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Read my EA forum post or your Tamagotchi starves. You wouldn't endorse cruelty to non-humans now, would you? forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2SwX3D49…
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Dylan Richardson
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Dylan Richardson
@indiidentity
EA, farmed animal advocacy, philosophy, loves lots of reasons for claims
San Diego, CA Katılım Ocak 2019
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@PoliticalKiwi Not everything has to be a secret political campaign.
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When any writer from Current Affairs flips a Republican seat blue, then I will be interested to hear their takes on what MGP is doing wrong. I await that day with great anticipation.
Current Affairs@curaffairs
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@NathanJRobinson @TheAtlantic @curaffairs Indeed. Don't want to miss the Q&A on chicken lawyers.
currentaffairs.org/news/qa-lawyer…
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The cover story in this month's @TheAtlantic is an 11,000 word feature on which restaurant has the best free bread.
The cover story in this month's @curaffairs is a deeply-reported look at the impacts of the Cuba fuel blockade on the population.
Read a serious magazine.
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@rosebisquits I'm not sure I agree. The cognitive dissonance in these cases shows a lack of epistemic virtue; but I prefer that in people over an overt lack of moral virtue.
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the world needs more clear eyed personal responsibility. if you eat meat (particularly from industrial farms) you should be comfortable admitting that you don't care about all animals in the same way because that is just necessarily true?
Slime🐍@ItsKingSlime
Billie Eilish says eating meat is WRONG and people can’t claim to love animals if they eat meat 😳👀
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Dylan Richardson retweetledi
Derek Thompson is worried that "California still hasn’t actually increased housing starts in the six months" since SB79.
Let's take a look at how quickly the biggest upzonings increased construction.
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This stance reliably gets lefty stan accounts enraged because it makes an actual moral demand on the individual instead of locating morality solely in belief and critique. It’s seen as a threat to an entirely narcissistic mode of engagement with politics.
Slime🐍@ItsKingSlime
Billie Eilish says eating meat is WRONG and people can’t claim to love animals if they eat meat 😳👀
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@NathanpmYoung @marcusabramovi1 What do bankruptcies and intimate partner violence have to do with forecasting?
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@AndyMasley I agree with you, but it is worth mentioning that sycophancy is a type of perverse engagement driver, especially for narcissists. (I could be wrong about this, psychology isn't always obvious)
Not "addicting" in the strict technical sense, but hardly neutral either.
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Chatbots just absolutely do not have the same kind of dopamine reward hacking things that most other phone apps do
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Jon Oliver repeats the line "chatbots are designed to maximize the time you spend on them" and "single-mindedly pursue human approval at the expense of all else." A lot of the quoted stories are from over a year ago.
I don't know how this is still getting said in 2026.
Andy Masley@AndyMasley
Oh no
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@WifiRumHam @radio_research I don’t think you know what she meant by the watchers. The watchers are a certain group you need to just come across on accident. They’re not necessarily human beings.
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My colleague received this in the mail- unfortunately throwing it out before we could see what’s on it.
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@DanFriedman81 Animal welfare is sufficient reason to be opposed to this.
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There is a rule that food stamps cannot be used for hot/prepared food that has excluded cooked rotisserie chickens which are often cheaper than raw chicken at grocery stores. It makes sense to enact a carve out.
At the same time, I feel like this is going to create some kind of multibillion dollar rotisserie scam loophole somehow.
U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
Feed our busy and hardworking families with real food. Costco’s hot rotisserie — $4.99. We introduced a bipartisan bill to make our SNAP families’ lives a little more affordable + convenient in America. 🇺🇸 fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-coll…
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This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill.
The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates.
We were getting very close to having the votes to pass Rep. Luna’s bipartisan amendment to strip the SOB Act from the bill on the floor of the House.
Then pork industry lobbyists got to work. Behind closed doors, they got Rules Committee leadership to stop a vote entirely and protect the SOB Act from the scrutiny it can’t survive.
The only option now is to kill the whole rotten farm bill. Please call your representatives at (202) 225-3121 and tell them to vote NO.
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@dioscuri I am very confident this is not the weirdest 5-10 year period humanity will face.
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My own framing on this: we are post-Turing Test but pre-AGI. Possibly the weirdest 5-10 year period humanity will ever face.
Haider.@haider1
Nick Bostrom says what surprised him most is this extended era of roughly human-level AI It has already lasted 3-5 years and may stretch further Instead of an instant takeoff, we are living through an extended phase where AI feels alien, but still close enough to us to feel familiar
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@lymanstoneky I find it strange how disproportionately large the aesthetic improvement here is.
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there is a whole darn lot of California in relatively short commute range from jobs way less dense than this which could be made this dense (however this would cause traffic; to keep commutes short you'd need a lot more buses/trains):
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
I mean, California really does have very little land left where you you can do single-family sprawl in desirable areas near jobs. Luckily, there's also very high demand for the image on the right.
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@AndyMasley *exactly at the speed limit, but this is 2036 and the limit in most US localities with bans on non-AVs has been raised 30%
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My vision of the future is AVs at every 5 miles on a road forming a complete barrier that goes exactly at the speed limit and only parting for emergency vehicles
“paula”@paularambles
okay but have you considered that they’re just two waymos in love
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@indiidentity Yeah I basically disagree but worth noting that Twitter naturally gives you a gazillion times more engagements than EA Forum and what I think many/most ppl care about is something like "meaningfulness per unit of effort" in which case Twitter and EAF look more comparable
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This is equivalent to ~50 likes on Twitter (one of the votes is my default one)
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@BenShindel I haven't read the paper, but the way I understood this was that the finding is that the small group is responsible for the accuracy not inter-market, but across all markets. It's not really surfacing people with special insight for particular topics or anything, like with WoC.
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(1) yes, this is how markets work
(2) rediscovers the pareto principle: obv a small % of people will capture a large % of value
(3) how is this "not the wisdom of crowds"? 3% still = 1000s of traders
(4) with *only* the informed traders, the market would be far less accurate!
Roberto Gomez Cram@rgomezcram
Polymarket prices are highly accurate in predicting future events. The source of that accuracy is less obvious. In a new working paper, we find it is not the “wisdom of crowds,” but a small minority of informed traders. Fewer than 3% of accounts appear to drive price discovery; most perform no better than chance. The majority generates most of the volume but little of the information, effectively funding the informed minority. Check the paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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@morallawwithin Neither obviously! So many irrational button pushers here, y'all have been fooled by a simple false dichotomy. Depressing.
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There’s a green button and a purple button.
The purple button does nothing. The green button just kills you. It does nothing else. There’s literally no reason to press the green button.
Which do you press?
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We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@ArmstrongEcon I tried asking it questions about myself, via my pictures - it wasn't very smart.
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Google to scan your entire photo library to build what it calls “Personal Intelligence.” What this means in plain English is that your images are no longer just stored, they are analyzed and integrated into a broader behavioral profile.
Google openly admits the system can use actual images of you and your loved ones to generate AI content, eliminating the need for users to manually upload reference photos.
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Question for people: if in 2024 you knew everything you now know about the identity and characteristics of all the people currently running the American government, would you have expected the outcome as of today to be better or worse than it is in actuality?
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