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This is my current sociological theory of everything

This is why I followed and it's even better than it looks from the outside

DVD quality was fine We have gained next to nothing from increased resolution in film or television since

This is what they took from us.

Many Founding Fathers wrote under pseudonyms Pseudonyms afforded the protection needed to write things that were controversial, to engender debate over things they didn't themselves believe in, and to encourage focus on ideas over reputations Thread of their known pseudonyms🧵

Sorry we can’t give you reasoning, just a magic curve fitting machine that can simulate the outputs of reasoning arbitrarily accurately :((

People really need to internalize the fact that LLMs are not capable of lying A lie implies an agent who knows the truth but seeks to conceal it with a falsehood What you're talking to is something between a schizophrenic and a speak-and-spell, and you gave it prod access

Which is why it's easy to laugh at Effective Altruists. If they really *were* reckoning dispassionately from data, they'd daily be proposing policies that'd make AmRen look like Mother Jones

"Elite levels" here means "an under 15 boys team" People don't care about women's professional sports for the same reason they don't care about the under 15 boys team There's no media blackout conspiracy, if anything the opposite is true People just don't care

I have new ideology called Correctism it’s where we think logically and are always correct If someone disagrees with us, they’re “anti-correct”

let's bring these back

"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…

A very small minority of incredibly lucky women find emotional and spiritual fulfillment in their jobs remotely comparable to what they get raising their own children The point of motherhood is not that it's easy, it's that it's worth doing

I've always believed this is the case and have been skeptical of the many debunkings over the years

here we go again

Unfortunately losing their public money is going to make them even worse

I’m lib enough that I actually like a well-made story on race or gender, and happily consumed that type of thing on NPR thru the 2010s, but after a while it really did start going off the deep end. “Steven Thrasher speaks to us about his support for looting” became daily stuff.

If you think the Democratic Party and NGO apparatus is inept now, wait until their pipeline of very liberal Jews willing to work for poor wages dries up.