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by _bin_ 1y ago
Wrong. This is essentially the context in which we still live today though we’ve secularized substantially over the past centuries. But Rome was on the path to Christianity at this time and later converted, so this is a very common way to u
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by _bin_ 1y ago
You must be on a very old browser, a terminal browser, ladybird, something like that. PEBCAK. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OES_texture...
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by _bin_ 1y ago
They have healthier people going in, obviously. When the average person is approaching being wider than he is tall, all the healthcare spending in the world can do only so much. I have a bunch of family in Europe and have heard way too many
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Ahh there it is. I figured you weren't American. Look man, politics sometimes comes up on here. I don't see you materializing whenever that happens to pitch a fit. Since America is the most significant nation, and where most of th
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I'd be really interested in seeing the source for this, if it's an open-source project, along with the prompts and some examples. Or other source/prompt examples you know of. A lot of people seem to have these magic incantati
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Isn't that how most disagreements shake out at one level or another, once you strip away enough of the garnish? I am by nature either blunt or an asshole, depending on whom you ask, and may have come across more as the latter here, but
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I really don't see how anything I wrote was that controversial; he's free to disagree and pursue his own beliefs, obviously. Everything someone says that's not wrapped up in formal logic or statistics is implicitly opinion; t
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is a good example of "lying with statistics". You are doing this by implying we are paying more for the same thing. You are then doing more of this by equating healthcare spend to the total welfare state. Europe is still spen
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Funny how when I specifically share opinions that you specifically dislike, you sling mud about "echoing". Of course, everyone else's opinions are well-founded and of their own mind. Mine, on the other hand, are downloaded st
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is a pretty common question that's raised: how can we square this with loving our fellow man? The short answer is Christianity isn't a utilitarian belief system. While God loves everyone equally, he puts some of us closer tog
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Not physical adjacents, no. If your brother lives two thousand miles away you should still focus on him more than your neighbor. I'm unsure what Vance has to do with this. My belief comes from my religious upbringing and (in this case)
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This isn't a russian mentality, this is more of a realpolitik reading of how things work. Don't mistake a positive statement for a normative one. There was actually a really good article in the FT of all places on this subject: h
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by _bin_ 1y ago
That depends. Generally nation is a big part of how one defines rightly-ordered love. But if, say, I lived near the border, regularly went down to Mexico, had friends or colleagues there, then probably so. but more focused on alleviating th
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Sure, the world has changed. But rightly-ordered love isn't about geographical layout, it's about the natural order of community and social structure. That has changed but "mosquito nets in zimbabwe" being on the way out
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Reducing rightly-ordered love to "cruel nativism" is an incredibly uncharitable representation. I'd urge you to do some reading in comparative religion. Although I'm a Christian, I've found it instructive to spend s
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Sure I did. I'm aware his giving isn't just mosquito nets. That doesn't mean I believe the money is being directed correctly. If your position is "it's his money so none of us should comment", I'd expect e
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Of course I have. I am well aware that my values are diametrically opposed to it at a first-principles level; I find utilitarianism to be an incredibly hollow worldview that fails on many grounds, not least of which are the teleological (di
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by _bin_ 1y ago
You have to weigh that against the fact that you are much more able to figure out how to actually do what's needed at levels where you see things firsthand. At least, that's been my experience; it's much more realistic to sta
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Let's be real here; there is supposed to be a chinese wall between buy and sell sides at the big banks, but I've heard too many stories of that getting circumvented in an unofficial way to believe that's entirely true.
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by _bin_ 1y ago
"I do not recall"
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by _bin_ 1y ago
The pattern for basically every small nation is "choose of which superpower you wish to be a client." From that patron you get some level of benefit. Not aligning with any either doesn't work (you get attacked) or means you g
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by _bin_ 1y ago
It would be short-termist for Americans or euros to use chinese-made models. Increasing their popularity has an indirect but significant cost in the long term. china "winning AI" should be an unacceptable outcome for America or eu
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This comes down to a question of what one can prove. NNs are necessary not explainable and none of this would have much evidence to show in court.
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Private Equity's new class system for lenders(bloomberg.com)
2 points by _bin_ 1y ago|1 comments
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by _bin_ 1y ago
The law means don’t do what a slow moving regulator can and will prove in court. In this case, the law has no moral valence so I doubt anyone there would feel guilty breaking it. He may mean individuals are using ChatGPT unofficially even i
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by _bin_ 1y ago
You’re mis-framing this as “scaring”. It’s not. I am talking about real risks that inform my choice not to take drugs because the info available tells me MDMA is significantly too risky. If you’re suggesting marijuana is also unsafe, I stro
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by _bin_ 1y ago
Okay, I looked at Baggott's work a little more. Here are my primary concerns: 1. He's talking his book to a certain extent. This is his life's work and he runs a company in this space (though a B corp) so he will have a bias
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by _bin_ 1y ago
This is a weirdly defensive answer. I didn't attack you personally, I brought up well-founded risks. Your suggestions, while interesting, don't remove these risks. Yes, certain types of abuse make it worse: dosing higher, polydrug
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by _bin_ 1y ago
I didn't say it was likely to kill you, I said it was unsafe, that harm-reduction methods are wholly inadequate to making it safe, and that users should be aware of that. If people want to give informed consent to run those risks, be m
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by _bin_ 1y ago
There are a lot of possible mechanisms: - mitichondrial inhibition - hyperthermia - excitotoxicity for DA at least - hyperthermia speeds up redox cycling of dopamine quinones - more quinones due to all your dopamine unprotected by vesicles

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