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When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. Director of Effective Altruism DC linktr.ee/andymasley

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Just a very weird way of engaging

27.11.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Giant utility refuses to build out capacity to address growth, instead collects greater fees at lower costs until things come to a head; blames bogeyman. News at 11

27.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Goo goo ga ga

27.11.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

"Still around" here meaning "There was an uptick of sad stupid people getting into the idea in the 2010s for attention, but those avenues for attention have since dried up"

27.11.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes

27.11.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Capitalist and will remain

27.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re incredibly walled off and should really bother to try to read a little more about the world beyond this bubble you’re in

27.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

Throughout most of history capitalists have just said they’re capitalists

27.11.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Not several, I actually personally own most data centers in America

27.11.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not "worked up" I'm patiently correcting people blatantly lying to environmentalists about who caused the problem (the farmers)

27.11.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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This one specifically joker-fied me

27.11.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exhibit 9821 in "It is actually very bad to lie to environmentalists because this will always cause worse environmental choices to be made"

27.11.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What do you think it shows?

27.11.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting swarmed by communists is honestly kind of really funny. Like oh yeah you guys are still around.

27.11.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Exponentially?

27.11.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‡

26.11.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Get 'em

26.11.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One day all turkeys will be pardoned

26.11.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

No I'm the last 150 years of intellectual progress stuck together

26.11.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm worried I'm becoming, like, an Abundance Leninist Developmental State guy

26.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The labor theory of value is stupid and wrong and you're nuts for believing it

26.11.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes I feel jealous of people who haven’t used LLMs at all. Imagine the first LLM you talk to being like Opus 6 and you get the full impact of progress at once

26.11.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0
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As Mass. pushes for big batteries on the grid, some communities push back Massachusetts officials says batteries will bring down energy costs and help the grid run on more renewables. But there's a growing movement of people who say they don't want this technology in their ...

Exhibit A www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

26.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How big of a hit to the economy would it be if we abolished prison labor, which I am to be clear in favor of abolishing? Would capitalism stop working if we did that?

26.11.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think someone's gender and sexual identity is just completely different from whether them attacking someone else using weird sexualized insults looks bad

26.11.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The internet is significantly worse than a few years ago imo

26.11.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope, I just also think this comes off as very disturbed to the average reader

26.11.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Rune's from Norway, not Sweden!

26.11.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I think these weird sexualized insults are a little more off putting than you might think and aren't really doing your side any favors

26.11.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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One Giant Leap: Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Here you go, this is the widespread consensus among mainstream economists www.nber.org/papers/w31758

26.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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