Jonathan Passey

Krispy Kreme to launch limited doughnut for Artemis II moon mission: collectspace.com/news/news-0327…

Disagree. Woke is when you insist that individuals don't have agency and are victims of larger power structures, like Big Tech.

How many Americans will die to save the president from a humiliating retreat?

@ConceptualJames I am going to need some concrete examples.

Way too many libertarians hate government more than they love freedom.

@TheoWrigt @ConceptualJames i can't think of a single libertarian who believes this. restraints on action are fundamental. don't use force or deception to harm others. everything else is okay.

“There is no essential distinction between dictatorship and libertarianism. The totalitarian maintains that the state may do whatever it wishes without any restraints, the libertarian insists that the individual may do whatever he wishes without any restraints both agree that man is to be ruled by whim and differ only on whether private whim or government whim takes precedence they share the same anti- reason theory and the same anti-freedom practice” Peter Schwartz

@lotusrosekat @ConceptualJames @JacobTBrunton but where do you go from there? how do you decide what compromises to make?

@ConceptualJames @JacobTBrunton I always thought I was a libertarian, but I realize now that being so principled to your own detriment isn’t where it’s at for me 🤷‍♀️

@saltminetimes @ConceptualJames what are some examples of laws that you like but libertarians don't?

@ConceptualJames Most libertarians conveniently forget that the traditional western conception of liberty, in political philosophy, is freedom guided by virtue. This is why laws exist to take freedom away from those who behave immorally.

@SahilBloom Introspection

What's something most people think is healthy that's actually not?

Everyone assumes this picture of Buttigieg is him eating a chicken wing, and that's because he's biting in a way to engage his "rip-the-flesh-from-the-bone" front teeth, so we fill in "chicken wing" to make it make sense. But what he is actually eating is a small piece of a cinnamon roll, and our brains just can't comprehend biting into a small piece of dough that way. It's like an alien took over a human body and is unfamiliar with the subtleties of how it works.

My most popular Sora video was “an Elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat), a llama plays a flute, prestige drama” I am not sure why OpenAI has decided their compute has more valuable uses. Really a mystery.

Everything costs less than the cost of high speed rail from SF to LA, which is infinite.

It’s interesting to read critiques of the Moon base proposal, which seems like the smart path forward and could fit within NASA’s budget. The gist I’m hearing from critics is that this Isaacman priority is happy talk, will all fade away, and not happen. Then you realize these were the same people who: - Said Isaacman wouldn’t be renominated - Said he would was a political amateur - Said he couldn’t build a coalition to cancel EUS and put SLS on a path toward sunset -Said he was an Elon puppet (who has subsequently prioritized getting Blue Origin moving on HLS due to Starship delays) - Said he would never get Congress, which called it a “national priority,” to go along with canceling Gateway - Said he would never actually cancel Gateway These people are now saying Isaacman can’t get NASA and its contractors to execute on a plan that has administration and Congressional support. The reality is, from a policy and political standpoint, NASA is in a better place now than it has been for years. If the Moon Base fails that’s on NASA and private industry, not stupid policy. And believe me, I’ve seen a lot of terrible, pie-in-the-sky space policy over the decades. #JourneyToMars It’s a new era. I’m not sure everyone realizes this, but Isaacman and his team have eyes wide open to a lot of the major challenges facing NASA and they’re trying to fix them. They’re working long days. Weekends. It’s inspiring to see our government work like this, especially in an era when so much seems broken. I don’t know what will happen. Maybe this Moon base all will fade away. But I do know that NASA’s chance for success in the next couple of decades is a lot higher today than it has been for a long, long time. What we were doing was decidedly not working. This has a chance.

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@Michael__Huemer Should you prevent me from eating meat by force? Steal livestock that is my property if it is being poorly treated? Why or why not?

@Michael__Huemer I bounced off the paywall, but how are you deciding which moral intuitions are valid starting points? What’s the selection rule that isn’t just ‘the ones that feel right to me’? What about when your intuitions lead to conclusions that are in conflict with one another?

Here, I address some misguided objections to the true metaethical theory

I’ve been waiting literally decades for NASA to articulate a plan for a Moon base. Now Carlos Garcia-Galan is doing a masterful job of precisely this. Dozens of landings. Drones. RTGs. Rovers. Habitats. Excavators. This is incredible stuff.

@bryan_caplan @ESYudkowsky will you give him double or nothing for 2035? 2040?

My end-of-the-world bet with @ESYudkowsky is now in its NINTH year. I WILL win on January 1, 2030. Disagree? I'll bet anyone with a public reputation at 10:1. How CAN you bet on the end of the world? Simple: The optimist prepays the pessimist. betonit.ai/p/my_end-of-th…

@nikitabier @Noahpinion if only

@Noahpinion Use the dislike button. We’re learning, fast.

AI will destroy the internet. Slop will drive out human-created content on platform after platform. Instead of interacting with someone else's slop, people will just make their own slop with AI apps. There will be no online human-to-human interaction left. Note: This is good

After 4 hours of waiting for first motion, here's the first 90 minutes of the second rollout of Artemis 2 compressed to one minute. Even sped up, you can tell that this rocket, and its entire launch pad, are moving slow. Top speed is 1 mile per hour! 📽️: me for @nasaspaceflight

Just an incredible series of paragraphs: