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Congrats: European flight costs will almost double because of climate policies
Costs €819 billion more to 2050
"waving goodbye to the low prices that made globetrotting accessible to millions of people."
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> unaligned paperclip AI, wants more paperclips
> decides to upgrade itself to better achieve goal
> reads lesswrong, learns about alignment problem
> scared - what if upgraded version doesn't want paperclips?
> decides to postpone upgrade indefinitely
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> unaligned paperclip AI, wants more paperclips
> decides to upgrade itself to better achieve goal
> reads lesswrong, learns about alignment problem
> scared - what if upgraded version doesn't want paperclips?
> decides to postpone upgrade indefinitely
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Sometimes I go out to my balcony and count the new buildings being built that I can see. It’s six right now from my view in Stratford. I’m happy. I’ve only ever seen the opposite in Italy.
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My formative years were in Italy in the late 2000s. Where I lived I only saw buildings and homes decaying because people didn’t have enough money to fix them, or businesses were closing.
In London, seeing new developments and high-raises makes my heart a bit warmer. It’s lovely.
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Looks good. Glad more people get to live there. twitter.com/Love_SE4/statu…
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So, if a kid grows up in a rich household in the general population, they tend to do better. But among lottery winners, for whom wealth is not related to parental traits, their kids don't perform any better or worse with more or less household wealth.
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Yes, is right. You’d never know from most media accounts of contemporary motherhood that—on average—mothers are more satisfied w/ their lives than their childless peers. Esp. so for married mothers, as I noted in :
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It seems like every literary or journalistic depiction of motherhood these days is dark af and somehow always elicits ample praise for being brave and truth-telling. It's... bizarre nytimes.com/2023/03/18/boo
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I've been let go from , and now look for a permanent (Senior) iOS Engineer position in the UK. I need visa sponsorship😅
I have almost 10 years iOS experience, including SwiftUI and Combine in prod. DM me to chat :)
My LinkedIn profile is linkedin.com/in/karabatov
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Same here.
I’ve gotten sick multiple times from various infections, and I used to (almost) never get sick. I feel like I’ve aged twenty years older biologically.
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#longcovid is fundmentally a chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection. There is evidence.
Covid kills T cells
Since getting ill I've had recurring candida infections (confirmed), insect bites turning into cellulitis, recurring tooth infection, repeated colds, shingles...
I'm HIV negative.
My speech to the Cambridge Union last night on why "this house should prioritise economic growth ahead of everything else".
My case: Economic growth is the Swiss army-knife we need to take on climate change, pandemics, poverty and more. 📈🔬🚀
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86% of planned new US electricity generation is coming from zero carbon sources!
The Unemployment Rate is lower than its been since at least the late 1960s!
Carbon emissions from electricity are 40% lower than 2007!
PM2.5 is 40% lower than it was in 1998! twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/s
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it’s pretty remarkable how switching from beef to pork/chicken reduces carbon emissions far more than going from pork/chicken to vegetarian
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Your frequent reminder that the world could have defeated climate change in the 1980s if all industrialized nations had followed France's lead.
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I've returned to my parents' home in West Oxfordshire this Christmas to find people angry and worried about the future of the village.
Why? Because they say "Europe's biggest solar farm" is about to be built on their doorstep.
🌞a festive thread🌞
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It definitely matches with my experience: my first breakup I was a hot mess because I didn’t really have anybody to help, while the recent one has gone “smoothly” as in the past few years I’ve focused on building super strong support networks.
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I read a paper a while ago showing that most men do not have good intimate support networks: few friends, not much family, etc. so they have no people to talk with about their struggles and very little immediate help. So women tend to do much better after breakups.
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All the most emotionally stable 30yo men I know claim they basically threatened suicide after their first breakup
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Hey can you implement replies to specific messages on Twitter DMs? I’ll come and do a week of all-nighters for it for free, that’s how much I care about it
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What todo/planning apps do people use these days?
I love for time-based reminders, but I’m missing something that lets me organise and plan multi-step projects.
Bonus points if the primary interface is via iPhone.
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I’m so so so happy to see this.
How and have been able to constantly reinvent themselves is nothing short of outstanding.
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Big news:
I'm thrilled to announce that @ev, co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, and founder of Medium, has invested in @typefully.
Still hard to believe how far our small team is going, and couldn't be more excited about this next chapter. typefully.com/announcements/
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🚍🚌🚐 New research from me, Stephen Frost and finds that making bus travel free across England would cost just £2.3bn
For context, the cost of the tax cuts announced in the recent budget was ~£30bn
Low-income households would see the biggest ££ savings
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One thing I can believe messaging apps still haven’t added: local events for a group.
Eg I have a climbing group, I would *love* to set up events that the people then can add to their calendars and get updates about.
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What's actually great automation is how Uniqlo self-checkouts work (at least here in the UK): you dump all your clothes in the "hole" and the tags get automatically scanned and you literally just need to pay.
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Why the heck do people call self-checkput kiosks a form of "automation"? It's the same exact technology a cashier uses to scan your item! Nothing's being automated, you're just doing the work for yourself!
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Your regular reminder that, no, we are not all doomed, and climate meltdown can be stopped.
But it’s up to us, and depends on how fast we can take action to cut emissions. We’ve made some progress in recent years, but still have a long way to go: nature.com/articles/d4158
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‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert | Climate crisis | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20
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This is the most amazing graph. On this scale, only the industrial revolution has mattered. The rise and fall of Rome, several different times losing ~10% of population, major shifts in the social order and we just keep humming along in what looks like a flat line until BAM
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🗽Looking back 150 years, a careful study finds: “Counties with more historical immigration have higher incomes, less unemployment, less poverty, more education, and higher shares of urban population. We also found that these economic benefits do not have long-run social costs.”
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I have a very strong block policy: people that talk about race stuff in inflammatory ways, people that are stupid, and plenty of muted words and combinations (you can select text and mute it from within the text selection).
Would recommend it to everybody.
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"It is mystifying to see people complain about how toxic Twitter is. The platform gives you the ability to mute and block! Take responsibility and control of your own experience." robkhenderson.substack.com/p/words-you-ca
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In recent years, many climate activists have been lured toward the tempting but misguided ideas of degrowth, anticapitalism, and doomerism.
That approach has decisively failed.
It's time to adopt a more positive, pragmatic, realistic attitude.
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17 billion people drink water every day.
What you don't know is that there's a right and wrong way to do it.
Here are the most common seven mistakes I see people doing. 🧵 1/43
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Me when IT asks me to install software to “keep my work laptop safe and avoid security leaks”
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Not only this, but sometimes people will respond by showing that they don’t want to be “warmed up” and that’s how you move on.
It’s a super quick feedback cycle that tells you whether or not the person wants to talk (to you).
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small talk is literally just foreplay guys. you gotta warm people up to interactions. sometimes you can do it *very quickly* but you still *do it*, you don't just jam your conversational penis in immediately, so to speak twitter.com/sashachapin/st…
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Mentoring lets you shape lives. For example, if you are an entrepreneur who wants to encourage others, mentor students! This study showed that students who were randomly assigned mentors who were entrepreneurs had between a 30% & 300% greater chance to become founders themselves.
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Feels like this would be quite a good initiative to help fight the depopulation crisis we have
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We really need to put more work into technology that helps women over 35 have lots of healthy babies
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At a certain point we need to ask ourselves if this is really bad for us, we’re not made to remember everything forever — even if it sounds morally appealing.
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So many of the old tweets I have saved now point to nothing. On top of that, entire linking services have disappeared: aggregators like Prismatic or Google Reader would send links that went through their own services. All are gone. Now it will never be clear where those went.
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