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Privilege endures. The lucky player gets a good roll against the odds, the privileged player casts loaded dice. You can be privileged because you were once lucky (e.g. you were bor…

This is probably a bit unhinged but sometimes I will talk to an AI about my interpersonal problems as if I am the other party. I feel that this can be helpful for better understand…

Ruminant meat production is estimated to release 62 grams of CO2-Ceq per gram of protein raised. Pork: 10 grams, legumes: 0.25 [1] I think maybe beef would be more expensive, in a …

I don't know anything about Google's architecture but I would guess that the average Gemini request per search query is < 1, surely there's a lot of caching that can be done and a …

Yes, in my interpretation, though not in isolation. > It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hy…

You originally expressed surprise that skeptics hold this book in high regard. I just find your surprise a bit difficult to understand. If, on the whole, the work advocates for ske…

I read those Sagan quotes as a criticism of capital "S" Skeptics, those for whom skepticism is an identity perhaps more than it is a means to an end. I feel that Sagan's ultimate g…

Just reacting to the executive summary: where are the tradeoffs? The port decreased memory usage on the client significantly, by how much did the server's burden increase? How have…

> I'd love to collect on this debt somehow when you're proven wrong in our lifetimes. Sorry, this is a thread on an internet forum, I'm afraid I don't owe you anything. If you want…

First, "conspiracies can't be true" was definitely not the point. You're right, conspiracies happen, governments do keep secrets! The point was: if a conspiracy theory with poor ev…

Sorry, dumb thing to write. That's not at all Occam's razor is and I clearly need to get educated.

The person you're replying to wasn't the one who invoked what you call "partisan thought short circuiting," (which, I have to say, reads a lot like parody). It was me. Occam's razo…

> the correct scenario is wide declassification It sounds to me like you and I see the same expansive hole where the evidence should be. My preference would be to say "show me a cl…

Before we had the instruments to observe them directly we could theorize about the existence of bacteria because we could indirectly observe them through their effects on our biolo…

> You can think they [...] aren't credible I think I'd pick this one as being the simplest and most likely explanation if my other options are "psy-op[s] with vague parameters" and…

> Are you tired of being required to run `sudo apt update` just before `sudo apt upgrade` or `sudo apt install $PACKAGE`? Is `sudo apt upgrade --update` really that big of a QOL im…

I understand that this meant to be a cautionary tale more than a formal argument, but I wish the author wouldn't use "will" in place of "could" or "might" when presenting this extr…

You can get nose hard too! https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeymoon_rhinitis

Personally I like my programs to be as performant as is reasonable , not just as is necessary. Rust's low-cost abstractions strike the right balance for me where I feel like I'm ge…

I don't fundamentally disagree but I feel there's a selection bias at work here. I'm not an economist, but: maybe the things that could have a market bolstering effect are - by nat…

> software developers nowadays fall mostly in the top 1-2%[1] > [1] Beware of estimates of the “average income of the top 1%.” That average includes all the richest people in the w…

> Most people have the common sense to avoid using the stuff without very good reason I agree that most (not all) people have the common sense to avoid the stuff most of the time .…

I totally believe that treatment should be the focus for drug users; the only focus, even. What I'm having trouble believing is that convenient access to drugs would not result in …

When I bought weed as a teen, I bought from all kinds of characters, but meth and opiates were never on the menu for me.