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  1. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@powerbottomdad1 🤣 my fave movie, esp the part about the 3-letter agency... "why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
  2. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Hah no, I'm flattered to get thoughtful replies 🙂
  3. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 It is so random, but deeply felt like the right response to the situation... And much better than the faceless government disposing of her remains without a celebration.
  4. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 An odd example comes to mind- longtime customer died unexpectedly with no religious ties or family to organize things (estranged over her coming out), my family stepped in to host a big funeral in the facility and invited the community she'd built through her hobby.
  5. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 I do think you have something in mentioning scale though- paternalism where the "parent" is close enough to see the problems firsthand and actually care on a personal level builds trust that is sorely lacking in the leviathan paternalism of a country of millions.
  6. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Yes that, but more than that, a deep sense of responsibility for all the people "beneath" you- employees, tenants, etc, to make sure they're ok and advocate for their best interest.
  7. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 (my family is all over the map politically, but we all get along wonderfully with zero drama because we all defer to my self-made 93 yr old clever and kind granddad who's made us all millionaires)
  8. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 Tbh I feel like noblesse oblige is underrated... But then someone with my background *would* think that.
  9. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@Pathless110 🖕 thanks. Otoh I agree that democracy is broken and voters are morons.
  10. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@primalpoly Or at least "quantitative reasoning" skills tests, which are emphatically not IQ tests per HR (shh about the correlation).
  11. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias Eh, but also add a property tax surcharge per impervious sq ft to cover the water quality & flash flood problems. Anyone who's paved over their entire yard should pay accordingly, whether it is new development or old.
  12. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@tef_ebooks 🤣 been through enough of these... Had an argument with PM because I wanted to do one week sprints, he said the meeting didn't fit on his calendar, I said "that's too bad 🤞" ... Sprint planning is now a productive ~30 mins without his meddlesome attendance.
  13. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@chlosiphus @paranoidlikes Did they end because they were bad matches or for other reasons? And if you'd surveyed a wider pool might you have chosen a better match?
  14. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · repostRT @kb0oty: @paranoidlikes Going out on dates is like showing up for a job interview only to find out it's an MLM.
  15. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@USSpaceLawyer @ARossP See, everyone assumes teachers are trying to cancel standardized testing because it will show how ineffective they were virtually, I tend more to your side, that they're trying to hide how little they add to kids' intrinsic drive to learn.
  16. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson (also, what does "more self-taught" mean? Less formal education? More independent reading and thinking? Experiential learning? Do we consider a MAGA follower who's read 1000s of articles of misinfo more "self-taught" for believing a lot of info not found in college textbooks?)
  17. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson (among your followers, comparing themselves to their mental image of the median Robin Hanson follower... Compared to a GMU econ student I'm more self taught and less libertarian, but compared to all Americans I'm more self taught and *more* libertarian)
  18. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@keith_dorschner Telling him I was test driving everything because I was gonna buy a Cooper Sport unless something else was more fun to drive, and wanted features not available in the Fiesta. Car salesmen are sexist and condescending, ordering a car online for a firm price sounds amazing.
  19. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@keith_dorschner I had a Ford dealer aggressively steer me from a Focus to a Fiesta because he thought it would be "within my price range" as an "unmarried young woman" despite...
  20. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · repostRT @visakanv: If I wanted to grow my audience 10x in 3 months, my content schedule would be like Monday: American politics Tuesday: dating…
  21. Aug 15, 2021Twitter · reply@RationalEtienne @guardian @elonmusk Looks like she's using the list of "most lucrative topics" to churn out click-winning articles. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
  22. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@eugZolotarenko Loopy, both to remind myself of Event Loop implications and because I feel loopy reading OPC.
  23. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@thebestestpie @BecomingCritter Yeah, probably easier than crafting a Tweet sufficiently vile that more people are appalled than new follows who think it's hilariously edgy plus new follows who sincerely think it's a good idea...
  24. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@thebestestpie @BecomingCritter Easy- anytime your followers exceed smol threshold, just write a tweet so offensive that it triggers unfollows...
  25. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@Duderichy Sometimes I think all college students should spend a month doing wilderness survival, really understand on a gut level what it takes to maintain a healthy human life without technology and economies of scale.
