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I've always hated trucks for all of these reasons. Thanks for doing the science to help me explain why, NYT.

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I agree that that behavior is not acceptable. We wrestle between moral drift and frozen tyrant as an expression of the Value Alignment Problem. We do not currently know the answer …

I would be far more terrified of an absolutist AI then a relativist one. Change is the only constant, even if glacial.

Nope, also humans. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/explainer/2023... https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/resources/human-righ... https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16…

Ice caps? Try human beings. Increased Mortality: Projections indicate an additional 14.5 million deaths by 2050 due to climate-related impacts like floods, droughts, heatwaves, and…

One of my favorite short stories

I don't know but In Portland there's a ton of them, the venues are great, and in the summer we go do it in the forest. And now that the RA app has it's shit together, I no longer h…

Great book. Great game. I treasured the time I spent reading it and playing it. Head's up: the game does not follow the same characters as the book. It's sort of a different story …

They don't work, and it's a poverty of the imagination to have no clue of or understand the value of supportive, preventative, or rehabilitative policies.

No, it's real. It's commenting on the article by John, on old coworker of mine. I applied for Ignite but was not accepted and ended up getting into SE a different way. Anyway, I re…

So much this. I've noticed it and talked about it for years. Glad someone wrote about it. I definitely think the "dress and act your age" thing was a big factor and I'm so glad tha…

I don't know why this was hidden. I find it interesting.

I wouldn't trust a CATO study.

First woman killed by dog falling on her. Second woman killed by bus while gawking at first death with gathered crowd. Third man dies of a heart attack after witnessing both events…

How do people live with themselves charging 20 times the production cost of an essential medicine?

Finally

There is an underrated approach to solving problems - assume at the outset that the solution is simple and obvious. If it is, you've just saved massive amounts of time and effort. …

Isn't that just called a depression? Do words mean anything anymore? "The worst thing ever" pops up in headlines all the time and the world still chugs right along. Maybe I'm desen…

The amount of time it would take to edit these to remove the subtle AI nonsense/artifacts/dysmorphia is a fraction of that time it would take to make the images from scratch. There…

Yeah, I've heard about a classist element in Europe that might make the path I took unlikely. I dropped out of college, toiled in the service industry for 10 years, got sick of it,…

I find this perspective interesting. I'm 36, have no kids, don't go to church, don't live anywhere near where I grew up or my biological family, and haven't been in school for a ve…

It's reasonable to expect 17 million relatively well off people to make some concessions when hundreds of millions of others have asked them to through the diplomacy of their elect…

I decided to read the comments on the linked article and got depressed. It's a similar feeling to what Ethan Hawke portrayed in First Reformed. Caring about nature is a lonely and …