Land Value Tax Extremist

Midwestern Supremacist; Jones Act Hater; Corn Pop Truther

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@confusionm8trix Praying for policy wonk summer

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

This is happening to a lot of U.S. cities. The middle class is disappearing.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@xwanyex I think you’re both right? Crime in cities is and was a genuine problem that caused suburbanization. Also, suburbanization can isolate people and make them fearful of more than what is rational to fear.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@JeremiahDJohns After looking into the context, it seems he might be literally unable to adopt because of an indictment over his involvement in the AZ fake electors scheme.

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

I feel like every single clip I scroll by from Subway Takes is someone inventing blood and soil nationalism out of vague lefty intuitions

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@theraghav @suninshades @jbarro Oops, this was a typo. My original reply was right

[Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC]

Katie Couric infamously edited her interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg because RBG took the anti-woke position that Colin Kaepernick's kneeling was "dumb and disrespectful," and Couric didn't want to hurt RBG's standing w/ the Left. https://t.co/bXPbvNOyBD

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@2aQueer @LinkofSunshine I’d agree, except that for every twelve uninformed gamblers in Kalshi, there’s one highly informed person who’s ripping off the twelve.

[Maya Luna (NYC arc ✈️) @envisionedluna]

At this point the only thing that could hurt Platner with progressives is if it came out that he has a Star of David tattoo

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@suninshades @jbarro Someone who wakes up at 7 am during standard time is waking up earlier relative to the sunrise than someone who wakes up at 7 am during savings time. The number on the clock might not be any earlier, but as far as the sun and our circadian rhythms are concerned, it’s earlier.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@AlecStapp @tylercowen Tyler is great, but this doesn’t make any sense to me. What does he expect to be left to teach? Philosophy of consciousness? What will AI not do within three years?

The logical conclusion is the abolition of teaching.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@mattyglesias @dilanesper Huh? Do you know the difference between 51 and 52?

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@2aQueer @LinkofSunshine To be fair- and I say this as someone who thinks it’s a stupid idea to *use* prediction gambling markets- they’re pretty good at giving the odds of an event.

If they didn’t do the best job they could off public information, someone better at prediction would make a lot of money.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@LinkofSunshine Hope he advances. Would love to see a money sinkhole for Dems that has no effect on the GOP these midterms

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

Close enough, welcome back John Searle

[Strife @Strife212]

LLMs are intelligent, but they clearly aren't conscious?

You could (incredibly slowly) run an LLM by hand by doing the matrix calculations with a pen and paper, would that be conscious? There is zero difference between doing that and doing it on a GPU except its faster.

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

Could you list more:

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@TrueSlazac To be fair it looks way better with the star tilted

[Land Value Tax Extremist @ConservYIMBY]

@mattyglesias I think I just created the lineup with the least correlation between position and height in NBA history

[ayatrollah @ayatr0llah]

Subway takes guests will say this is evil

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I remember a video where someone made a “robot” that was a human-shaped effigy with a GoPro attached, with a sign indicating it wanted to hitchhike across the country. The vast majority of people who interacted with it were kind, gave it rides, stood it back up if it had fallen over, despite the fact that absolutely no one believes a vaguely man-shaped bit of metal is conscious. The very few people who exhibited cruelty towards it were roundly and viciously condemned.

I think this intuitive morality is correct. We judge actions not primarily based on the impact they have on others, but on what they say about the actors.

I thank my waymos even though they can’t hear me. It is good for my soul to be kind to something that helped me. And I feel an extreme revulsion at people who use abusive AI prompts.

Too many people are really excited at the opportunity to exhibit “safe” sadism.