Richard Baker

Liberalism is my country. Its green shoots are everywhere; its full flowering nowhere @[email protected]

[Richard Baker @sharpblue]

@QuanticASI @PageLyndon Do you want to predict when this will happen so I can check back and see whether you were right?

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@peterrhague I made bottles into rockets when I was a kid. Scaling up my to orbital capability is surely just a modest engineering challenge.

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@nytimes Imagine being the Secretary of Defense and being afraid of women and black people.

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@RealCandaceO Including one day being sent off to die pointlessly for their leader’s vanity.

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@RealCandaceO They are not lying about Russia being a genocidal fascist-imperialist state with a vain and strategically incompetent leader. Try to keep up with current events.

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@elocinationn I’m spending the same number of hours on software dev, but it’s now much more skewed in the thinking direction, and my overall output is much higher.

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@AurelianZiz @daisyldixon It’s hardly a revelation that philosophers of past centuries were wrong about many things. I’m sure you can find modern philosophers being just as wrong.

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@ChristianHeiens @TrentTelenko No, it’s because juvenile power fantasies eventually have to reckon with grown-up reality.

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@infantrydort @TrentTelenko You can say this as much as you like but it just makes you sound like a kid who wants to be seen as a grown-up.

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@Diacritic Look, you just need to make AI systems think…

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@Mike_Eckel What a way to admit defeat while claiming victory. Next he’ll say all the Ukrainian Nazis have been eliminated so all the Russian troops can come home.

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@bear_logger @nastasiaKlimash Clearly just a bot.

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@bear_logger @nastasiaKlimash I mean, I know Russians are all craven, amoral cowards so they aren’t going to do it, just ride the decline of their state all the way into the cesspit.

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@AngelicaOung @TaiwanMonitor Bluntly: treason.

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@lathropa I’m reading Le Carré at the moment and the reality of George Smiley is very convincing. I know the theory is that he’s just a fictional character, and that certainly explains a lot about him, but couldn’t he also be real?

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@teresabs15 I would have thought that right up to the time skip scene, but that seemed so weird and specific, unlike the previous ones.

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Prediction: For All Mankind season 6 is going to have Margo Madison on a deep space mission.

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@teresabs15 The season has to have the scene of her morning routine, right? And it’s not going to be another prison one.

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@teresabs15 John Glenn went to space aged 77. My theory is that they’ll need old astronauts for a mission involving a lot of radiation, and Margo has special knowledge they need at the mission target. Maybe Dani and Ellen too.