  26. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@RationalEtienne Drive, or allow FSD to drive?
  27. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · quote"Reread you imbeciles." 🤣 ... if only all authors were willing to tell you what they think of their readers https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1425899916061184003
  28. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · repostRT @RoNeolibs: @AreNifty Everyone wants to be the main character of their anarcho revolution cyberpunk dystopia novel basically.
  29. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@nntaleb Nah, they say you're a radical for the other side who's sneakily posing as an independent to trick people into thinking you're moderate.
  30. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@PstafarianPrice 2... I might be asking where to buy something similar
  31. Aug 14, 2021Twitter · reply@SH2F088 @Duderichy I recently offended several friends by responding to a claim that homeschooling is inequitable and thus should be banned by asking whether the progressive equity goal is for every parent to provide care just slightly better than what would be considered child abuse...🙊
  32. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@MichaelPSenger I'd agree if neurotypical humans were capable of calibrating emotional response according to statistical analysis.
  33. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@StupendousGrav1 @deepfates Sigh, we have LessWrong, we need LessWeird 🤪
  34. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@WholeMarsBlog 😢 never got in because my research never blossomed into grokking their valuation, but sad to see any EV company fall apart... Earth needs all the help she can get 🌍
  35. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@acnewsitics 😂 booking my flights for a vacation there rn, on the premise that we're at the nadir of public sentiment.
  36. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Idk that perpetually underwhelmed 12 yr old me would've understood the downsides... In fact, 20-something consulting me needed to go through a hypomanic high and depressive crash to learn to appreciate the simple life.
  37. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson But in reality I'd collapse within a month under that much pressure, working long hours with insufficient sleep and no guarantee of success, taking criticism from the sidelines, trying to stay technically involved in several big hard engineering problems while also leading
  38. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Ngl on the surface, Elon Musk's job looks pretty sweet- repeatedly have fun making a fool of oneself on camera (SNL, CT launch debacle, China striptease), Tweet memes and misinformed hot-takes, play with rockets and fast cars, endless attention from interesting people...
  39. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · replyBetter link - https://www.instagram.com/naturally.jo/
  40. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · quoteTryin not to be smug vegan, but seriously plant-based food is so much prettier than dairy or meat🍒 https://x.com/TSpiritualGuide/status/1426345568331354113
  41. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@abusurdist Pretty sure the unread books thing is a humblebrag about how busy they are with all their cool social events.... Not so cool to admit you have a closet of unworn party dresses but Friday night finds you lounging around in PJ pants and a tee smudged with chocolate ice cream 😳
  42. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@ollyrobot 😂 exactly... When I hear "wizard" I mentally translate to "treat the user like a toddler"
  43. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@BlckCatBlckSky Yeah, withdrawal is always messy 😏
  44. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@Adrusi @HeikoBenjamin @powerbottomdad1 Probably accurate, if we're talking living on the earnings rather than principal in a high CoL location.
  45. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@medus4_cdc Cryptocurrency 💯
  46. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson To which weirdness percentile does "Yes" correspond?
  47. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · repostRT @pareinoia: well fuck https://t.co/1gqKOicw9D
  48. Aug 13, 2021Twitter · repostRT @DRMacIver: 1. The prompting example is that you need to be good at user experience, thinking about how your software is going to be use…
  49. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@FastCompany So that leaves us out... (Love to fellow overconfident Tweeters!)
  50. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@BattleRapBets https://t.co/NYVMPLdNox
  51. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@SawyerMerritt Is it available for a fee in other regions? In West Virginia I'm driving on gravel year-round...
  52. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@aryan_kochhar If you're not sleeping with your cofounders you're doing it wrong 😏
  53. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@as_per_ushe @mattyglesias What would this mean- randomize their wealth according to wealth distribution at the end of their term? 🤔
  54. Aug 12, 2021Twitter · reply@ssica3003 A mix of things, but mostly gardening, writing, and angel investing / mentoring.
  55. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@divinetechygirl I'm definitely an observe-before-acting type, so I'd be seeking out lots of perspectives and listening for frustration (imo frustration is a managerial opportunity- an engaged employee has identified a recurring problem but isn't able to resolve it independently).
