bubbling creek

never mind you're right

ok come on it's a very good joke but it's not that complicated

you can do both at the same time

lmao

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truth nuke, fanfic authors devastated

I think I misunderstood what you meant

He intentionally shaped his policies and image to appeal to NYC dem primary voters, if he tries to do something bigger he will move to the center and present himself differently

I could believe a good football coach is counterfactual to a lot of revenue in a way an english professor isn't, a somewhat worse english teacher wouldn't prevent the 30-50 students from coming

I see no problem here this is just his revealed preference

the thing is this is also true whenever humans do mental math

this isn’t right, height is observably heritable but is explained by a lot of snps

experiencing all 8,000 tweets per second at the same time

Just think for a moment about the rate of improvement over the past decade, then think about what will come in 10, 20, 30

this is still the water gently lapping at your toes compared to the tsunami that is what AI's going to be a few decades from now at most btw

I think this is the right decision! Here and elsewhere thank you for your good work on bluesky, whatever everyone else says.

probably 90% of people who call themselves longtermists actively dislike Trump, longtermism as a word an EA thing and EAs are generally progressive

most people do both, and longtermists reject the former but not the latter

this is confusing discounting in the base moral logic and discounting as an adjustment for lack of knowledge / limits of thought

no

Quantum field theory - Wikipedia

what are you talking about? we do know exactly how the brain works. it's this, just like everything else en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...

I almost didn't scroll to the bottom

kirk had in the past served as a "bulwark against worse", eg in the so-called "groyper wars" of fuentes vs kirk, but more recently he's been going a lot more to the right and the far rightoids have started grudgingly appreciating him

If you had I'd have wanted to read it

oh yeah other than the (very good) SCPs

have you ever written any published or online fiction?

I think he is a centrist, examples:

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