ben

vibes based analytics, irresponsible ai researcher

brought to you by the atlas foundation, opinion mine only

immigrant (one of the bad ones)

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"independent foreign policy" apparently means avoiding coordination with the UK, Australia, and Canada to stand with Ukraine, Hong Kong, and Palestine, in order to avoid going up against China, Russia, and Israel

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@eigenrobot Idk if you compare those guys with FOBs they all look extremely Americans to me, with the possible exception of the woman. So far so good. But I am not American, in fact I am one of the immigrants! (albeit a native English speaker) so perhaps there's something I just don't get

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@eigenrobot I guess the disanalogy is it took Irish and Italians much longer to reach elite status

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@eigenrobot These high competence immigrants' children will assimilate (two-way melting pot style) over a couple of generations like the Irish and Italians did. Asians are already called "white adjacent" right? Interesting question is how much discord forments before assimilation completes

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This is unhinged rage bait. As a man I take my daughter to the men's room or the private family room if available. Those are the only two options.

[jezz @JezziiB]

Ok so here’s how it works
Dads with daughters: Women’s restroom.
Moms with daughters: Women’s restroom.
Dads with sons: Men’s restrooms.
Mothers with sons: Women’s restroom.
Hope that helps.

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@RichardMCNgo Are they a more useful group than, say, the anti data center left populists?

MAGA have a more plausible path to power, but opposing an escalatory cold AI war with China is like #10 on their list and it seems plausible they could just flip on AI, just like the current admin

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@TaylorStreet312 @SwannMarcus89 I moved to Seattle two months ago and as an outsider, which makes me unbiased, the big beautiful gleaming glass towers built in the last 20 years are the most impressive architectural landmarks here

Not saying we need data centers but Seattle is not exactly London

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@BecomingCritter The "population bomb" scam came from a bug expert who went out of his lane and thought he was a smart generalist

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@mbateman 😬

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@mbateman

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@mbateman You could follow it up with this

> that's a mild roast. Like 350 degrees. Fat hasn't started melting yet

response I got cuts too deep to share honestly

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@mbateman I dare you to try this follow-up prompt

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@BorisBartlog @GamingAndPandas surely someone has to lose when a mortgage holder defaults. If not the bondholders then who?

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@shagbark_hick What you are saying is you want useless nepo babies who inherited all their money to pay no tax while working schobs cover all social foods for them. No thanks

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@AbsentHog It'll be 90% accurate today, and 99% accurate next year, and 99.9% the year after that, until it gets good enough to exceed human performance on the task. Doesn't matter what it is. That was the pattern for performance on basic arithmetic, then steadily more complex tasks.

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@visakanv you're in Singapore tho right?

normie attitudes in China are very much pro tech vs. anti tech in the USA. this goes back at least a decade

maybe SG is more aligned with China on that axis and that explains the discrepancy between your experience and US-based reporting

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@Romy_Holland if you can't leave your kid alone for a second bc of poor Madeline but haven't pulled your kids out of public school despite the shootings that happen multiple times a year now ask yourself why. then probably chill a bit

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@Romy_Holland I set up a WhatsApp video call next to the baby monitor and we both went down for a supermarket run leaving one phone behind to alert us of any issues. She's about 2yo at this point. It's fine. If I had an IP enabled monitor I'd consider going to watch a movie after she's down

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@SwissLiberty @mllichti @avidseries been to New Orleans once for 3 days and heard a man get shot and killed. it's rough apparently

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@EricCrampton @Marc96549667 I too favour policy to build more housing, as do the authors of that article, but

that doesn't imply immigration is unrelated, just that I prefer not to pull that policy lever

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@EricCrampton @Marc96549667 A recent draft paper finds half of the recent US fertility rate decline is due to rising housing costs. Considering housing cost rises in new Zealand have been even sharper than in the USA it would be surprising if there's not an effect in NZ too https://t.co/7brseJJaS8