Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)

@armando1987dim

Alcohol, astroparticle physics and hard rock music

Torino, Italy Katılım Aralık 2020

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@chairmanxxx @SustainableTall (BTW I was just nitpicking, I don't actually mean to imply there aren't any reasons to care whether other people's cars are in garages--though the sane thing to do would be require people to have a garage *in order to buy a car*, as IIRC they do in Japan)

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@chairmanxxx @SustainableTall Those are reasons why you want *your own* car to be in a garage -- but in order to legally mandate houses other than your own to have garages you need reasons to care about whether *other people's* cars are in garages (also, "snowing"? "Ice cold"? In Adelaide?)

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Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall·20 Oca

I don’t understand why cars need be *inside* a house

Heritage: Why?@heritage_why

This duplex house looks pretty new in Adelaide. I assume this is one of the too-small garages, but it already takes up two bedrooms worth of space. To make it larger you can pay for more land (expensive) or have a smaller house. Trade offs! domain.com.au/35-hawker-aven…

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@NathanSRobinson May I suggest 2' (the way it works in Japan IIRC): garages should be mandated *when buying a car*, just not when building a house

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Nathan S. Robinson@NathanSRobinson·20 Oca

1. Garages should be optional, not default 2. Garages should not be mandated 3. People should be allowed to run small boutique businesses out of their existing garages: haircuts, coffee shop, plants, art, crafts, etc. Which would you rather have or walk by in your neighborhood?

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@unspoonerisable @SustainableTall Yes -- IIRC the way it works in Japan is that you are required to have a garage *when buying a car*, not when building a house

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@xsphi I have a suspicion that if both of you tabooed the phrase "ignore bad vibes" and described in detail concrete examples of the situations you mean and your reactions to them, you would find they hardly resembled each other at all

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TESS@xsphi·20 Oca

I ignore bad vibes from people all the time and I basically never regret it

🎭@deepfates

This is good advice. Especially for lesswrongers

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·20 Oca

@thiagovscoelho A 1 m x 1 m x 1 m cube filled with water

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Thiago ✱@thiagovscoelho·20 Oca

Do you imagine a ton (unit of weight) as a large barrel?

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·19 Oca

@esrtweet @ReviewsPossum What fractions of boomers do you think are "like you"?

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Eric S. Raymond@esrtweet·19 Oca

@ReviewsPossum Excuuuuse me? Boomers like me invented the stuff you think of as "tech".

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Possum Reviews@ReviewsPossum·19 Oca

It's kind of fucked up that Millennials are the only tech-literate generation.

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·19 Oca

@etubruton @Authw8 @PstafarianPrice Ice cream is unhealthy?

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Jerry Hathaway@etubruton·19 Oca

@Authw8 @PstafarianPrice She wants to eat something unhealthy (which is "bad") and is looking for a partner in crime. If you refuse, it feels like a moral judgement.

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Cristine Rice@PstafarianPrice·19 Oca

Men I don't care if you understand or not, if you want to avoid psychically damaging your woman DO NOT DO THIS

neature vs norture@chionogirl

Nightmare scenario: you go to an ice cream shop with your husband and place your order then he says “nothing for me, thanks”

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·18 Oca

@pxielovee Yes

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·17 Oca

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·15 Oca

@GolerGkA @ESYudkowsky Re the 2nd paragraph: holy s---

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Reply guy 😐@GolerGkA·8 Oca

@ESYudkowsky If he owned it, he would care about it much more than Soviet officials did. What are you even talking about. Also, my favorite conspiracy theory is that purpose of Chernobyl was to stop nuclear in Europe so it would continue buying Russian gas.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️@ESYudkowsky·7 Oca

Watching historians dissect _Chernobyl_. Imagining Chernobyl run by some dude answerable to nobody, who took it over in a coup and converted it to a for-profit. Shall we count up how hard it would be to raise Earth's AI operations to the safety standard AT CHERNOBYL?

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·14 Oca

@pawnofcthulhu According to my parents, my kindergarten teacher once asked us "what's the smallest number" expecting us to answer 0, I answered −∞ instead, and she got angry. (of course mine wasn't a correct answer — −∞ is not a number, so the right answer would be "there isn't any" 😉)

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·14 Oca

@BoyanSlat Typically when people say "the 1%" they mean in their own country, not worldwide. The OOP does say "world's" but it's not impossible that people would overlook that.

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Boyan Slat@BoyanSlat·13 Oca

When you're angry at "the 1%" and discover you're actually one of them

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·13 Oca

@robertskmiles @ESYudkowsky Ditto, came here to say exactly that

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Rob Miles@robertskmiles·13 Oca

@ESYudkowsky I'd support splitting it in two, like regular runs and TAS. One league anything goes, one league pure

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️@ESYudkowsky·13 Oca

...I can't decide if I'm for or against this, maybe a good candidate for a game of Scissors Questions (where you try to find questions that divide your current group in half).

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·13 Oca

@PhysInHistory I don't know how to type a slashed O off the top of my head without googling

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Physics In History@PhysInHistory·12 Oca

Without Googling, who first measured the speed of light? ✍️

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·12 Oca

@mynamebedan They believe they use potable water for evaporative cooling, and if they were right "consumption" would be a perfectly reasonable word to use, even if water molecules aren't literally broken apart or sent to outer space.

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dan ⚡️@mynamebedan·11 Oca

can someone explain why these people think that computer systems consume water like it’s a fossil fuel, never to be available on earth again?

caspian keyes@splitbycomma

Did you know? ChatGPT models are named after their respective water consumption!! GPT-3.5 — 35 gallons/prompt GPT-4 — 40 gallons/prompt GPT-4o — 45 gallons/prompt (!) GPT-o1 — 100 gallons/prompt (!!!) GPT-o1-pro — 200 gallons/prompt (!!!!!)

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·12 Oca

@EimileRos still nowhere near as cringe as the people who say "Eire" (without a fada) in English (or any other language other than Irish) to specifically mean the Republic of Ireland as opposed to the whole island, but still

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·12 Oca

@EimileRos OTOH we no longer call Iran Persia or Myanmar Burma, so exonyms *can* change with time. I still find Türkiye cringe, but *not* because it's also the endonym.

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Amy 🌻@EimileRos·11 Oca

Türkiye is the name of the country in Turkish, with Turkish phonetics in mind. Turkey is the anglicized name of the country in English, with English phonetics in mind. We call Finland Finland, not Suomi. We call Germany Germany, not Deutschland.

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·12 Oca

@TychosElk12 @ESYudkowsky Some people do say stuff like that (at least about countries like Japan), though some of them probably mean it hyperbolically rather than literally.

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TychosElk@TychosElk12·12 Oca

@ESYudkowsky Does anyone think "fertility below replacement" is an existential threat and specifically because we will not have babies until the last human dies childless of old age? This seems like a straw man. Problems can be concerning and worth discussion without being existential.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️@ESYudkowsky·12 Oca

"Fertility below replacement" is an archetypal Problem That Evolution Will Fix Automatically. Not faster than ASI timelines, but more than fast enough to avoid human extinction.

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Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)@armando1987dim·12 Oca

@BadMedicalTakes Their left or our left?

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Bad Medical Takes@BadMedicalTakes·12 Oca

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@chairmanxxx @SustainableTall @NathanSRobinson @xsphi @thiagovscoelho @esrtweet @ReviewsPossum @etubruton