@avidseries Sadly, you have to be crazy to want to run for or be president. So here we are.
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@Chuck3737
Libertarian, skeptic, carnivore, drum nerd.
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Biden was clearly suffering from greater cognitive decline than Trump currently is.
Trump's decline has more to do with deterioration in impulse control (which was never a strong suit of his to begin with) than in intellectual ability (also never a particularly strong suit of his).
This makes him a less pathetic figure than Biden, but arguably a more dangerous one.
Bottom line: People this old have no business being president of the world's most powerful country.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Trump is going mentally downhill just like Biden did at the same age. It manifests differently, but we can all see it.
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@bryan_caplan Hmm. Evil to want there to be a place called America with Americans, American institutions and American values? Strange definition of evil.
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It's not constructive but it's true: Opponents of immigration really are evil and disgusting.
Sabrina Carpenter@SabrinaAnnLynn
@WhiteHouse this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.
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Government regulation in France:
Above a certain size, building new homes requires a licensed architect.
Outcome:
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Again, I don’t wanna go all populist on you, but the idea that the private property you own is actually a commons that belongs to everybody and so you should have to pay taxes for the right to occupy it would be news to like 98% of all American homeowners.
I’m just telling you that basically nobody thinks of their property that way, that, in fact, the American people have an alternative conception of private property.
Menarion@cath_menarion
Property taxes, like all taxes, suck. But they are among the least economically harmful taxes. And it's just that you pay into society for the private use of what is naturally a commons, like land.
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@HumbleFlow Just because 400 years have passed it doesn’t take away from what was done. Especially if you’re still benefiting from what you did. Doof.
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A white South African whose family has been in Africa for 400 years is a "colonizer" with no homeland.
But a man who crossed the U.S. border illegally yesterday is a “fellow American” with full moral authority.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black! We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle. Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied. Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!
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@nicknorwitz On many super complex topics, nobody fully understands. Those who clam to are fakers, or deluded because they think repeating the same dogma as other people in the field means they know what they are talking about.
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When I started higher education, I trusted the experts. After going through an MD-PhD, I learned for every true expert, there are several more repeating conclusions they’ve never really interrogated. And from the outside, it’s surprisingly hard to tell the difference.
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@johnwalters_sd @DrDickQueso @NYCMayor Yeah, but it's only slightly easier than waiting on hold. Plus the might call a collection agency on you.
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@Chuck3737 @DrDickQueso @NYCMayor Change the payment type to a virtual credit card and cancel or pause the card.
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If corporations allow you to sign up with one click, you should be able to cancel with one click too.
Subscription traps, whether from an app or gym membership, are just another way corporations take advantage of working people.
We've already put hundreds of companies on notice. This week, we proposed a rule that would make NYC a national leader in cracking down on abusive practices that nickel-and-dime New Yorkers.
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I agree, however, for many of us it will be a serious bummer if AI destroys the craft. I'm more attuned to music and respond to talented musicians. It will suck if they get relegated to something like a parlor trick. But then I suppose most pop music hasn't had real musicians for a few decades now...
But yes, I've been trying to tell people that just taking what the AI gives you in one step is fun to see what the AI comes up with, but the future is iterating with it and micromanaging to get the result you want. On top of this comes a personal library of prompts and previous results that you use to keep a consistent vibe/voice/brand throughout.
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This is what I've been saying. If you don't think video and image and music-generating AIs are tools that, in the hands of creatives, can expand the possibilities of art, you fundamentally do not understand the present and future capabilities of AI.
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal
AI is an amplifier of creativity, not a replacement for it. Without developing talent of your own, it’s worthless, just as zero multiplied by a million is zero.
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@TheOmniLiberal If you want to be in Mexico, you could move there instead of converting the US into Mexico. I honestly can't understand where these people are coming from that they hate their culture and heritage so much that they want to wipe if off the face of the earth.
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Once you scratch the surface you'll see it's just plain old racism.
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If it’s racist to prefer that mass immigration doesn’t flip your country’s demographics and turn you into a minority, then there’s nothing wrong with racism. All you’ve done is demonstrate that racism, as you’ve defined it, is a positive and something morally ordinary people should support.
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A big part of the project of modern progressivism is to redefine racism such that it’s obviously a good thing
Destiny | Steven Bonnell II@TheOmniLiberal
Once you scratch the surface you'll see it's just plain old racism.
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@jonatanpallesen This isn't the only narrative. AI doesn't need to "want" something in the same sense as a human. It can simply be following an objective function, programmed by us without our full understanding, and kill us in pursuit of it.
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4 steps in the chain of AI risk. At which step do you first disagree (if any)?
