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Mike Riggs

@MikeRiggs

Editing at @rootsofprogress. Heavily invested in tomorrow being better than today.

North Carolina انضم Ocak 2008
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alignment in 2016: obviously any real AI will be made inside a faraday cage magnetically suspended in a 10×10×10 cube of telekill alloy alignment in 2026: yeah we can not make it stop talking about goblins
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
"The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life." Yes. We are "good tired." Woo someone, and join today!
Derek Thompson@DKThomp

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled. Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled. You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji

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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@ZaidJilani Drunken Master 2 is my favorite martial arts movie of all time! Every fight scene is incredible, but yeah, the final showdown in the steel foundry is insane.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@theashleyray Yes, totally. I should've selected a different tweet to quote (or kept my opinions to myself). Numerous people responding to Dylan said they grew up with huge families in tiny houses, and it was fine. I did as well, and did not think it was fine.
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1812@EighteenTweIVe·
@MikeRiggs I accept your terms.
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I have thought a lot about the red button-blue button question, and I would still push the blue button because I’d rather be dead than live alongside *only* the people I’ve seen argue for pushing red.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
Participating in the button discourse was a mistake!
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@marxseventh @Mary_Kartografr My mentions feature some really angry people. I assumed they were offended, but they could in fact be enjoying themselves.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@john_woody Yeah, I have a 2-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a developmentally disabled adult relative. Stanning for blue feels right in my bones. I should've made that case rather than inciting red-pushers.
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John@john_woody·
@MikeRiggs The children part of this ruins the experiment and makes it an easy blue for me, as it should for anyone
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@marxseventh @Mary_Kartografr I'm so confused. You just tweeted, "btw, Mike, if *you* voted red bc u believe in socialism..." I'm simply saying I don't believe in socialism.
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Joseph Watts@TheUnCommonEra·
@MikeRiggs This is why I push red; the chance of a genocide of egalitarians.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@marxseventh @Mary_Kartografr I voted anonymously in the original poll and chose blue. The last time I checked that poll, blue was still winning. Yes, tweeting about my vote was signaling. I clearly offended a lot of people who thought they were making the more humane choice. I wish I'd been less unkind.
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Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.@marxseventh·
@Mary_Kartografr @MikeRiggs RIGHT. But that is exactly why when the time came there's no fucking way u wd actually vote blue. We all know that--that's why this question is so funny, its whole purpose is just to troll these ppl who chase after social clout in the most transparently ridiculous way possible.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@john_woody My sense is that we are all responding to a different version of this experiment, which is my best explanation for why I appear to have genuinely angered dozens of people I've never interacted with.
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John@john_woody·
@MikeRiggs Do the red button pressers understand that babies are also getting a choice? If so there shouldn’t be a lot of red button pressers.
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Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.@marxseventh·
@Mary_Kartografr @MikeRiggs btw, Mike, if *you* voted red bc u believe in socialism, u believe everyone is equal, u believe we all have a duty to do our part, you believe it's immoral to demand others risk their lives for you, then "the red voters" wouldn't only be the people you hate, it would be you too.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@No_Sugar_m8 No offense, but I don't think I want to keep this convo going. I hope you live a long and joyful life!
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Black Coffee@No_Sugar_m8·
@MikeRiggs I know that I'm right. And I know it's not the exact question, this is part of your deprogramming. So now that you know what the objectively correct answer is, explain why anyone ELSE would push blue in a private poll.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
I have thought a lot about this tweet and now wish I hadn't sent it! I thought we were all working off the Tim Urban prompt and the rules he established in the ensuing thread. It's clear to me from numerous responses (well, the ones that are not just some version of "I would be happy if you died") that many people are thinking about this question using different criteria.
Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs

I have thought a lot about the red button-blue button question, and I would still push the blue button because I’d rather be dead than live alongside *only* the people I’ve seen argue for pushing red.

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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@L0SCH @RisingEndea @r_u_thinking State coercion would not be possible in the thought experiment Tim Urban proposed. As I said to another poster, in a scenario where humans can coordinate over a sufficiently long time horizon, I accept red as the better choice.
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@No_Sugar_m8 You know what, you're right. If we're all lining up, pressing in order, with televised results, the right answer is red, and I would choose red. But that was not Tim Urban's thought experiment, which is what my initial (now clearly too inflammatory) tweet was in response to.
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Black Coffee@No_Sugar_m8·
@MikeRiggs You realize that is completely irrelevant and not analogous in the slightest to this conversation right? She needs groceries. You don't need to press a button. She took a small risk for the outcome of having food. You choose to take a risk to look good. Those aren't analogous
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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@marxseventh See my prior response re: the rules Tim Urban established.
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Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.
Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.@marxseventh·
@MikeRiggs This brings up yet another very good observation abt the blue mind. Rather than saying the obviously caring, magnanimous gesture of "no, don't risk it! u should vote red. Save yourself." Your position ONLY works by insisting as many people risk their lives as possible. It's vile.
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Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.@marxseventh·
Something just occurred to me about how fucking moronic the blue position is. A big part of their argument is (allegedly) they don't want to kill half the population. What's the other side? That's right, "I'd rather kill half the population than live with red people."
Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs

I have thought a lot about the red button-blue button question, and I would still push the blue button because I’d rather be dead than live alongside *only* the people I’ve seen argue for pushing red.

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Mike Riggs@MikeRiggs·
@marxseventh The original thought experiment — the one I voted in and thought we were all discussing — was posed by Tim Urban, who said in response to a questioner that there is no opportunity to lobby and that the buttons are distributed to every person on Earth, including babies.
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Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.
Karl “Freight Train” Marx the Seventh, S.J.@marxseventh·
@MikeRiggs (but it's not just about u. It's that u NEED others to risk their own deaths. Rather than counseling, no, no one should die, you're counseling that all of us dying is better than living with reds.) Rather than "don't risk it--vote red," your *advice* is: RISK DEATH! Go for it!"
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