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11mo ago
Are you talking about the Vincent Weiguang Li guy? If so, then it seems like a very non-central example of a homeless bum. Guy had a degree, used to work steadily until his schizophrenia worsened, used to be married until his schizophrenia worsened. Wasn't on drugs. At the time of the happening was living with his ex-wife, so wasn't even homeless. And seems that he was in fact institutionalized for several years afterwards (up to nine, depending on how you count).
I'm taking those facts from Wikipedia, so grain of salt.
zPvQINBQvfFR
11mo ago
I think prescriptivism is of vital importance, because without it language is completely incoherent. I find linguistic descriptivism to be rather vapid, actually - all you can really say as a descriptivist is "that person sure is using word X to mean Y". You can't actually say whether it is correct or incorrect.
You can say whether it's correct or incorrect, it's just that "correct" means "consistent with language norms of a particular time and place" rather than "consistent with the eternal unchanging Platonic ideal of English".
Also he edited out the Ben Carson brain surgery question.
Huh? https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/11/16/hardball-questions-for-the-next-debate/
Maybe he did edit it out and then restored it, but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that he'd be worried could get him in trouble.
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1yr ago
This post kind of comes off as a self-indulgent power fantasy. You'd need God-empress level of political power to enact those policies, so the whole thing is basically implicitly assuming that you're infinitely stronk, and then writing a long detailed list of all the ways you'd use your unlimited power to put the screws on people whose life choices are (in your view) incompatible with the greater good of society.
And if we hypothesize some alternative society in which those policies would be popular, then would you even need them in the first place? Hm, maybe they would still be useful to fix the pro-natal attitudes and fight against any potential value drift.
Anyway, while I don't expect you to explain how you're planning on becoming God-empress, I'm still curious how would you roll out those policies? Would there be some transition period so for example people who were already old and infertile when the policies came into effect wouldn't get screwed up without any chance to avoid it, or would their unavoidable impoverishment be a sacrifice you'd be willing to make to keep things simple and on track?
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
and every single slav I've talked with and seen in thread
Is this one of those board-dweller endonyms like fa/tg/uy or /k/ommando? What's the etymology?
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
too much time looking at their smartphones
I see, seeker, that you are yet to learn the ancient art of taking your phone out of your pocket to check the time and then putting it back in again.
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
Have you ever described, in more detail, your horrified vision of the future under an ascendant US-led singleton with AGI? Because I'm curious.
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4mo ago
If the doubt over Russian Propaganda is the basis of raising questions, then you have an odd way of going about clarifying the potentially lamentable situation.
I think what the OP meant is that it would be lamentable if some people are really considering leaving over their belief that this place is full of Russian propaganda, not that the OP himself believes that the Russian propaganda is here.
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10mo ago
David Friedman was a regular on SSC and is still active on one of the splinter forums, so chances are you heard about the book somewhere around these parts.
zPvQINBQvfFR
10mo ago
(Presumably using group policy objects.)
A monarchy running on Windows? I shall fight against this travesty to my last bitter breath.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
Animals don't turn sunlight and rain into meat. You need to feed them plants. Which you have to grow first. Possibly on vertical farms run by hippy vegans.
Some animals can graze but I think this could sustain only than a small fraction of current meat production (after a quick googling, I saw the figures of 10% of beef production and 30% of sheep and goat meat production being sustained by grazing).
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
Finally, the ability to enjoy steak tartare without guilt or worrying about tapeworms.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
Well, Cocaine Bear is just from last year.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
It's not that small. If South Korea got teleported to Europe, it would be the 7th largest country by population. It is small by area and has a very high population density, though I'm not sure if urban population wouldn't be a bigger factor in ease of fashion spreading. And South Korea is surprisingly far from the top on that metric.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
Newcomb's problem is a thought experiment where a mysterious entity, who's known to be very good at predicting people's behavior, presents to you two boxes: one is transparent and contains a 1000$ and the other is opaque and might contain either nothing or one million dollars. You're given the choice of either taking only the opaque box (which is what I call one-boxing) or of taking both boxes. The entity tells you that it decided whether to put the money in the opaque box by predicting which option you will choose. If it predicted that you'll take both boxes, the opaque box is empty. If it predicted that you'll only take the opaque box, it put the million inside. What do?
If that was too muddled of an explanation, then have a Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradox
Or alternatively, have a link to the explanation by everybody's favorite bombastic rationality guru: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ddcsdA2c2XpNpE5x/newcomb-s-problem-and-regret-of-rationality
zPvQINBQvfFR
8mo ago
Wait, you can't test an animal for rabies without killing it? Wtf?
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
We have chestfeeding at home.
zPvQINBQvfFR
1yr ago
Perhaps wild nature is in fact a giant suffering engine that should be abolished in its current form.
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
Do lawyers commit the majority of moral anti-realism despite being only a minority of the population?
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
BENs ; WS ; UMC-W ; WWC
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You know what modernity really needs? A Strong Leader, one with determination as strong as steel, who'd make usage of unexplained acronyms punishable by death. Nay, we need 50 such leaders.
Other than that little homicidal nitpick, cool post (really).
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
How about "the mistakes weren't actually that disastrous and a Chernobyl every decade would be worth it if it meant we could get rid of coal"? (Not sure about the decade thing, but my understanding is that consequences of Chernobyl were seriously exaggerated.)
The messaging about nuclear seems to always implicitly admit that nuclear disasters are unimaginably bad but it's okay because we've made sure that the new reactor designs are so super safe that it could not happen again. That's bullshit and people know it. Could they instead be persuaded of a more grounded assessment of the risks?
zPvQINBQvfFR
2yr ago
And the women retirement age tends to be lower which is completely backwards if you look at life expectancy.
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3mo ago
The difference is that domestic producers you compete with will also add VAT to their final price and transfer it to the relevant tax authority, so being an importer doesn't disadvantage you.
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5mo ago
I don't think optics are made from cloth, and anyway they can always fall back to iron sights.
Couldn't you test saliva? I assume that the virus is present in there if the bites are transmitting the disease? Or maybe cerebrospinal fluid, though that might be hard to sample from a very smol animal.
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