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  1. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · repostRT @CkLorentzen: @JimDMiller Back in the early 70s, nobody was suggesting making it mandatory to wear seatbelts on odd-numbered days. And i…
  2. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Lacking a second X chromosome is bad for your health, that's just an unfortunate biological fact. 😏
  3. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@cdixon Are there routers that integrate tokens into their routing tables? Has IANA tokenized address ownership? Are there smart contracts for outage compensation or peering and transit or server scaling that somehow use blockchain tokens? How does one "own" a piece of the internet?
  4. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@bipimbop @Aella_Girl Yeah I've sampled quite a few, not buying this distribution unless men are thinking length not circumference.
  5. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · repostRT @alexeyguzey: smart outsider wins yet again https://t.co/QuxAzGr4Cx
  6. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@mariajgilbert @AlecStapp @dylanmatt I'm fine with receiving nothing; I don't like being lectured about ingratitude for that nothing... Tbh I do kinda resent being erased in media by the presumption that "everyone" received checks, so I just like to point out that I exist too.
  7. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@AlecStapp @dylanmatt Well *personally* I received none of the above... Presumably averting a recession is good for everyone, and my stock impulse buys in Mar 2020 certainly performed well. Still waiting to see how inflation plays out though...
  8. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · repostRT @NotSoSmolBirb: @robinhanson We introverts need a Diogenes Club, at least from time to time.
  9. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@aburisotto @gcochran99 @TeaGeeGeePea @razibkhan Weeding out net-negative contributors otoh... If you're adding gobs of poorly written buggy code I want you off the team asap. But on the Ed front I think the argument is to put limited teaching resources toward the most productive learners, less relevant now than in the past
  10. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@brianwaterstone @Aella_Girl Or you're not sociopathic and don't want to wish into existence an extra $1M which would increase wealth inequality / add to inflation. If offered $1M worth of additional durable goods I would choose differently.
  11. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Probably having a hole punched in the wall. But the more interesting comparison is 2 hr silent treatment vs 30 min yelling...
  12. Sep 26, 2021Twitter · reply@cafedujord Hm technically not my parents as they're Republican YIMBYs who advocate for less red tape and more density in the middle of their town.
  13. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · repostRT @28delayslater: Like @elonmusk or not. You have to credit him for getting Tesla owners excited to push a button, which at this point onl…
  14. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog His next gf will be a customized Tesla Bot... The only way to fully resolve his work/life challenge.
  15. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@Capinstax @andmoo222 @nntaleb I maintain, harder than you think / 50M is not such a large net worth compared to the truly rich. If you know of a good advisor in Virginia I'd love a recommendation?
  16. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@abusurdist Nah, it's the ones selling their code to the cheaters that don't want the barriers torn down...
  17. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · repostRT @ModFarm: In the near future, bugs may help supplement our food supply on a massive scale, ensuring people have adequate protein sources…
  18. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@nntaleb True, I love the Elevation Burger vegan burger because it tastes like vegetable, not like it's trying to pretend to be meat.
  19. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@engineers_feed Bipolar, per Kanye
  20. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@andmoo222 @nntaleb And all of this is kinda ok as long as ppl understand and expect it- the markets cool off and the wealth gap narrows as everyone in the market loses some of their paper gains, and everyone is happy because the rich are no longer quite *as* rich
  21. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@andmoo222 @nntaleb Sure, that works, until the govt tries to sell to realize the gain and has the same experience... And realistically the markets anticipate predictable events so the price would start to dip as soon as it is clear what shares would be sold
  22. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@Capinstax @andmoo222 @nntaleb 🙄 harder than you think to find a good tax advisor, but my point was political- that just as a wealth tax goes into effect, net worth numbers will go down, tax receipts will be less than advertised, and people will react with "there they go again cheating the system"
  23. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@Aella_Girl Vegetarianism and artistic aspirations, yeah he had some pros to go along with the murderous megalomaniac con
  24. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · repostRT @VitalikButerin: @sunnya97 The whole "8 cofounders" thing (and choosing them so quickly and nondiscriminately).
  25. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog Turns out the button is only enabled after you find the little man in the boat...
  26. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@Aella_Girl @Nearcyan Yeah at least once for curiosity's sake
  27. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply(also, #GondolaNow )
  28. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · post😺💃🎊 best news in a long time https://wtop.com/entertainment/2021/09/blues-alley-reopens-in-georgetown-rumors-of-our-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/amp/
  29. Sep 25, 2021Twitter · reply@satsminded @AlecStapp Can it be done on a scale that would satisfy current demand, and still be carbon negative?
  30. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@abusurdist 😂 it me
  31. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @lexfridman: Most hard problems seem to have simple solutions that are obvious in retrospect. The challenge then is to invent solutions…
  32. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias 🙄 and they didn't even ask about a climate tax on beef
  33. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@diviacaroline Idk about asymptomatic, but my depressive episodes are indistinguishable from flu symptoms so historically I've had to ignore symptoms and go to work anyway because it's unlikely to be flu (and I always get a flu shot for this reason)
  34. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@missmcqu @mattyglesias Hanging out in a 55+ gated comm in FL atm, know of two deaths of unvaxxed senior neighbors, and another who became symptomatic, flew to her other house, caused an outbreak among her friends there, and is still on a vent.
