John Q Public

Sure, that fair! there’s a larger increase in the last few years but I‘m not wedded to the idea that it’s super recent rather than chronic.

deleted this because I think I’ll regret getting involved in it but! even in that case, isn’t that a decline in the standard of living?

Basically suburban bubble-era-style McMansions are so hideous I‘d rather believe it‘s at least cheaper than that there are millions of people who genuinely think they look nice

Also helps if the houses are well built: making a house that fits on its lot and uses building space really efficiently is harder for the builder than just going “oh fuck we have some space left over there? guess it’s a mud room”

Thinking about that carefully economizes on land but prob costs more

I would, ideally, like a big SFH with a yard (that someone else mows) right in the middle of a dense city

Obviously not everyone can have that and I’m not a billionaire, so, uh, tradeoffs

the nice thing about yimby is I don’t need to establish whether, deep in their hearts, Americans want SFHs or apartments or which ones of each

let people build the things they want and they’ll sort that out

Very likely most Americans want a SFH, yeah. But also (you can tell because prices are so high) way more want apartments than can currently get them.

We gotta legalize new construction enough for both groups to get what they want

(sorry sorry I had to)

1. Me: "who's edmund gettier?"
2. Me: "knowledge is justified true belief"
3. The world: "happily it turns out the counterexamples don't matter very much"

=> Do I "know" that knowledge is JTB?

Remember when we were back-of-the-enveloping this and it seems like GPT-5 is around the size of an ant brain?

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There’s a lot of this, and (more on the site formerly known as Twitter than here) also a lot of people getting polarized into “AGI in six months“ and “why do *you* need a job anyway” out of exactly the same kind of spite

A VLA that Learns from Experience A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.

Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06

A unipolar Chinese-led world, yeah

Those are also weird! All the different kinds of spectrum you have to keep straight

Some people say you’re not healthy enough to keep working through a dementia diagnosis, but I gotta say Mr. President I think you could do it like no one else could. Isn’t that right?

Reporters should just start asking him if he’s been diagnosed with anything. or preferably work it into questions in a slightly sneaky way.

The more demented he gets the more he won’t be able to realize he shouldn’t just answer accurately

Though if history is any guide, it will stick around longer than Larry likes

My own inadequacies? Staring me in the face?

That can’t be allowed

I’m sure they didn’t say it to her face, but that must have been a lot of the motivation for that bizarre Meghan Markle show

“NO, NOT LIKE THAT”

No catch, only throw

Comrade Stalin, a known right-reactionary pig, failed to abolish the gulag because he was too soft to [redacted]

…no, this isn’t cosplay, why do you ask

to python installations, we are roko’s basilisk

social media is also good at making things like that

110%

I'm not really talking about the original story here and will delete this because I now expect it'll get a bunch of angry replies

infinitesimally thin sphere and ball with nonzero volume behave differently and the latter part I find unintuitive

yeah, the *sphere* as such (i.e., points x s.t. d(x, 0) = r for some radius r) doesn't even have a non-empty boundary to talk about closeness to, but the *ball* (i.e., points x s.t. d(x, 0) <= r, though the conclusion is the same if it's open) does

"morally absolute language that also starts fights" is a writing prompt, like there are books in there

even the ones who don't frequently get moralistically angry at the idea that they might need to moderate their language in any way to persuade others, as though that's a serious form of oppression

I think that reaction in turn is a stop along the road to meaning the slogan sincerely

while abolishing prison wouldn't necessarily turn into Mad Max, the alternative is a traditional society with a lot of informal community-based violence and a formal apparatus that would kill, exile or enslave you if forced to notice you