In US, driving takes 51min/day, & causes 40K of 2.8M deaths. That's 3.5% of time, but only 1.4% of deaths. So relative to its place in our lives, driving is not that dangerous. Yet we see danger as justifying big freedom limits we not accept elsewhere: license, insure, visible ID
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Replying to @robinhanson
Who gave this illiterate person a blue check? Human existence is a fucking bathtub curve, you can't just compare auto deaths with everything else by averaging over an entire life. Check the hazard rates!
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Replying to @orkoliberal @robinhanson
the ability to disagree with robin calmly and politely is a fairly good litmus test for Virtue
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Replying to @eigenrobot @robinhanson
Dude doesn't deserve a professorship if he's just gonna throw a bunch of bullshit numbers at the wall like this. You can't just make basically illiterate proclamations about risk & safety and expect people to think you are a serious person.
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Replying to @orkoliberal @robinhanson
would you say you're playing a finite or infinite game rn
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Replying to @eigenrobot @robinhanson
Tenure-track positions are in high demand. One would think folks wouldn't just give them away to folks who make persuasive claims on Twitter without any rigor about subjects they appear to know very little about
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Replying to @orkoliberal @robinhanson
but why are you angry you can just say "I don't think that is right for reasons x y z" who is this thought experiment hurting
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more generally "here is something I don't understand and how I'm thinking about it" is a very helpful starting point to finding out Interesting things
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Replying to @eigenrobot @robinhanson
That's not the purpose of said tweet, but even if it was he hasn't seemed to have "learned" anything given all his tweets that basically double-down on the same mistake he keeps making over and over
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ok u can be mad but u wont enjoy it much
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