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Superfluous Antiquity

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@Devon_Eriksen_ The US federal Government has spent $4,901,851,413,144 since 2025-10-01. Why an extra $1 TR is the difference I am unaware. https://t.co/V6n7qY52tF

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@kamilkazani This seems a confusion of "high" vs "highest". Silicon Valley - give a stranger hundreds of thousands of dollars for an idea - is a high trust concept. Lack of nepotism is another. The US is high trust, AND has other advantages & disadvantages.

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@Pandora_Delaney @CaryHawkins_ There are 8 billion humans. 330M in America. 8M in the Bay Area. Is anyone arguing that the advice is the same for all those population groups? Lean into the specificity, not away. "If you are a slut, move to Nob Hill (bazinga). Sluts in Saudi Arabia especially".

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@sentientist Don't the numbers differ because of prostitution? When a tiny fraction of a percentage of women have many, many more partners, the mean will depend on how many sex workers are in the sample.

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@ASFleischman You're right - the line is somewhere between ovulation/masturbation & 21. If there debate was about the grey area it would be so much more interesting.

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@ASFleischman BORing. Where the limits are is far more interesting than a binary yes/no. Somewhere between conception and 21 years of age is a hard limit where it is no longer OK to abort a child. When is that?

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@VicVijayakumar Mine went off once from bush fires about 100 miles away.

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@CartoonsHateHer @Aella_Girl If monogamy remains a veto institution, with no wiggle room for alternate structures, we'll see a lot of late life breakups to no one's benefit. Add in draconian divorce laws and that's a recipe for an awful reality for many married people.

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@levifig Same. Happens once every few weeks for me.

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@xwanyex "All men are rapists"

"No, it is a small percentage and we should, at least, castrate them, if not kill them"

"Oh no, that would be cruel"

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@Aella_Girl Hard to answer because for some groups (Asians) it has gone to essentially zero, but for others, especially ethic groups that are strongly religious, it has gone way up.

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@Noahpinion Can you explain the Natural-born-citizen clause in that context?

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@peterwildeford Amazing how incentives work, in this case marketing. Does anyone thinks Free Tokens will be given for this task in 2030, after this incentive has passed?

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@dohertytjp @extradeadjcb The 90% are victims of the 10% more than anyone. Disambiguating "malicious anti-social" actors from "sad schlubs" is extremely difficult. With an inherent dislike of two-tier justice, sentencing ends up biasing one way or tother. Biasing towards the the 90% has clear downsides.

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@inazarova @nateberkopec How cold is the water? The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in san francisco and all.

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@ASFleischman The Democratic party is filled with people who think winning is NOT the primary goal. Hard to predict how voting in different states will go when the voters see casting a vote as supporting their ideology over practical goals.

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@robinhanson How anyone can answer this is beyond me. I understand less and less what consciousness is defined as - and it's relationship to intelligence baffles me - as the models progress. Even (D) seems way off base as an answer.

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@LewSpears Give performing in suits a go. You look deadly.

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@gwern @robinhanson > a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of ultrapoor Filipino households
This is measuring the affect of religious eduction, not vs religious attendance. Are they the same?

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@Louise_m_perry Welcome! Get ready for a weird time dilation effect. Events happen while you sleep. Sydney or Melbourne? (We all know that is the choice!)