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Some late Cretaceous ammonites bask near the oceans surface. This art was made for the fantastic paper released by @JoeFlanSan in @NatureComms .
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Paleoart and bad decisions. Commissions open currently in my ammonite era cephalopod enjoyer he/him
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@PPaleoartist @JoschuaKnuppe I'm giant cephalopods' biggest shooter but they just don't stack up to large vertebrates most of the time.
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@PPaleoartist @JoschuaKnuppe Even taking the more conservative size estimates I could see predation on smaller or juvenile plesiosaurs and mosasaurs happening on occasion. An ammonite focused diet makes a lot more sense though.
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Ok, lets have a look at this: Over the last few days a new paper in Science has led to MANY discussions in the paleo community and it appears to have breached containment into the wider world, judging by headlines and google results.
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@RickRaptor105 It's really quite charming
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Is the Wikipedia article for Mussaurus ever gonna get rid of this children's drawing that has been sitting there for over a decade?
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@parasociality This is staged. They've put a tube under the mud and just push the animals back and forth. It's just content farming and animal abuse.
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Reminder that crocodilians are more closely related to birds than to "reptiles," and exhibit behavior like caring for their young.
This suggests to me that they probably intelligent and domesticable/trainable.
Falconry, but with crocodilians.
Ezzy@ezzyskii
Advantage of having a small crocodile
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The blue button is not a suicide button; it’s a genetic memory of a strategy that let humanity survive through millions of years. And here the right comes and calls it a suicide button. Ridiculous.
Matter as Machine@matterasmachine
Predators cannot attack the entire herd. They will have to wait until the herd begins to run away, and then attack the stragglers. That's all you need to know about the team red. Those who press the red button cause panic and deaths.
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@eddierandoux @riadollz Surely it's Kent.
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@Lucifer_Crowe @madeleinewintr And if enough short sighted idiots think like this then billions doe
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@madeleinewintr I mean pressing Red is still fine even if Blue wins
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if blue can win 58% even on this website that self-selects for the kind of game theory-brained amoral weirdo that would press red, it couldn't be more obvious that it's the correct option
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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@Austin_G_Wilson @peterrhague @questionableway Societal collapse due to nearly half of all people dying, including friends and loved ones, is a risk. The individualist mindset on this is naive and shortsighted.
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@peterrhague @questionableway No, I'm going to pick the option that guarantees I won't die.
You have a very simple choice to 100% eliminate all risk. If you pick blue you are trusting that 50% of the whole world has the same level of suicidal empathy you do.
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@TheLastNeocon @PliskenMGS @ImNotOwned No it doesn't. It says everyone, if you aren't engaging with that then you're not actually answering the hypothetical. You are constructing a different question to answer.
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@PliskenMGS @ImNotOwned no, the purpose of the question presumes everyone participating is a rational adult who understands the consequences of their actions
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@FaggotDoubleD @FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap Human society is built for and by people who are emotional and irrational and every time you interact with society you put your life in their hands. Humans are only the dominant species because of our emotional social behaviours, your own ignorance of that is just as irrational
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@CPursall @FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap Im not putting myself at risk for people who are emotional and irrational. Whatsoever.
If anything thats more of reason to put my life into my own hands instead of trusting them
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“Would you risk your life for people who are bad at expected value problems?”
The answer is straightforward. Either you care about the outcome or you care about looking like a heckin’ good person.
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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@Itsdoudoune98 @BurtRock69 @Swizec @AdamRackis Yes the correct choice is to lie to children to make them complicit in mass death. I am very rational.
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@BurtRock69 @Swizec @AdamRackis Just tell them some bs like press red and you will get candies and you good
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@FaggotDoubleD @FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap It's basically the tragedy of the commons, self interest overwriting societal need and resulting in collapse of a common good, in this case global society.
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@FaggotDoubleD @FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap Once you recognize that people are emotional and not rational, the rational choice is to vote blue to try and minimize the risk of up to 4 billion people dying. Most people recognise that voting red is an active selfish choice which pushes the likelihood of mass death higher.
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@squiggle888 @plasmarob It's not just strangers, it's about societal preservation, as social animals it's incredibly genetically advantageous to prioritize intraspecific cooperation to ensure species survival. In nature you see this readily with ants and other social insects.
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@plasmarob Self sacrifice for strangers is not a genetically advantageous trait and is therefore pretty rare in reality. Most people would actually pick red.
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The red button advocates really do seem like morally inferior people
Many say I'm signalling virtue
I happen to think my view is more virtuous, and there is no actual praxis here so what is the problem? I do donate a substantial amount to the poor
Find virtue i guess
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@FaggotDoubleD @FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap The only situation in which people die is when red is the majority. There's never going to be a situation where 100% of people pick red, so you are condemning blue voters to death. It's much easier to get 51% of people to vote blue, saving everyone, than it is to get 100% red
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@FeliciaC247033 @MrFelted @TopherStoll @RealDianeYap No i don’t. You choosing to kill yourself does not mean i have to follow you into it. Im choosing red and if you die because you’re retarded thats on you
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@PhthalateSoup Believe it or not cars and stairs have regulations designed to reduce the risk of death. People invented bath mats to lower the risk of slipping.
You're implying that the existence of any danger and risk makes mitigation of a different risk somehow insincere or pointless.
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Blue is the obvious choice because even if you vote red and it’s supposed to be private, people will still grill you afterward and throw you out the airlock if you voted red. You can see the implicit threat of violence in the quote tweets. That solves the coordination problem!
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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@EclipseNine @Str_Eng_Jake @plainstriumph I still love my family even if they don't pick the most r"ational" choices at all times.
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@Str_Eng_Jake @plainstriumph If half your family is dumb enough to press the suicide button they weren’t going to last very long to begin with.
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Maybe it’s the white anglo Christian in me but I can’t fathom pressing red
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@BSannnta @vitytradez @cringe_lizzie You couldn't even read the original hypothetical correctly so I'm not surprised you can't infer the parallels.
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@vitytradez @cringe_lizzie not engaging with this entirely unrelated hypothetical until you tell me what the point is. how in the world does this connect to the original.
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people invoke game theory for such dumb stuff. if youre optimizing for “i and only i survive and idc abt if anyone else dies and i think that more than 50% of other people share this goal” then red is a reasonable pick. this is, however, a stupid starting point
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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@astroteuthis @DrPhiltill @Robotbeat Everytime this poll is done blue wins. It's about societal preservation, which relies on recognizing that people are not rational machines but emotionally driven social beings. Voting red has the worst potential outcome for society.
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@DrPhiltill @Robotbeat This is the only reason that makes sense to vote Blue, but I don’t know that it’s entirely rational in the absence of polling data showing how many people are likely to vote illogically and expose themselves to unnecessary danger.
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The REALLY interesting subtext of something like this is that a lot of people intuit that the “private vote” might be a lie.
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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