concern.)
ulyssessword
2yr ago
I looked it up, and it seems to fit. Relevant quotes from the first few links:
What point were you trying to make?
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Did you calculate your base metabolic rate (or whatever the fudge factor is called in your system) so that it all worked out? If not, you got lucky that it happened to be both correct at the start and steady over time. If you have adjusted it, then that means your calculations are on target, and adjusting the inputs so that 3500 kcal = 1 lb resulted in a trendline at 3500 kcal per lb.
This study gives some people a 20% headstart on your dieting goals (admittedly they didn't measure "CI"), which is a pretty notable difference.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
It does not seem to me that positive change can be built on just flipping off all the bad people.
What do you think the justice system and police do? Sure, they sometimes reallocate some resources to victims, but the vast majority of their job is punishing bad people.
ulyssessword
9mo ago
It's not the most technical, but I'd include Zvi Mowshowitz in your blogroll. His weekly AI roundups are enough to keep up with the field.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Care to provide counterexamples? Preferably the official policy of a multibillion-dollar system.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Yes, we call that slavery and are also very actively against it.
As I said downthread, it matters what order you do your goals in. If you succeed in prostitution-is-work before you succeed in prison abolition (etc.) then the scenario I outlined becomes possible.
Also, knocking off one example still leaves my other two, as well as the countless others I skipped over.
Ok, sure? Prostitution licensing seems unnecessary...
That's not wild. What would be wild is defining a Scope of Practice that excludes non-licensed people from undertaking the listed actions, regardless of whether they are paid or not.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
What are you talking about? Do you think that they were hopping in a time machine to get to their "home" in the 1860s when they were attending school in the 1960s?
Of course the conditions improved in a hundred years. You've correctly identified that it's simply ludicrous to deny that, but I'm not sure why you felt it was relevant.
In fact, let's imagine an alternate history: Colonization, settlement, and the Treaties happen like normal, but then the native population gets locked in and experiences zero changes in welfare/wealth/happiness/etc. from the pre-contact baseline. Would you think "Wow, the Federal Government is doing a great job. We haven't worsened their nasty, brutish, and short lives at all!"?
Maintaining the status quo doesn't meet my standards, and neither do the (frankly huge) improvements we have done in reality. This goes double when you cast your eye back a few decades.
EDIT: wrong person. These are talking about Abrams the politician, not Lawrence-Bundy the lawyer.
Let's check:
with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign chairwoman.
But some outside the group questioned both the level of expenditures devoted to a single, largely unsuccessful legal action and the fact that such a large payout went to the firm of Abrams’ close friend and campaign chair.
“Beyond $10 million would be very shocking, I would say.”
some ethics watchdogs say the closeness of their relationship, combined with Lawrence-Hardy’s leading roles in Abrams’ campaigns, raises questions about a possible conflict of interest.
“It is a very clear conflict of interest because with that kind of close link to the litigation and her friend that provides an opportunity where the friend gets particularly enriched from this litigation,”
Through her campaign, Abrams declined to be interviewed.
Abrams didn’t congratulate Kemp after his narrow victory. Instead, she complained that the electoral system was flawed.
...and I stopped halfway through. I'd say that all of those statements in the Politico article are diminishing her qualifications in some way or another, to varying degrees.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Show me the table entry for "brown adipose tissue heating" on a CO calculation and I'll believe it. Otherwise it's just part of the fudge factor.
Quantizing that component (and every other one) to individual variability is the weakness of CICO, as they can result in wildly different results based on unmeasured variables.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about: It's a Calories In, Calories Out, Body Weight system and that third variable is essential.
Skimming through the paper, it appears that the difference between cold and hot is about 100 Calories per cold day, or about one pound per month. A pure CICO system couldn't explain why one person gains a few pounds every winter while an ostensibly-identical person (but fertilized in cold weather) doesn't.
ulyssessword
6d ago
Isn't the whole point of martial arts (at least some technical ones, like BJJ) to make this possible?
Same with sports, and yet regional U16 boys teams routinely beat world-class women's teams in hockey and soccer (at least).
Being better than every woman in the world at a physical activity isn't too outlandish for a man, and I'd bet that being better than every woman in a given city isn't uncommon among dedicated amateurs.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
At least 99% of these cases cite the original press statement so you can judge it.
Can you link two examples? I've seen one news article that contained a link back to the company/government/organization's original press release. The rest just say "according to a press release", if that.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
I'm not familiar with that model (I just found it by searching), but I wouldn't doubt if they were simply Goodhearting their way into some flashy claims.
One thing to keep in mind is that these models are the worst they'll ever be. Give it a year or so and someone (either one of the big companies or someone building off their work) will release a model with both early-2025 level quality and >=100M context.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
That comment is filtered.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
In common conversation, "book" refers to the text as well as a given volume. You don't say "hey give me that volume of the text of Hamlet over there", you say "hey give me that book over there".
Alice: "Can you pass the water?"
Bob: "Sure" Splash
Alice: "WTF?"
Bob: "If you wanted the water and the pitcher, you should have asked for them both."
"Book", much like "length", is an overloaded word in the English language. That's why it's not accurate to pick on one particular definition and insist that it's the objectively correct one, the way Folamh did.
I didn't read that from his comments at all. Maybe it was edited out or I missed it downthread.
Amazon lists the length of their books right next to width and height. Did I miss an argument that shipping dimensions should be removed because they aren't "true" length? Was there an argument about film-based movies being measured in "meters" (dependent on frame rate, film size, and runtime)?
From my reading, he wanted an additional piece of information that isn't commonly available, provides some useful information, and has the advantage of being almost entirely invariant through common and irrelevant changes (e.g. new editions of books).
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Compute is dirt cheap, and dropping by the month. Doubling your compute costs means you're about three months behind the curve on economic efficiency, and (using your assumptions, which are quite generous to me) still at the frontier of capabilities.
ulyssessword
4mo ago
Assuming weekly sex with people from a pool of how many partners?
A big enough pool that it looks exponential instead of sigmoidal. Once it's spread to >50% of the group, you can't exactly double the prevalence.
As I said, swapping partners annually from that pool is frequent enough for the dynamic to play out.
Maybe your source's sensibilities are a bit more delicate than mine, but I would not be shocked by someone having sex with their partner 52 times in one year, then with a different partner 52 times in the next year, and so on.
Ah ok... uh, so why did you completely ignore the attached image?
What did I ignore? I saw the rate for anal sex, I saw the rate for vaginal sex. Was I supposed to discuss blood transfusions and needles? Construct a model that is more detailed than "heterosexual" and "homosexual"? Increase the precision from "1%" to "1.11%"?
I mentioned his deceptive claim because it jumped out at me. I hadn't noticed the problems with his second sentence when I posted that.
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