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That hardly strikes me as more obvious, to say the least. But then again perhaps no thing has ever struck me at all.

I'm saying that it's unscientific nonsense. Bolstrom has predicted that the number of people potentially in the future is between approximately 0 and 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,00…

Actual people are vastly outnumbered by entropy fluctuations in the long run, according to any number of valid cosmological models. Their total population is greater than 10^35 by …

It doesn't seem that crazy. Working from a simpler analogy first -- if an alien can read 95% of written English, but completely mischaracterizes the remaining 5%, would a reasonabl…

Blowing up buildings, murdering jews, plotting assassinations etc. is substantially damaging. It is "extremist".

Why is it amazing that it left the pad?

Natural phenomena do tend to make sense when investigated scientifically. It seems rather that not all cosmologists and mathematicians have an obligation to develop scientific theo…

The really implausible thing about reversing a broken egg is not that it works itself back into the "original" state, but that it takes the same energy back from the environment (t…

The figure at the center of all of this, when he was banned, literally just said whatever and started a competing social media site. Concerns about this topic have picked up over t…

There is no meaning of "housed" that implies "owns a house".

Might the lighter O2 naturally rise away from the organics layer? It may then be able to oxidize metals and meteors sprayed into the upper atmosphere, eventually falling back down …

Long-term we could plant massive new floating plant species in the atmosphere to decarbonize it and form floating soil layers, which eventually would compactify and metamorphosize …

It's not an epistemic problem. Twitter has to address their users' toxic behavior turning the whole place/world into a dump. Rather that the confrontation taking place in replies a…

That is a very incisive analysis of "software engineering". I don't know how you did it.

$1B+ interest payments but no market for the debt. It is as of now a massive high-risk loan (though perhaps it wasn't in April).

The most popular topic is so often the post title.

[Video clip of a Tesla EV, on fire from battery damage after Hurricane Ian. A fire crew is dousing it with water. Someone observes that they've put 1,500 gallons on it already.]

https://twitter.com/JimmyPatronis/status/1578050503279316992

What are you talking about?

He starts with a "Webster's dictionary defines" kind of premise and most of the rest is rhetoric. Not one single "woke social justice warrior" values philosophy? That's not blunt, …

The comparison is with blowing up hundreds of tons of fuel below and around a capsule filled with people, like half a dozen times. Give them a little flexibility on building codes.…

We already live in a tsunami of "passable" algorithmically generated content as it is. The problem is that as a people we are fully in the grips of media culture. We might as well …

I was (totally) wrong, but can't delete or edit the comment.