The initial wave of covid was killing 20% of the people hospitalized with it because we didn't have any effective treatment lined up. If we hadn't interrupted everyone's lives, there'd have been hundreds of millions dead.
This feels like the sign of successful intervention. If people's lives had been interrupted less I bet they'd have been way more traumatized by the amount of death that happened.
Oh damn, I didn't know that. Apparently Yud has no academic credentials at all? He's a guy who read some Vernor Vinge and got freaked out by AI and managed to turn that into a whole career? How does that work?
"Oh he wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationalty?"
No, the OTHER niche famous cs guy who wrote some mediocre fiction...
Yeah, Scott Alexander gets mentioned about once every six months and I have to Google him each time to remind myself he's the "niche famous cs guy who wrote some mediocre fiction"
Okay, I've never understood this but is Jesus holding Baby Jesus in this picture?
I prefer the "We All Know Where This Is Going" strategy, where you buy stuff when it crosses 50% and sell when it gets to 80%.
This might be the day's dumbest take. "Credit card debt goes up when times are good, and creditcard debt is up therefore times are good!"
And an additional lol for "banks aren't keen to lend to people who won't pay them back." What was the whole deal in 2008 again?
I was thinking that the problem with Dem leadership is that they're not only weak but cannot even conceive of what strength would look like.
But I think your explanation is more plausible: they don't oppose this because they want it and are happy to not have to justify it.
They made a pretty good single player FPS level back in the day. Should do that again.
It's you, dog.
"Be prepared to nuke data centers. Praise be to Allah."
--Eliezer Yudkowsky
Credit where it's due: Ahab never put boots on the ground anywhere in the world during his quest for revenge.
You could have easily convinced me this was AI.
That's a skill issue. I could hire 5, maybe 6.
Meticulously filling in the alt text as I post that one image from Snowcrash that kills you when you see it.
An astounding bad AI image pretending to be a painting of Christ on the cross, but the cross is like something MC Escher would draw, and there's another smallerbl cross over Jesus' crotch like we're looking at the box art for a porno
I know this AI art looks like shit, but you gotta understand how hard it is to find a public domain image of Christ on the cross.
Wait do y'all not know about the Waffle House fast travel system
Blocking is good, but sometimes I enjoy the strategic ambiguity of muting. I like the idea of somebody crashing out, oblivious to the fact that I'm oblivious to them.
Same actor though!
I'm morbidly curious what he thinks the "other stuff" is that moderates should stick to, because outside of bloodthirst in the middle east, moderate Dems act like they're prepared to compromise on everything
Ooooh, I thought it was 'Critical' in the sense that there was just enough Race packed in there that the emitted Theory particles would create a sustained reaction.
Sounds good! Just wanted to be sure.
Okay but which words should be spelled that way?
Kinda confused by America's gender reveal party.
I think it's overly optimistic to assume there's some sort of coherent Machiavellian plan instead of dipshits who aren't actually smart or good at anything making essentially arbitrary decisions that they think will work better than they do.
It was a lot of fun watching that "Bluesky is a low predator environment" guy find out that it just looks that way because they're all ambush predators.