  35. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@andmoo222 @nntaleb I'm not saying existing valuations are *wrong* exactly, but that absolute numbers are misleading because money isn't real.
  36. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@andmoo222 @nntaleb Yeah if you dump a large chunk of extra shares on the market the price will go down at least a little... And if you try to extract a 3% wealth tax from investors collectively, there will be even less money available in the market to buy.
  37. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@nntaleb More than this, you need to remember that if a major shareholder is forced to liquidate a significant chunk of their holdings to pay a tax, the price will fall and even the pretax realized gains will not match the hypothetical value
  38. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@micsolana Meanwhile... https://t.co/2QAvkGjfIV
  39. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@Austen Depends which outcome you assume we're optimizing... If % of budget to Admin is our metric, we've been doing great!
  40. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky To me, the fact that lab leak hasn't been ruled *out* by now is somewhat alarming and suggests we should have international treaties around risky research requiring stronger safety and surveillance protocols.
  41. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @xkcd: Symbols http://xkcd.com/2520 https://t.co/jd4NWH1rql
  42. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@krishnanrohit Personal theory is that good writing follows Hofstadter's law... Bigger budget = less flexible schedule, more likely to grab a draft and call it good enough.
  43. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@Aella_Girl Billionaires are more moral than the poor and certain ethnicities produce a disproportionate number of billionaires because they are genetically superior.
  44. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@JoshRosenau @ESYudkowsky Horse dewormer Ivermectin is an apple-flavored white paste you squeeze into their mouth. As I recall you'd turn a dial to match the horse's weight so it would squeeze out the right dose...
  45. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @sentientist: OK, unfollowing now. I loved their neighing, prancing and shiny coats. I admired their vegetarianism. But I didn't realize…
  46. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@pwcdanica Is there any way to get checked off the list anyway? It's most convenient for me to vote when I'll already be at my polling location on election day and all the intervening contacts do not increase my odds of voting.
  47. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@pwcdanica What's the logic behind pushing early voting- if I'll be a pollworker at my home precinct on election day is there some advantage to me voting early?
  48. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@abecedarius @robinhanson Most of the ppl I'm thinking of are internet / network / security engineers / analysts / architects of one flavor or another...
  49. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson In building tech-for-techies, SME is a useful term to distinguish "people who know the domain / end user goals" from "people who are experts at building the solution"
  50. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @SmithInAmerica: Moon rock in the Oval Office. https://t.co/8CCyeoPcFt
  51. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · postHow times have changed.... Just got off a company-wide Zoom meeting promoting the benefits of CBD/CBG 😂
  52. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@goodtaxtakes I'd love to see the charitable deduction changed into a charitable donation matching program between the govt and the 503c directly and use as leverage for more transparency from charities desiring the extra funds.
  53. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @ATabarrok: Wisdom from @tylercowen. “You have to learn to learn from people who bother, annoy, or frustrate you. If you do, they will…
  54. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@goodtaxtakes Idk, seems like you'd just reorg your mortgages so you maintain 750K on a primary residence? Imo get rid of the deduction entirely (SALT too).
  55. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @USNatArchives: Civil War #maps from the Army Corps of Engineers have been digitized and are available to view and download from our onl…
  56. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Yeah, I guess most wouldn't turn out well, but I'm sure EY will have AI safety sorted soon, so we'll have many opportunities to find the right combination?
  57. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Deeply flawed mothers sometimes raise amazing human beings in spite of themselves... It would be harder for me to believe that we can't transcend ourselves.
  58. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Our "ideals" are scattered across Twitter... If trolling and cool ironic comments outweigh sincerity who's fault is that?
  59. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · quoteThis is the normal state of affairs in any govt agency, and why I'm so excited for someone smarter than humans to take over. https://x.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1441090314970669067
  60. Sep 24, 2021Twitter · repostRT @JodyBarr: Here’s something I’ve never seen before & can’t find anywhere: a fed agent seized $115K from a man @RDUAirport. The agent say…
  61. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · repostRT @QiaochuYuan: so especially at the upper end of ability and accomplishment, tech and similar places in academia end up with an abundance…
  62. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@VulcanCentaur Disturbing glimpse into my future...
  63. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · repostRT @l4rz: the catgirl synthesizer has reached a certain level of readiness. my concerns that increasing the dimensionality of 𝑍 & 𝑊 might m…
  64. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · repostRT @molly_struve: git commit -m "you are going to regret this" git push
  65. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · repostRT @Duderichy: Imagine being this stupid. https://t.co/0nkONfUlqu
  66. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@AvianDentures (though if Bots can substitute for human labor it's a different story and I look forward to universal leisure)
  67. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@AvianDentures It doesn't make sense to me how everyone could have access to basic goods and services without employing a labor force to produce those goods and services? If wages skyrocket, prices will follow, and UBI will chase increasing inflation or no longer cover CoL?
