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@panickssery @dylanmatt @JerusalemDemsas @grok Agree. If Elon/Bezos started being maximally altruistic, they would at some point encounter hard tradeoffs. But I don’t think they would hit them until well after donating at least the first 1B. The exact line is of course hard to identify.
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Arjun Panickssery
Arjun Panickssery@panickssery·
@JayPowellsAlt @dylanmatt @JerusalemDemsas @grok oh yeah forgot what this conversation was about I guess that makes sense, though there is a slippery-slope question where it's hard to see which marginal donation of this general kind eventually makes the world worse off by limiting his ability to execute big projects
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Arjun Panickssery
Arjun Panickssery@panickssery·
@dylanmatt @JayPowellsAlt @JerusalemDemsas @grok I would guess that he doesnt care, but only cares about Mars-related stuff, considering that his foundation has deployed very little relative to his wealth, and mostly stuff in the physical vicinity of his businesses or for prizes related to their work in energy and AI and so on
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opinionhaver@JayPowellsAlt·
@panickssery @JerusalemDemsas This is a really embarrassing complaint. None of his concerns, if accepted as true, lead to the conclusion that he should abandon the giving pledge altogether. Also, there’s overwhelming empirical evidence that charities like AMF and GiveDirectly do massive good.
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Arjun Panickssery@panickssery·
@JerusalemDemsas I said "that he controls"—I agree that he can probably do some of those things effectively while he's alive But if he creates a large foundation he should expect an outcome like the Rockefeller Foundation or Ford Foundation where the nonprofits are captured by hostile interests
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opinionhaver@JayPowellsAlt·
@tedfrank @Sudsiii Do you think that this is a good conception of what murder is? Should our law be this way?
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TESS@xsphi·
@RifeWithKaiju I guess I don't believe in experience? or I think everything has an experience? I certainly don't have a reason to believe in anything *fundamentally* different between me and other complex systems (a PC, a river, etc). we just differ in a bunch of specific, observable ways
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TESS@xsphi·
ARE LLM'S CONSCIOUS? IS MATH DISCOVERED OR INVENTED? ARE TOMATOES A FRUIT? BORING BORING BORING. THESE ONLY SEEM LIKE COMPELLING QUESTIONS IF YOU'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE MIDWIT ABSTRACTIONS YOU INTERNALIZED AS A CHILD
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opinionhaver@JayPowellsAlt·
@admcrlsn Is this a troll post? Someone asked “what do you think of people who say they support Hamas” and he responded “that’s wrong and it has no place in our city” Seems like a pretty explicit condemnation of pro-Hamas protestors.
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Adam Carlson
Adam Carlson@admcrlsn·
I am a vocal & passionate support of Mamdani’s But I’ve waited patiently all day for him to forcefully condemn Hamas — watching dozens of other city & state electeds do so — and am still waiting This is not only hurtful to me, but it’s bad politics & distracts from his agenda
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the pro-Hamas protests (literally) in NYC. "As I made clear, the rhetoric and displays that we saw and heard in Kew Gardens Hills last night are wrong and have no place in our city. My team is in close touch with the NYPD regarding last night's protest and counterprotest. We will continue to ensure New Yorkers' safety entering and exiting houses of worship as well as the constitutional right to protest."

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Jimmy Buffett Fan, Esq.
Jimmy Buffett Fan, Esq.@jimmy_esq·
I'd be sort of fascinated to know what peoples' guesses are as to my biography and views based on this anonymous account alone.
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Dan Epps
Dan Epps@danepps·
@beau_baumann At least knowing some of the basic structural questions are relevant to various kinds of law—e.g., the relationship between state and federal law, and the basic structure of the federal system, relationship between courts and legislators, etc.
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Dan Epps
Dan Epps@danepps·
I find this wildly wrong. If podium faculty provide no value to students' formation as lawyers, I can't see any possible justification for our enterprise—at least outside of the absolute tippy top schools where professional training may be a secondary concern.
Beau J. Baumann 🍏@beau_baumann

Then you run into the classic problem that the law school curriculum makes no sense. It does not meaningfully prepare someone to practice law. You want to take the fiction too seriously. The only classes that are actually teaching people how to be practicing lawyers are clinics. I’m saying fine, let’s let the people doing that do their thing. Everyone who’s in the production of knowledge game needs to stay the hell away. These are mutually exclusive tasks. Moreover, the entire political basis of that knowledge production side of the ledger doesn’t make sense if we get to take that hat off whenever we want. The American legal academy has been stuck for decades wanting its cake and eating it too. We want to say we need freedom b/c we produce knowledge in a sacred space. But then we want to drop that pretense and say whatever the client or we ourselves believe whenever we feel like it. And we wonder why our independence is faltering.

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Julian Davis Mortenson
Julian Davis Mortenson@jdmortenson·
history of unitary executive theory, in 1 tweet Step 1 - Formal logic requires you, a principled legal movement, to override centuries of functionalist tradition Step 2 - Functionalism requires you, a sensible legal movement, to create exceptions to the formal logic of Step 1
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Simon Bazelon
Simon Bazelon@simon_bazelon·
Lots of people are dunking on this by pointing out that you have to flip Trump voters to win a state he won by 14%. That is, of course, true. But beyond that: Democrats who don't vote are more conservative than Democrats who do vote! The entire premise here is misguided!
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The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline

Q: How will you win over Trump supporters? Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal." Q: "Do you need to?" Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."

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opinionhaver@JayPowellsAlt·
@PaulMSherman @asymmetricinfo You are making an argument against time-crunched exams per se. I agree with that. But do you agree that if we are going to have time-crunched exams, it does not make sense to give 30-40% of the class extra time?
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Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman@PaulMSherman·
In my experience, people that start slow can usually learn to go faster, particularly as they develop subject-matter expertise. What’s genuinely in short supply is people who are good at legal reasoning. I don’t want to discount people who have that skill because they aren’t fast on law-school exams.
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Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman@PaulMSherman·
I felt this way in law school and then I started practicing law, which is so 100% divorced from law school exams that I came around. It is just never the case that I have to produce a 1,500-word written product in three uninterrupted hours with no access to online sources.
Josh Barro@jbarro

Again, if you have a condition like ADHD, anxiety, or depression, and it makes it harder for you to complete tests on time, that is something the test should *measure*, not something it should avoid measuring.

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opinionhaver@JayPowellsAlt·
@hecubian_devil Do you agree it’s a problem that 40% of Stanford students are getting disability accommodations? Does it not an imply an unhealthy relationship to disability among elites? Or a gaming of the system, at the very least?
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