@wartranslated I hope Ilya will be able to stay safe somehow. Either way he is a hero.
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Tor Barstad
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Russian propagandist Ilya Remeslo is calling for Putin to face trial as a war criminal, insisting it be done "within the law." He argued the war is fueled only by Putin’s personal complexes and blamed him for "devastating Russia's economy." Remeslo predicts a total system collapse and expects Putin to be ousted this year. We can only dream that these words come true. The sooner, the better.
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I'm doing the same :)
Strength training while the AI is working that is. Not at the gym, but at home (Bullbar + adjustable dumbbells + pushups).
Areas I hope to improve:
- Writing while it's working
- Cleaning while it's working
- More concurrent coding-work (same project or across multiple projects)
- AI-directing as I take walks (I don't currently have access to any setup that makes this efficient)
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Guys, Claude Code + gym goes hard. You can do Claude Code and then lift weights while Claude is working.
Why aren't all the software engineers suddenly swole right now?
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How much I enjoy the journey depends on the goal.
Directing an AI is also a journey of sorts. But less like walking a trip by myself, and more like being carried on a Roman Litter by robots.
I still make architectural decisions (at the level of granularity that seems appropriate at any given time). But I haven't written a for-loop since early summer 2025.
There is an art that is lost as I transition away from writing syntax by hand. Presumably an art was also lost when people transitioned away from writing assembly.
Putting my intellectual energy into software still produces real-world utility. If it no longer did, I would look to see if there is somewhere else I could put it instead.
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I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like "I no longer write code" or "let LLMs do it".
Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal?
I genuinely want to understand this, I seem to be the odd one out.
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Your modelling seems to help confirm: Selective breeding works, but is less effective (and less humane) compared to what may become possible someday with gene editing.
Anyway, I don't agree with Tanner's tweet. In particular, it's not clear to me why he would assume that more criminals have been executed in "the west" compared to elsewhere.
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Here's what 150 years of threshold selection on a trait with 1% incidence looks like (compared to a monogenic trait for reference):
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Periodic reminder that there is no "crime gene" and, to the extent that criminality is a highly polygenic heritable trait, it cannot be "bred out".
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@KelseyTuoc Presumably it's a question of time before gene editing and embryo selection makes it so that non-assisted conception is more risky by comparison.
As I understand it, anti-IVF ideologues typically want to prevent a future where the health of children is improved in this way.
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Even if Faust were not lying, it's a bold stance that it's immoral for people who face an elevated risk of having a disabled child to have a child. Is it immoral for parents to conceive past age 40? Is it immoral for disabled people to reproduce? ThemBeforeUs is authoritarianism.
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Faust is lying here. The reason that various genetic conditions are slightly more common with IVF is that people do IVF when struggling with fertility, and no difference remains if you try to account for that. IVF babies are slightly more often premature, but the rest vanishes.
Katy Faust@Katy_Faust
According to a new book by biologist Dr. Francisco Güell (whose fertility research project was funded by the European Union) children conceived through #IVF face significantly increased medical risks. Here are a few: Imprinting Disorders •Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome: +480% •Russell–Silver syndrome: +1030% •Angelman syndrome: +370% •Prader–Willi syndrome: +120% Neonatal / Perinatal Outcomes •Very low birth weight (<1500g): +200% •Perinatal death: +120% •NICU admission: +100% •Neonatal seizures: +880% Medium- and Long-Term Diseases •Retinoblastoma: +680% •Hodgkin’s lymphoma: +263% •Cerebral palsy: +160% •Major congenital heart defects: 36% higher risk Additional conditions reported as elevated •Leukemia •Liver cancer •Kidney tumors •Central nervous system tumors •Epilepsy •Autism spectrum disorders •Hypertension •Ventricular dysfunction •Asthma Freezing embryos adds additional medical risks, including: •Pediatric cancers •Type 1 diabetes •Cardiovascular problems •Speech disorders •Allergies •Treacher Collins syndrome •Spina bifida The explanation for these increased risks? IVF manipulates embryos during early developmental stages when genetic imprinting and epigenetic programming are occurring, making them vulnerable to environmental changes. Yet none of these risks appear in fertility clinic materials. The author offers three main explanations: 1. Financial conflicts of interest Biotechnology companies and fertility clinics fund research, conferences, and professional associations. 2. Influence over scientific publishing and messaging Industry-connected experts help shape research agendas and publication narratives, affecting how findings are framed in journals and media coverage. 3. Weak oversight and limited follow-up There is insufficient long-term monitoring of IVF-conceived children. Some databases tracking outcomes have removed follow-up data. Manipulating human life at its earliest stages is risky for the very few children who make it through the process alive. But the multi-billion-dollar global fertility industry is desperately hiding those risks.
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@TimothyJones92 Being promiscuous but then settling down is a great and valid life path if you ask me. As I understand it, she has done nothing against you (to the contrary). Why sabotage?
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There's this chick at my college that has banged close to 100 dudes (me included).
She just posted a photo on IG with her new boyfriend. The guy seems so nice and innocent, like posting pictures with his grandma.
