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by alvah 3y ago
Your counter-argument seems a bit light on reasoning. Feel free to have the last word.
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by alvah 3y ago
I’m aware the battery in Hawaii uses additional generation, it’s mentioned in the article. That point was the obviously-misleading headline, which is not the first I’ve seen for this type of installation.
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by alvah 3y ago
Your assumptions are incorrect, and it’s perfectly valid to point out that a battery is not, in fact, a generator, when there are many headlines such as this one confusing the issue. There are many man idiots, whatever that means, making as
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by alvah 3y ago
An impressive technical feat, but obviously there's no way a battery (i.e. storage technology) can actually replace a coal plant (i.e. generation technology) without additional generation. Sounds pedantic, but there are many headlines
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by alvah 3y ago
Don't forget to factor in the thermal generators' owners abandoning their business way before you thought they would, decades before there's a viable replacement for on-demand power to run an advanced industrial economy.
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by alvah 3y ago
You'd probably want to cite such a big claim ("Boeing didn't fix anything"), which is not supported by your link. Other online sources say Boeing did fix MCAS, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boei
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by alvah 3y ago
“it's unethical/immoral to offer a fraction of a livable wage to desperate people who have no other options” The lack of other options or desperation of the applicant are not the responsibility of the individual business making th
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by alvah 3y ago
100% of insulin-dependent diabetics who don’t get enough insulin will die. Most people in unskilled entry-level jobs which pay less than a bureaucrat’s notion of what’s required to survive will not die, at least in the short term. Unskilled
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by alvah 3y ago
That doesn't follow? From the POV of the wage recipient / non-recipient, no money is better than some money? Have we slipped through a wormhole into bizarro world & nobody has told me?
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by alvah 3y ago
Worse/worst things could happen than most things, however no wage is surely worse/worst than some wage?
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by alvah 3y ago
The internet never forgets though. You'd have quite a job deleting all the old reports in the media.
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by alvah 3y ago
You phrased it exactly like the many stories posted on social media that end with a young kid expressing virtue in the words of an adult. You have other skeptical replies, so it’s not just me.
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by alvah 3y ago
I'll take things that never happened for $500, linsomniac
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by alvah 3y ago
So the high priest / philosophical originator (guardian.com) of the cult should not "be taken as a representative of the average EA," and nobody saw fit to mention his...unusual views (due to his naive utilitarian philosophy)
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by alvah 3y ago
I had a quick skim through this one from your list: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8xNSiwj5gjoDTRquQ/... I note this post by the high priest of the cult makes no mention of his recent moral relativist d
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by alvah 3y ago
You’re welcome to disagree but it’s not just me who thinks EA has cult-like attributes: https://www.google.com/search?q=is+ea+a+cult I’m quite happy with the childish idealist description though. Putting childish idealists
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by alvah 3y ago
If you're still young and idealistic, it's maybe ok to think like this, as you've likely had nonsense poured into your head for years & little real-world experience. If you're as old as me and you still think this
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by alvah 3y ago
She comes across as a childish idealist, typical of many uni graduates who've yet to encounter the real world, also typical of the EA cult. Giving people like her real power before they've had the uni nonsense knocked out of their
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by alvah 3y ago
She wouldn't be the first high-profile member of the EA cult to talk to the press after a scandal, against the advice of any sane lawyer.
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by alvah 3y ago
"People complain about trucks without even trying to understand where the motivation to own them comes from." Agree 100%. I have a Ford Ranger on order, and I am not a construction worker. I've already fielded some "hurr
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by alvah 3y ago
You’re going to have to show me where I said that champ
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by alvah 3y ago
I don't know nearly enough about the OpenAI situation to suggest what she should have done (apart from "not help to press the self-destruct button," with the benefit of hindsight). However, I've read a bit about EA since
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by alvah 3y ago
People with a child’s view of the world, in charge of $billions of other people’s money, is the common theme.
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by alvah 3y ago
EA hadn’t had a good run in the corporate world, over the last year or so
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by alvah 3y ago
Possibly so, but every single CEO in the world is not some evil automaton.
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by alvah 3y ago
So in every possible scenario it’s wrong to have emotions and loyalty for a CEO, who’s also a human, and may have had a profound, even life-changing effect on you?
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by alvah 3y ago
The figure was published at https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro... , and of course they didn't provide a link to the study :( The figure may be taken from the Large Cars section of table 2
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by alvah 3y ago
Your link talks (theoretically, not practically) about 100% RE by 2060! Do you understand what “currently” means? You hand-wave with “we haven’t built the mines or factories, yet”. In the real world, discovery, proving, permits, constructio
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by alvah 3y ago
Oh come on. EVs have many advantages, but "most EVs are very similar in weight to their ICE counterparts" is straight-up untrue. Model S Long Range: 510lb heavier than a BMW 540i XDrive Model 3 Performance 379lb heavier than a BMW
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by alvah 3y ago
Depends on the definition of "working". Modern cars are full of components that unexpectedly cost $thousands to replace. I prefer to replace my family's cars when the manufacturer's warranty expires, having been caught o

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