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Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by zelias »

dan-robertson wrote: post #606
chaosharmonic wrote: post #447

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That's because Brian Thompson was functionally a serial killer.

The competitive incentives between insurance companies in the US have pretty unfortunate consequences, and it would probably be good for people if rules could be changed in a way that socialised costs more across ages, etc. But so long as insurance companies are expected to be profitable, this argument is pretty poor. The bird’s eye view of a health insurance policy is that you have some amount in premiums coming in,…

It's almost as if we could solve the problem by having only one payer (a "single-payer", if you will) primarily motivated by patient interest instead of profit motive exerting downward pressure on costs.

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Post by akerl_ »

vizzier wrote: post #599
raizer88 wrote: post #582

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I am european and not american, but since reddit is mostly used by americans I would say that from their prospective political violence is justified and encoded in the constitution. How would you explain the second emendment?

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State Isn't really political. By my reading the clause also invalidates the entire amendement soon as the US aquired a standing army, but I'm not from the US so, who knows.

It seems odd to not quote the full amendment. It’s not like it’s long.

The phrasing in total is far more vague than what you’re presenting.

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Post by throwanem »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #570
throwanem wrote: post #282

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One might insightfully argue the whole point of the psychopath is precisely that it doesn't show. I recommend Cleckley, whose definition is seminal in The Mask of Sanity, [1] originally 1941 but prefer his 1988 fifth edition especially for its rather disconsolate preface. But even a cursory review of either will trivially show the comparison does not hold. [1] https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/personality/psychopathy/…

One might equally insightfully consider that psychopaths get married.

Begin your reading on page 346, at the heading "Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love." After that, review Section Two for its many examples of psychopathic (mis)behavior in the marital context.

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Post by spaghetdefects »

gattilorenz wrote: post #591
jlarocco wrote: post #419

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It blows my mind that people still think Epstein is just a big conspiracy theory and nothing happened. Pam Bondi said Epstein's black book was on her desk ready to be released, and then a month later she said it didn't exist. She couldn't have been telling the truth both times. The camera in Epstein's jail cell "failed" for the exact two minutes he was (supposedly) killing himself before magically starting to work ag…

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Those people are so deeply involved with Epstein, it's impossible to sum it up in a HN comment.

Innocent until proven guilty if we have a functioning executive branch for the proving part. Epstein showed the world that we don't, which is my original point. You may not be convinced (although if you don't know who Wexner is, you're not very informed about the case). Most people do though, and they think our justice system is a fraud.

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Post by dan-robertson »

nz wrote: post #613
culi wrote: post #414

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I think more and more Americans have what C. Wright Mills called the "sociological imagination". We pour tons of effort into punishing visceral, direct violence like a stabbing or shooting. But if white collar crime is being committed that leads to the death of hundreds of thousands of people, it's rare that anyone sees jail time. Maybe you could argue the decisions of Brian Thompson made only account for maybe 10% o…

This is a long comment, but I swear it is going somewhere (new terminology). Someone once said (I think Kay), that "a change in notation is worth 20 IQ points". Historically, people struggled with presently-mundane basic concepts, such as Darwin's Evolutionary Theory, and Maupertuis' Principle of Least Action, because they lacked the "notation" (concepts, really), that would have allowed them to integrate them into t…

Try to find an old graph theory proof (eg of the five colour theorem) and be amazed at how describing things in terms of a walk around a zoo is so much less clear than sets of vertices, edges, paths, etc. The history of mathematics is full of examples of good notation making a big difference, though of course this is often because the notation contains some insights about what structures are important.

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Post by dan-robertson »

zelias wrote: post #631
dan-robertson wrote: post #606

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The competitive incentives between insurance companies in the US have pretty unfortunate consequences, and it would probably be good for people if rules could be changed in a way that socialised costs more across ages, etc. But so long as insurance companies are expected to be profitable, this argument is pretty poor. The bird’s eye view of a health insurance policy is that you have some amount in premiums coming in,…

It's almost as if we could solve the problem by having only one payer (a "single-payer", if you will) primarily motivated by patient interest instead of profit motive exerting downward pressure on costs.

I don’t think that’s sufficient without mechanisms to keep down providers’ costs. Eg if a hospital decides to have private rooms for patients as opposed to open wards, should the single payer have to pay more? What if they just decide to charge a higher rate for surgery? Or prescribe a name-brand drug instead of a generic? I think you can look at the fights between Medicare and doctors unions in the US for examples of this, where the doctors seem to do a much better job of winning over public sympathy (though they have even more success when it’s an insurance company declaring they will pay Medicare rates for a procedure).

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Post by UncleMeat »

krapp wrote: post #269
Fricken wrote: post #247

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Of course violence is legal. Laws themselves carry no weight if they aren't backed by a credible threat of violence.

Violence by the state is legal. Violence otherwise tends not to be.

Corporations that pollute our air and water without penalty do violence against us.

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Post by classified »

AlexCoventry wrote: post #494
classified wrote: post #163

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> in 5 years That's literally the same argument that the blockchain gurus made, and each following year it was still 5 years in the future. I'm getting strong Real Soon Now™ vibes.

No, AI has real, immediate, large-scale industrial and scientific applications. Cryptocurrency is a massive disappointment, but AI has genuine potential value.

> genuine potential value

That's some beautiful mental and verbal gymnastics.

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Post by jlarocco »

walletdrainer wrote: post #621
jlarocco wrote: post #419

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It blows my mind that people still think Epstein is just a big conspiracy theory and nothing happened. Pam Bondi said Epstein's black book was on her desk ready to be released, and then a month later she said it didn't exist. She couldn't have been telling the truth both times. The camera in Epstein's jail cell "failed" for the exact two minutes he was (supposedly) killing himself before magically starting to work ag…

> The camera in Epstein's jail cell "failed" for the exact two minutes he was (supposedly) killing himself before magically starting to work again Why are you lying about this? How does it benefit you? It takes less than a minute to find this claim disproven in detail https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-... The idea that the cut happened when Epstein was supposedly killing himself is something…

Okay, I got that part wrong, but doesn't the fact it was edited out make it even more convincing there' a coverup? There's not even plausible deniability when it's been edited.

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Post by senordevnyc »

throwanem wrote: post #195
gopher_space wrote: post #176

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I mean the simplest way to look at this is that he's just wrong about the couple being happy.

I was married for a decade. Little of that was happy. (We both made the mistake of marrying each other, then compounded it by both being afraid to be first to admit to having noticed.) Everyone noticed - and of course I've seen it from the other side, too, many times. You can't hide when people are together who don't want to be. That always shows.

Sorry, no. I was married 18 years and then divorced. Some people weren’t surprised, many were. Ditto for other couples I’ve seen divorce. You can never know what goes on behind closed doors in someone else’s marriage.
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