I'm considering messaging him and letting him know about his chick because I don't think he has any idea and if he did, he probably wouldn't be dating her.
Should I message him or just let it be? I'm worried that by trying to be a hero I might actually be a villain. Maybe he knows and just doesn't care
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En clue er at du sier ting som ikke er sant. Folk på begge sider av en sak kan ofte gjøre det, men jeg tenker likevel det har en viss korelasjon med å ikke ha gode intensjoner. For eksempel så sier du at "en hel generasjon ukrainere er borte og døde".
En annen clue er at du er så vennlig instilt ovenfor landet som er skyldige i at det er krig. Du sier "normalise relations to Russia ASAP". Så tydeligvis vil du ikke engang sanksjonere Russland, og det er tydeligvis viktig for deg. Det indikerer jo at du er mer fokusert på å støtte Russland enn å gjøre at det ikke lønner seg å starte en ekspansjons-krig slik Russland har gjort, og fortsette med det slik Russland gjør.
En tredje clue er at du viser manglende interesse for hva som forhindrer krig, og hva som gjør det sannsynlig at nåværende krig stopper tidligere. Du sier "stop the war", som om det ville blitt mer sannsynlig at Russland gikk med på å frosse frontlinjene om Ukraina fikk mindre støtte.
Samtidig: Jeg ser at du skrev også i 2021 at du er norsk (før krigens utbrudd), så da er det vel mindre sannsynlig at du er en bot. Som gjør det litt mer sannsynlig igjen at du gir utrykk for ditt genuine perspektiv 🤷♂️
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@Tor_Barstad @ZelenskyyUa Hvorfor tviler du på at jeg er mot krig? En hel generasjon ukrainere er borte og døde, det er ingen muligheter for landet å overleve dette på sikt. De som ikke dør i skyttergravene, har flyktet. De som mener det er verdt det må gjerne ofre sitt eget liv.
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Norwegian NASAMS systems helped us a lot. I will not share the exact number of NASAMS we have, but it is more than ten and we are still getting them. We have also received missiles for NASAMS made by Norway. However, even domestic Norwegian stocks weren’t enough. And then Norway worked with other countries at the political level to provide us with some additional missiles. This was very important.
In parallel, we were working on joint production and IRIS-T systems. And then it was like a rising wave: when one country stepped up, other real allies, like Norway, followed. That was very good. This winter, Norway also helped us with gas which we needed after Russian attacks on our energy sector, including gas infrastructure.
And the people of Norway support these decisions. All parties in Parliament support them as well. Thank you. All countries have their own internal politics, but the unity in the Norwegian Parliament on Ukraine is crucial and we appreciate it.
All of these things, as well as the work on drones that we started and the fact that Norway is second-largest contributor to PURL, are deeply valued in Ukraine.
From an interview with NRK News (1/2)
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@nakanin88 @ZelenskyyUa A large majority of Norwegians want us to help Ukraine to defend themselves.
If you are genuinely anti-war (consider me doubtful) then maybe you would put more thought into how to disincentivize countries from starting and continuing wars of territorial conquest.
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@ZelenskyyUa I'm Norwegian and I don't support funding wars. The people were never asked. We need to stop the war and normalise relations to Russia ASAP.
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@espenteigen, jeg anbefaler deg kanalen "Viva Longevity!" på YouTube. Etter å ha binget en del videoer der virker det for meg som at mange "mainstream kostholdsråd" er bedre begrunnet enn jeg trodde.
De fleste av oss optimaliserer jo for mer enn bare helse. Så om man liker smaken av helmelk bedre, så er sikkert det et godt valg for mange. Men lettmelk er nok sunnere.
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Gledelig nytt! Folk kjøper ikke lenger propagandaen. Andelen helmelk er nå på sitt høyeste på 30 år.
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@acnewsitics No hate here. To the contrary.
But I quite wish for the US to get a more mature and less anti-social president.
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This is not what I read her as trying to insinuate.
It's open to interpretation, and there wasn't necessarily just one insinuation. But I read it more like:
"I feel like I had a bad/traumatic/problematic upbringing, and here is my warning/accusation that I think you seem to be making similar mistakes / being dysfunctional in an overlapping way"
(Btw, I'm not myself trying to stake out a position in your debate about parenting styles.)
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@Aella_Girl You cropped off the rest of the reply
You are a dishonest actor, you are intentionally manipulative, and you made your original post specifically to upset others
I'm sorry you are the way you are, but I can no longer trust any stories of your abuse, you have lost credibility
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@ekravik @Anduril100 Hmm, tror du de kommer til å bli ubeboelige?
(selv hvis man anser det som et sannsynlig scenario, så burde man vel i så fall skrevet "selv hvis de skulle bli ubeboelige")
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@Anduril100 Oi, det er ikke bra. Bør være «selv om de blir ubeboelig.»