  68. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@AvianDentures And yet the goal of UBI is that no one has to work hard?
  69. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@nicholasadeleon @Patrick_Wyman @TheAtlantic When they intersect you get creatures like my Rep Don Beyer, sigh.
  70. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@TwitchiH @ajmkenyon2002 @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity Bipolar creativity is great for generating new design concepts and easily pivoting when I get negative feedback- also useful for debugging ("When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.")
  71. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@mer__edith I hope the horses will be carefully rehomed by a rescue, not sold at auction?
  72. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@Johann_Hellkite @ESYudkowsky @zmpster And there are legit criticisms of our healthcare system when it is so much easier and cheaper to buy vet meds than get proper human healthcare... And otoh overuse of Ivermectin in sheep dips etc leading to anthelmintic resistance, sigh.
  73. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@coelliptic @mattyglesias Don't forget, MattY lives in Washington DC... Lowest common denominator shitshow for us is Jan 6th
  74. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@DrSummerRankin @QuinnyPig Yeah I did some experimenting and found that I get taken more seriously on tech topics when I'm in a hoodie and flip flops... If I dress nicely I get treated as a secretary.
  75. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · quoteYay, Tesla service center within walking distance of home! https://x.com/WBJNeibs/status/1441075519940972544
  76. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@SenTinaSmith Or racking up 100K in student loans and refusing to pay because college should be free? 😏
  77. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@yhdistyminen I've concluded that caring about "gentrification" is a progressive excuse for maintaining segregated housing and not investing in nice public works in poor areas.
  78. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@yhdistyminen If you go by who has the deeper local connections, I belong; if you believe that everyone should buy the most expensive housing they can afford in the neighborhood that most matches their skin tone, I don't.
  79. Sep 23, 2021Twitter · reply@yhdistyminen I think it is rarely so clear-cut. On one hand I'm a high-income white gentrifier who bought a home in a diverse affordable immigrant neighborhood, on the other my grandparents lived nearby back in the 60s and I've lived within a few block radius since college.
  80. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · reply@oscredwin Or in favor of civil asset forfeiture, sigh...
  81. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky @primalpoly If we're doing a female Thor, I'd also like to see a male Little Mermaid 😏
  82. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · repostRT @RichardHanania: There are policy implications to the fact some amateurs can forecast the future better than subject-matter experts. Gov…
  83. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · reply@primalpoly Ugh I'd prefer we de-emphasize gender when possible- let me dress up as Spiderman without telling me that identifying with a male character means I must be a man in a woman's body and in need of gender reassignment surgery to correct my dysphoria.
  84. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · quote😂 dying... https://x.com/stevenstrogatz/status/1440639550477373451
  85. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Would a version of your prediction markets work to reward critics who best predict median reaction per consumer segment?
  86. Sep 22, 2021Twitter · repostRT @primalpoly: @eigenworld Studying philosophy is exactly like studying evolution.... if you take away all of evolution's empirical data,…
  87. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@RepDonBeyer If we're passing bills without GOP support, why not just repeal the debt limit entirely?
  88. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias Five Guys, from its humble origins on Columbia Pike, is now an indicator of gentrification on the other side of the river? 🤔
  89. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · quote"the United States, with just over 4 percent of the world’s population, was responsible for 24 percent of all emissions from passenger flights. And within the US, just 12 percent of adults take 68 percent of the flights." https://x.com/thenation/status/1440413526728740871
  90. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@abusurdist Quick search found this - https://austinbarkitecture.com/pet-hair-vacuum-attachment/ might work, with a bit of training and positive reinforcement?
  91. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@abusurdist Idk about dogs, but they def make horse vacuums: https://www.valleyvet.com/c/horse-supplies/horse-grooming/grooming-aids/horse-grooming-dryers-vacuums.html
  92. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@ATabarrok Intrafamily banking is more attractive than ever... Whoever wrote those '08 mortgage regulations must've been a big fan of inherited wealth?
  93. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@Snowball_o0O Plus wouldn't Tesla license their software to other manufacturers who want to install it in other cars? If the "hard part" of understanding the world is transferrable to the Bot, it should easily transfer to slightly different car specs?
  94. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@amandamull @GroundedReason But do they *know* how to pay more for better, reliably? I used to try to buy quality, but at this point idk how to determine in advance what is actually higher quality vs what is paying for a fancy label, so I default to buy cheap and upgrade later if not satisfied.
  95. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@Musicnerddanny @fawfulfan Particularly with Atlanta being the busiest passenger airport in the world (pre-covid)...
  96. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@bryan_caplan You do have a pretty good track record...
  97. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@mbs59er 🤔 this would be consistent if they believe that the rich are currently paying *more* than their "fair share"...
  98. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@JakeLobin If this is true, you should be in favor of converting all existing revenue streams into a flat % income tax as a way of increasing progressiveness over the current system? I'm good with that.
  99. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · repostRT @MaxCRoser: The 'Living Planet Index' measures how the populations of the world's wild animals change over time. Globally the Index sho…
  100. Sep 21, 2021Twitter · reply@engineers_feed Birthplace of social media and Mormonism