Arthur Wrong 🔸

Dilettante interested in animal liberation, progress, philosophy, policy, film, music // Director of Effective Altruism DC // Views my own, etc.

[Arthur Wrong 🔸 @arthur_wright_]

@evancholerton @ggwash @aparnafordc I'm guessing you and I have different views on the empirical evidence here. While preventing displacement is good all else equal, all else is not equal. In places with widespread rent control, the 2nd order effects seem clearly worse than the 1st order effects to me

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What is going on with @ggwash? I thought they were supposed to be a YIMBY urbanist group, but they endorsed @aparnafordc in Ward 1 whose top-line proposal for housing affordability is... rent control for all multifamily buildings?!

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@evancholerton @ggwash @aparnafordc no it is neither

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@bernardtjoy The two that Zendaya are holding haven't come out yet...

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I'm glad that she and the rest of the Ward 1 frontrunners all support upzoning and increasing the supply of market-rate housing, but c'mon!

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Say what you will about Hunter Biden, this is the most brutal ratio i've ever seen on this app in terms of numerical ratio * magnitude of being owned

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT]

Like Ted Chiang I don't think that LLMs are conscious, but in the absence of an agreed-upon theory of consciousness these essays end up trading in inherently debatable assertions about whatever the author thinks consciousness must be:
https://t.co/Ck8lJhovTH

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@coin3ip @DiscussingFilm oh wait i'm dumb and misread your original post! 3:2 for home releases of IMAX stuff seems like a good compromise

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@coin3ip @DiscussingFilm You are right, though, that an advantage of VistaVision is that the 1.47:1 ratio looks much better on 16:9 TVs in the original ratio than IMAX (if you want to preserve the 'epic' look — of course non-IMAX that is shot in 4:3 should be kept as is for home viewing)

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@maxdubler land value tax would fix this

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@philosophymeme0 cities do, in fact, exist in the US

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@AliceFromQueens @kevinnbass Emily Bender, Noam Chomsky, and other linguists whose life's work has been ~falsified by the success of LLMs are a decent example of this actually happening imo

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Love how this could be about either of the Tom Hollands

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@SamGreszes OPN doesn't make sense on this chart (nor does the placement), but otherwise checks out

[dylan matthews 🔸 @dylanmatt]

One of the funniest sentences I’ve read in a while

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

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@sgodofsk @nominalthoughts @MariGO2thepolls @atrembath @JerusalemDemsas *your. (that's what i get for tweeting in the middle of the night)

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@sgodofsk @nominalthoughts @MariGO2thepolls @atrembath @JerusalemDemsas this clarifies up position a lot actually. thanks!