  56. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@QiaochuYuan Sure, my frustration comes from the man-children who acknowledge their immaturity but claim to be content in Neverland and shrug off any suggestion to grow up. It isn't meant as an insult, more a reminder that I shouldn't expect normal adult reciprocity from the relationship.
  57. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@AustinTeslaClub @elonmusk 😂 pedo diver rumor, funding secured with Saudis, alien dreadnought automation, Russians selling rockets, Bitcoin energy impact, SolarCity valuation, FSD timeline... Dreaming big is tough 💕
  58. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · quote😂 I am totally using this... Too many nodding heads makes me nervous! https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1425210923476606981
  59. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@perrymetzger @liron @ESYudkowsky I'm not affiliated just spent a month with it a few years ago for a client, but I think it illustrates what can / can't be accomplished from external scans and reports 🙂
  60. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@perrymetzger @liron @ESYudkowsky It is sold as a cybersecurity "credit score"- the idea is to get reports as part of due diligence before a strategic partnership, or to assess your risk level for like partner vpn access, or as an input to pricing of cybersecurity insurance.
  61. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@QiaochuYuan Tbh I see "man-child" as a warning to steer clear of a psychic vampire who will lap up emotional labor and then give nothing in return. But that's my baggage.
  62. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@liron @perrymetzger @ESYudkowsky BitSight does something like this- collects publicly visible data to generates reports and a grade... Probably many others, I just happen to have worked with their API https://www.bitsight.com/
  63. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky Oh, I thought everyone knew? Huh, DC bias...
  64. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@ESYudkowsky 😞 as someone who's childhood nightmares centered around pandemics and bioterrorism, I've felt all along that we've been lucky with covid-19... No one wants to hear it, but it could be far worse and we should be buying down the risk with more funding before the next pandemic.
  65. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · quoteRT @Nick_Craver: How QR codes are made: https://x.com/davrous/status/1425433729133072386
  66. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@_joaogui1 Do you think his vision for Ethereum smart contracts is inherently unethical? Lots wrong with crypto today (so I don't have any myself), but I'm trying not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, especially for places with unreliable local banks & hyperinflation?
  67. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@_joaogui1 Ha ok, I take things literally. But do you mean because it is immoral not to give it away, or because you must have done something immoral to acquire the wealth? Thinking of like Vitalik Buterin...
  68. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@_joaogui1 Seriously? For high CoL areas, paying off a middle class mortgage plus saving in a 401k will exceed $2M net worth when nearing retirement
  69. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@danielweir 😂 love it ... btw, is there any hope of fare-free ART following Alexandria's DASH example?
  70. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@StefanFSchubert @robinhanson I considered this, but ASD is basically a professional diagnosis of "more weird than most people" so 🤷
  71. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson No exemption for lecturers while speaking, given 6 ft distance? At that point I'd rather do a remote class, imo you lose more by hiding facial expressions and muffling voices than you gain from the remaining in-person benefits.
  72. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · repostRT @xkcd: Average Familiarity http://xkcd.com/2501 https://t.co/TZC2bPgjp4
  73. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@SmithInAmerica Is he talking restoring full SALT deduction?
  74. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson I think they're relatively more open to reason than phobias and food preferences though.
  75. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@NicoDelon @DKThomp Huh, I know several snowbirds who got vaxxed in FL in Feb though don't have FL IDs and maintain primary residence elsewhere. Will have to ask how that happened- maybe they accepted a utility bill as proof of being more than a tourist?
  76. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · repostRT @Baybe_Doll: Late post of my @defcon nails this year https://t.co/NLegZTfQby
  77. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@KirkegaardEmil As a native born American I am proving my point 🙂
  78. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@WorMartiN @KirkegaardEmil They are American by choice, not American by accident of birth... Ime they have a higher level of commitment to American values and ideals.
  79. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@yhdistyminen I'd argue that conservation easements are a form of downzoning-for-affordability for the rich... Very effective way to reduce taxes! See Western Loudoun County as an example?
  80. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@MaxSkyUSA @galeforceVC 😂 day-in day-out imaginative tech-startup cheerleading is kinda my dream job... Saving my pennies so I can take up angel investing as a retirement hobby!
