I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.
I can’t speak for others but I’ve come to see the Less Wrong / hardline rationalist crowd as having had some interesting ideas despite the Sam Bankman Fried of it all. Rationalwiki can be rather snarky, but can be a good resource.
I’m only an hour in, but I’m getting masterpiece vibes
Good context, cheers
You’re good, my references are just aging out
Little mf has to return some video tapes 🤣
As someone who was being stalked for a while, would have been really fucking nice if Voice had sorted this out a few years ago
Anyway…Have y’all tried Animal Well?
There’s an argument to be made for both Repulsor and Favourable Beginnings.
We aren’t talking about the weight of the payload though. Don’t you need a fairly hefty bomb to meaningfully damage a refinery?
If the answer is no, I would love to see this strategy implemented in a longer ranged plane. Russia’s main tank production factory is about 2000 miles from the nominal Ukrainian border.
They must have done something to it, because Wikipedia puts its max range as 680 miles.
The ethos of neutrality isn’t in itself an invitation to drag the neutral position in your direction with increasingly extreme views. It’s unfair to say Switzerland is “aligning itself with Europe” and instead say Europe is less extremist.
No, no we didn’t.
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In trying to research some kind of response, I stumbled across the “Haavara agreement”. Surprising that some Nazis seemed open to the idea of Zionism as part of their goals. Even more surprising that Israel is not even offering such a bargain to Palestinians. Vae victus, Bibi?
Meta Tarsal Gun
Let’s solve the climate crisis by launching approximately 80 billion kilos of ideologically active biomass into space. Utterly wild take
Literal power vacuum
Bibi heard about surgical strikes and got a wild gleam in his eye
Why did you lowball it at thousands? That war would give COVID a run for its money
I was content to damn them with faint praise and save everyone the hassle. EY is a reasonably good writer who repackaged a lot of good ideas (Kahneman et al) and came up with a lot of less impressive original ideas (all the parts you’ve highlighted, many more). His most enjoyable work was fiction.