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Why would anyone with above-median ability to acquire resources stay in such a country

The argument is that you don't have to explicitly make a system self-interested, but that self-preservation follows as an implied subgoal of almost any goal. Whatever it is your sy…

The software is delivered 6 months earlier, and it's 2x slower than it needs to be. Then it continues to get slower, because the company making this code has a culture that activel…

You're just assuming that, though. All evidence is correlational. We observe phenomena, and build causal models. The particles move this way when near this bit of metal. Given this…

Thinking for yourself doesn't mean blurting out things that'll get you clubbed. Think for yourself, construct the most accurate view of the world and the people in it you can, run …

Hey, SC2's still pretty fun. Just look at the sorts of off-meta builds uthermal gets away with: https://www.youtube.com/c/uThermal

There's no need to fling bombs; much better to just superheat gas and expel it.

I run linux on 2010 hardware, and it's fine; perfectly snappy.

That doesn't justify horrifically slow applications. It just seems like Microsoft isn't fit for purpose. God, I'm glad I use linux.