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Jeg vet ikke om NRK tror at Tuvalu er i ferd med å bli fysisk ubeboelig, eller om de bare skriver det. Men Tuvalu blir stadig litt større, siden øygruppen vokser i takt med havet. 1/
Jan Herdal@JanHerdal
Tuvalu kan ha sine utfordringer, men øygruppen synker ikke i havet. Landmassen har ifølge Nature økt med netto 2,9 pst. siden 1971. 73 øyer økte, 28 minsket. NRK tror fortsatt att bare de lyver stort og ofte nok, blir det til slutt en sannhet. nature.com/articles/s4146…
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In the recent past, bioethicists and the lay public were against IVF
They wanted it banned, and many places did have bans. The first IVF birth in the U.S. had to be done across state lines because Massachusetts banned IVF
But luckily, it wasn't fully banned. Now most accept it:
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Should I learn from history that government healthcare is bad because of Stalin, Gulags, etc?
Should I learn from history that Sesame Street is bad, because like Pol Pot's policies they also attempt to affect culture?
I think I draw different lessons from history than you do.
I'm being simplistic when I say this, but: If people were genetically more disposed towards high IQ, empathy, etc - then perhaps history would contain less cruelty and dysfunction.
What price would I pay to further such a goal? Well, certainly the price of ...not having draconian laws that prevent people from doing gene editing even though they want to.
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@visegrad24 This sounds less like science and more like selective breeding. Have we learned nothing from history?
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A Danish sperm bank has decided to start IQ tests of donors and banning people with an IQ below 85
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@Strong3Mike @Tendar > without Ukraine have any grounds complaining
This is bad English even if your first language is Russian.
And of course it's silly to suggest that there is some sort of moral symmetry between doing a war of territorial expansion and defending yourself.
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@Tendar I am expecting that no ship for whatever reason can enter or depart from any Ukrainian port without Ukraine have any grounds complaining.
If this was their choice should understand this and of course none will pay any attention to complaints they may utter
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Ukrainian forces released videos of the operation against the two oilers Kairo and Virat in the Black Sea which tried to reach the Russian coast.
The message is clear:
If you are a shipowner trying to get Russian oil, expect that you will lose your whole ship.
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@RMistereggen Please note the author's last name.. Is it a coincidence that often Jews demand these things
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Imagine if a white person said this about brown people.
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Mye sterkere grunn for å anta at disse pengene gjør nytte for seg enn ressurser brukt på fregatter og F-35 og trening av norske soldater.
Desto lavere sannsynlighet for at Ukraina går tom for penger, desto større insentiv har Russland for å slutte videre angrep.
1600 milliarder er mindre enn hva Norge har fått som mer-inntekter pga denne krigen.
Nabolag er mer fredelige hvis potensielle overgripere vet at folk stiller opp for hverandre.
Ikke i vår egen-interesse? Vel, Russland burde kanskje ikke antatt da at vi handler i egen-interesse.
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Dagens podkast med Mahmoud Farahmand og Helge Lurås begynte rolig, men tok helt av. Du er hjertlig velkommen for å opplyse oss om din visdom Guri Melby, men den ideen din om å gi 1600 miiliarder kroner til Ukraina er imponerende ... klinkokos. Eller hva Trygve Slagsvold Vedum ?
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@cactusmaac @ubiquitousnewt The children of the poor need embryo selection and gene editing even more than the rest.
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@ubiquitousnewt Maybe you should earn more instead of looking for a taxpayer handout for your embryo selection.
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Right, so I can just about afford polygenic screening of an embryo if we wanted to and if it was currently worth the squeeze. This would increase the chances of a healthier future for our unborn child who would be a productive member of society.
But PGS and embryo selection are not free on the NHS, or available in the UK. And many people who are deeply concerned about their future children are denied this opportunity to enhance their life outcomes.
Meanwhile, what is "free" on the NHS are medical experts and specialised care systems who are actively promoting inbreeding for clannish foreigners whose children will be an economic and social drain because of their parents' ridiculous, backwards and wholly dysgenic cultures..
Fuck this stupid country.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
£40k a year spent on a 'Genetic Risk Equity Midwife' by NHS Bradford to deal with genetic disorders associated with 'close-relative marriage'.... Restore Britain's work uncovering it. That is our money. Sickening.
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Hva slags merkelapp jeg ville brukt vet jeg ikke. Tenker ikke på det som "tankegods fra Breivik".
Men jeg tenker vel noe ala: Kanskje du har mer agg mot trans-personer enn hva som gagner både deg selv og dem?
Politimester Bastian burde vel vært mer "tough on crime". Men tenker nå likevel at det ligger en del fornuft i kardemommeloven.
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I forbindelse med saken om at menn klager over bæsjlukt, fra neovaginaen til "transkvinner" laget med tarmvev, så har Gaute Skjervø @gautebs gått ut og sagt at dette er høyreekstremt og transfobt og "tankegods fra Breivik".
Er du enig med AUF-lederen?
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@erika_alden_d Net positive impact? I would say that depends.
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Tor Barstad@Tor_Barstad
@Pioneer__Labs Spreading happiness is good. Spreading life is morally neutral. Spreading suffering is bad. There is too much middle-age-torture-like suffering in nature. And insects tend to be quite r-selected, meaning that most of them die young. I hope we can avoid this on other planets.
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If we terraform Mars, it would be a powerful example of human civilization having a net *positive* impact on the surrounding environment.
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Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology.
Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼
What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars!
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