the funniest part about living in a big city like San Antonio is every time you see a video about a cool new store/restaurant opening up in the city it’s always 40 minutes away guaranteed
Everyone is desperate to find some mathematical error in EA analysis so they can avoid the tension between how they want to live their lives and the moral conclusions EAs draw from premises they share (and refuse to challenge).
This is my main reservation to saying definitively that Cornyn would have lost by a wide margin because of how complete the blunami was. It was so complete in part because Paxton was the face of the state GOP.
The breastfeeding brouhaha is a perfect example of how we got so good at keeping babies alive but we couldn't stop the health optimization juggernaut so we just found a target that required a different kind of solution but kept blasting away.
This stuff really does show how much damage psychobabble can do.
Because no, there's literally nothing you can do that will guarantee that 20 years down the line your partner won't have sex with another person. There's no "test" that will show that. It's not how sexuality works.
Nota bene: Central to Amodei's vision for how AI will "cure" mental illness is genetic screening, meaning he expects human reproduction via sex to be largely replaced by mass embryo production and mass screening in labs on this same timeline:
I think most people in real life don't actually enjoy being the person who loves/wants less, whose partner is begging them for things. But it makes sense to fantasize about this if you're the person who loves/wants more.
@lu_sichu (People really love it when foreign aid is debunked, so for years after something like this is published you'll have people who saw it, but didn't read it, going 'oh, I heard that's actually useless'.)
Last two years are going to be so weird. Hopefully it'll tilt toward "harmless weird" like having Dana White around and away from "harmful weird" like blowing up random fishermen
slight spoilers for something i'm working on but holy shit Florida is fucked
like a third of counties just don't have a residential property tax base anymore
Guys this is the single obvious interpretation if you don’t have a devastating case of brain rot!!!! You don’t have to follow Hanania into the abyss!!!
As I've said, taken to its logical conclusion, "Men only value youth and beauty and can't be expected to stay faithful" does NOT produce tradwives.
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This kid sucks, I feel bad for everyone who has to deal with him, and this should not be an elected role. You shouldn't screw with people's livelihoods on a lark by jumping into something you have no credible interest in or qualifications for.