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[Charles @echauvec]

@tenobrus Society doesn't automatically collapse because some group gets shafted.

[Charles @echauvec]

@athenaeumbc @pangram slop?

[Charles @echauvec]

@ThatchEffendi Herodotus: "but Europe and the Greek race [the Persians] look on
as distinct and separate"

Hippocrates: "the Asiatics are more unwarlike and of gentler
disposition than the Europeans"
"Greeks or barbarians in Asia are not under a
despotic form of government, but are independent"

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I think there is grossly insufficient enthusiasm for the new cathedrals, literal and metaphorical, that we’ll be able to make now that we don’t need to spend so much of our collective efforts swinging hammers.

[Charles @echauvec]

@vitrupo One of his worries is that AI-invented fusion power "cannot be cheap and affordable because AI companies have to recoup their investments"... what? But then again he is from England.

[Charles @echauvec]

@akoustov "I like to live among people that share my background" is a reasonable preference held by a large majority. You're not wrong because you do not even address this - one line about "deep-seated values about national identity" does not do the core of the issue justice

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

One very cool study I don't see posted enough is Kendler et al 2016. They used siblings and half-siblings to estimate family related causality. The idea here is that the strength of shared environment is a function of the duration siblings cohabit. Thus, since some siblings cohabit for many years, and some not at all, they should have slightly degrees of similarity as the shared environment will vary in strength.

They tested this using Swedish register data. In total, they used 13 different estimates based on various combinations of duration of cohabitation, sibling type etc. The regular twin method (MZ-DZ) is the one labelled 13.

They find that results are quite consistent overall. Whatever reasons you have to suspect regular twin method is biased may be difficult to sustain for these alternative specifications that don't involve twins at all.

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

the old simcluster algorithm was something like a local optimum and in leaving it behind in search of a better one, elon et al have not only degraded user experience but (probably) destroyed network capital that was built up under the old system

no getting that back. sucks

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

My theory is the more we dangle rewards to young kids, the more we harm them. Short term, they will close the rings, but long term their brain will get rewired to lose all intrinsic motivation. Eventually, as grown ups, they will get pushed around by others who can modify their behavior with similar rewards. They will end up living a life based on the preferences of others, because they would have lost the capability to know what they truly want and don’t want.

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Amazing anecdote by Joel Klein in Free Press essay today contrasting his experiences clerking for his onetime hero David Bazelon and for Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell.

[Charles @echauvec]

@shagbark_hick @Rongwrong_ Most of the space on Mars would be just interior with no visible relationship to the surface environment at all

[Charles @echauvec]

@tszzl Kind to whom

[Charles @echauvec]

@nearcyan These subgrants have put a big target on the entire organization. Much like the NIH with DOGE, only the government can't take direct action against Wikimedia

[Charles @echauvec]

@LudditeHacker @eigenrobot Most countries around the world say no to that kind of system. Outcomes vary

[Charles @echauvec]

@MichalYouDoing @pseudoerasmus These are laws derived from observation, Galileo experimented. Model -> prediction -> experiment -> revised model.

[Charles @echauvec]

@MichalYouDoing @pseudoerasmus Now I'm curious

[Charles @echauvec]

@razibkhan It's bad, but by this standard most of Europe is national socialism. Doesn't really make sense

[Charles @echauvec]

@JacobAShell In my experience the shift includes those who graduated high school into the great awokening ~2016. Data of the rightward shift that disaggregates by birth year might show the inflection point

[Charles @echauvec]

@JacobAShell The rightward shift is a more fundamental rejection of wokeness, an inevitable consequence of casting entire demographics as villains