-Okay, THIS TIME if I learn the math DEEPLY enough, and explain the math CLEARLY enough, then maybe my friends will stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off! The previous attempt can only have failed due to insufficient math, and not for any other reason
+Free-speech conditions in the country as a whole have gotten worse, but conditions in my immediate social graph have gotten better, as people who previously wanted to stay on the good side of Blue Egregore hit the "I can't live like this" breaking point that I hit in October 2016
-Hey. What if we arrested the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, AND had genuine freedom of inquiry into biological causes of human behavior? We just could do both! They're not actually contradicting each other!
+Do we even know what a fair election looks like? "Trump legitimately loses but falsely alleges vote fraud tipped it to Biden" and "Trump appears to lose, alleges election fraud tipped it to Biden, and this allegation happens to be true" have very similar consequences! 1/2
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+Like, I'm assuming on priors there are nonzero partisans on both sides willing to resort to vote fraud? The question is, how many each, how organized, with how much collusion from the top, does it affect the result, &c.? 2/2
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+Okay, THIS TIME if I've learned the math DEEPLY enough & explain the math CLEARLY enough, then maybe @ESYudkowsky's robot cult will stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off! The previous attempt can only have failed due to insufficient math, and not for any other reason!
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+Who would have thought getting @ESYudkowsky's robot cult to stop trying to trick me into cutting my dick off (independently of the empirical facts determining whether or not I should cut my dick off) would involve so much math?? OK, I guess the math part isn't surprising, but—
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+KQED was asked: "When will life be better in California?"
+KQED answered: "In California, life already has been better."
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+In the NRx production of Hairspray, "You Can't Stop the Beat" is re-keyed to a chilling C minor
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+On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
+A man and woman liked to shake it on a Saturday night
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+No justice, no peace (where "justice" means "maximizing the logarithm of the probability assigned by the shared map to the observed outcome")
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+Hey. What if we arrested the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, AND had genuine freedom of inquiry into biological causes of human behavior? We could just do both! They're not actually contradicting each other!
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+"Well, actually, we're ASHKENAZI supremacists" may not be as convincing a defense as you think :cold_sweat:
I never expected to become a polarizing figure 1/5
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