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by varelse 5y ago
It's a thought experiment based on the way our current three comma overlords treat their minions. What makes you think taking that mindset into space will go any better? And at what point do you think space travel will become a commodi
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by varelse 5y ago
Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough. And cancer is subject to evolution in your own body as well as it personalizes itself to evade your immune system. It's why you can extend your lifespan but you will ultimately be foiled u
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by varelse 5y ago
For now I make charitable donations, a lot of them. It's amazing how much we could do to elevate people up Maslow's hierarchy if we made that a priority. And Kentucky might even be a great idea if we didn't have such divergen
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by varelse 5y ago
Before an epigenetic time bomb detonates it's likely you will get your own very personalized cancer that will take you out unless we have come up with a universal cure-all for it. We could probably do that in a decade or two now but it
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by varelse 5y ago
Nah. The thought of being ruled over by a cabal of ageless billionaires offering to resettle you on some poorly managed terraforming project that will take centuries to complete and utterly negate the value of your increased longevity makes
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by varelse 5y ago
And scientists just created a warp bubble, physicists are on the verge of cheap fusion, we cannot discount the possibility of a near-term AGI, and there's a cube shaped thing on the moon. Need I go on?
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by varelse 5y ago
Now do Joe Rogan and Alex Jones...
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by varelse 5y ago
If somebody were to pull off a slaughter bot attack there would suddenly be a hundred other countermeasures beyond chicken wire. Slaughterbots as portrayed here are as overhyped as full self driving and the AGI.
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by varelse 5y ago
You just put up chicken wire and the slaughterbots get stuck. Most of these weapons have very low tech countermeasures. Where they're effective is when they're not expected. That might work once. https://spectrum.ieee.o
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by varelse 5y ago
Pre-pandemic if they had done that I probably would have moved there despite passing on a reasonably priced penthouse condo in the mission that has tripled in value back in the early 00s. Post pandemic and post the past 5 years maybe not so
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by varelse 5y ago
Except it's not at all like that. There are definitely media sorts and influencers whose followings are based on you believing that's the case so they can portray your faction as some sort of victim of nefarious elitists to keep y
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by varelse 5y ago
Nah. Ridicule them ruthlessly and bring back the shame to being an idiot. One idiot's quantum entanglement with a tardigrade is another idiot's claim that antifa created the tornadoes that devastated Kentucky. Can't they see
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by varelse 5y ago
I want cthulhu. Don't let the pandemic ruin your sense of fun.
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by varelse 5y ago
Senate Bill 8 is still in effect. The above is SCOTUS disinformation. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-this-week/t... "So, essentially, the Supreme Court left the law in effect. We w
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by varelse 5y ago
And yet back in the '90s the woman I was dating got two simultaneous fellowships from two separate sources completely legally. The university then invoked some sort of rule capping her compensation and took the rest.
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by varelse 5y ago
The sad part is that's only bringing in mid-5 figures which makes me think that findom is an efficient market and I await the Harvard Business Review case study of it with baited breath.
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by varelse 5y ago
Sure I would love a truth-telling candidate. But no existing party machine will accept such a candidate and even if elected no existing party will work with such a candidate. And in the unlikely event you create a genuine third party, the c
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by varelse 5y ago
I knew G to PG-13 rated camgirls that were making six figures back in 1997 to 2000. They eventually got disrupted by the adult industry providing more explicit content for much less money upfront. OnlyFans seems to have reinvented this mode
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by varelse 5y ago
I think you deeply underestimate the influence of the corporate media in influencing the opinions of the masses. But apparently America went through something like this right after the Civil War where everyone had an opinion on everything a
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by varelse 5y ago
He is a great demagogue but his Congressional record indicates he is not so good at dealmaking. I think he would have been a progressive Perot that got angry a lot but those tantrums would lead to great sound bites. Or TLDR if you're n
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by varelse 5y ago
I think a more commercially successful venture would be an adult cinematic franchise set in the Dark Frankenberry/Count Chocula universe as they save breakfast (and morning sex) from nefarious threats like the Frosted Lucky Charms Elf
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by varelse 5y ago
I've worked for people who think anything they can't do themselves is impossible. It's not an uncommon outlook.
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by varelse 5y ago
I read a variety of sources who are all immunologists, epidemiologists, or doctors. What I try to avoid for the most part is armchair engineer experts of all persuasions and media sorts trying to express a dynamic evolving situation as comp
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by varelse 5y ago
By way of DNA but aren't we splitting strands here?
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by varelse 5y ago
There is a very unambiguous clean definition of the end of the pandemic whereupon it has literally become "just like the flu" and that is where in the United States there are no more than 100 daily deaths on average for 60+ days.
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by varelse 5y ago
We're 10 days into omicron we have nowhere near enough data. But you're the one talking about long-term immunity and long-term immunity is proportional to the severity of infection. You are free to take any risks you wish to take.
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by varelse 5y ago
Now you're figuring out the west's informal caste system. Now apply this concept to the equity pie slices that go to startup TLAs vs founding engineers and be amazed...
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by varelse 5y ago
I'll see your preliminary study and raise you mine. As little as 3 months and up to 5 years. The consequences of long COVID alone are enough for me to avoid catching it (along with the six-figure medical bills this has been generating)
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by varelse 5y ago
If the tentative R0 of ~3 for omicron holds, then one tribe is about to decrease in number drastically. Their bodies, their choices...
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by varelse 5y ago
So apparently the US government is very responsive to the concerns of anti-competitive behavior when it's between one corporation versus another. But they seem particularly apathetic to the privacy considerations, robocalls and all thi

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