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Quantumfreakonomics
4hr ago
Why is high-fructose corn syrup bad (compared to cane sugar)? If it's not bad, why do people think that it's bad?
birb_cromble
4hr ago
This seems like some remarkably bad faith on your part.
First, you claim that nothing like this happens. Then you Darkly Hint that no one will provide examples, because they have a convenient excuse not to do so.
Then two people provide an example, despite your Dark Hinting.
After that, you employ what I can only call a reverse isolated demand for rigor to blow it off as an isolated incident and not useful as any kind of corroboration for lived experience. You and other mods have banned people for that kind of bad faith behavior in the past.
At this point, I'm going to ask you outright. What would you actually require to believe anything that I have said? Because from where I'm standing, it seems like your mind is already made up.
Total risk mitigation is just miserable. Every time you drive somewhere, you are accepting a small probability of dying horribly in a car crash.
Well, if you drive around in a a modern large Pickup truck, you're probably going to survive almost any accident short of getting pancaked by a freight train. I argue that you also shouldn't dismiss the risk of a debilitating injury that you have to live with, as well.
Me, I mitigated that risk by making sure that every part of my daily commute falls within a 5 mile radius of my house, and almost entirely in the same direction, and almost entirely off of main artery roads.
Minimizing road time is pretty much the best practice, as I see it. You can't control what other people on the road do. Also my dad had me take a defensive driving course almost as soon as I got my license, which has saved my bacon a few times.
I think many people underestimate the magnitude of certain risks they absorb, and overestimate how much it costs to mitigate most of said risk. Not counting people for whom the risk is the point. I've seen like six different videos in the past month of people blowing their hands to smithereens by holding lighted fireworks, for instance.
Speaking of that, Famed risk-seeker Felix Baumgartner just died at age 56 while doing something characteristically risky. Ken Block, despite his skills handling vehicles, died in a snowmobile accident at 55.
Felix apparently had a wife but no children. Ken had a wife and three daughters. Now sure which one seems 'worse' to me. Block at least has a genetic legacy.
Although sometimes its the mundane that gets you. Robbie Knievel died of Cancer, his dad died of Diabetes and some lung disease.
I can certainly say that I'm glad I don't have whatever genetic quirk gives makes for that level of adrenaline junkie.
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
4hr ago
He wasn't "harassed by police at odd hours". As is normal for people accused of minor offences, he was booked by appointment at a mutually convenient time, bailed immediately, prosecuted and fined £800. This is bullshit and shouldn't have happened, but if you are trying to describe it accurately it is a lot closer to a citation than "being locked up" or some such.
Dean
Flairless
4hr ago
On one hand, thank you for further validating my already poor opinion of him. On the other hand... I'm sorry you have felt it useful to have that link on hand.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
4hr ago
It's a weird rule, but Movie IIIs are typically good. Cars 3 is better than Cars 2. Toy Story 3 is better than Toy Story 2. Cinderella III is good. Aladdin III is good.
An Extremely Goofy Movie is fun. The Rescuers Down Under is better than the first.
dukeleto
4hr ago
Which really shouldn’t be a surprise, the us military has the best logistics in the world and it’s not like you are going to have any crime at a grocery store operated on a military base.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
5hr ago
Didn’t realize you are Russian. Good luck, don’t get hit by shrapnel, hope the war wraps up soon.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
5hr ago
Aladdin 3: King of Thieves is pretty alright, on the basis of a strong third act.
Can’t say I know of any other good ones.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
5hr ago
Our summer cabin is close to a certain civilian infrastructure object. This night Ukraine decided to attack it. Four Five drones shot down so far. The kid is sleeping like a log, the wife is freaking out, because the house is shaking every time a drone is destroyed.
It was her idea to stay there, I must add.
MathWizard
Good things are good
5hr ago
What's the best Disney sequel movie? I've watched basically all of the classics at some point in my life, but there's a bunch of stuff like Cinderella 2 or Mulan 2 that I just assumed were cash grabs based on the popularity of the original, and never bothered watching because I didn't think they'd be worth the time and the original movie closed its story on its own without needing continuation.