  81. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@WorMartiN @KirkegaardEmil I deeply disagree. An immigrant founder-CEO created my job, and he's far from alone... https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/12/04/almost-half-of-fortune-500-companies-were-founded-by-american-immigrants-or-their-children/
  82. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@TruueDiscipline @KirkegaardEmil But it also says that 2nd gen Asian Americans are by far the highest scorers... Wrt Open Borders, I think the biggest impact would be increasing immigration from Asia, while flow from Latin Am wouldn't change much because they already walk across the border at will.
  83. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@KirkegaardEmil And it's funny, my Mexican econ boyfriend was the one who asked his prof Caplan to sign my copy of Open Borders... His parents left school with elementary education, came here illegally to work as gardener and nanny, their kids are 3/3 degrees and high paying jobs.
  84. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@KirkegaardEmil Land border w Mex- ppl who want to come here already do, illegally; uncapping immigration would unblock huge backlogs for India & China work visas.
  85. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@KirkegaardEmil Ty for this... But I think Caplan's conclusion holds for the US in particular because our less generous welfare state and American Dream mystique attracts immigrants who want to work and get rich, while us native born Americans are pretty stupid and poorly educated.
  86. Aug 11, 2021Twitter · reply@TeslaTomMY1 Including all the taxes etc, $0.138 / kWh... But actually $0 because my office has free charging 🙂
  87. Aug 10, 2021Twitter · reply@BexMarkwick @TinkerSec Started the day with PMS + Mondays + design block, but by EoD had a new direction showing promise, it's all good 🙂 but yeah, no one on the team really wants to own the copy, but Lorem Ipsum needs to become real help text somehow!
  88. Aug 10, 2021Twitter · reply@Malcolm_Ocean Delegate emotional labor to AI + learn to be deeply satisfied by a machine pretending to care.
  89. Aug 10, 2021Twitter · reply@BexMarkwick @TinkerSec This is definitely a real need... Spent much of yesterday grousing abt the copy in our app and lack of a dedicated tech writer in the design process.
  90. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@mattyglesias Indian coworker was raving about the authentic food at this restaurant, it has "curry" on the menu https://www.bhaisahabva.com/
  91. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@robinhanson Robots DO stack containers in automated ports... It's just that most techie builders are focused on moveable prefab construction not stacking bricks. Foundation of the future is probably helical screws anyway.
  92. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · repostRT @avsa: Point me to any democracy that wouldn’t be vastly improved by moving from PDFs into a Git process. 📚 Laws are just text files on…
  93. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@MacguyverTech01 @SenToomey I work in network security; we sometimes buy certain illegal services in order to analyze them / test our defenses; the sellers ask for payment in Bitcoin. Another team is working on ransomware compliance to ID crypto keys vs terrorist etc lists before paying ransoms.
  94. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · repostRT @jonst0kes: The Twitter version of the parable of the blind men & the elephant: Trunk guy: A snake? Leg guy: My dude. Not my job to edu…
  95. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@alexhanna Oh, also I'd use the deck of cards for the Solitaire algorithm- https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
  96. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@alexhanna Idk an exact title, but I'd look for something that's data structures and algorithms, maybe number theory / cryptography fundamentals or finite state machines... Pondering sort algos with a deck of cards seems more fun than reading up on syntax with no ability to try it out.
  97. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@treetownsugar @HankWaggy @AlanMCole I don't disagree, but I've been mostly maskless in Arlington since the cases dropped off / the Biden announcement... can't quite muster up the enthusiasm to return to masking when everyone is vaxxed anyway.
  98. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@engineers_feed Sum them up and divide by two?
  99. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@NickAPappas @mattyglesias Ehh, miners do need decent internet connections, cheap power, and a secure perimeter. This does place geographic constraints.... Performant crypto on Mars would need to be a separate blockchain given the latency...
  100. Aug 9, 2021Twitter · reply@PoliticalPunner @mattyglesias NFTs really crystalized this for me- Bitcoin isn't a currency or an investment, it's a collectible with increasing rarity over time. One might question the value of having your key in a public ledger; on the other hand, baseball cards...