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Effective altruism is imperfect in many ways
but it's way better than Ineffective Altruism which is giving money to whatever sad story happens to be in front of you.
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Eli🔍
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@Finer_Grains
Think clearly, do good, live well
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My most authoritarian opinion is that if you're still doing the "Renee Good was trying to run over a cop" thing despite multiple well-publicized angles of video showing that no, she was not trying to run over a cop, you should lose your right to vote.
Jesse Abraham Lucas 🌃@JesseLucasSaga
@SpaghettiKozak @0007Hans @yhdistyminen there was the one of the lesbian trying to run over cops yeah
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I mean…maybe?
A merger doesn’t just result in a sum total of two companies.
There may be reasons that two companies doing poorly might have complementarities.
Is that what would have happened here? I don’t know. But that’s why markets should decide these things.
Douglas Farrar@DouglasLFarrar
JetBlue's own founder said in leaked audio that the airline may go bankrupt this year. JetBlue hasn't turned a profit in six years. Now imagine them absorbing Spirit's debt while jet fuel doubles. The merger wouldn't have saved Spirit. It would have taken JetBlue down with it.
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David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread.
"It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice.
Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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Academics are too worried about the political vibes of their findings and should focus on searching for the truth wherever it leads
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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@rwlesq @RichardHanania Walmart has saved me and my family thousands of dollars every year.
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@RichardHanania Notably, it is practically a miracle that you can log onto Amazon and buy basically whatever you might want, usually for a reasonable price, and have it delivered to your door in somewhere between a few hours and a day or two. I can hardly imagine a world without that anymore.
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Why listening to Ezra and Derek reflecting on abundance made me pessimistic.
They want a movement that builds things.
But in their coalition is a huge faction that hates business, the people who build things!
It's a wild contradiction.
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Had an argument with a woman about struggling to be left wing (paraphrased):
Me: I tend not to be left wing enough for people
Her: How
Me: Markets are good at allocating resources. I think we should arrest more shoplifters
Her: How does that stack up against bigger crimes. Global pedos, fraud, and you are trying to lock up some mother stealing for her kid.
Me: Most thefts are of things like meat, perfume, razorblades. I don't think these are for starving mothers.
Her: You seem like you have awful priorities.
I didn't expect it to go well and claude says this was deliberate of me, but this is a very common kind of discussion for me, particularly with left wing women (though I rarely chat to random left wing men). Seems entirely divorced from reality.
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You have to understand, reader: there is no "they."
Everyone's incentives are their own, and when they align it is usually only ephemerally. Everywhere, always, people misread emergent structural outcomes as evidence of a coherent, unified elite actor.
They don't exist.
The world is much more akin to a massive swirl of misaligned incentives, competing priorities and ideals, and systemic coordination failures.
Everyone is competing, no one agrees necessarily at any given point what should be done, and our social technology is not nearly adept enough to solve for the coordination failures even when there is broad agreement or the ability to see from above what could be better. Usually, no one actor can change the system.
Everything is the fish farm.
iza@izamamaa
Michael Jackson had the entire country fired up and divided after dropping “They Don’t Care About Us.
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@commontruth_ But why aren't you suggesting it if it's okay to extend someone's sentence for being low IQ?
Most people reject both ideas because they reject the notion that traits like IQ should be considered by our justice system. But you don't. So why not both?
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I said I support three-strike laws. I’m not suggesting we lock people up pre-emptively with no record of crime whatsoever. That is what i meant when i said not all stupid people are dangerous. If there is a large credible risk of danger but no crime yet commited that is why i mentioned Asylums, just as we already do on occasion when we section mentally ill people who are a danger to themselves or other people and lack capacity.
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People with low IQs should receive longer sentences because they are less likely to understand what they did was wrong and less likely to be rehabilitated.
Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen
The most idiotic progressive idea may well be the idea that people with low IQ should get far lower sentencing. Just now in Norway, a Syrian migrant is sentenced to only 6 months in jail after child rape. It makes zero sense. It obviously doesn't make it less bad for the victim or future victims that their rapist is retarded. His IQ wasn't even that extremely low. It was estimated to be in the range of 64–75. The Syrian mean is around 78. So he is within normal range for the Syrian population. Even if their argument did make sense, 6 months for child rape is an insanely low. What are we doing?
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@commontruth_ The bottom 10% are more likely to commit crimes, so lock them up or?
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@Finer_Grains I will vote and advocate for it to happen. The 90% shouldnt be held to ransom by the bottom 10%.
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There is no rent control in Dallas. Texas law forbids it. Texas also has very permissive land use rules that make it easy to build.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence though!
Rick Palacios Jr.@RickPalaciosJr
In #Dallas, renting a home hasn’t been this affordable since 2008.
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@Finer_Grains In my utopia that would be where the asylums come in.
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@commontruth_ Not all low IQ people can't understand what they did was wrong or can't be rehabilitated.
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@Finer_Grains Not all stupid people are dangerous, i would support 3 strike laws and reopening the asylums.
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