Cogent Sins🔎
@Insect_Song
Pre-rationalist in New Zealand. Husband. Father. All opinions are my employer's. It is very important we implement LVT & YIMBY urbanism before AI kills us all.
"The extra CO₂ humanity has added to the atmosphere, if precipitated as dry ice, would form a layer 1.35 millimeters thick around the globe." And heaps of other fun facts in the linked post!
This computation is based on changes in atmospheric CO₂ levels, so does not account for CO₂ emissions that have found their way into the ocean or other sinks. climateer.substack.com/p/visualizing-…
This is good. Simply lays out the case against addictive content, & makes a clear case for stigmatising & disparaging it to your kids, while acknowledging that this might be hard because it's kinda hypocritical for a lot of us.
“There are powerful forces outside of your control that are trying to take the precious few years of your children’s childhood and turn them into ad revenue.” Me on phones and short form video.
New Zealand's recent regulatory changes and high geothermal capacity help create an exceptionally low-risk location for AI hyperscalers. See also: high data bandwidth. No visa quotas for foreign skilled labour. Stability and geopolitical alignment. Simple logistics. Link below.
So I just searched "Iran" with the "from people you follow" filter on. About 1/5 of the tweets are from the account in the screenshot below, who I emphatically do not follow. On repeating this, sometimes only her, sometimes more random accounts too. Other searches work fine.
As an extremely high decoupler, I am capable of saying @dieworkwear is exactly the sort of person the US is supposed to be letting in & shouldn't be deported, even though he's blocked me on Twitter. x.com/dieworkwear/st…
Check my replies below, I've confirmed this photo of a destroyed TU-95 is in fact right next to where the biggest nuclear bomb ever was loaded onto another TU-95 to be tested 63 years ago.
A small mound was built directly next to the loading pit for the Tsar Bomb. An anti-aircraft vehicle appears to be on this mound. The wreckage of the Tu-95MS right next to it gives this photo an iconic value!
Finally listening to the Dwarkesh/ Gwern podcast. One thing that stuck out that I don't recall being discussed earlier: Gwern assigns a ~100% probability to *something* in the environment being similarly harmful to us as lead poisoning was to the Romans!
In hindsight, it might have been worth the effort of making some of the drone carrier trucks out of intermodal containers, curtainsiders, & whatever other types of truck are common in Russia: make it genuinely difficult to identify potential threats & really hard to inspect for.
A side effect of Operation “Spider Web” is the regional collapse of Russian freight transport due to the inspections of trucks that have begun.
peace time: deploying fiber internet takes days per mile and will cost you $60k war time: fiber internet is flying at you at 40mph for free. there's nothing you can do to stop it
Invasion of Iceland by the British early in WWII: Armies are always a joke everywhere, being laughably underprepared is the norm, not the exception, but that won't (& shouldn't) stop junior enlisted bitching about it... The whole thing sounds hilarious.
Trade war? Yeah sounds great, have you got a Peace I could have?
Trade war? No thanks, I'll trade (here trade = transitive verb meaning "exchange") war (for peace, as in choose peace *instead of* war).
Scott's got review of "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" that I expect to refer people to in future. And look at that caption, he went there. ...It's weird the degree to which my brain has linked "awareness of Rotherham" with "CHUD"
Dunno about 100 unarmed men vs a gorilla, but 30 men with 16th century weaponry vs 2 elephants goes to the pachyderms.