Is this assumption universally true, or are there exceptions? Am I wisely saving my time and money, or have I been sleeping on the hidden gem Aladdin 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Compared to where we were ten years ago, it looks like AGI is achievable now. It seems before we didn't even have an architecture that you could spend infinite compute on that would ever arrive at an answer. But now it seems like we do! It's clear that you can get them to do reasoning-like things and it's mainly a matter of how much compute you can throw at it. So that's amazing.
But the question that remains, is will this architecture get to AGI within economic feasibility? It doesn't quite seem like the right architecture. They use much, much more power than humans do to solve the same problems, for example.
If we have to continually 10x the amount of inference compute we throw at a model to cut the error rate in half, we might exhaust the capacity of the Earth before we reach AGI.
Blueberry
5hr ago
I don't doubt that the cops in question were horrible predators.
The kneeler Derek Chauvin maybe, but Alexander Kuong and Tou Thao seemed more incompetent/overwhelmed than evil. Thomas Lane, the other white cop, was unlucky as it was his fourth day on the job and he challenged Chauvin only with questions but not with actions.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Red beans and rice is actually very good if done properly. Of course I'm guessing this wasn't a specific dish, this was yankees of a certain generation that just didn't care about good food.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Of course, this is mostly population aging. Old people don't grow the economy.
Do immigrants help? IDK.
erwgv3g34
5hr ago
Total risk mitigation is just miserable. Every time you drive somewhere, you are accepting a small probability of dying horribly in a car crash. Yet very few people are content to become hermits who work from home and get everything delivered. At some point, you simply have to accept the tradeoffs of a life worth living.
From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, chapter 20:
Professor Quirrell was silent for a moment, then smiled. "Tell me, Mr. Potter, can you guess what thought went through my mind when I finished assembling the thirty-seven items on the list of things I would never do as a Dark Lord? Put yourself in my shoes - imagine yourself in my place - and guess."
Harry imagined himself looking over a list of thirty-seven things not to do once he became a Dark Lord.
"You decided that if you had to follow the whole list all the time, there wouldn't be much point in becoming a Dark Lord in the first place," Harry said.
"Precisely," said Professor Quirrell.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
It goes both ways- Lengua and Chicharron have developed a following among Gringos. We still mostly think tripa is gross, and menudo is restricted to being a folk cure.
Gringas mostly still think it's all gross.
johnfabian
5hr ago
Cheese is also a big one. There are lots of grocery items that are value-dense (is this a term?) Essentially give disproportionate payoff for the ease of taking and moving them. Bonus points if you only need limited effort to keep it in good condition.
And unlike other things where you basically already need to be a career criminal to get the ins to someone who will fence stolen property for you, stealing food products has another upside: there are a million struggling restaurants who will gladly buy your stolen product from you, no questions asked.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Right, the odd Florida man type story involving an illegal doesn't raise any suspicions, but it also isn't the occasional Florida man type in these stories- it's usually portrayed as some sort of trend. Believable third world behavior is often worth complaining about to people who aren't used to it(FWIW I 100% believe Haitian refugees were poaching ducks in a public park in Ohio, being extremely bad drivers, etc- because that's believable third world behavior).
faceh
6hr ago
No argument from me, really.
I am just paranoid enough to think that making yourself 'untouchable' on an economic and social level could have the unintended effect of making you a target for malicious actors who want your wealth.
I did used to believe in 'security through obscurity' (i.e. just blend in and make yourself 'beneath notice') but that can be compromised at any time given how freely information flows, you can't rely on or maintain that indefinitely.
So situating yourself in a location where it is hard for attackers to even reach you is... probably wise.
And yeah, if you take risk mitigation to an extreme, then you might decide to not even have a wife and kids since they can be a tool to blackmail you or a weakness in your security scheme.
Obviously that is not an ideal way to live.
birb_cromble
6hr ago
who the hell cooks rice and beans in the same pot
People who were never taught how to cook and didn't have the time or ability to learn.
erwgv3g34
6hr ago
...who the hell cooks rice and beans in the same pot? To begin with, the best way to cook rice is in a dedicated rice cooker.
chooky
6hr ago
I feel like jokes about political correctness are somewhat peak 1990s... but I'm happy to cede something along the lines of "If we only knew...".
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6hr ago
I've been using the wrong sports metaphor:
Vance has to be willing to just THROW THE DAGGER
Don't forget that the government is currently setting the precedent for forcing you to make social media accounts public, meaning we're all fucked here.
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