1. AIs could eventually develop into genuine beings. That is, with real intelligence, desire, agency, will, or whatever else we associate with beings.
2. Such an AI being may eventually become far more intelligent than us, and not interested in following our instructions.
3. Such an AI may eventually be so powerful that it could choose to go against us if it desired.
4. All this has a significant likelihood of happening at some point in the future if AI development keeps going without limiting the AIs on some dimension.
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When you’re a child, the whole world appears to be constructed by authority figures who set everything in motion and tell everybody what to do. The mailman isn’t an individual person who is responding to incentives. That’s not the way a four-year-old thinks about the world. No, he’s just the mailman. Mailmen are eternal. The mail just exists. All of these structures and system systems are just sort of natural features of the landscape.
This is, fundamentally, a naïve and childish understanding of the world.
To be a leftist is not to have outgrown this worldview.
Caroline 🕯️@caroline_mpls
I don’t understand. Do you guys think the instacart shopper is just doing you a favor?
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This is trivially easy to solve. You can get it done in two weeks plus travel time at the end.
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
Absolutely not????
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I'd like someone to explain why the body would create (or allow to circulate) LDL for no good reason? Is the system broken? If not, then you must be throwing a wrench in the works by artificially reducing it. Somehow it has to adapt or just get by without whatever benefits the LDL was providing.
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10 mg ezetimibe dropped LDL 56 % (516 to 228).
But that wasn’t even the point. Let’s see who is paying attention 👀👇
Austin Dudzinski, PharmD, BCACP@ApoDudz
☝🏻One of the best and most intriguing videos I’ve seen from @nicknorwitz 👏🏻 👉🏻Ezetimibe tends to be thrown by the wayside for high intensity statin monotherapy, but we combophiles 😉(@JoshJwageman) know what’s up. 👉🏻Ezetimibe might not only be helpful for dramatically lowering LDLc in LMHR or leaner insulin sensitive individuals (@MattCalkinsMD, @richcollins, @DoctorTro, @DominicDAgosti2), providing some possible mechanistic insight into the development of this phenotype (@lipo_fan), but it may also have some brain protective properties. Okokokok 🙂↕️ youtu.be/5idzP5ghT7A?si…
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@cremieuxrecueil I think I'm missing the point. What's the big deal with cover letters? Can't the employers use AI to look at the actual resumes (past experience, education, GPA, etc.)? The cover letter has always been fluff, though maybe there was some IQ/effort signal in there.
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But it's neutral for employers, because they get to compensate for bad employees by paying lower wages!
This is bad news, all said and done, and there's not much of a saving grace.
If we want to save the job market from AI eroding signaling to employers, it's time for tests!
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I still think this is one of the most important recent papers on AI in the job market🧵
The website Freelancer added an option to generate cover letters with AI, and suddenly the quality associated with cover letters stopped predicting the odds of people getting hired!
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You are subtly plugging hundred health (no judgement), but my experience with them has just been that it's kind of an expensive way to get blood work along with totally mainstream advice I could get from any AI (e.g. my LDL is high so I should stop eating red meat and take berberin). Am I missing something?
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3/5) Today’s letter dives into the physiology of GLP-1–based weight loss drugs—what each component does, what you can expect, the pros, the cons, and the predictions. It’s all grounded in rigorous science.
And then there’s the experiment: a uniquely controlled, calorie-matched, six-week retatrutide protocol where I’ll collect >100 biomarkers using my @Hundredhealth app to track what actually happens.
What do you predict?
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The Evolution of GLP Fat Loss Drugs
Subtitle: Why I'm Going to Experiment with Reta (link at the end)
1/5) I’ve become fascinated with the evolution of weight loss drugs.
First there were GLP-1s, then tirzepatide, and now retatrutide, "GLP-3" These things are coming out like iPhones. (I wonder what GLP-17 Pro will look like?)
But, in all seriousness, these peptides, and the universe of peptides more broadly that people are exploring with the intent of bio-optimization, are fascinating.
So, I'm going to try it for myself... but hear me out...
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@EdithaTogo @cremieuxrecueil I do. Pure snobbery to say you have to physically read it. I listen to probably 10-15 books a year just listening on my commute.
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@cremieuxrecueil How many people consider listening to an audiobook as reading a book?
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It's an interesting question:
Are people lying or are the sorts of people who follow Pew Research Center on X dot com just the types to be avid readers?
Pew Research Center@pewresearch
📚 How do your reading habits stack up? Share of Americans who say they have read ___ books in the past year: 0: 25% 1-5: 38% 6-10: 13% 11-20: 10% More than 20: 14% How may books did you read this year?
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