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It’s pronounced Maxwell.

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@0x49fa98 @BitterEndWolves @elonmusk @nikitabier Thus posts Zarathustra

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@VL2102 Willing to understand and investigate
Also willing to hold to higher principles and make judgements?
Seems like a very good combination for individuals w brainpower to spare

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@shagbark_hick Atlas is shrugging.

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@SocialNomadRach Is this… not a joke?

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@BIMBOSATTVA_ Only real way to do philosophy is to live and breathe it. It only matters insofar as it lets you take good actions.
Or you’re a hobbyist and probably a dickrider.

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I also do not believe that “we are all equal in the eye of God”

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We are all equal in the eye of God
However, I am not God

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This should be obvious but Orson Scott Card is an excellent writer

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

Responding to the sophistry that “capitalism kills people too”:

People die. Without exception. Every child born is going to die. Regardless of the economic or political system, the mortality rate is eventually 100%.

We don't know when or how any healthy person is going to die. With some, the cause of death is known. With some, like the old and the ill, death does not come as a complete surprise. The poor have a higher chance of dying at every age. Droughts, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, and gravity kill people randomly: in law, these are called “acts of God” and nobody is blamed or prosecuted. With massive fires, some human may be at fault, but the intent ranges from arson to accident to stupidity.

As Neville Longbottom said in the last Harry Potter, “People die every day.”

Have people died in countries with free markets? Yes.

Have free-market countries systematically killed large numbers of people? Rarely, and even more rarely for economic reasons. 🧵⬇️

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@0x49fa98 If this was real half the players in whatever game is being played would be volunteer rich people

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Going to be in San Fran for a 7 hour layover in like a day
Anyone got some recommendations?

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Via negativa

[Liam Deacon @LiamDeacon]

This is why I bang on about 20mph limits, smoking bans and pub restrictions.

They are not small issues.

Britain has become obsessed with reducing risk by tiny amounts, often at huge social and economic cost.

The information age has made us terrified. Edge cases and scare stories increasingly drive policy, rather than balance and trade offs.

Everything from the impossibility of building nuclear power stations to pricing people out of pubs is shaped by this mindset.

People rarely see how these policies compound. They support each new ban or regulation in isolation, then ask: "How did we get here?"

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@gwern @brandur It’s really ridiculous how many intelligent people don’t seem to understand that their time is actually valuable! And it is worth spending money to save time!

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@willdepue They be run fast boys

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@VL2102

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@inkolore_ Multiple simultaneous emotions expressing themselves on the left/right half of the face, maybe. Internal conflict/duplicity.

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@princess_worms @rapid_rar2 @YosarianTwo How is this distinct from literally any law creation attempt in human history?

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@LeoMcKeeReid I tried to engage with one and they demanded I prove the free market doesn’t exist in order to make the claim that an coordinated ai slowdown is possible!(?)

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@LeoMcKeeReid People go insane over this and make ridiculous unfounded claims, one after another, while painting others (usually Eliezer) as irrational. The algorithm has fed me many fools who think it is “impossible” to coordinate an AI slowdown.

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@SandyofCthulhu The corruption festers in the most unlikely of places…

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I have done all of this.
(It’s not healthy and doesn’t make you any happier or more successful)

[Yaline @VL2102]

@number_pizza111 I wasn't lying but I said things that I wouldn't have bet money on, that on some level I "didn't really believe". I agree it's very rare for people to go on the internet and lie about what they believe, but I think it's more common for people to ~"lie to themselves"