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Super triggered by this paper.
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Anyone got a theory for why Putin does the "repairs" bit when cutting off gas to Europe? Domestic Russian politics? To give plausible deniability to allies? Legal technicalities?
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I think the way many of us deal with this is very gentle hints (as a host) and just having a hair-trigger to leave as a guest. Which sort of works, but miscommunication is pretty common, and seriously, what are we doing here.
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But since it's rude to ask someone to leave, you don't do it unless you're desperate. And guests KNOW that, which makes it hurtful for them. (Which makes us more hesitant...)
A self-fulfilling way to make it difficult to communicate our needs to each other. Very silly. (2/2)
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We've painted ourselves into a corner by having a norm against asking guests to leave.
If you're at someone else's place, it's fine to say "I feel like going home!" and then leave. (1/2)
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What's most surprising here?
1: A slight majority say "yes god"
2: "yes god" folks more likely to choose P=NP.
3: 46% of people say N=NP.
(I say 3)
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Does P = NP? Do you believe in god?
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Do you want to be happier? These days everyone says to do gratitude practice, you'll be happier, healthier, sleep better, make more friends, etc.
Well, I recently read a couple dozen of the original papers, and I think this fixation is a mistake.
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What kind of broken society puts The Doors on this list but excludes The Cure?
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Which is better?
- A72.7%
- B6.1%
- Equal6.1%
- Incomparable15.2%
33 votesFinal results
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Which is better?
A: World with N people with very high utility + 3N people with small positive utility.
B:: World with N people with very high utility + N/3 people with moderate negative utility.
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Which is better?
- A15.6%
- A+68.8%
- Equal0%
- Incomparable15.6%
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Which is better?
A: World with N people with very high utility.
A+: World with N people with very high utility + N people with merely high utility?
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Is there any theory of utilitarianism premised on the idea that consciousness is real but selfhood is an illusion?
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I somewhat this problem by setting my display language to one I do not speak. So I still see all this useless nonsense, but I don't understand it.
Granted, this solution is not without its downsides...
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How did we go from "follow people to see their posts" on Twitter to "fuck you, here are posts from people you've never seen before oh and double fuck you 90% of stuff you see will be from people you don't actually follow or know"..
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I tracked my scores playing a chess puzzle game for a year in the hopes of learning something about changes in cognitive performance. dynomight.substack.com/p/puzzle-storm
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Something I really wonder about is when there's dysfunctional cultural patterns is it best to argue with those patterns, or should you just help grow communities that don't share those patterns.
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what's especially strange is that *both* the pomelo (left) sweet orange (right) are supposed to be much less bitter than the grapefruit
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I always though "pamplemousse" was the greatest onomatopoeia in any language. But apparently:
1. In Swiss/Belgian/Québécois French, it means grapefruit.
2. In French French, it means pomelo.
3. The grapefruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and orange.
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oh my god grapefruit is a hybrid not a "real" fruit very disturbing
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Things like wood smoke, sugar, and tobacco all once seemed "normal".
Statins get stuck on an enzyme to block your body from making mevalonic acid, and later cholesterol, which lowers your blood pressure. That's incredibly weird, but "take drug from doctor" is considered normal.
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I think there's some relationship to how people refuse to believe that aspartame is safe.
I think the model is just:
Normal stuff: Safe in moderation.
Weird stuff: Unsafe, bad, unhealthy.
This is an OK heuristic, but frankly it's not all that good.
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Why do people assert things like this so confidently? There is overwhelming evidence that alcohol is associated with cancer, even at small amounts. (Though the overall health impact is unclear since light drinking might aid cardiovascular health.)
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I somewhere heard a claim that the primary purpose of food is not energy, but rather entropy: We take in low-entropy food and emit high-entropy waste, thereby keeping the entropy of our bodies in check.
Is this total nonsense? (Seems plausible, but maybe too "fun" to be true...)
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Berries are (sort of) densely packed flower petals. Rhino horns are (sort of) densely packed hair. Are there other examples (or a name) for this pattern?
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Anyway, here's a longer version of this argument: (5/5)
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I just find it weird that these critiques don't address these types of second-order consequences, because I'd conjecture that our moral intuitions are a *result* of those second-order effects. (4/5)
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This is, doesn't murdering someone so you can save 5 others have a huge negative externality on the rest of the world? Doesn't that have utilitarian consequences? (3/5)
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People assume these are morally equivalent. But are they? Personally, I'd be OK living in a world where trains might be re-routed onto me, but I'd be unhappy knowing that anyone I love could be killed at any time if their organs were needed. (2/5)
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There's something about these types of arguments against utilitarianism that I always find unconvincing. Compare these two actions.
1. Switching a train to kill 1 person tied to a track instead of 5.
2. Murdering someone so you can save 5 others with their organs. (1/5)
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In the last week alone, the effective altruist movement has been on the cover of The New Yorker, The NYT, and Time Magazine. It has billions in funding, and wants to make the world a better place.
The problem is that it's poisonous. 
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If you can't resist the urge to make your blog look like this, do what I did: create a second text-only landing page for everyone to ignore
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every SF nerd has a blog that gets 5 weekly readers and looks exactly like this
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my conspiracy theory is that everyone secretly feels a little angry when they see these guys
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I wrote a response (but not really a disagreement) with 's recent article on how prestige media outlets get away with copypasta.
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Mirror life is a completely insane concept.
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