ViscountPenguin

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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
You're very wrong about the people that I consider more informed just having aligned political interests. The vast majority of them were significantly to the right of myself. Centralisation is a useful property since the median opinion
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
Absolutely not my experience coming from a country with compulsory voting, and having lived in a country without. People in the country without were generally more ignorant of their own politics, and the few people I met who understood what
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
In the UK you have to choose a GP clinic, which you're stuck with until you get a transfer. This isn't the case in Australia, which is the difference I was trying to highlight.
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
To be frank, it hardly seems to have helped the United States out of their current constitutional crisis. Compulsory preferential voting is a much better protection against tyrants.
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
I'm not sure any disease is "meant" to be cured. The fact that we can cure any diseases at all is a lucky accident. Is this a religious conviction, or something else? I've heard that viewpoint a lot, but I've never
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
I have a very strong metaphysical prior against consciousness uploads being possible, but I hope to live in a universe structured in the right way to make me wrong. It's not the difference in substrate that makes me doubt it's pos
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
Funny that we've gotten to the point where we can imagine an end to aging but not war. Me and my partner always lement that we didn't evolve from capybaras instead.
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
To be honest, I've never gotten that. The creative output I can manage in a mere 80ish years has never felt sufficient to me. I would love to have the lifespan to be able to take on tasks like selectively breeding Bunya pines, or paint
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
I'm not too confident that mortality will be cured this century. Even if we cure some of the big targets (dementia, muscle wasting and cancer come to mind) there will inevitably be a long tail of problems. If it were just that, I might
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by ViscountPenguin 1y ago
Until very recently this was the case in Australia. If you started going to a different doctor you had to sign a form authorising record transfer. This was somewhat annoying since unlike the UK system, the Australian system is essentially p
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
I think the biggest issue with LLMs is basically just the fact that we're finally coming to the end of the long tail of human intellectual capability. With previous technological advancements, humans had places to intellectually "
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Wow, this is incredibly laggy on Ubuntu Firefox...
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Definitely, especially since in the case of war e.t.c., rationing is likely to be in effect. You'll get enough to live, but you'll probably be wanting for a little extra.
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Are you in FNQ? Around Brissie and the Goldie we're all flouridated. I've heard similar rumours about army recruitment in the 80s though.
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
I can't speak to the us, but where I live there are no tax or legal benefits to being married vs being a defacto couple (apart from it being slightly easier to prove if it ever goes to court)
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Congrats on the upcoming adoption!
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
This might be climate dependent. Here in the subtropics, I've found it relatively easy to get the majority of our fruits and veggies from our backyard, with things like papayas and panama berries producing year round. In temperate clim
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
How'd that happen, if you don't mind me asking? Do you have a much younger partner, or are they not your biological child?
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Not to mention more grandparnetal help! Having a kid in my 20s has left me with a massive village to help raise them.
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Living in a country where atheism is the most common religion amoung my age group, I'm not sure that I've ever seen marriage as a religious arrangement. I think for most people it's more of a costly signal of commitment. Alth
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
Australia has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world, and is significantly further away from Russia. Unfortunately, we trade that for significantly closer proximity to new Zealand...
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by ViscountPenguin 2y ago
This strongly reminds me of the algorithm used by swarming honeybees (if anyone's interested I'd highly recommend reading honeybee democracy). I reckon there's something to this. I might have a go implementing something along
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by ViscountPenguin 3y ago
Given what we know demographically about middle age white males (that they're relatively richer, more powerful e.t.c. than their peers) you can make some useful inferences about what doesn't work to decrease suicide risk. While th
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by ViscountPenguin 3y ago
I can't speak for racism or being an addict, but in the English speaking world I think lots of these issues are overplayed. It's not uncommon for members of the trans community to recommend cutting off family members for acts as m