Jacob Frank

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

There are some really annoying things about Project Lawful, and I do skip some bits, but I think the annoying things about Project Lawful are qualitatively less annoying than the annoying things about other books.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

Maybe all that Peter Singer's drowning child argument really does is place an upper bound on how much homo economicus would spend on a pair of shoes.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

The thing about the goose that laid the golden eggs is you can't reinvest the golden eggs back in the goose.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

https://t.co/86qU9GQdK3 I think Bibi likes ice cream too, right?

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

love is kind of like war: you need to have an exit strategy

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

I remember the days when we used to be annoyed running into red lights. Now we need them so we can check our phones

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

Question to all robophobes: if intelligence is something inherently to be feared, why not give everyone in the world an IQ test and put the ten people with the highest scores in jail?

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

Sorry all robophobes but I'm more scared of Vladimir Putin than Chat GPT.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

@SpencrGreenberg Robophobes often talk as if human interests are aligned with each other, when of course they're not. Among humans, we don't always (or even usually) see that the most intelligent tend to be the most powerful.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

@SpencrGreenberg Robophobia is sometimes articulated as the fear of species competition. Species competition itself is a somewhat outdated misinterpretation of Darwinisim. But it is interesting to note that our closest "competitors" on Earth are bacteria and insects, not chimps and dolphins.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

https://t.co/6bW2OSnItV apparently researchers are deliberately building evil AIs and performing experiments on them, which is kind of like breeding pathogens in a lab

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

If there's a king and you call him a god, that's a compliment. If there's a god and you call him a king, that's an insult.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

Isn't there something strange about the fact that we don't let 17 year olds consent to sex, but we let kids much younger than that consent to gender related medical procedures?

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

in the bible we find Moses challenging God over and over. he seems to actually agree with God only about half the time if not less. kind of interesting considering that he was the most humble guy on earth.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

I usually don't get what's the big deal about nonkosher food, but scallions? OMG once you've tried nonkosher (excuse me, I mean non-mehadrin) scallions, the mehadrin scallions are just really really sad

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

I kind of do feel like the "real work of relationships" is for monogamous people. Kind of like the real work of digging up coal is for coal miners. But somehow, that doesn't make me want to run off and become a coal miner.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

I think I'm a pretty nice guy. But then again, who isn't?

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

Let's say Bob and Mary are in a traditional monogamous relationship. Eve is single. Eve and Bob have sex. Bob did something wrong -- he broke a promise. But what about Eve? She never promised Mary not to sleep with her goddamn husband

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

At the time of Yehoshua -- if you believe in that sort of thing -- about 0.001% of Jews were Kohanim. I think there's a bit more now.

[Jacob Frank @jacobfrank1980]

2000 years ago, the Romans destroyed the Bes Hamikdash. Today, all milchic restaurants in Israel are Italian.